Sermons from May 2023
Seven Weeks Later (The Power of Pentecost)
Introduction Acts 2:1-21 ESV When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. (2) And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. (3) And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. (4) And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them…
Grace Upon Grace Upon Grace
Introduction James 4:6 ESV But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Point One – God Gives Grace To the Humble James 4:6 ESV But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” · James here is quoting an old testament principal that is found all throughout the Bible, but you kind find these words nearly exactly in Psalm 18 and…
Don’t Cheat On God
Introduction James 4:4-5 ESV You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (5) Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? James 4:4a ESV You adulterous people! … Point One – Be in the World but not…
Receiving Everything You Want From God
Introduction James 4:1-3 ESV What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? (2) You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. (3) You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. James 4:2 ESV You desire and do not have,…
They Just Don’t Get Jesus
Introduction Acts 19:21-32 ESV Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.” (22) And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while. (23) About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way. (24) For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of…