Oct 10, 2021
The Noise of the Accuser and the Advocate 10-10-21
Series: NOISE
"The Noise of the Accuser and the Advocate 10-10-21".
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  • Oct 10, 2021The Noise of the Accuser and the Advocate 10-10-21
    Oct 10, 2021
    The Noise of the Accuser and the Advocate 10-10-21
    Series: NOISE
    "The Noise of the Accuser and the Advocate 10-10-21".
  • Oct 3, 2021Noise Causes Movement 10-3-21
    Oct 3, 2021
    Noise Causes Movement 10-3-21
    Series: NOISE
    "Noise Causes Movement 10-3-21".
  • Sep 26, 2021Noise Series Part #4- 9-26-21
    Sep 26, 2021
    Noise Series Part #4- 9-26-21
    Series: NOISE
    "Noise Series Part #4- 9-26-21".
  • Sep 19, 2021Noise- Shut it Out 9-19-21
    Sep 19, 2021
    Noise- Shut it Out 9-19-21
    Series: NOISE
    "Noise- Shut it Out 9-19-21".
  • Sep 12, 2021Equalizing the Noise- 9-12-21
    Sep 12, 2021
    Equalizing the Noise- 9-12-21
    Series: NOISE
    "Equalizing the Noise- 9-12-21".
  • Sep 5, 2021Nature Through the Noise 9-5-21
    Sep 5, 2021
    Nature Through the Noise 9-5-21
    Series: NOISE
    "Nature Through the Noise 9-5-21".
  • May 31, 2020Am Worship 5-31-20 Sermon
    May 31, 2020
    Am Worship 5-31-20 Sermon
    Series: 2020
    "Am Worship 5-31-20 Sermon".
  • Oct 27, 2019One Really Matters Sermon 10-27-19
    Oct 27, 2019
    One Really Matters Sermon 10-27-19
    ONE REALLY MATTERS   John 1:40-43 40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. 41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). 42 And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter[a]).43 The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.”   When we talk about our faith in Jesus Christ, someone will inevitably remind us that what we believe is fine for us but not for them. All this leads us to ask, “What does it take to bring people to Jesus?” The answer is what it has always been: God’s truth shared in love and friendship, illustrated daily in the life of the one sharing the Gospel.   Peter’s brother, Andrew, is the least known of the four disciples in the inner circle. Andrew ordinarily is left very much in the background. We will learn, too, he was used by our Lord to touch one who touched thousands, Peter.   Take this church for example, there are many people who never get in the spotlight. There ministry is in the background often out of sight. But its people like that with a heart for the gospel who can reach the Peters of the world. Those who will go on to reach many people for the Lord.   How did Andrew go about sharing the gospel?   He Saw the Value Of Individual People   Andrew appreciated the value of a single soul. He was known for bringing individuals, not crowds, to Jesus. Almost every time we see him in the gospel accounts, he is bringing someone to Jesus.   He brought Peter to Jesus: ……..Just one He brought the boy with his lunch to Jesus: ……..Just one     Often times people will hear many sermons, perhaps hear many people worship in spirit and truth and yet still not respond to the gospel in that environment.   They come to Christ because of the influence of an individual.   Andrew brought one—Peter. Peter then brought thousands. All the fruit of Peter’s ministry is ultimately also the fruit of Andrew’s faithful individual witness.   “Few have ever heard of Edward Kimball. He was a Sunday School teacher who led D.L. Moody to Christ. Edward went to a Boston shoe store where the 18-year-old Moody was working, cornered him in the stockroom, and introduced him to Christ. Kimball was anything but bold. He was a timid, soft-spoken man. He went to that shoe store frightened, trembling and unaware of whether he had the courage to confront this young man with the gospel. Moody, on the other hand, was crude and obviously illiterate, and Kimball trembled in his boots as he recalled the incident. Moody had begun to attend his Sunday School class. Moody was totally untaught and ignorant about the Bible. Kimball said, ‘I decided to speak to Moody about Christ and about his soul. I started downtown to Holton’s shoe store. When I was nearly there, I began to wonder whether I ought to go just then during business hours. And I thought maybe my mission might embarrass the boy, that when I went away the other clerks might ask who I was, and when they learned might taunt Moody and ask if I was trying to make a good boy out of him. While I was pondering over it all, I passed the store without noticing it. Then, when I found I had gone by the door I determined to make a dash for it and have it over at once.’   Kimball found Moody in the stockroom and spoke to him with ‘limping words.’ Later, he said, ‘I never could remember what I said, ‘something about Christ and His love, that was all.’ He admitted it was a ‘weak appeal.’ But Moody,then and there, gave his heart to Christ.”   If you have every studied the Bible in-depth you probably have read some of Moody’s work.   I’m sure that there are many in this room who could relate to Edward Kimball. You know that people need the gospel, and you are even compelled to go, and in your head begins the battle of your inadequacy and what if’s.   Andrew saw the value in ONE and the value in individual people. You build that relationship with your one, all the while praying…. And just like Kimball you will question yourself, your wisdom, your articulation, your motives, but what you need to know is Christ is simply looking for obedience. With your obedience, Christ’s grace and mercy flows through the Spirit to give new life.   He Saw the Value Of Insignificant Gifts   I have often heard this statement, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. How about this one, one man’s junk is …… you got it, is another man’s treasure.   Many people that I meet and talk to in the church feel and think that they don’t matter and that their gifts are not important. Some even feel as if there story of how Christ came in is not worthy enough to share with others. I often find God finds great value in things that we seem to throw by the wayside.   In the feeding of the 5,000 story, Philip’s vision was overwhelmed by the size of the need. “There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish —but what are they for so many?” (John 6:8-9, CSB)   I can see most of us now…. Bro. Matt all these people need to be fed and what are we going to do? Me…. Tell them to go home…… Tommy… Maybe we could give them some water or something…. Phil…. Tell them to go home….   Then comes Hallie…. Hey dad I have a few things left in my lunch box that we might can use……   Let’s stop right there. There isn’t a lunch box big enough to hold the food we would need to feed 5000 people. What we often forget is that God will do more with your offer than you can ever imagine.   The FIVE barley loaves and the TWO fish were all that Jesus needed.   What we sense as being insignificant, God sees the unending possibilities. No gift is insignificant in the hands of Jesus.   He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For all these people have put in gifts out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on” (Luke 21:1-4, CSB).   God’s ability to use a gift is in no way hindered or enhanced by the size of that gift. It is the sacrificial faithfulness of the giver, not the size of the gift, that is the true measure of the gift’s significance.   It’s not the greatness of the gift that counts, but rather the greatness of the God to whom it is given. The miracle of feeding the 5,000 illustrates the way God works. He takes the sacrificial and often seemingly insignificant gifts of people who give faithfully, and He multiplies them to accomplish monumental things.   When you think of your contribution as being insignificant, then your input could give momentum to something that becomes monumental.   He Saw the Value Of Inconspicuous Service   Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart (Ephesians 6:6, CSB).   One thing that we have going in this series is that we have hung a logo in the hall right outside the worship center. This is something where every time that you have a gospel conversation with someone you simply color in a square to represent that conversation. No one knows who, when, or what the conversation consisted of. Simply being obedient to the word by telling your story of how Jesus has made a difference in your life.   Andrew was not the front man, but the work that Andrew did for the Lord is still having an impact on us today. Often times you may feel as if your contributions to the Lord go unnoticed, but praise God that the One who matters sees all and it’s a Big deal to Him.   1 Corinthians 1:27-29 Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence.   One really does matter…. You matter….. Your Story matters…. Your Conversations matter… God will use you.   Just know the first step to being used by God is to surrender everything to Him and trust that he in return will give you more that you could have ever come up with on your own. The disciples gave up everything, but what they got was truly out of this world.
  • Sep 15, 2019Dig Another Well Sermon
    Sep 15, 2019
    Dig Another Well Sermon
    Series: GROW
    Dig Another Well Genesis 26:12-33 Top of Form Bottom of Form Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him. The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth. Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us” So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them. Genesis 26:19  Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there Genesis 26:20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek (which means contention or dispute), because they disputed with him. Genesis 26:21 Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Genesis 26:22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth (which means room), saying, “Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.” BY FAITH PERSEVERE. REMEMBER GOD’S PROMISES. Genesis 26:23-24 From there he went up to Beersheba. That night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.” Genesis 26:25 Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well. EXPERIENCE THE BLESSING OF GOD. “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?” They answered, “We saw clearly that the LORD was with you; so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’—between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you that you will do us no harm, just as we did not molest you but always treated you well and sent you away in peace. Genesis 26:30-33 Isaac then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank. Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace. That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, “We’ve found water!” He called it Shibah (which means "oath"), and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba (or "well of the oath"). Proverbs 16:7 says, “When a man’s ways are pleasing to the LORD, he makes even his enemies live at peace with him.”    
  • Aug 4, 2019Church Growth Series #2
    Aug 4, 2019
    Church Growth Series #2
    Series: GROW
    Church Growth Series #2
     
    The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.Scott Peck
      God is not done with his work when we first believe and are saved. He intends day by day to make us into what we already are in Christ.     We tend to say that because a person has natural ability, he will make a good Christian. It is not a matter of our equipment, but a matter of our poverty; not of what we bring with us, but of what God puts into us; - Oswald Chambers     We have been talking about growth for the past several Sundays. And when we think of Growth we often skip to looking at the final product and forget the work and commitment it takes to get there.   I can think of people that I have spoken with in ministry that can relate to my experience with the garden. You grew, and now all you see are weeds……..     It’s not the Garden, it’s the Gardner 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 New International Version (NIV) 26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.   27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.   28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are,   29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.   31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”[a]   In 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 it’s great to see that our Gardner, Jesus Christ, never changes. In fact, there is nothing Good in me but Jesus. He is our Righteousness, Holiness and Redemption.     When things begin to go wrong in my Christian life, the weeds begin to grow, my passions and desires begin to fade. The first part of seeing growth again is realizing it is me, not anyone or anything else.   I was told by a wise man a long time ago….. never allow anyone or anything to come between you and your relationship with the Lord. And if you do, don’t blame the church, the person, nor the situation, look only to you for the blame.     NOTHING should get in the way of your relationship with God.     It’s not the Garden, it’s what you allow inside the Garden     For if you and I are not careful, we will allow things in our lives that will lead to the demise of our walk with the Lord.   1 Peter 2:1-3 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.     Every person that truly believes in Christ is increasingly transformed into his likeness. When we begin to see the things that are hindering our garden from growing, and THEN we are willing to remove that which is hindering it.     The problem is the flesh likes these things. And when the ground is tilled for Godly growth, the enemy loves to sneak in some devilish seed to hinder the growth. WE MUST KICK IT OUT.       It’s not the Garden, it’s the results we really want.       Our spiritual life is no different than the Garden. When you don’t work your garden, the results are not good.     All of us want the fruits and vegetables out of the garden, and all of us say we want to GROW spiritually, but we must learn to crave the things of God.   Once we taste and see the results we cannot get enough. You will be willing to do whatever it takes to produce THAT type of fruit.     Growing in your salvation is when you taste something that you know is good, you bend your wills and desires to make sure that you get the results Christ desires.       It’s a craving that comes and we love and we want more of it. And when we experience it, the more we receive, the more that we grow. The deeper we go the more fruits come out.