This Sunday, the Lord laid on my heart to do a different message before we return to our series in the gospel of John.  Our text is 1 Kings 12:1-20.  In this text of scripture, we have a sad story where people fail to obey the Lord, but where God shows them, and us that…

This Sunday, we continue a brief series we began 2 weeks ago on the local church.  This time we look at what a church does.  I want to spend a little time talking about how the church is described in scripture.  Starting in 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 we look at several metaphors used in scripture to…

This Sunday, we continue a series we began last week on the local church.  This time we look to the example of the early church.  In a lot of ways, the church is really exactly the same as it was in the first century.  Sunday morning, we will look at Acts 2:37-47 and other passages…

This Sunday, we take a break from our series in the gospel of John and focus on a series about the local church.  What is the local church?  In a lot of places today there is a misunderstanding of the church, and what it is all about.  A shallow view of the church in recent…

This Sunday in our series in the gospel of John, we are looking at chapter 4, verses 43-54.  While this passage is talking about faith, and the great faith of the royal official; it starts out dealing with the problematic lack of faith, or what I call pseudo-faith.  Christ has already experienced much pseudo faith…