The Rock of Gainesville - Sermons

We have been created by God so we are called to be: 1. Found by Christ 2. Established in Christ 3. Built by Christ 1 Peter 2:1-12 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 4 As you come to him, a living stone rej...

Founded: - to bring something into existence. - to build a support in the ground for a large structure such as a building or road. - to base a belief, claim, idea, etc. on something.   We have been created by God so we are called to be: 1. Found by Christ 2. Established in Christ 3. Built by Christ 1 Peter 2:1-12 ESV So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander...

Founded: - to bring something into existence. - to build a support in the ground for a large structure such as a building or road. - to base a belief, claim, idea, etc. on something.   Our topics over the next three weeks. We have been created by God so we are called to be: 1. Found by Christ 2. Established in Christ 3. Built by Christ   1 Peter 2:1-12 ESV 1  So put away all malice...

Part 2 Review - No • Say yes to saying no! (Daniel 1:8 NIV) • Say no to staying in the same place by saying yes to spiritual growth. • Say no to apathy by saying yes to compassion. • Say no to distractions by saying yes to focus. • Say no to complacency by saying yes to passion. James 4:13-16 NIV 13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year ther...

Part 1 Review - Yes: We can't live in the arena of uncertainty. God's yes over you: The character of the Father in you. The person of Christ working for you. The purpose of Holy Spirit moving through you.  Daniel 1:8 MSG "But Daniel resolved not to defile himself…" Say Yes to Saying No: 1. Say no to staying in the same place by saying yes to spiritual growth. Genesis 11:31-32 (NIV) "Terah too...

You can't live in the arena of uncertainty. You were made for a yes. Chaos and conflict are calmed by a yes. 2 Corinthians 1:16-20 NIV 16 I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea. 17 Was I fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say both “Yes...

2 Samuel 12:7a (NLT) —  Then Nathan said to David, "You are that man!"   2 Samuel 12:9-10 (NLT) —  Why, then, have you despised the word of the Lord and done this horrible deed? For you have murdered Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and stolen his wife. From this time on, your family will live by the sword because you have despised me by taking Uriah’s wife to be yo...

Because the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in us, His example is my example for what I should expect. I can't manage temptation, I have to eliminate it. Colossians 2:6 NIV "So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,” What decisions must we make to live in Christ? Key Decisions: 1. Choose what you believe. Colossians 3:1-4 NIV "Since...

Mark 16:1 NIV 1 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to  anoint Jesus’ body . Mark 16:2-5 NIV 2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3 and they asked each other, “ Who will roll the stone away  from the entrance of the tomb?” 4 But when they looked up,...