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Passage: Colossians 1:24-29 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Colossians - Complete in Christ Category: Ministry, Calling, Church , Christ , Colossians Summary: It doesn’t matter if you are preacher, janitor, senior saint or baby Christian, God has ministry for you in the church. At the end of Colossians chapter one, Paul explains how we can enjoy maximum ministry for the Lord. He challenges us i...

Passage: Colossians 1:20-23 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Colossians - Complete in Christ Category: Cross, Christ , Gospel, Reconciliation , Colossians Summary: The New Testament writers used several key words to describe salvation – one of which is the term “reconciliation.” This is the way that God makes friends out of enemies through the cross of Christ. In this message we are going to lea...

Passage: Colossians 1:15-19 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Colossians - Complete in Christ Category: Apologetics, Church , Christ , Colossians Summary: One major problem in the Colossian church was bad theology from false teachers. Some argued that Jesus wasn’t fully God, while others taught He was God’s first created being. Paul wrote to set the record straight. In Col. 1:15-19 Paul teaches a...

Passage: Colossians 1:12-14 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Colossians - Complete in Christ Category: Cross, Thanksgiving , Christ , Gospel, Grace, Forgiveness, Colossians Summary: Of all people, Christians ought to be the most thankful because they know what they have been saved from! Our thanksgiving should translate into thanks-living. In Col. 1:12-14 Paul wraps up his prayer for the church...

Passage: Colossians 1:9-11 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Colossians - Complete in Christ Category: Prayer , Colossians Summary: Often we may feel burdened to pray for someone, but we may not know how to pray for them. That’s when we resort to generic prayers. In Colossians 1:9-11 Paul prayed specifically in four areas for the believers at Colossae. This prayer is a great model for us to follo...

Passage: Colossians 1:1-8 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Colossians - Complete in Christ Category: Church , Christ , Colossians Summary: In this introductory message we will learn the theme, purpose and background of the letter to the Colossian church. Specifically, we will study three essentials of what a Christ-centered church is all about.

Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Christmas 2020 Category: Christmas , Matthew, Luke, Fear Summary: God encourages His people to “fear not” 365 times in the Bible, one for each day of the year. If you read though the nativity story in Matthew and Luke, we find that the phrase “fear not” is repeated four times. In today’s message we will look at these statements and discover how Christmas helps us...

Passage: Luke 1:26-38 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Christmas 2020 Category: Christmas , Matthew, Luke Summary: One of the central pillars of the Christmas story and Christianity is the virgin birth. If you remove the virgin birth of Jesus, then Christianity collapses like a house of cards. Not only does the virgin birth set Jesus apart from other religious leaders and divide our time-line be...

Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Christmas 2020 Category: Christmas , Prophecy , Matthew, Luke Summary: Tinsel, toys, tunes and trees—when we see these signs, we know that Christmas is near. Leading up to Christ’s advent there was a flurry of angelic activity, amazing miracles and fulfilled prophecies. These signs foretold that God was up to something big and the world was about to change. In th...

Passage: Numbers 11:1-34 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Thanksgiving 2020 Category: Thanksgiving , Numbers Summary: It seems odd to discuss the sin of complaining, when in just a few days we will gather with family and friends around the dinner table to eat, count our blessings and give thanks. But in this country we are known more for our grumbling than our gratitude. In Numbers 11 we read a...

Passage: Luke 17:24-30 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Don't Be Left Behind Category: Prophecy , End-Times, Rapture, Luke Summary: The Bible teaches that there is a blessed bunch of believers who will not taste death. A day is coming when the church will defy gravity and meet Christ in the air. That spectacular moment, known as “the Rapture,” could be sooner than we realize! In Luke 17, the Lor...

Passage: Exodus 18:13-23 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: America at a Crossroads Category: America , Politics , Government Summary: Every 4 years, Americans must make a critical decision about who they will select for political leaders. Many Christians feel like it is a choice between the "lesser of two evils." Wouldn't it be helpful if there was a passage in the Bible that would tell us what t...

Passage: 1 Timothy 2:1-3 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: America at a Crossroads Category: America , Politics , Government Summary: The Bible calls Christ-followers “pilgrims” (1 Pet. 2:11; Heb. 11:13). A vagabond has no home. An ambassador is away from home. But a pilgrim is headed home! We are citizens of America by birth, but citizens of heaven by second birth. That means we must live as dua...

Passage: Psalms 80:1-19 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: America at a Crossroads Category: America , Faith, Psalms, Revival Summary: Our nation is at a crossroads. Again, we find ourselves with the decision that will determine our nation’s fate for the next four years. America’s perilous situation today is strikingly similar to ancient Israel at the time Psalm 80 was written. In Psalm 80 we have...

Passage: Genesis 35:1-29 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Jacob: Schemer and Dreamer Category: Jacob, Genesis , Revival Summary: Jacob’s journey with the Lord was filled with sin, stumbling and setbacks. In Genesis 35 we have another turning point in the life of this patriarch. Finally, after much delay and disobedience, Jacob goes back to Bethel, the place where Jacob’s walk with God began. For...

Passage: Genesis 33:1-12 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Jacob: Schemer and Dreamer Category: Cross, Jacob, Genesis , Forgiveness, Reconciliation Summary: It has been over twenty years since Jacob deceived his brother Esau. Over those years, the Lord had been working on Jacob bringing him to a point of humility and repentance over his scheming ways. In Genesis 33 we finally come to the moment w...

Passage: Genesis 32:1-32 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Jacob: Schemer and Dreamer Category: Jacob, Genesis , Surrender Summary: There are two great spiritual landmarks in Jacob’s life. The first was Bethel where God came to him in a dream and reveled the ladder coming down from heaven. The second was on the banks of the Jabbok river when he wrestled with God. At Bethel Jacob first believed an...

Passage: Genesis 29:31-30:24 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Jacob: Schemer and Dreamer Category: Jacob, Genesis Summary: Jacob was supposed to be the man of the house, but his attention and affection quickly became the object of a tug-of-war between two battling brides, Rachel and Leah (also sisters mind you). Genesis 29-30 has polygamy, discord, jealousy, competition, infertility and more dra...

Passage: Genesis 29:1-30 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Jacob: Schemer and Dreamer Category: Jacob, Genesis Summary: In Genesis 29 we have the record of how Jacob met and married his wives. The man who weaseled the birthright away from his brother and conned his father needed some serious schooling in the spiritual disciplines. This chapter is an OT illustration of a NT truth, “Do not be decei...

Passage: Genesis 28:10-22 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Jacob: Schemer and Dreamer Category: Jacob, Genesis Summary: Genesis 28 is probably the most famous scene from Jacob’s life. We know that Jacob was a schemer, but he was also a dreamer and this scene explains why; for here, God reaches down to our prodigal patriarch and gives him an incredible dream of a ladder reaching up to heaven. Thi...

Passage: Genesis 27:1-44 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Jacob: Schemer and Dreamer Category: Jacob, Genesis Summary: If you are looking for a model family, you won’t find one in the Bible. Isaac and Rebekah’s family was a hot mess. Their marriage got off to a promising start, but by the time we open Gen. 27, they have drifted apart. Years of parental favoritism has divided this family. Isaac p...

Passage: Genesis 25:19-34 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: Jacob: Schemer and Dreamer Category: Jacob, Genesis Summary: The biography of Jacob begins in Gen. 25 and like most of us he’s born in a dysfunctional family. In this iconic passage we learn a lot about Jacob's origin and character flaws. Jacob was a deceiver and trickster. Esau made a foolish bargain choosing the temporal over the physi...

Passage: Acts 28:16-31 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: The Acts Adventure Category: Acts, Evangelism , Church , Gospel Summary: In Acts 28 Paul finally completes his journey to Rome. Paul made the best of his situation and continued to preach the Gospel even while under house arrest. In a way this chapter is both an end and a beginning. It brings to a close the history of the early church, but...

Passage: Acts 28:1-10 Preacher: Derrick McCarson Series: The Acts Adventure Category: Acts, Evangelism , Suffering, Gospel, Storms, Detours Summary: The will of God is not always a straight line from point A to point B. That was certainly true of the Apostle Paul’s life. For several chapters now, Paul has been on his way to Rome, but before Paul arrived there God sent his apostle on a 3-month deto...

Passage: Mark 2:1-12 Series: Robert Gibson Category: Evangelism , Christ , Gospel, Grace, Robert Gibson Summary: Robert Gibson spent over 30 years in one of America's most dangerous prisons--Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee. He was given 99 years for murder and other crimes. While in jail, Robert spent 7 years in solitary confinement and became a drug addict. His testimony begins th...