Month: May 2017

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2017-05-28: Birthday of the Church – Past, Present, and Future

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Sermon Audio: Birthday of the Church – Past, Present, and Future
Speaker: Pastor Frank Clore
Scripture Text: Acts 2:1-13
Duration: 28:32
Size: 13.0 MB

Birthday of the Church – Past, Present, and Future
Acts 2:1-13

It was also called the Feast of Weeks.

Pentecost was a time of celebration people would feast and be thankful for what God had already given them and for the provision He would provide in the future.

The Holy Spirit has been associated with wind before.

The Holy Spirit is available for everyone who believes in Jesus Christ and He will stay on a permanent basis.

The Holy Spirit provides us the environment needed to have a personal relationship with God.

We have the constant ever-present help of the Holy Spirit with us.

We have God who is the Guide and Helper.

We have God who gives a power to resist temptation and sin.

We have God who enables us to see what is good and right in situations.

We have God who convicts us of our errors that we might do right.

We have God experiencing our sin with us as we do it grieving Him.

We have access to God through prayer even when we do not know what to say.

Pentecost means that you and I each have a job to do as believers in God’s Church.

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2017-05-21: Luke-The Investigative Gospel – Jesus Appears To His Disciples

Luke - The Investigative Gospel

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Sermon Audio: Jesus Appears To His Disciples
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 24:36-49
Duration: 20:03
Size: 9.17 MB

Luke-The Investigative Gospel
Jesus Appears To His Disciples
Luke 24:36-49

You can have hope without faith, but you can not have faith without hope!

Jesus’ appearance to his disciples in Jerusalem in Luke 24:36-49 shows us how they came to recognize that Jesus was indeed alive.

I. The Reappearance of Jesus (Luke 24:36)

As with most people, they have to be persuaded. The disciples are as skeptical as the rest of humanity.

II. The Reassurance by Jesus (Luke 24:37-43)

A. Their Panic (Luke 24:37)

But this was no spirit that they saw, because Jesus gave proof that he was no spirit.

B. His Proof (Luke 24:38-43)

They were seeing and touching the resurrected, glorified Lord Jesus Christ!

The empirical evidence of Jesus’ resurrection is stated briefly: Jesus appears to them, speaks with them, and eats before them. Truly he is raised.

III. The Revelation by Jesus (Luke 24:44-49)

We must understand that one of the reasons Jesus taught them from Scripture was that he did not want them to rest their belief in his resurrection on their personal experience alone.

So, never think that you need to have a certain intellectual ability to understand the gospel.

So, if you have repented of your sins and received forgiveness of your sins, then you are commissioned by Jesus to tell others how they too can find forgiveness for their sins.

So, we have a very good reason to tell others about Jesus: not only is Jesus alive, he has changed us, and we are now empowered by the Holy Spirit to live for him and tell others about him.

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2017-05-07: What A Waste

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Sermon Audio: What A Waste
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Judges 13-16
Duration: 28:21
Size: 12.9 MB

What A Waste
Judges 13-16

Another type of waste that happens far too frequently, and really hurts to see, is the waste of a person’s life.

We are going to look at: What Samson Had, What Samson Did, What Samson Lost, and What Samson Learned.

Samson had parents who wanted him and believed in him, and Samson was also set aside by God.

Samson did whatever he wanted to do!

Samson knew that this marriage was against God’s will.

This act was the beginning of the end of Samson, as he would continue on this downward spiral of self-pleasure and self-gratification.

But Samson had forgotten that though his earthly father could not see and did not know, His Heavenly Father both saw and knew.

“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.” Proverbs 16:1

“So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you do not fall.” I Corinthians 10:12

Because he did whatever he wanted, he lost every bit of it and more.

He lost his strength. He lost his eye sight. He lost his freedom. He lost the presence of the Lord.

He learned the truth. He learned he had sinned. He learned he had to repent.

Samson learned that God can and will forgive and restore.