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God demands that his people honor him through authentic worship. Halfhearted insincere play acting does not glorify God it demonstrates our contempt for him. Bitterness and discontent are the enemies of authentic worship. Authentic worship comes from a grateful heart and brings glory to God.

Forgiveness and reconciliation come when we place others sins on Gods Account.  Each of us lives at the center of a web of broken or strained relationships and it is only through the hard work of reconciliation, repentance and forgiveness that these relationships will be heald. This is the real work of Christian community. 

The church is the Gospel made visible. Our lives within the church are a testimony to the people outside of the church. 

Christ has made  each of us holy through his sacrifice and now he wants us to be unified in Joy and sanctified in the truth.

Christs primary motivation is not personnel gain, comfort, health or even victory over his enemies, it is the glory of God.  

We have hoped in wealth, or politicians, we have sought to ignore God or to approach him on our own terms. Every one of these things will fail, and when they do we will be left alone and hopeless adrift in a sea of darkness and regret. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Jesus is our great high priest, our only hope and the anchor of our wayward souls. Jesus is our great high priest, our only hope...

Jesus wants the disciples to rest in the peace of his full and final victory over all that they will face as they struggle . In this life we will have tribulation but be at peace because Christ has overcome the world.

Year after year we promise ourselves that this year is going to be different. Every year we end up doing the same things we always did. Because we are trying to change the outside without tackling the inside. If we really want to change we must do it from the inside out. We must die to who we used to be so we can live the lives that God has for us. It is not enough just to become better versi...

Matthew wants his readers to see that the birth of Jesus was marked by the same patterns of a rejection and acceptance that would play out in his life and ministry. 

Where do you abide, what do you seek for comfort and identify and security? Each of us has been called to glorify God by bearing fruit through our abiding relationship with Christ.

The yolk of Jesus is easy but the mission he has called us to is hard and at times it can feel like we are all alone. The Gospel of John reminds us that we are not. Each of us has the spirt of the living God empowering us, comforting us, and guiding us as we fulfill God's mission to the world.

When Jesus fed the 5000 he was not seeking a kingdom, he already had one . Jesus was not interested in army , he commanded legions of angels. Jesus did not want a mob he wanted a church. When the mob formed and tried to make him king by force he walked away. We need to remember this anytime anyone showes us a "savior" other than christ. We must be continually on our guard against counterfeit Kings...

Throughout the book of Joel God is trying to get Israel’s attention. He is moving in a great and terrible way, in order to elicit deep heartfelt repentance on the part of his people. This is an important concept for Christians in the face of a global pandemic to understand. We have faced a crisis before and if the lord does not return tomorrow, we will face a crisis again. The plague we face today...

Throughout the book of Joel God is trying to get Israel’s attention. He is moving in a great and terrible way, in order to elicit deep heartfelt repentance on the part of his people. This is an important concept for Christians in the face of a global pandemic to understand. We have faced a crisis before and if the lord does not return tomorrow, we will face a crisis again. The plague we face today...

Join us for the last sermon in our series on Acts, as we Celebrate the unconquerable gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

Now at long last through the sovereign hand of an all-powerful God Paul has reached Rome and attained his heart’s desire. In ministry as in life, the desire of our heart will determine the road we travel.

When things seem dark and the waves rise we need to be reminded that God can redeem even the worst situations. He takes darkness and transforms it into Glory.

Paul’s Testimony was central to his evangelistic ministry and he was not ashamed or scared to share it with anyone. Like Paul, we each have a testimony, a love story that describes how God pursued us and won us with great struggle and great loss. And like all the good love stories it is a powerful picture of redemption realization and completion. Our testimony is a gift that God has given us, how...

Paul did not back down from conflict and he was not cowed by violence instead he was consistent in calmly speaking truth to rage and to power. As Christians we must respond to the injustices and the Rage of our time with truth.

Paul was not always successful in his missionary endeavors, sometimes his efforts seemed foolish but they were always necessary. Taking the dangerous road to Pisidian Antioch to share the gospel with a group of Jews in there synagogue, only to be run out of town by an angry mob was a very Pauline thing to do. He was not afraid to go to hard places and take long shots. He was a fool, but he was a f...

Jesus is the answer to all of the promises that God made to his people, from Abraham through David and to the present day.

Philip was an effective evangelist because he allowed the spirt to guide direct and empower him. In order for the church to regain its evangelistic power we must be guided, empowered and directed by the holy spirt.

False doctrine is dangerous and it must be dealt with decisively. There were two false doctrines that the early church delt with in this story. We still deal with false doctrine and we must be just as decisive as the apostles in dealing with it when it arises.