“The Y.E.S. Journey” is a process of seizing God’s desired future for my life. Your current position on “The Y.E.S. Journey” can be understood through the four soils (heart) in Jesus’ Parable of the Sower. Matthew 13 The Path Unresponsive, Hard packed, walked on- Evil One snatches away …
Today’s message starts with point 2 below. We are giving thought to how it is possible to be a philosophical Christian but a practical humanist or secularist. Our goal is to harmonize and integrate the two into a wholistic Christ-like life. Many people, often Christians, live their lives similarly to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice …
Two options exist. I am either dead to God and alive to sin or I am dead to sin and alive to God. The Bible is filled with the understanding that God’s goodness and mercy allows us to come to Jesus through God’s grace and by faith. Don’t try to kill sin prior to coming …
Following are notes I prepared from Dr. Wirachai Kowae’s powerful message. Life Group home work is at the end of the message notes. A Great Question – What do you mean by being a Christian? Why would someone change his or her religion from Buddhism to Christianity? Becoming Christian is something different from religion. Matthew …
The Holy Spirit is a Gift from Father God and both the Father and the Spirit are Trustworthy. James 1:17, Luke 11:11-13 However, the Trustworthy Spirit’s communications are understood through our filters, which must be shaped and formed in order to be trustworthy. Three extremely important filters through which my understanding of the Spirit’s communication …
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God loves the cities in His world. The following message notes are written with God’s love of cities in mind. Do you have a theology of the city? Let’s discover a Christian perspective of the city. “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.” Psalm 24:1 The …
I am thinking about the relational costs for declaring what, in my view, is Biblical theology, doctrine, and morality. Sunday one of my good friends and long term MCA participants walked out during my message because of my line, “America has left the Biblical view of sexuality by approving gay marriage in several states. Our …
My message, “In Times Like These: Walk in Authority,” is designed to assist us in realizing God’s authority was given fully to Jesus following his resurrection from the dead. Jesus said, “All authority has been given unto me both in heaven and on earth.” We represent Him. We walk in His authority to make disciples …
My Tuesday evening message was intended to reflect the possibility that the “waves and breakers” that swept over the Psalmist in the 42nd Psalm, might be a combination of the crushing and energizing of the truth and the humbling and inspiration of grace. As you read the concepts below, consider the glorious grace of the …
Following are my message notes for the Day Services of August 26, 2012. My intent is to show that 2 Peter 1 gives us a Biblical panorama of adult maturation. Unlike scholars who view adult maturity through the lens of hierarchies, stages, or phases, I view adult maturation as the total process of being saved, …