St. Rose Community Church Sermons

If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Revelation chapter 8. We will begin reading in verse 1 and we will just read through verse 5 this morning. but first we need a quick recap of where we have been. In chapter 6, John began to see a vision of the unfolding plan of…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Revelation chapter 5. As you turn there allow me to remind you of where we left off last week. In chapters 2 and 3, John penned the seven letters to the seven churches …, Upon completing the seven letters to the seven…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Revelation chapter 3. Of the seven letters to the seven churches in Revelation, there are only two letters that include no word of rebuke. No word of correction. Only words of encouragement and hope. How sweet it would…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Revelation chapter 3. As you turn there, I want you to imagine living in a city in ancient Rome that is both wealthy and seemingly unconquerable. A city that sits high on a hill surrounded by cliffs, and mountains,…

Introduction : If you have your bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Revelation chapter 2. We turn our attention this morning to the longest of the seven letters to the churches in the book of Revelation. It’s not the longest letter because Thyatira was one of the biggest cities or…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Revelation chapter 2. We will begin reading in verse 12 and we will read through verse 17. This is the third letter in the book of Revelation spoken by the Lord Jesus to the apostle John, this time to be sent to the…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Revelation chapter 2. Imagine with me for just a moment that you caught word of a church undergoing tremendous tribulation in a persecuted country and you could write just one paragraph to them in a letter. The people…

Introduction : If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Revelation chapter 2. Last week we studied in the end of chapter 1, where John introduced himself and the context in which he received this revelation from God. When Jesus revealed himself in all his glory to John…

Introduction If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Revelation chapter 1. We will begin reading in verse 1 and we will just read verses 1-3 to begin our time together this morning. As you turn there, let me set the stage. Its early in the morning on the Lord’s Day and…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Ephesians chapter 1. In 1999, on the screened in porch of a log cabin in the North Georgia mountains…, I was expressing my fear of dying to my mother. I was afraid that my sins would send me to hell no matter how many…

Introduction: Good morning, If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Acts chapter 18. Today we conclude our study of the second missionary journey of the apostle Paul The passage is not super theologically deep. It doesn’t include one of Paul’s lengthy teachings. It’s…

Introduction: Good morning, If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Acts chapter 18. We will begin reading in verse 1 and read through verse 17 and then we will say a word of prayer for God to help us understand. 1 After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 And…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Acts 17. We will begin reading in verse 22 here in just a moment. If you had one opportunity to stand before a group of people to explain the gospel of Jesus Christ…, where would you begin? What if that group of people…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Acts 17 . How do you turn the world upside down? How do you make a difference? How do you change a whole community, a culture, a society? How do you change a neighborhood, a family, a life? What are the makings of…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Acts chapter 16. We will be completing our study of chapter 16 this week, but if your new with us let me catch you up. Paul and Silas have been commissioned by the church at Antioch and by the Spirit of God to take…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Acts chapter 16. We are all to some degree a product of the culture we grew up in. We most naturally see the world through the lens of the values, beliefs, and priorities of our culture. One of the more memorable experiences…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Acts chapter 16. Islam In the 7th century a man went into a cave all by himself where he claims to have received a vision from an angel who gave him divine revelation. His name was Muhammad, and with the testimony…