GIVE. ME. FAITH.

I want to do a quick review and preview with you now that we're halfway finished with our series.

Message 1 - FAITH IS...
from Hebrews 11:1-6

1. Faith is assurance about the future
2. Faith is conviction about true reality
3. Faith is living a life that is commendable by and pleasing to God
4. Faith is believing God exists
5. Faith is believing God reward seekers

Message 2 - FAITH GROWS...
from Genesis 12-22

1. Faith grows from believing God can only work thru the natural to believing God works thru the supernatural.
2. Faith grows from trying to make God’s word/promise happen in your timing and wisdom to trusting God’s timing and wisdom.

Message 3 - PRIDE & FAITH
from 2 Kings 5:1-14

Main idea: Faith demands that you come to the end of yourself.

Here's the messages and their passages for the next 3 weeks. This is where our series will really get going. These next 3 messages are about the practical outworking of faith in your life. Be here!!!

Message 4 - FAITH FEARS GOD (Daniel 3:1-30)
Message 5 - FAITH ASKS (Joshua 10:1-15)
Message 6 - FAITH RISKS (various)

Back to Blogging and a New Sermon Series

Sorry about the blogging break. I posted a new book review below on "Christless Christianity." I am currently reading "The Pursuit of Holiness", book #5. Here's the list of the next 5 books on my list...

6. The Heart of Evangelism
7. Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches
8. Elders in Congregational Life
9. The Next Generation Leader
10. Chosen but Free

Click the "2009 Reading List" link on the right sidebar, which has links to all of these books to Amazon.com for you to order if you want.

On another note...

We start a new sermon series this Sunday called "Isn't She Lovely?" It's a sermon series on the bride of Christ - the church. See you Sunday.

Blessings...

Pastor Mark

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday

This Sunday we will consider what the Scripture says about the plague of abortion. 10am. Don't miss it.

Our text will be Proverbs 31:8-9.

Sunday Preview: Politics (11/9)

So...now that the election is over we'll be talking about a political issue this Sunday. I'm going to tell you exactly what the Bible says this Sunday (just like I do every Sunday).

If you want to read ahead a little bit you can check out 2 Peter chapter 2 and Romans chapter 13. Good stuff.

See you Sunday...

Mark

Sunday Preview: Worship and Life (11/2)

This Sunday we will finish our worship series with the sermon "Worship and Life."

So what you do think? How is worship connected to life and not just something that we do for an hour on Sunday morning?

Our text for this Sunday is Romans 12:1-2.

See you Sunday...

Mark

Sunday Preview (10/12): Worship and Eternity

We start a new sermon series this Sunday about worship. Our first sermon will be on worship and eternity. Here's some Scriptures for you to preview that we'll be looking at this week.

Revelation 5
Revelation 7:9-12
Revelation 19:1-10

For our discussion this week...

What is worship???
How important is worship in the life of a Christian?

Sunday Preview: The Greatness of God – part 4 – Glory

Isaiah 42:8 says, “I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.”

We don’t often think of jealousy as a positive quality, but in this case we see God’s jealousy for his own glory. It is loving of God to desire to see himself glorified for the Scriptures tell us that we find the fulfillment of our life’s purpose when we are glorifying God with our lives.

Here’s some other Scriptures we’ll look at this weekend
• Isaiah 43:7, 21
• Isaiah 48:9-11
• Ephesians 1:4-6
• 1 Peter 2:9

The message of these verses is that God saves us for his own glory. Wow.

See you Sunday…

Mark