Many Are Invited But Few Accept
Preacher: Pastor Ray
Text: Luke 14:12-24
If so many are invited to the final Wedding Banquet, why do only a few accept the invitation?… Read more
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Make Every Effort to Enter the Kingdom of God
Preacher: Pastor Ray
Text: Luke 13:22-30
The kingdom of God is filled with citizens who keep repenting and who make every effort to enter it.… Read more
Matt 5:1-12 – Relational Qualities of Being Meek and Merciful (pt 1 of 4)
Read Matthew 5:1-12.
We are continuing on in the Beatitudes which kicks off Jesus’ first and arguably most famous sermon, the Sermon on the Mount, which spans chapters 5-7 of Matthew. The Beatitudes contain 8 statements of blessing. As Brother Daniel shared last week, you can translate blessed in this passage as happy.… Read more
Matt 5:1-12 The Beatitudes: Personal Qualities of a Christian Disciple (pt4 of 4)
Personal: Blessed Are Those Who Mourn (v4)
The blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, the pure in heart, those who are pure in spirit. And lastly, v4–
4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
You feel a lack. The kingdom of God has come in part, but it’s not fully here in my life, in your life, in our society, in our world.… Read more
Matt 5:1-12 The Beatitudes: Personal Qualities of a Christian Disciple (pt3 of 4)
Personal: Blessed Are the Pure in Heart (v8)
v8 – “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” This is connected to being poor in spirit.
While the rich in spirit and the rich period have many answers, many options, the poor in spirit don’t have all the answers and they don’t have many options.… Read more
1 Corinthians 6:1-11 – Repentance (pt2 of 3)
Now, let’s take a look at this text and why Paul is bringing in this idea of the future kingdom with this lawsuit at Corinth.
1 If any of you has a dispute with another, dare he take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the saints? 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?… Read more