NLCC Walnut Grove Campus

We return to our First Love as we cherish God's very word. The 2 travellers on the road to Emmaus experienced burning in their hearts as Jesus explained how all the Scriptures point to Him. In this sermon, we are learning what it means to truly encounter Jesus in the Scriptures.

We are living in the fog of secularism and it is so easy to believe that God is far away and irrelevant to the pressing needs of our life. But what if God was closer than we can even imagine? What if there are burning bushes everywhere on fire with the Presence of God? What if God could remove the veil from our eyes so that we can see that He has been asking, seeking, and knocking upon the door of our life? And what if He answered all our asking, seeking, and knocking with the gift of Himself?

Are you in a circle of friends who love you and love Jesus? Many of us who are not feeling loved by God are feeling that way because we are more and more cut off from the love of others. The truth is that our love for God is rekindled as we love one another.

Jesus meets a woman at a well and offers her the very Presence of the Living God. This woman is so changed by Jesus that she shares the good news with her entire village. There is no greater joy than introducing people we love to the God we love. This is how we rekindle our first love.

Charles Spurgeon once wrote: 'Believe me, if you have but a spark of desire after Christ, he has a whole furnace of desire after you.'(Charles Spurgeon,September 16, 1883.).In Revelation 2 we hear Jesus encourage the church at Ephesus to return to their first love. In this sermon, we begin our 8-week journey into looking at what it means to return to Jesus- to receive His love- and to enjoy Him forever.

Jesus is the Great Peacemaker and is promising to shape us into a people who make peace. Peacemaking is hard work but Jesus promises that, as we cultivate peace, we will be called children of God- doing the every work our Father does.

The mercy of Jesus has been poured out on us, and He is calling us to pour that mercy out on others. The mercy of Jesus is expressed through the forgiveness of sin. In this message, we explore the topic of forgiveness and we begin to practice forgiving our enemy in prayer.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.