Text: Ephesians 4:1-6 Worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called… Part of our job as Christians is getting along with each other Part of your relationship with God is experienced through your interaction with other people. A vocation is a job. There is little said in the Bible about what job you have in […]

Text: 1 Thessalonians 1:10 Don’t trade God’s timing for your deadline. Warren Buffet said, “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” Why is patience a virtue?  Why isn’t “Hurry Up!” a virtue? Prayer: Lord help me with patience.  Not the opportunities to be patient.  I’ve had plenty […]

Text: Hebrews 4:14 New Jerusalem is a physical place.  It’s behind a curtain.  Heaven, where the Lord is, is not a frame of mind. Vail of heaven Now only the high priest could pass through the vail.  And only in a sanctified and pure condition could he pass through the vail.  Verse 14 says we […]

Text: Exodus 30:34-38 & Psalm 141:2 Composition is pleasing to the Lord (vs 34) Sweet Offered with a sweet spirit Ammonia prayers like the Pharisee, “I thank God I’m not like him…” 1 Peter 3:7, 12 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, […]

Text: Romans 8:28 But nothing catches God by surprise, so he isn’t beside himself since sin entered the world.  What he is going to do is use this time to prepare his people, to test his people and to basically accomplish some things in you and I that he wants to accomplish. So how is […]

Text: Acts 8:26-40 There are also, seven types of baptism in the Bible. Israel wandering in the wilderness was baptised unto Moses in a cloud (1 Corinthians 10:1-2) John the Baptist came to manifest Christ to Israel and to prepare His way.  An identifying mark of the disciples of John was baptism (John 1:31) Baptism […]

Text: Hebrews 4:12 My Bible is alive Quick as in alive.  Just like the living part of your fingernail bed is the quick, and it hurts if you clip your nail past the quick. John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, […]

Text: Ephesians 3:20-21 Paul has just been talking about the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of God’s physical creation and the spiritual distance of things.  He has been setting forth a grand scale, universal setting of enormous proportions.  If we were to just think of the physical creation, the universe itself is exceeding […]

Text: 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Salvation Battery is positive and negative.  What happens if there is only a positive and no negative?  It doesn’t work.  What happens if it’s all negative and no positive?  It doesn’t work. Rialto restoration. Some change the sign outside  the building without any sign of change. We went to Trinidad several […]

Text: Luke 8:22-25 Trouble doesn’t mean sin … there came a storm of wind…(vs 22) Faith is nothing until it’s proven so trouble is necessary Circumstances are not an indication of your relationship with God.  Carnal thinking says God is waiting to thump me. Blessings don’t mean you’re right with God either.  God is good, […]