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Tag: Holy Spirit

Discipleship 1

How Do I Experience The Power of God? (HC:LD18c)

  Imagine following in the footsteps of Moses – how huge a task that would be. Moses is probably the most important person in the Old Testament. It was through Moses that the nation of Israel was delivered from Egypt. It was Moses that led and judged the people for decades. It was Moses that climbed Mount Sinai to meet […]

Heidelberg Catechism

The Gift of the Holy Spirit (HC:LD18b)

Turn with me to Luke 24:50-53 and then we’ll be headed into Acts 1. Luke and Acts are actually two parts of the same work, both written in about 60-70AD by Luke, a gentile, Christian doctor who travelled with the Apostle Paul and was commissioned by someone named Theophilus to write a history of the life of Jesus and the […]

1st Corinthians 1

God’s Plan For Your Life is Revealed Not Discovered (Stop Looking, Start Listening)

If you remember last week, we learned that regardless of what the multitudes of unbelievers in this world think, there really is objective truth and objective morality, and those things were written long, long ago by God Himself. And therefore, despite all of the dramatic changes of opinion which seek to envelop us, and all the forces pulling us towards compromise, […]

1st Corinthians

What Can We Do and What Must God Do Alone?

We like doing things ourselves, right? I think almost everyone here today takes pride in the skill and abilities they have, what they can accomplish, and how, for the most part, they don’t really need anyone’s help to get by. Sure – as I said last week – some of us are willing to admit our weaknesses and need for […]

Sermon

Zechariah & Being Filled With The Holy Spirit

In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.  But they had no child, because Elizabeth was […]

Pastoral Prayer

Pastoral Prayer: Inspire Us to Worship

You are the life-giving God. Inspire us and give us the energy to call upon Your name, for our minds are not enough to understand, our thoughts are wayward and we are easily distracted. We love the world too much and within our heart is still the struggle with unbelief and doubt. It is only by Your Holy Spirit that […]

Sermon 6

Intentional Discipleship: Preparing Our Heart with Psalm 51

(For a video of this sermon click here.) My intention when I started writing this sermon was to give some very practical steps on how to do the Four Core Christian Disciplines (Prayer, Bible Study, Church Attendance & Serving Others — first introduced here) successfully, but then God reminded me that I had missed a step. I’ve covered the importance […]

Sermon 5

Intentional Discipleship: Count the Cost

(Here’s the link to the video. Warning, there’s some yelling…) Last week I promised that we would be getting into the practical aspects of discipleship. I’m afraid we’ll have to put that off for another week because the Lord seems to have something else for us… You Were Saved To Be A Disciple Let me start with this first, and it’s something […]

Devotional

Wisdom and Foolishness

I’m a HUGE fan of the AWANA program and had the opportunity to speak again last Thursday night. I gave a talk called “Wisdom or Foolishness” to a group of kids aged 5-12 and their leaders (which included some pretty fun pictures!). Here’s the audio: I want to play a game with you that I’m going to call “Good or Bad”. I’ll show you […]