Date:  May 27, 2018

Title:  The Power of Fervent Prayer!

Text:  Acts 12:1-19 (CSB)

Pastor John Black

I. What is Fervent Prayer? 

• A Prayer of Priority

II. What Power does Fervent Prayer produce?

• Supernatural Peace

Date:  May 13, 2018

1 John:  Exposing Counterfeit Christianity

Part 3: Unconditional Love

Text:  1 John 2:1-11

Pastor John Black

Listening Guide:

I. The Main Points:

• True Believers do what Jesus says!

This includes . . .

• Loving others unconditionally!

• This is possible to do!

               We must be willing to . . .

• Apologize when we have done wrong

II. Three Reflection Questions:

1. Who do you need to extend unconditional love to?

Date:  April 29, 2018

Text:  1 John 1:5-10

Title:  Three Forms of False Faith!

Series:  1 John:  Exposing Counterfeit Christianity

Pastor John Black

Listening Guide

What is God?

• God is Light

Light                                                 Darkness

The Bottom Line

The Salvation given to us produces a Righteous hunger within us.

            John clearly defines three forms of false faith:

• Make – Believers (Those who walk in darkness)

Date:  April 8, 2018

Series:  1 John / Exposing Counterfeit Christianity

Title:  Some things never change!

Text:  1 John 1:1-4 (HCSB)

Pastor John Black

Listening Guide

I. The Gospel never changes!

• God has revealed Himself to us

Date:  April 1, 2018 (Easter Sunday)

Text:  Ephesians 3:14-19 (HCSB)

Title:  Love is a Cross

Pastor John Black

Listening Guide

“I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” 

• Paul’s prayer for us: To be Fulfilled

Just how much does Jesus love us?

Jesus loves us so much that He …

• Length - Left heaven for us!

The Ledger of Your Life

Pastor Ken Lupton

Philippians 3:7-11 HCSB

“There is no growth without change. There is no change without loss. There is no loss without pain. There is no pain without grief.”

*7 Biblical Examples of “Not Letting Go:” 1. Lot’s wife.  2. The Rich Young Ruler.  3. Achan in Joshua 7. 4. King Saul. 5. Judas. 6. King Solomon. 7. Demas in 2 Timothy 4.

1. The Contrast of Gain and Loss. (Philippians 3:7)
Paul mentions Christ by name or by pronoun 9 times in 5 verses here in Philippians 3:7-11
1 of the 5 Solas of the Reformation: Sola Christus.
Paul traded a list of accomplishments for a list of afflictions he would receive.
“I have handled many things in my hands and I have lost them all. But whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.” Martin Luther.

2. The Consideration of Gain and Loss. (Philippians 3:8-9)
Christianity is Christ! Salvation is about knowing Him in a personal way.
The Contrast in Verse 9: Self-righteousness versus Savior-righteousness.
Faith is the confident, continuous confession of total dependence on & trust in Jesus Christ.
“He is no fool to give what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Jim Elliot

3. The Challenge of Gain and Loss (Philippians 3:10-11)
A. It is a Personal Experience: To know Him!
   2 Stages to Knowing Christ: 1. Preparatory knowledge. 2. Personal knowledge.
   3 Essentials to Knowing Christ: Time, Talk, and Trust.
B. It is a Powerful Experience: “and the power of His resurrection”
C. It is a Painful Experience: “and the fellowship of His sufferings”
D. It is a Practical Experience: “being conformed to His death”

Too Many Christians today want a discount Jesus