Mayflower Church Sermons

Why stay in the dark when Christ has opened the Father's house? Come, and stay.

Big Idea: Opened hearts open homes.

1. The Lord Begins in a Small Place (vv. 11–13)
2. The Word Opens the Heart (v. 14)
3. The Opened Heart Opens a Home (v. 15)

The help the world is begging for is the gospel. Paul and his team tried two roads to preach the word, and Jesus closed them both. At the edge of the sea, in the night, a man of Macedonia appeared to Paul and said, come over and help us. He did not say, come and preach to us. He said help, and he did not know what help he needed. By morning the team had concluded that God had called them to preach the gospel, and they went immediately. The help that man was begging for was the good news of Jesus Christ.

In Acts 16:1–5, Chaplain Leon Jones shows how God strengthens His church through proven character, flexibility that never compromises the gospel, and unified truth. Choose character over comfort, laying down your preferences so others can hear of Christ.

For two Sundays, we watched a church answer the hardest question it would ever have to face, and then Luke ends the chapter with two of the best men in the New Testament in a quarrel they could not settle. He does not hide it, he does not soften it, and he does not tell us which one was right. He tells us the work went on and doubled.

The Spirit Decided

Big Idea: The Spirit settled it and the church says it.

1. The Church Says What the Spirit Settled (vv. 22–29)
2. The Letter Comes Down and the Church Rejoices (vv. 30–32)
3. Peace Goes Back Up and the Word Goes On (vv. 33–35)

Two men share a hospital room: one with forty years of good numbers, one who never gave his heart a thought. Come Sunday and hear why the same medicine is carried to both beds. JOIN US LIVE!

Big Idea: God is the agent. They were the companions.

1. Grace Completed the Work (vv. 24-26)
2. They Reported God (v. 27a)
3. God opened the door. (vv. 27b-28)

Each year on I Love My Church Sunday, we explore a passage related to our love for one another as a church, how we love one another, and how we could love more and love better.

Darkness Blinded Him
1 John 2:9-11

Big Idea: The one who hates his brother is already blinded by the darkness, whatever he says about the light.

1. The One Who Says (v. 9)
2. The One Who Loves (v. 10)
3. The One Who Hates (v. 11)

Big Idea: The road into the kingdom runs through tribulation. The King walked the road of suffering into glory first; He sets His people on the same road, and He keeps them all the way home.

1. The Cost of the Kingdom Road (vv. 19-20)
2. The Charge for the Kingdom Road (vv. 21-22)
3. The Care for the Kingdom Road (v. 23)

Big Idea: Turn from empty idols to the living God.

1. The Sign the Crowd Misread (vv. 8-13)
2. The Servants Who Refused the Glory (vv. 14-15a)
3. The God Who Left a Witness (vv. 15b-18)