"Doubting the Church Due to Church Hurt"

"Doubting the Church Due to Church Hurt"

Matthew 23:1-4 (NLT) Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses. 3 So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. 4 They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.

Facts on the De-churched:

1. People don’t want

Doubting Your Salvation

Doubting Your Salvation

1 John 5:13 (NLT)

 I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life.

4 Ways To Know You Are Saved!

1. You will publicly confess it.

Romans 10:9 (ESV) if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Matthew 10:33 (NLT) 33 But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven.

2. You

"When You Doubt God's Love"

"When You Doubt God's Love"

1 Peter 2:24-25 (NLT) 24 He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right.   By his wounds you are healed. 25 Once you were like sheep who wandered away. But now you have turned to your Shepherd, the Guardian of your souls.

Luke 15:10 (NLT) 10 In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinn

"Story of Glory"

There are no message notes for Sunday, April 14th, due to the special multi-media presentation of "Story of Glory." 

"Dealing with Doubt"

"How to Deal with Your Doubt"

John 20:24-29 (NLT) 24 One of the twelve disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin), was not with the others when Jesus came. 25 They told him, “We have seen the Lord! But he replied, “I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my fingers into them, and place my hand into the wound in his side. 26 Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as be

"The Road to a Changed Life"

“The Road to a Changed Life”

LUKE 24:13-24 (NL) 13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him. 17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their

"The Road to the Cross"

The Road to the Cross

Jesus’ Last 5 Encounters During His Last 9 Hours

Luke 23

Warren Wiersbe said...

“The trial and death of Jesus Christ revealed both the wicked heart of man and the gracious heart of GOD.  When men were doing their worst… GOD was giving HIS best.

1st Encounter was Pontius Pilot the Roman Governor of Judea who was indecisive of Jesus.

Matt. 22:15-22 (NLT) 15 Then the Pharisees met together to plot how to trap Jesus into saying something for which he could b

"The Road to Salvation"

“The Road to Salvation”

Luke 19:1-10 (NLT) 

Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. 2 There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector in the region, and he had become very rich. 3 He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going to pass that way. 5 When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. “Zacch

The Road to Rest

"The Road to Rest"

The Road to Discipleship

The Road to Discipleship

Luke 5:1-11 (NLT) 

One day as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, great crowds pressed in on him to listen to the word of God. 2 He noticed two empty boats at the water’s edge, for the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. 3 Stepping into one of the boats, Jesus asked Simon, its owner, to push it out into the water. So he sat in the boat and taught the crowds from there. 4 When he had finished speaking, he said to S

"The Road to Rejection"

The Road to Rejection

Luke 4:14-22; 28-30 (NLT) 14 Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region. 15 He taught regularly in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. 16 When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures. 17 The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll a

"The Road to Temptation"

The Road to Temptation 

Luke 4:1-13 (NLT)

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2 where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry. 3 Then the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread.” 4 But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone.’” 5 Then the devil took him up

"Being Content in a Complex World"

Being Content in a Complex World

Ecclesiastes 6:9 (NLT) Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don’t have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless—like chasing the wind.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NLT) 21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

JOHN 21:18-23 (NLT) 18 “I tell you the truth, when you were young, you were able to do as you liked; you dressed yourself and went whe

"When You Feel You Can't Forgive Yourself"

"When You Feel You Can’t Forgive Yourself"

John 21:1-19 (NLT)

Later, Jesus appeared again to the disciples beside the Sea of Galilee. This is how it happened. 2 Several of the disciples were there—Simon Peter, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples. 3 Simon Peter said, “I’m going fishing.”  “We’ll come, too,” they all said. So they went out in the boat, but they caught nothing all night.  4 At dawn Jesus was

The Dangers of Being Lonely & No Community

The Danger of Being Lonely & No Community

Matthew 27:1-5 (NLT) 

Very early in the morning the leading priests and the elders of the people met again to lay plans for putting Jesus to death. 2 Then they bound him, led him away, and took him to Pilate, the Roman governor. 3 When Judas, who had betrayed him, realized that Jesus had been condemned to die, he was filled with remorse. So he took the thirty pieces of silver back to the leading priests and the elders. 4 “I have sin