Sunday Morning Sermon Series: “Mary’s Magnificat, Our Magnificat” Luke 1:46-55 LORD, may Your people never cease to praise You in public and in private, corporately and personally, radically and wisely! To put it softly, it’s been a mess out there in 2020! Much has happened this calendar year and such has tested most, awakened many,…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Eternal Food” John 6:26-51 The Jews had an erroneous focus on a worldly king, national redemption, political Messiah, and earthly prosperity. They had the Prophets and Writings of God, the Temple and priesthood, but they looked to national liberation and prosperity foretold in their scriptures. What was also foretold in those…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Crossing the Sea” John 6:15-25 Jesus will let us be alone. He will even allow us to be alarmed. But the same storms which bring chaos, doubt, conflict, and pain in our lives are the same storms over which He is Lord. He will approach His own to either calm the…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Servant King” John 6:1-15 “The key, beyond our believing in God’s ability and will to use us, lies in the wholeheartedness of our surrender to him. William Booth’s secret is an open one. Asked to explain the phenomenal impact of his life, he replied, ‘For the last eighty years God has…
Details“Who’s on Trial?” John 5:16-47 Although Jesus knew their hearts were hardened toward Him; He offered them, His disciples, and now us evidence for who He is. He was not on trial but they were. The mother of all questions came from Jesus: “Who do you say that I am?” Jesus offered us evidence not…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “A Mat Without A Man” John 5:1-17 Though revolving around a miracle, this passage is about the refusal to trust Jesus’ clear authority over nature, health, sin, and (later) even death (vv. 28-29). John’s Gospel account divides those who encountered Jesus by those who believed and are saved, and those who…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “A Servant Leader” Acts 6:1-7 A deacon in the Southern Baptist Church is an office of service. The term is used of “serving tables” (deacon tables) and is stated in Acts 6, and the Greek term for table is used for more than food. It also is used of money tables.…
DetailsWednesday Night Bible Study: “Reigning or Restrained?” Rev 20:1-8 One of the most blessed chapters in Scripture is one of the most misunderstood. It is the most symbolic chapter in the most symbolic book of Scripture. What saddens my heart is to see that the topic of millennium has become the distinguishing determiner for one’s…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Words, Witness, and Works” John 4:27-54 Jesus didn’t stay long where He got too much attention and He visited people and places where He’d not typically be accepted. Seems counter-intuitive to us. But to God, such is necessary. Paradoxically, those from whom He came needed more evidence to believe in Him,…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Wellspring of Worship” John 4:1-26 When I attempt to create witnessing opportunities, I find that people are not looking For God or His righteousness (Ro. 3:10-11). That is why I have to point to sin (theirs and mine) and the necessity for repentance, sacrifice, substitution, righteousness, and mercy. Jesus is the…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Joy for Jesus” John 3:22-36 There is much upon which Christian folk disagree. There is always opportunity for opposition but we ought to seek points of agreement firstly. The main things are the plain things and the plain things are the main things! Although a controversial figure, John the baptizer (crazy…
DetailsWednesday Night Bible Study: “Regarding Christian Rights” Christians get their instruction from holy writ and thus how we conduct our lives in society is informed therein. Click here to read Bible Study notes Part 1 Audio Part 2 Audio Part 3 Audio
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Salvation in the Son” John 3:12-21 Jesus told Nicodemus what was necessary to enter the “Kingdom of God” (being born from above – Jn. 3:5) and went on to explain how to attain “everlasting life” (vv. 13-16). After mentioning the mystery of the Spirit, who gives us new life and thus…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Entrance into the Kingdom” John 3:1-12 Do you want to be a participant in the Kingdom of God? God rules universally whether you acknowledge such or not. But do you earnestly pray, “Thy Kingdom come and will be done in my life here on earth as holiness is done in heaven.”?…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Scandalous Scene at the Temple” John 2:13-25 Imagine a young public servant barging into the Capital Building while congress was in session, taking and breaking the gavel while accusing congress that they have made a mockery of the US Constitution by exploiting the tax paying citizens. And after they demanded his…
DetailsSunday morning series: “Secret Sign at a Wedding” John 2:1-12 It’s occasionally acknowledged that Scripture begins and ends with a wedding. This itself tells us a lot. Wedding feasts are expensive! They are arduous to plan, prepare, and manage. But they can be the most beautiful and pleasant events to which our memories cling for…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “The King/Prince” John 1:47-51 It is not so amazing that the eternal God created the cosmos, but it is incomprehensible that God became flesh. It is not so amazing that after He was incarnated that He justified believers, but it is wonderfully amazing that He confounded the wise and achieved His…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: Many in the One” John 1:19-51 After introducing Jesus as co-creator and as God himself, John established that the many roles of the Messiah are found in Jesus alone. As Hank Hanegraaff often says, “Only Jesus could walk through the door of the Old Testament prophets.” And the prophets spoke much…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “New Revelation of Eternal Word” John 1:1-34 The New Testament means nothing without the old. The foundations of truth, life, choice, responsibility, and righteousness had to be laid and played out so that redemption in the person and work of Jesus Christ could be enacted and proclaimed. He has come, the…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Dependency and Devotion” Psalm 119:33-40 Though the psalmist is not ambivalent, he acknowledged the duality of his nature. He knew the need for a single mind toward truth, a single path for his feet, a single heart that was loyal to truth, and a single eye which would not lead him…
DetailsWednesday Night Bible Study: “Why Evil” Do you link suffering, pain, loss, conflict with evil? Why or why not? Click here for Bible study notes on Why Evil Part 1 Audio Part 2 Audio Part 3 Audio Part 4 Audio
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Embracing Truth” 119:25-32 In the beginning of this fourth octonary, we see the psalmist’s acknowledgment of clinging to the dust (v. 25). At the end he has determined to cling to the testimonies of God (v. 31). Our fallen nature has us stuck in the mud and headed six feet under…
DetailsWednesday Night Bible Study: “Israel” God’s Son/Prince/Warrior Who What Are Is Israel? Click here for Bible study notes on Israel
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: Bible Question and Answer Service A-Chording to the Gospel Blue Grass Band I hope you enjoyed/celebrated your freedoms and continue to do so today and evermore. This nation still enjoys many blessings bestowed on it by God and one of them is the freedom to preach and to speak freely without…
DetailsWednesday Night Bible Study: “Witness with integrity, respect, and truth” 1 Peter 3:13-17 An excerpt from Pastor Chris Hall’s notes: “How has Jesus changed your life? The lost ought to expect to see a transforming. If Jesus’ promise to give life and life abundant is true, there must be evidence!” Click here to read Witness…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Dependency and Devotion” Psalm 119:17-24 A faith that isn’t tested is a faith that can’t be trusted. True devotion is manifested in times of trial. If adversity renders one faithless there was never any devotion. Jesus spoke of those who seemed to be receivers of His word. He said they initially…
DetailsWednesday Night Bible Study: “Israel Definition” An excerpt from Pastor Chris Hall’s notes: “The true Israel of God is the organic (bush) dwelling place (building) of united believers (body) who are betrothed to God (bride). True Israel are those who have been born from above (God’s Spirit) via the cleansing / life source of Messiah’s…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “Absorption of God’s Truth” Psalm 119:9-16 As you know I have two professional jobs: construction and a pastorate. I love the pastorate! It has its obvious challenges and sorrows but it affords me to do what I love – study God’s Word and preach it! We cannot live without the Word…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “The Word of God” Psalm 119:1-8 Part 2 In the beginning, the Word of God created the universe. The Word of God, about which the psalmist sung, describes the nature of God. It is the transcript of God’s nature and thus it is life. It is powerful and authoritative and our…
DetailsWednesday Night Bible Study: “King and Kingdom Come” An excerpt from Pastor Chris Hall’s notes: “The consummation of His Kingdom will be a transformational event wherein all of creation will metamorphisize into glory – when our glorification will match our justification. 1 Cor. 15 = Jesus’ Resurrection, Our Spiritual Resurrection, & the Universe’s Resurrection.” Click…
DetailsSunday Morning Sermon Series: “The Word of God” Psalm 119:1-8 Part 1 There are many subjects of which we could devote a lengthy sermon series. Perhaps the most obvious topic to focus a series on would be the Word of God itself – and we are embarking on such a series. The poetic and theologically…
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