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Pastor Matt Davis shares The Gospel with us. He mines the truthful nuggets of redeemed, merciful people showing The Gospel to everyone regardless of their status. God created and loves everyone whether rich or poor, black, white or asian, male or female. Jesus’ redeeming sacrifice was made without partiality. We must also show no partiality in our church or evangelism. God has no favorites, neithe...

Pastor Matt uses two short verses to lay out how our mouth is a flawless x-ray of the condition of our heart. Your mouth, heart and holiness expose our true religion or quality of our faith. If our religion is pure, our tongues will be bridled and our compassion for others will be unbridled, and our holiness will be guarded. We will not be mired in corrupting foul talk and gossip. We will help oth...

Bro Josh Brooks embarks on an interesting journey through John Chapter 17. He shows us how Job 9:32 tells us, "For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. (33) There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both. He then goes through John 17 to show us that Christ is our arbiter. We tend to think of the past, Jesus’ death and resurrec...

Pastor Matt takes us into this section to show us that a Living Faith is obedient. Jesus strengthened The Law and made it even harder to follow. We need to study God’s word and work to follow His commands. Our saving grace is that the indwelt Holy Spirit will live those commands through us, accomplishing our sanctification. We cant do it on our own, but we must start the process by beginning the w...

Brother Nate shows us how the disciples went back to fishing after they didnt physically walk with Jesus anymore. Their labors were unsuccessful until Jesus showed up on the beach. They followed His directions and caught a huge catch of fish. They came in and Jesus "recommissioned them" to do greater things. We go back to our old ways at times in our lives. Jesus is "recommissioning" us as well.

Pastor Matt unpacks these verses to show us how God’s unchanging goodness guides His care for us. When we are going through one of life’s many trials, we need to remember that God wants to bless us even though we are depraved humans and He is holy, perfect and absolutely good. All good things come from above. Even if at the time, we do not see them as good. Living Faith is *Real; 1:2-2:27 it’s tes...

Pastor Matt journeys through these first verses of James to show us, as christians we should learn to joyfully view our trials through the lease of God’s goodness and sovereignty. To this end we begin to meet trials with joy, trust God’s goodness in trials and embrace our real position with humble reliance on Christ alone. Living Faith is *Real; 1:2-2:27 it’s tested, holy, compassionate and visibl...

Pastor Matt takes us on a journey through an introduction of James, the man, and the epistle. As we prepare in future weeks to discuss individual points of the letter, today is high level to prepare us to take those points in and digest them better. James is a marvelous book about practical christian living. He is at times controversial, to some people who might not read deeply enough. At a time w...

Pastor Matt dives deep into Ephesians chapter 4 to bring out our final point of “Healthy Churches”. Healthy relationships within The Body of Christ. Healthy churches have healthy members who help each other grow. Healthy members are humble, united, equipped, mature and stable investing in each other’s spiritual growth. Pushing and pulling each other to Christ. A healthy church is word driven, doct...

A healthy church practices correction and discipline because sin is serious, sheep are valuable, purity is important and Jesus commands it. If outsiders think Christians are weird, let it be because of our biblical following, not our sins. When we act as closely as humanly possible to the leadership of God’s word we reflect God’s light to others. If members practice unrepentant and undisciplined s...

Today Pastor Matt brings us back to “ what a healthy church looks like”. We are discussing membership. A healthy church understands and practices “Meaningful Membership”. As members we should seek with excitement our opportunity to enter into The Kingdom’s Embassy. As citizens of The Kingdom we will enter to hear what The King says to us through His Word. We should be ready to be fed, and to feed...

Today Bro. Jason drives us to drill down and find the real problem. Many times in life our problems aren’t financial, health, or horizontal relationships. It is our vertical relationship that is the issue. Our wrong relationship with God is our problem. When we are self dependent, self serving, self focused, we can become cunning and deceitful. Self reliance and independence are deceptive. We must...

Brother Craig Scott shows us our similarity to Moses’ reluctance to do what God is telling him. God asks us to share The Gospel and point others to Jesus. We make up many excuses why we cant. God provides all we need. God can use any of us to share His good news. God is with us!

This morning Jason Boling unpacks the gift of justification. Justification is the establishment of a sinner into right standing with God, The Father. Through it we are pardoned and imputed with the righteousness of Christ. We are then invited into adoption as sons and daughters in God’s own family. Benefits of justification include Peace (wholeness) with God, Access to a grace standing with God, B...

This week, Pastor Matt shows us a healthy church is moved by lostness. This passage in Matthew shows the heart of Jesus and His compassion for the lost. A healthy church is focused near and far. We need to work in the harvest in the face of fear. We need to see people like Jesus does, to gain compassion for them. We were all lost at one point in time. When we see depravity, we should never feel su...

This morning Pastor Matt dives into conversion and regeneration. Can we change ourselves? The ability to really change comes through God’s Holy Spirit. We cannot change ourselves with that fundamental real change, that produces new fruit and good works (spiritual works). Grace appeared in Christ, and calls us to change and trains us for it. Conversion brings the change, and God’s salvation and new...

Pastor Matt continues on his series of a healthy church. A healthy church understands, prioritizes, and unites around The Gospel. The Gospel is our rally cry and our purpose. The lost and the converted alike need to consistently hear The Gospel. The antithesis of The Gospel is religion. The Gospel is freedom, religion is slavery. A healthy church is word driven, doctrinally sound, and gospel-cente...

Tim Melton, American missionary in Nagoya Japan, takes us on a journey to give inside on people of other religions. Most people of other religions do not know about the gods they profess to serve. He then leads us into our need to know the one and only true God. We need to know Him and about Him. If we are to proclaim our God to others we have to know who He is, and what He is about. Our God made...

Bro. Nunez came to us from Brazil. He is the pastor of a church whose essence is church planting. He believes in "His will be my will, and my will be His will". For this reason he is devoted to spreading The Gospel of Jesus as far as he can. His message is full of great Christian advice and Godly direction. Be obedient and spread The Gospel!.

John Hutcheson of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lakemont Ga. He also served with Frontline Missions International for twenty years. John did a masterful job of leading us to know why there is a labor shortage in global outreach. In the video he gives us many reasons we, especially as Americans, do not move to the global outreach. He warns us of personal traits we need to be aware of and maybe chang...

Woody Stanley brings God's love to the to the forefront. He described how the world sees love as a mostly "me" or "what I get out of it" kind of an emotion. He then goes on to describe God's love as having no selfishness at all. When we struggle to love someone, we need to completely submit to God and let Him love through us. God is love. Without love, no matter what what we say we are a clanging...

Pastor Matt shows us how we are in the eye of a storm. There has been judgement before and there will be judgement again. We are in a relatively stable time. We need to use this time to grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord. They are like a two part epoxy to keep us stable. Live for the Second Coming and be focused on pointing others to Jesus. This is the last bullet point on our II Peter paragr...

#10, As you pursue holiness. Pastor Matt shows us in II Peter how expectant christians should be holy christians. Not looking like the world, but reflecting the character of God. We live in an excited anticipation of Jesus' return, because when we see Him, we will be like Him. We eagerly await the New World where righteousness will be the norm. (1) Greetings! (2) God’s gift of grace (3) should spu...

Pastor Matt journeys through the first ten verses of chapter three. We learn about the importance of keeping Jesus’ second arrival in our minds daily. The second coming is mentioned eight times more in The Bible, than His first. Peter warns of “scoffers” who deny Jesus’ second coming. Those people are with us today. The second coming should comfort the saint and warn the sinner. Today, we complete...

Pastor Matt teaches us that at the heart of a false teacher is an unsaved, unbeliever. They have head knowledge of The Gospel, but not experiential knowledge. We need to closely follow Christ and know His word in order to avoid falling into one of their traps. A false teacher is nothing but a miserable replica of the real thing. This finishes #'s 7 & 8. (1) Greetings! (2) God’s gift of grace (3) s...