CHARACTER WITNESSES

By Admin | Date: | Categories: 2024, Basic, Sermon | Tags: , , , | Sermon Series: 1 & 2 Thessalonians

Paul, Silas, and Timothy had pure motives. They lived righteous lives because they never wanted anything they did or said to detract from the Good News that Jesus saves. As my mother told me when I was just a child growing up in the hills of West Virginia, God is always watching. Even now, when I return to my old home place, there is no cell service or internet. They call it being “off the grid,” but when it comes to God, there is no place where He does not know what we are doing, or saying, or thinking.

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The Sacred Trust

By Admin | Date: | Categories: 2024, Basic, Sermon | Tags: , , , | Sermon Series: 1 & 2 Thessalonians

Author Steven Covey is credited with coining the phrase, “The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.” For Paul, the main thing, above every other thing, was the Gospel. It is significant that in 1 Thessalonians 2:1-9, Paul refers to the “gospel” four times. In Biblical interpretation, when a writer repeats a word, it usually indicates that he is emphasizing that point, and the point for Paul was that he and his team preached the Gospel in Thessalonica, and through the Gospel, a church was established.

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An Example Worth Following

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If we lived in a world without Bibles, and the only thing anyone knew about Christianity was what they saw in the way we lived and heard in the way we spoke, what kind of Christians would there be in the world? We might argue that they should follow Jesus and not us, but in the first century, the main way people learned theology was through the disciple-rabbi relationship, where the disciples were expected to imitate their teachers. Paul was a follower of Jesus, and he endeavored to live "the Christ life." He tried to live the way he believed Jesus would live.

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The Keys to Success

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All of us want our church to be a thriving church, but in addition to being a Spirit-filled, Bible-believing, Jesus-preaching, praying church, we as members of this local body of Christ must be prepared to engage in works of faith and labors of love, while maintaining our patience of hope in Jesus Christ.

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The Church that Grace Built

By Admin | Date: | Categories: 2024, Basic, Sermon | Tags: | Sermon Series: 1 & 2 Thessalonians

When Paul proclaimed peace over the Thessalonians, he did not promise the persecution would end. He was not saying that the culture was suddenly going to embrace them. He was not saying that their external realities were going to change dramatically. He was saying that regardless of what anyone did or said to them, they could remain Christlike. Irrespective of the cost or consequences of living for Christ, they could do it without living in constant fear, anger, or anxiety.

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When God Shows Up

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God has not stepped down or relinquished His power and authority to anyone.  Therefore, as people with our faith and trust in God, we know that even in this life, God sees us, hears us, and responds to us when we pray.  He invites us to cast all our care upon Him because He cares for us (1Pt 5:7).  Today, we will look at Psalm 18, which affirms in no uncertain terms that God still hears and answers the prayers of His people.

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I ALMOST STUMBLED

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I don’t always know why things happen as they do, but I know God, and that is what I hold on to. I know He is my help and my blessed hope. I know He has already paid for my victory. I know that nothing I have suffered has been in vain. I know that one day I will hear Him say, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord” (Mt. 25:21). I know that when things get really bad, I can look up, because my deliverer is coming.

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Consumer Christianity

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Jesus was on the verge of building a megachurch. The multitudes—thousands, perhaps more than ten thousand—were ready to make Him their king. But just when it looked like Jesus was about to fill the pews with hungry bellies, Jesus hit the brakes and said, “I’m not looking for consumer Christians; I’m looking for committed Christians. I’m not looking for bellies to fill; I’m looking for hungry hearts who want more than the world has to offer.”

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Holy Spirit

By Admin | Date: | Categories: 2024, Basic, Sermon | Tags: , , , , | Sermon Series: Holidays, Holiness

We need to stand up and speak up for what is right. We need the Holy Spirit to empower us as witnesses of Jesus in a world where a small segment of society, which has been given the megaphone of the media, will try to shout us down. When we come out of an upper room experience after a powerful Sunday morning worship service, we need to go out speaking the wonderful works of God. We need to take it to the streets without fear or intimidation because we have not been given “a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).

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Courageous Women

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In response to the cries of the people, God did indeed raise up another judge, and again this was an unlikely candidate. God chose Deborah, who was “a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth.” She “was judging Israel at that time” (v. 4). She is the only judge in the Bible who was also a prophet, and she is the only judge who was a woman. Indeed, in the entire Bible, she is the only woman described as being in a leadership role in Israel.

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