Sunday Sermons

Voyage to the Manger - Week #5 Your Voyage into 2024 Psalm 73 Four Simple Steps to Having a great year spiritually: 1. Go to church Attend Regularly But as for me, I almost lost my footing. My feet were slipping, and I was almost gone. Psalm 73:2 Then I went into your sanctuary, O God, and I finally understood the destiny of the wicked. Psalm 73:17 Central is a church where all people can experien...

Voyage to the Manger - Week #4 Say “Yes” to the Voyage Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 2:8-15 If we allow other people to label us, it will limit us from the life that God ultimately has for us This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spiri...

Voyage to the Manger - Week #3 A Voyage Thru the Chaos Matthew 2:1-12 Chaos is a really great indicator that we need Jesus Always anticipate an encounter with the Savior because He’s alive and He’s closer to you than you think Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the reign of King Herod. About that time some wise men from eastern lands arrived in Jerusalem, asking, 2 “Where is the newborn...

The Voyage to the Manger – Week #2 The Shepherds’ Voyage Luke 2:2-8 That night there were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding their flocks of sheep. 9 Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radiance of the Lord’s glory surrounded them. They were terrified, 10 but the angel reassured them. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I bring you good news that will bring great joy...

The Voyage to the Manger - Week #1 Mary’s Voyage Luke 1:30-38; 2:1-7; Matthew 2:1-23 When it comes to following Jesus, the best is yet to come “ Don’t be afraid, Mary,” the angel told her, “for you have found favor with God! Luke 1:30 God speaks to people in different ways , and in different times , and in different places You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. 32 ...

Master of the Miraculous - Week #5 Miracles in the Storm Matthew 14:22-33 Immediately after this, Jesus insisted that his disciples get back into the boat and cross to the other side of the lake, while he sent the people home.  Matthew 14:22 God loves you so much that sometimes He will take something away from you After sending them home, he went up into the hills by himself to pray. Night fell wh...

The Master of the Miraculous - Week #3 Covered by Grace in the House of Grace John 5:1-9 Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.   John 5:1 “ For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world thr...

Master of the Miraculous Week #2 Don’t Allow the Familiar to Become Familiar John 4:43-54 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8 At the end of the two days, Jesus went on to Galilee. 44 He himself had said that a prophet is not honored in his own hometown. John 4:43-44 When we let the supernatural become familiar , we miss the miracle Yet the Galileans welcomed him, f...

Master of the Miraculous - Week 1 Do Whatever He Tells You John 2:1-10 The next day there was a wedding celebration in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the celebration.  John 2:1-2 People that were nothing like Jesus, liked Jesus. And Jesus liked people that were nothing like Him. The wine supply ran out during the festivit...

The Hands that Hold the Golden Chain Guest Speaker: Dave Stephens Romans 9:1-33 (NASB) 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. ~Romans...

Love and War - 10/15/23 - Week 6 Wasted Worship? Romans 12:1 That Thing We Do - “It’s what you were made to do. Should you for some reason choose not to give God what He desires, you’ll still worship something- exchanging the Creator for something He has created.” 37 He (Jesus) said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the grea...

Love and War – 10/8/23 – Week 5 In the Pits Genesis 37, 39 Genesis 37:5-6 “Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.” Genesis 37:8  8 His brothers...

Love and War - 10/1/23 - Week 4 Conquering the Transitions of Life Guest Speaker: Raymond Causey 1 After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, 2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. 3 Every place that the sole of y...

Love and War Week #3 Man Up and Embrace God’s Plan Genesis 3:6-9 Three questions that every man is asking or will ask at some point in his life: The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. Ge...

Love and War - Week 2 The Attack on the Woman John 4:4-30 He had to go through Samaria on the way. 5 Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. 7 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a d...

Love and War - Week 1 - September 10, 2023 Keep Jesus at the Center Genesis 2:18-25 Men and women are different God gave us the differences not to divide us, but to draw us closer together 1. God multiplies Then God said, “Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals.” And that is what...

Hurt People HURT PEOPLE - Week 2 BLINDSIDED BY HURT Genesis 25:24-40 And when the time came to give birth, Rebekah discovered that she did indeed have twins! 25 The first one was very red at birth and covered with thick hair like a fur coat. So they named him Esau. 26 Then the other twin was born with his hand grasping Esau’s heel. So they named him Jacob Isaac was sixty years old when the twins w...

Hurt People Hurt People - Week #1 Alignment with our Assignment Luke 7:36-50 Do I want to be in alignment with the assignment God has for my life? To be aligned we need about 5 things: 1. We must be connected to Jesus and His church One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat 37 When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eat...

The Fork in the Road Matthew 7:13 “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. 14 But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it. (NLT) #1 Two Gates Luke 13:22, Acts 4:12, John 3:3 The Narrow Gate and The Wide Gate The path you choose determines whether...

Acrostics Week #4 The Amazing GRACE of God Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. 1 John 5:12 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.  Ephesians 2:8-9 Grace is knowing... G ood only takes you so far R eceived not achieved We don’t clean our life...

Acrostics Week #3 Standing in UNITY Acts 9:1-19 Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to kill the Lord’s followers. So he went to the high priest.  2  He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking for their cooperation in the arrest of any followers of the Way he found there. He wanted to bring them—both men and women—back to Jerusalem in chain...

Acrostics - Week #2 An Exercise in GROWth Genesis 28-Genesis 29 Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. Genesis 29:1 G racious Spirit When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” 17 He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of...

ACROSTICS Week #1 Shame Has No Power 2 Samuel 10:1-18 Some time after this, King Nahash of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun became king. 2 David said, “I am going to show loyalty to Hanun just as his father, Nahash, was always loyal to me.” So David sent ambassadors to express sympathy to Hanun about his father’s death. But when David’s ambassadors arrived in the land of Ammon,  -2 Samuel 10:...

Be Bold - Week 4 Drop the Dime Malachi 3:6-12 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. Malachi 3:6 God is an unchanging God in a changing world Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’ 8 “Will a mere...

Be Bold Week #3 Be Bold in Surrender Genesis 28:13-15 Over  time , and with the  help  of  others , Jesus can take a  mess  and turn it into a  miracle There above it stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you w...