Speaker: Joe Tribole :: Passage: Various(24)

Intro … Last Sunday’s message (a ‘meditation’ really) was entitled: “The Good Life Attacked” and the truth is … sometimes those who are living fine, Christ-Honoring Lives can indeed be attacked by those around them. I hope that it has never happened to you. It can knock you for a loop if you are ‘caught off guard.’

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(21)

Intro … Last Sunday’s message was titled: “Living the Good Life” and in that message, we defined the ‘Good Life’ as a life characterized  by“Harmony, Sympathy, Humility, Generosity and Honesty.”

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(20)

Intro … Today we come to the conclusion of the ‘Mini- Sermon Series’ that

has popped up in the midst of our main series. The Main Sermon Series, of

course, is entitled ‘The Apostolic Way’ and will take us through the First

and Second Letters of Peter and the letter of First John.

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(18B)

Intro … Today, on this Mother’s Day, I’d seek to focus our attention on the one the title of this message calls: “History’s Most Important ‘Mom'” I’m sure that there is no debate over who should hold that designation and so upon her I would place …

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various

Intro … Today in preparation for our time of communion, let’s take one more step into what we could call ‘Peter’s Submission Section.’

Three times in a relatively few verses, Peter says: “Submit Yourselves.” Each of those directives will draw the focus of a Sunday message.

Those three messages will form a kind of ‘Submission Mini-Series’ in our larger investigation of ‘The Apostolic Way.’

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(17)

Intro … Lots to cover today … five entire verses! Let’s look at the Key Scripture – the one that will be ‘Key’ not only for today’s message but for the next two as well.

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(17)

Intro … This morning we continue in our examination of ‘The Apostolic Way’ – that way of life taught and lived by the Apostles of Christ themselves. Two of those Apostles, Peter and John, put their teachings in print and it’s their three main letters that we are examining – First and Second Peter and First John.

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(16)

Intro … Today’s passage contains some horrible news and some wonderful

news. Let’s start with the ‘horrible’ and end with the ‘wonderful’.

Here’s how I would express the ‘Horrible News’ that Peter shares with us

in the first three verses of 1 Peter chapter two.

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(11)

Intro … Last week in preparation for our initial Firstfruits Communion as a newly formed congregation, I shared with you a meditation entitled …“Building An Awesome Earthly Fellowship” for that is exactly what the Church of Jesus Christ is intended to be.

Speaker: Mark Mikels :: Passage: Various(10)