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John 21:1-25 View this week’s worship guide We don’t like failure. It bruises our ego. It angers us. It brings guilt. It brings despair. It brings fear. And the most painful failure for the Christian is the failure to live out our Christian faith. If you can identify, then I have good news for you

John 20:1-31 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide The most significant, spectacular comeback in history is Christ’s coming back to life. It is significant for many reasons. One of which is that we share in his comeback. His victory is our victory. We have (in the words of Paul) been raised with

Mark 14:22-42; 15:21-41 View this week’s worship guide We are going to take a journey to the cross today. Before we get to Golgotha, we are going to the Guest Room, and then into the Garden. I want to look at the last days of Jesus on earth in chapters 14 and 15 of Mark’s

Ephesians 6:10-24 View this week’s worship guide Paul exhorts the Ephesians and us to stand firm by God’s strength in God’s armor in the midst of spiritual warfare. The critical battle has already been won! There’s just a mop up operation going on. He is Lord. We are in him. The emphasis is not on

Ephesians 6:5-9 View this week’s worship guide What’s your least favorite job of all time? I haven’t had as many bad jobs as some of you have. Donnie told me that he milked cows for two years, and also used to discard dead animals from the vet. I’ve been an umpire for Little League. It

Ephesians 6:1-4 View this week’s worship guide This little section is brief but powerful. In these few verses Paul highlights essential priorities of children and parents. Now, obviously, kids can grow up in great homes, and turn out a rebellious. I totally understand that. The point I’m driving out is: Those who’ve had their hearts

1 Corinthians 7:1-16; 25-40 View IDC’s Pre-Marital Counseling Curriculum View this week’s worship guide Last week we looked at many foundational truths from Ephesians 5. This theology is found in 1 Corinthians also (notice 6:16), and we also find some other helpful instructions for marrieds and singles. While Ephesians gave us an exalted view of

Ephesians 5:18-33 View IDC’s Pre-Marital Counseling Curriculum View this week’s worship guide Husbands are called to love their bride like Christ loved the church. I want to be a better husband, and this text has challenged me to do so. I pray it challenges you as well. Why is this important if you aren’t married?

Ephesians 5:18-33 View IDC’s Pre-Marital Counseling Curriculum View this week’s worship guide Christianity is a relational faith. And Life in the Spirit is not just an individual experience, but corporate or relational experience. That is made super clear in this passage. The Spirit’s infilling results in worshiping with one another and submitting to one another.

Psalm 119:1-24 View this week’s worship guide If we are going to have a living faith, then we need to consume the living Word. We don’t live by bread alone but on every word of God. What I want to do is identify 10 themes under the first three letters (24 verses). Most of them

Psalm 139 View this week’s worship guide Psalm 139 is richly theological dealing with God’s omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence; but it is also wonderfully personal, because it speaks of these divine attributes in ways that impact how we live and how we live before the living God. Psalm 139 is about the tension we have

Psalm 73 View this week’s worship guide At times it may seem like walking with God isn’t worth much. Psalm 73 deals with this. The writer struggles with the wicked prospering while the righteous seem to suffer. He is tempted to leave God & His ways. No doubt we have faced similar temptations or frustrations and

Psalm 146 View this week’s worship guide The ideas of God as creator, and God’s compassion for the poor appear in Psalm 146. The Psalmist points us to nature of the LORD in this psalm. It is so relevant because our view of God determines everything. When we have a high view (or biblical view)

Genesis 3:1-24 View this week’s worship guide We all instinctively long for Justice and something different, as if we have a sense of what the World is supposed to be! Some think education, government, or science will solve our problems and yet they don’t! But the bible explains why this is so, and what will

Micah 5:1-9 View this week’s worship guide There is a coming world ruler from Bethlehem who will establish a Kingdom for His brothers and sisters that is unrivaled. He will do this by cutting off all His and their enemies; a coming shepherd who seeks out the lost sheep bringing them back into the fold,

Luke 1:26-38 View this week’s worship guide During the season of Advent we reflect on and celebrate the birth of the one, true, perfect, king that will rule for all eternity over the entire universe That is King Jesus, the King of Kings. There are two key things going on: The gracious glorious proclamation &

Acts 13:13-52 View this week’s worship guide Acts 13:16-41 contains Paul’s first recorded sermon. This isn’t his first time to preach, but this is his first recorded sermon. It is also the longest sermon that we have. Why this text at Advent? Paul’s sermon traces the history of the Old Testament that leads to the

John 1:1-5; 14-18 View this week’s worship guide During Advent season, we are reminded afresh of the incredible truth that God came to us in an unprecedented fashion when he came in the person of the God-man, Jesus Christ. All throughout history God made Himself known in one way or another, providing needed and even

Ephesians 5:1-17 View this week’s worship guide In chapter 5:1, Paul urges us to imitate God. Be like God. Paul tells us in other places to imitate him, as he imitates Christ (1 Cor 4:16; 10:31-11:1; Phil 3:17; 1 Thess 1:6; 2 Thess 3:7, 9); and he tells congregations to imitate other congregations (cf., 1

Ephesians 4:17-32 View this week’s worship guide We’re talking about a new set of clothes in Eph 4. Paul uses this metaphor, of “taking off and putting on” (clothes) to talk about what happens when you become a Christian. Of course, he’s not talking about physical clothes, but spiritual clothes – for a person may change

Ephesians 4:1-16 View this week’s worship guide In Ephesians 4, Paul describes the body of Christ. We should not be like my uninterested third period health class when we cover this material! We should listen closely to Paul for we are part of this body as Christians! And should pay attention because, unlike a lot

Ephesians 3:14?21 View this week’s worship guide A lot of believers only pray when they have no other option. Oh, they may have some routine prayers that they pray – like at meal times, or on a Sunday – but when it comes to actually seeking God with desperation, they only do that when they

Ephesians 3:1?13 View this week’s worship guide Paul desires for us to see in this passage the radical nature of the gospel and the uniting of two in one, In Christ! In making us fellow heirs in Christ. God is displaying His plan for the World, namely that Jew and Gentile will be fellow heirs

Ephesians 2:11-22 View this week’s worship guide In Eph 2:11-22, Paul describes a hostile rivalry that was deep and complex, between Jew and Gentile. Gentiles were non-Jews. The word is “ethna” in v 11 (non-Jewish ethnicities). It was religious. Gentiles didn’t know the God of Israel. It was cultural. Jews had all of the rituals,

Ephesians 2:1-10 View this week’s worship guide Verse 1 begins with “And You.” Who is he talking to? The Gentiles. Then he says in verse 3a, “all of us” and then “like the rest of mankind…” (3b). Paul covers everyone with these phrases. Paul is not about to describe some degrading segment of society, or