NBCF Sermons

Deacons Rob, Cory, & Cedric

Value #1: God’s Word is our _____    Value #2: The _____ is our message   Value #3: Our church is a ____ not an event   Excellence is our aim   Does God Really Care About Excellence in Everything We Do?   Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.   Philippians 1:27   Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles so that when they speak against you as evildo...

Value #2: The Gospel is Our Message   Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. 3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins accordi...

Your God knows you   O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. 2 You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. 3 You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. 4 You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. 5 You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. 6 Such know...

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts....

Our Vision: To be a church that reaches people who reach their city.   Without vision the people perish.       Proverbs 29:18   So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.      Exodus 3:8   Come, follow me, . . . and I will make you fishers of men.      Matthew 4:18-19   T...

We were created for a purpose.  (every verse will be in the ESV, unless stated otherwise) (I will mention the verse address before so that you can know when to put it on the slide) Genesis 1:1 Romans 6:21-22 Psalm 19:1 NIV Romans 1:19-20 Isaiah 43:7 Psalm 139:13-16 NIV The Holy Spirit helps us live out this purpose Luke 6:49 Matthew 5:20 John 1:12 Ezekiel 36:26-27 The Holy Spirit guarantees that t...

“9 So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10 Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better. 11 We also pray that you will...

We are all thirsty for something   As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. 2 I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him?          Psalm 42:1-2   It’s okay to have spiritual conversations with yourself   Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and 6 my God! Now I am deeply discour...

”When they arrived, Samuel took one look at Eliab and thought, “Surely this is the Lord’s anointed!”“ ‭‭1 Samuel‬ ‭16‬:‭6‬ ‭NLT ”But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7 NLT ”Let all that I am praise the Lord; w...

Asaph is a man of faith.   Truly God is good to Israel, to those whose hearts are pure.       Psalm 73:1   Even though Asaph had faith, he also had struggles.   But as for me, I almost lost my footing. My feet were slipping, and I was almost gone.  Psalm 73:2   For I envied the proud when I saw them prosper despite their wickedness.       Psalm 73:3    Envy wrecks your focus.   They seem to live s...

God is the Creator of All Things   The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him. For he laid the earth’s foundation on the seas and built it on the ocean depths.  Psalms 24:1-2   Who, if anyone, can approach God?   Who may climb the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place?    Psalms 24:3   There is someone who can approach God   Only those...

The Righteous Man    Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.    Psalm 1:1-...

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.             Romans 8:26-27   We have weaknesses   In the same way, the Spirit helps us in o...

If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.             Mark 8:34-35   And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. And they clothed him in a purple c...

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brou...

“I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.”        Matthew 7:23 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.15 So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” 16 For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s child...

For we know that all things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose.       Romans 8:28 You have a new obligation Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do.      Romans 8:12   When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that ti...

…in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.       Romans 8:4   Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the...

You are justified from sin in Christ alone   Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.    Romans 8:1   Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.   Genesis 6:13   Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your h...