I Put My Trust in the Creator

Stevie Jones, our Youth Minister, stepped in for Clint this week.  An outline of his sermon is below: God does not change. The more we look at creation, the bigger our view of God becomes. The more we see God for who He is, the easier it is to trust Him. Trusting God is one [...]

I Put My Trust in the Creator

Our purpose this week will be to establish the biblical fact that God is the sole owner of all the resources in God’s material universe.  As the Creator, God’s signature is on the deed to the earth and all of its inhabitants.  Since God owns everything, what is our role? Psalm 24:1 1 The earth [...]

God vs My Own Understanding

Proverbs 3:5-6 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. (add video “Trustfall” which you can get from my downloads folder on my laptop) Trust in the Lord vs. Trusting In My Own Understanding [...]

I Put My Trust in the Way I Live

The way we live our life reveal a lot about what is in our heart.  As we evaluate our lifestyle in light of God’s word we will reflect upon our own level of generosity.  What we do with all that God has given us reflects our priorities.  How do our lifestyle choices and the resulting [...]

Filled Up and Poured Out

How does Holy Spirit work though us and our gifts? Think of your life as a bucket. 1.He fills us!(Ephesians 5:15-18) – to be truly filled we must become truly empty not full of self – be careful (watchful) how you live (II Corinthians 5:14-15) not full of sin – don’t be foolish, getting drunk, [...]

Gifts of Sign

Among all the disputations and misconceptions that plagued the prickly Corinthian church, Paul took extreme care with one in particular: the spiritual gifts phenomenon. Part of the difficulty with the Corinthian Christians was their inability to see the substantive differences between living as a Spirit-based Christ-body community and living as part of one of the [...]