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Last week I began this series by defining the word faithfulness and provided four synonyms that helped us understand it in the context of the attributes of God. We examined His faithfulness to mankind beginning with the sin of Adam/Eve. The second example came when God commanded Noah to build an ark. (Genesis 6:14 ) This week my focus was God’s faithfulness to His chosen people, beginning with key...

Despite sin entering the world thru the disobedience of Adam and Eve, set up and deceived by satan our fierce enemy even still, God remained faithful to His promise. Good News for us is this: He remains faithful to those born-again in Christ. This message begins a new series to help bring biblical understanding of His faithfulness to those who have "ears to hear."

Last week I discusssed what it is like to go into real prisons to minister. But the main point of the message was to help you understand what I mean when I say "prisons without bars". This week we learn how we can be set free forever from our prisons that too often control our lives and harm ourselves.

I have been preaching and teaching inside prisons for many years. I know when I finish my time with the inmates, I can leave and they cannot. The difference is freedom to come and go as one pleases vs forfeited freedom based on bad decisions. While that ministry is challenging, perhaps an equally challenging one is helping people who have incarcerated themselves behind PRISONS WITHOUT BARS. This i...

from God our Father: Love. Protection. Provision. Forgiveness.

Series finale. We wrap this powerful and necessary series today examining worldviews, especially that which born-again Christians must have to live and love more like Jesus in our world that is desperate for hope.

Perhaps the most famous question of all time is when Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" People today who deny the existence of God and biblical truth still grope around trying to find it. This message gives clear biblical answers.

This message provides answers to perhaps the most FAQ of all time.

This is the audio version from the third message in our series. Last week I hope His Word convinced you that God is the only and ultimate authority in the world He created. This messaage will encourage you to know how you came into this world - it was His intention; no random act of any kind. God loved and wanted you here with Him before you were even conceived. Listen and you will know with certa...

Last week I began this new series by discussing WHAT you believe and how those belief sets form in your life. This message flips the script to look at Who we should believe from a totally biblical perspective. The focus on this message is Authority - Who's in Charge?

Everyone is a believer. My emphatic statement includes secularists, atheists, agnostics, and religious people. What people believe matters for all the reasons I am about to discuss in this message.

Key Bible Verse: " Now after (Jesus) had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons. " Mark 16:9

Encourage Exhort Admonish Repent Call to Action Those are the five key words for this messsage. I pray the Holy Spirit uses them and this message to connect with your spirit, wherever you are.

How Christians Should Live in Our Post-Resurrection, Post-Modern World

Key Bible Verses: "For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.  If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied. 1 Corinthians 15: 16-19

Key Bible Verse: " Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. " John 19:30

Key Bible Verse: “Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is righteous and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”  Zechariah 9:9

Key Bible Verse: "How long O LORD will you forget me forever?" Psalm 13:1

Message Three in this series Disappointment with God

Sins of Discontentment and Their Consequences

If we are honest, everyone at some time in our lives (including Christians) has experienced such disappointment. Isn't that blasphemy? Won't that insult God when we suggest such an outrageous thing? This series was designed to answer those and other questions that help us grow in our relationships with the one true God, our Father and Creator.

We looked at each of the four stages along this pathway to eternal life: follower, disciple, apostle, and martyr. This message briefly reviews each one and ends with the challenge Jesus gave all those who consider themselves born-again. The Apostle Paul gave those within the churches he planted very articulate and explicit examples of what Jesus' commands looked like in his life and should in...

The Fourth Stage is the Hardest!

Last week I discussed "followers" and "disciples". This week we examine the next stage apostles: those spelled with upper case A and those with lower case a. What's the difference?