Sermon: The Spiritual Literacy of the Believer Primary Text: 2 Corinthians 3:1-3 Big Idea: We are not just readers of the Word; we are living letters written by the Spirit, called to be read by the world. Introduction: The Illiteracy of the Heart Hello, thank you for joining me. You know, I was looking at
From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary
Primary Text: John 6:16–20 Big Idea: The storms that interrupt your ordinary life are the very moments where Jesus reveals Himself in extraordinary ways — so don’t panic in the darkness; He is coming. Introduction You know, I want to talk to you this morning about something that every single one of us has
The Oil in the Lamp: Are You Ready for the Bridegroom?
Primary Text: Matthew 25:1-8 Big Idea: The difference between the wise and the foolish is not how they look on the outside — it’s whether you have oil in the lamp on the inside. Introduction And so Paul writes to this church — no, let me start somewhere else this morning. Let me start
God Uses the Most Unlikely
Primary Text: Luke 1:8–12 Big Idea: God is actively seeking faithful people — even in the most ordinary, overlooked moments — to accomplish His extraordinary purposes. Introduction: The God Who Sees in Secret There is a question that haunts every believer at some point in their walk: Does anybody see what I’m doing? Does anybody
The Best Gift: The Holy Spirit
Big Idea: God, who is perfectly good, gives His children the best gift of all — His very own Spirit — so that we might be empowered to overcome. Primary Text: Luke 11:13 Introduction: The Instinct to Give Good Things Every parent in this room knows the feeling. You see your child and something
The word of faith
From the brain: What makes a person believe in God? Faith is considered a thought process that affects the frontal lobe in the brain. The Bible tells us that faith comes through hearing the word of God (Rom 10:17). For faith to come, someone has to go and preach the word of God; it is
Holiness a work in progress
Knowledge of the divine; The more we know about God and Jesus, the more we will trust that he is in control of our lives and our surroundings. Grace, that is divine favor, and peace are the results of our quests to know about God. Understanding that no matter what happens in our lives, we
Identifiers of Christ sheep
Having eternal life; Eternity deals with a never-ending stage where things never cease to exist. Just as in the moral, two things exist in eternity: life and death. Moral life does not exist in the eternal, but vice versa. Depending on how we live our moral life, it determines how we live in eternity. The
The untouchables
Committed to save; God has a track record of saving people out of their misery. Whenever we get into trouble or darkness starts to pursue us, it draws God’s attention. Sometimes, without us knowing, he lights a path for us to escape. Psalm 23 says that even though you walk through the shadow of death,
The power of your testimony
Come and see: Allowing others to see what God has done in you is what the Bible calls preaching through testimony (Ps 66:16), where the Psalmist invites the readers to invite all to see what God has done. There is a great victory over the enemy when believers choose to testify about the occurrences of