Text: Mark 12:18-27 Father, I pray that you would meet us now in this hour. I give You my mouth. I give You this time. This is Your house. It’s a house of prayer and we want to pray to You. We want to meet You. We want to encounter You. We ask for wisdom […]
Submitting to God’s Order for Our Sanctification
Preacher: Pastor Ray Text: Mark 12:18-27 What does the fact that there is no marriage in heaven reveal about God’s order? If you break God’s laws, they break you. This is God’s order: 1) Jesus (eternal covenant), 2) spouse (earthly covenant until death do us part), 3) children (covenant until marriage), 4) local church, 5) […]
Transcript: Discernment
Listen to sermon audio Text: Matt 13:24-30, 36-43 Heavenly Father, The parable of the wheat and the weeds — this is a very difficult passage to to swallow. We ask for understanding, Lord. Teach us, Lord. Help us to discern. Help us to evaluate and judge without being judgmental. Give us the right hearts, right […]
Discernment
Preacher: Pastor Ray Text: Matt 13:24-30, 36-43 The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds teaches us an important lesson about discernment regarding who we can entrust ourselves to and who to keep a distance from.
Sermon Transcript: Don’t Give Up
Text: Luke 18:1-8 Father, we’re going to cover an important topic — the parables of Jesus. I don’t know how long you’re going to have us here, but we ask that You give us more and more understanding. Thirty, sixty, one hundred times, the fruit of understanding so that we would live rightly. We need […]
Don’t Give Up
Preacher: Pastor Ray Text: Luke 18:1-8 The parables are specifically given as a corrective to the body of Christ. The Parable of the Persistent Widow is written to those in the body of Christ who give up too easily, and likely, would be unprepared for the coming persecution that precedes the coming of Christ.