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My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. For at the window of my house I have lo...

As Metrocrest marked 37 years of God's faithfulness, Rev. Lovell preached from Hebrews 11 on what the Christian life has always been: living by faith. Hebrews doesn't define faith in the abstract. It shows faith at work in Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, and the sermon follows it in three movements. **Faith trusts the word of God.** It is not wishful thinking but resting on what the God who...

Genuine faith in God produces authentic delight in God alone!

Concluding our study of 2 Timothy, chapter 1

A distressed father came to Jesus with a serious problem, but Jesus' first concern was the father's faithless heart, as we see from Mark 9: 14-29.

The sermon examines the parable of the true vine in John 15, distinguishing between two types of branches: those who abide in Christ and bear fruit, and those who are unfruitful and ultimately cast away. It defines abiding as a permanent, living connection to Christ through faith, which results in spiritual fruitfulness and the glory of God. The message clarifies that while salvation is secure for...

The sermon examines the divine inquiry in Zechariah 7:5, asking whether the people's seventy years of fasting were truly directed toward God or merely performed as religious ritual. It argues that authentic fasting requires a sincere turning away from sin and toward the Lord, distinguishing between empty formalism and heartfelt repentance. The preacher emphasizes that the ultimate goal of such hum...

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"A shepherd can only walk the flock as fast as it's weakest lamb"

This sermon examines Paul's argument in Galatians 4, where he uses the historical narrative of Abraham's two sons, Ishmael and Isaac, to illustrate the incompatibility of the Old and New Covenants. The central message is that believers are children of promise and grace, not of the flesh or the law, and therefore must not mix the freedom of the Gospel with the bondage of Mosaic requirements. The ex...

In the second part on this timely theme, Bro Darrell speaks further on "integrating your life into Christ."

Dawn Hill examines Jordan Wells's deliverance teachings and prophetic claims through 1 John 4:1–6. Addressing claims about fractured souls, spiritual warfare practices, and his defense of Katherine Krick, she explains why experiences, crowds, and claimed miracles must be tested by Scripture. This episode calls Christians to biblical discernment, prayerful dependence on God, and confidence in Chris...

This sermon presents a practical formula for Christian perseverance, urging believers to finish well by maintaining close proximity to Jesus. The speaker illustrates the danger of spiritual distance through the account of Peter's denial, showing how separation from Christ leads to changed associations, comfort, and conversation. To counter this, the message emphasizes holding fast to the assurance...

This sermon explores the Christian life as a pilgrimage situated between two great acts of God's mercy: the accomplished redemption through Christ's death and resurrection, and the future consummation of all things at His second coming. Drawing from Psalm 126, the text highlights the tension of the "already and not yet," where believers are called to remember the joy of their past restoration whil...

Jonah 3:5–10 shows a city that believed a bare word of overthrow, stopped its violence, and was spared. The sermon presses the difference between cheap repentance, true (imperfect) repentance, and the false demand for perfect repentance, and why greater light after Christ makes refusal heavier than Nineveh's or Sodom's. Nineveh heard five Hebrew words of coming ruin and no promise of pardon. From...

1. Sometimes faith requires you to stand alone Genesis 6:1-8, 11-13, 18, 22 Mark 5:25-34 2. Sometimes faith required you to surrender certainty Proverbs 8:5-6 2 Chronicles 20:10-12 2 Corinthians 5:7 3. Sometimes faith requires you to have nothing left to give Genesis 18:10-14 Genesis 24:1-3 Judges 16:21-30 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 2 Corinthians 4:7 Psalm 73:26 Closing Hebrews 11:13-16

The sermon explores the command in Philippians to live blamelessly and shine as lights in a crooked generation, emphasizing that this capability stems from God working within believers to will and do His good pleasure. It contrasts the grumbling of the Israelites with the Christian call to hold fast to the Word of life, serving as beacons in a dark world that often misunderstands the church's purp...

This message opens a study of Ecclesiastes, written near the end of Solomon's life, a book Kent calls most unusual and often misunderstood. Solomon wants us to understand the obvious: how fast life passes and how we should live in light of it. Kent explains that the Hebrew word hebel means vapor, not "meaningless," and walks through three pictures in Ecclesiastes 1:2–11: our life is like the steam...

What is the Christian life all about? We began looking last week at a basic primer on the title "Christ." We saw how Jesus interpreted it to mean not only the reign and triumph, the defeat of death itself, but also the rejection, the suffering, the death of the Lord's Chosen One. The Christian life is fundamentally about Jesus Christ. It's about glorifying Him, following Him, worshiping Him, behol...