Father, we're especially excited tonight because of the material we find ourselves in in Scripture. The Gospel of John is always rich, a gold mine, a treasure trove of truth, an insight into the nature and character, the authority and love of [...]

Let's open our Bibles or we already did. John chapter 3. We made it down to verse 21 last time. Then we stopped. Now verse 22. Let's just start taking a peek at it. "After these things, Jesus and His disciples came into the land of [...]

Father, we now just want to take everything from our minds and give you an open hearted attitude, an open mind to receive. Lord, we want to push away any prejudices of interpretation or of ideas. We are firmly anchored in the cross, even as this [...]

We have, at the beginning of this chapter, what I see as sort of the equivalent of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. You remember, some of you, do you not, CS Lewis's the Chronicles of Narnia and the first book, The Lion, the Witch, and [...]

As you turn in your Bibles to the gospel of John, Chapter 1, a question to ask yourselves is, what is your view of God? In particular, what is your view of Jesus? Some would say, well, I picture Him as a King, He's enthroned. Others would say, [...]

John, Chapter 1. In the Old Testament, Solomon dedicated the temple. The temple was a symbol of God's presence upon the earth. As he dedicated the temple, Father David had saved up the wherewithal to do it. Solomon built it, and as he dedicated [...]

Turning back now to Hebrews 2:11. Hebrews 2:11: "For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified [those who are being sanctified] are all from one". Interestingly enough, there’s no verb are there. I’ve just noticed that for the [...]

In our previous study we covered the material in Hebrews 1. It’s not possible to give a detailed recapitulation but let me just remind you briefly that this chapter opens with this sevenfold presentation of the Lord Jesus Christ in His eternal, [...]

Father, we want to thank you for this incredible journey we've been able to take in this first historical book of the early church, one that has been rendered for us in holy scripture. So we're able to see the devotion and the dedication [...]

I have a couple of friends who absolutely love the weather. You know, a lot of people say, well, what's the weather like? It's like the weather, that's like such a shallow topic. But to them, it's like their favorite topic. In [...]

Father, it's going to be 30 weeks that we will have been in the Book of Acts by next week. And we have seen how the gospel has gone from, as Jesus said and promised, Jerusalem, all Judea, Samaria, then to the utmost or uttermost parts of the [...]

Father, thank you for your word. Thank you for your Holy Spirit who has not just the word of God to break to us corporately, but You're able to take a promise, a warning, an anthem, and You're able to take that and just deliver that [...]

So we're in the book of Acts, chapter 24 before we take the Lord's supper together. There was a family that moved to a town, and a local pastor in that town invited them to church. And the husband, the head of the family said, well, I [...]

Turn in your bibles to Acts chapter 23. We're in the book of Acts. We're in chapter 23. We're going to pray together, then we're going to jump in. Father, we pause to thank you for your faithfulness. Your track record is [...]

I was thinking today what it would be like, what it could have been like to be on Paul the Apostle's missionary team. And though it sounds at first exciting, I think it would have been tough to be around Paul. It would seem looking into the [...]

Father, we feel it important to pause and to address the author of scripture itself, the divine author. Yes, we know that Luke penned this book. John wrote other books, as did Paul, as did Peter, and so many others. 66 different books, so many [...]

We are in chapter 19 of the book of Acts. If you would turn to Acts chapter 19, we didn't quite finish it last week, little surprise. Can we pray together first? Father, we know that tomorrow is a National Day of Prayer, and though we pray [...]

Father, thank you for just the incredible moments we've already shared, pouring out praise to you. Those are the words. We pour out our praise to you only because you're worthy. And some of us so far this week have had a difficult time. [...]

Could you turn in your Bibles, please, to the book of Acts, Chapter 18, the Book of Acts, Chapter 18. We're going to jump into the scriptures and we're going to finish the chapter. And then we're going to take the Lord's Supper [...]

Book of Acts, Chapter 18, and displayed behind me is the wonderful panorama of this city that we're going to be studying in this chapter tonight, the city of Corinth. And I'll be explaining a little bit about this city that's behind [...]

Father, we deliberately still our hearts before you. We just want to, in prayer, take a breath, so to speak. And we're inviting you to be in charge, be in control, be the teacher, the divine instructor behind the human, flawed instructor. We [...]

Every time I travel I think of Paul the Apostle. Why? Because it's estimated that Paul the Apostle, in his lifetime, traveled 13,400 miles. He didn't get on an airplane, didn't have a hotel room. He usually went from prison to prison, [...]

A brother showed me before the service started a bulletin from 1987. We had been in this building about a year, and I was just looking at the design, the front cover of the design, just where we've come from and what it took to design something [...]

Father, now we deliberately calm and still our hearts, pushing away any device or any thought that would distract us from you. And I think of the words that this book of acts begins with. The former treatise that I wrote to you oh, Theophilus, of [...]

Now, in the 13th chapter of the book of Acts as you turn there, we're in a new section. There's been a transition. I just want you to know what that is. Beginning in chapter 13, to the end of the book, it has been sometimes referred to as [...]

Father, we just now calm our hearts. We just push everything aside, making ourselves aware that, not only do we have open Bibles, but that all things are naked and open before the One with whom we have to do. As the writer of Hebrews reminds us [...]

Lord, You know the events of our day. You know the thoughts of our mind, those distractions or legitimate good thoughts that we've had, and how we process them. You know how we feel about You, about people around us. You know the kind of depth [...]

I hope you brought a Bible, or, did you bring one? Let's see it. Raise that up. Ah. That's such a sweet picture. So how many of you, and if you don't, I don't care. It's OK. But you don't carry a leather Bible, but you [...]

You know, it's always amazing to me to come to an end of another year, because we all say it every year, and you say it more often the older you get, but boy did this year fly by. Right? It just goes so quickly. So in a few days you will have [...]

Father, we settle our hearts before you and this prayer is not formality. It's an intentional way of inviting you to speak to us, every single one of us. We pray that your Holy Spirit would have something special for each of us that we would [...]

In the last time we were together, we saw a young man, who was filled with the Holy Spirit, on fire, very articulate, very knowledgeable in scripture, who had been a deacon, a servant, in the Church of Jerusalem. His name was Stephen. And he stood [...]

You know, there was a little boy who was in the foyer of his church, and he noticed a board on the wall with stars and names under the stars. He asked his parents, what is that for? What are these names and stars? They said, these are the people who [...]

Father, we thank you for the word of God that does the work of God in the hearts of the people of God by the Holy Spirit of God. Father, we are here asking you, as the good physician, the great physician, to do surgery on our hearts, to work in our [...]

I'm just looking around to see who would whether the rain and come out. Interesting choice of a worship song, Holy Spirit Rain Falling Like a Flood. I thought it was particularly appropriate for tonight. Whenever it rains like this, and [...]

Father, we do want to speak to You in prayer. And though I'm doing the praying here, my brothers and sisters I believe are in agreement when we say we need You and we need to hear from You. We need Your instruction. We need Your encouragement. [...]

And so Father, we commit the evening to you, the time that we're together, these next several minutes. We also want to understand truth and how it applies to our hearts, our lives, our future, our present, our relationships, where we go to [...]

Father, we come before you as living sacrifices, and we present our bodies to you. And we know that's our spiritual act of worship, that's our reasonable service. That is the smartest thing we could do in light of and in view of all the [...]

So turn in your Bibles to the book of Acts, Acts chapter 1 and we'll get started. Yeah, all right. Let's pray and we'll get started. Father, thank you for the word of God that does the work of God in the hearts of the people of God. [...]

Good evening, good folks. You know, you really are the exception to the rule. It says in the Scriptures, in the last days that people will not endure sound doctrine. So what I love is that you make it so easy to come to church and to teach the Word [...]

Father, thank you for an opportunity to gather together midweek. Thank you for the rainy day we've had, and may your word now water our souls as we gather. Lord, for that to happen, adequately, powerfully, we need a hunger and a thirst in our [...]

All right, let's turn in our Bibles to the book of Romans, chapter 12. We come to the graduation chapter of the book of Romans, the fourth great transition of this book. Remember, I gave you four sections that this book is divided into? And you [...]

Would you turn in your Bibles, please, to the book of Romans, chapter 11. My errant though well-intentioned attempt at covering two chapters, since that has happened now a few times, I have now become more realistic. And so tonight I'm not [...]

So we're in Romans, chapter 10. Last week my aim was to teach chapter 9 and 10. I laugh because you laugh at the idea of me doing that. But tonight, by God's grace, I'm going to do chapter 10 and 11. And I hear some laughs and [...]

Good evening. Great to see you, especially on a day when the season can't decide if it's spring or winter. And I think we've had a little of both in the last couple of days. But it's nice and warm in the fellowship of God's [...]

Good evening. That was a great last song. Wow, so good. The whole set was good, but that was just great. I thank God, amen. Let's turn in our Bibles to the book of Romans, let's go to chapter 8. That's what I said last week, and I [...]

So good to see your faces tonight. So glad you could come to church. Way to go in the middle of the week to gather for fellowship, to gather for a spiritual meal, to gather for encouragement. I still don't like the fact that we can't hug. [...]

Look at you all. Happy as clams. Great to have you here tonight. Glad you're with us. Turn in your Bibles please, did you bring one of these things, by the way? Good. Smart. See you're smart people. Turn in your Bible, or on your device, [...]

Hey, redeemed one's. Great seeing you. You have your Bibles with you? I knew you were smart. Turn in your Bibles to the book of Romans chapter 5. Romans chapter 5. Peter talks about Paul, talks about Paul's writings. In 2 Peter he talks [...]

Turn in your Bibles, if you wouldn't mind, to Romans chapter 3 tonight. The last couple of weeks we started going through this incredible book. And we pick it up in Romans chapter 3 in verse 1. It was Mark Twain who said, having spent a [...]

Good evening. You need to know it is my distinct honor and privilege to be among those who will take time out of the middle of their week to come and hear God's word and worship together. God bless you. Let's turn in our Bibles to the book [...]