As we prepare to worship together this Sunday, pray that God would move to grow us in faith and would also raise people to faith in him. We will be celebrating baptisms this Sunday as well. Few things are more beautiful reminders of the life, death, and resurrection of Christ than baptism...
Below is a prayer from a book titled, "The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions". It is a great prayer to pray as you prepare for worship on Sunday. The sermon text for this coming Sunday can be found below the prayer. May God be glorified! O GLORIOUS...
Acts 5: 17-42 is the text that will be preached this Sunday. Read and think on it over the next couple of days before worship on Sunday. Pray and ask God to help you see truth from His Word that leads to change in your life. Come prepared to see God revealed in His Word through song and...
As we look toward Sundays, many times we don't think of the need to prepare our hearts for worship. Sunday mornings can be hectic, even frantic, as we try to get out of our doors and to church. For others of us it just has become routine, and we aren't coming to church prepared and expecting to...
Our church has been talking about an evangelism tool called "3 Circles" quite a bit recently. It is a tool we are adopting as a church and seeking to use so that we can, which is the tagline for the tool, "turn everyday conversations into gospel conversations." We've all been at a point in a...
“The Shack” was a worldwide bestselling book that has recently been released as a major motion picture. It grossed over 16 million dollars on its opening weekend. The story centers on Mack, a man grieving over loss who comes to encounter God in all three persons (Father, Son...
We are celebrating the 500th year of the beginning of the Reformation. Each Sunday we are preaching through the 5 “solas” of the Reformation: Sola Scriptura, Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, Solus Christus, Soli Deo Gloria. These were Latin phrases or slogans that...
Neither one of my children do well in the car. Lexi has gotten much better, but Landon still hates the car. He will do ok for a few minutes but turns inconsolable after a while. The one thing that will always calm him down is if I reach back and put my arm on him. It doesn't matter if...
Last week we began our new series, why we believe what we believe. I had some great feedback from some of yall after telling me how excited you were to hear what I was going to be teaching for the next few weeks. I am excited about it too. I think if we know what we believe, we are less...
I am going through a series with the students right now with the same title as this blog post: "Why We Believe What We Believe". I firmly believe that if we know what we believe we will be able to stand up under scrutiny, but if we know why we believe what we believe, we will be able to stand...
