Title: The Nail in the Coffin 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.  15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, 16 “This is the covenant which I will make with themAfter those days, declares the Lord:I will put My laws upon their hearts,And write them...

Title: The Nature of Rest (from the floor) Today’s message is a shorter one, and NOT because I’m trying to make up for last week’s longer service.  It’s just a three verse arc that has some subtle for important visual lessons to teach us in comparing the work of Jesus vs. the work of the...

“Learning to Hope” Isaiah 40:27–31 (ESV) 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”?  28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth....

Title: What Does God Desire? One of the most frustrating feelings in life is doing something over and over again and never actually solving the problem. Imagine if every time your “check engine” light came on, instead of fixing the engine, you just put a piece of tape over the light. For a moment, it...

Title: The Car Wash Loop 1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the form of those things itself, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually every year, make those who approach perfect.  2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered,...

“Love Does Not Stop Working” In1 Corinthians 13:4–8 (ESV) 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant  5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;  6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  7...

“The Myth of Self-Determination“ There is so much to unpack in these verses, but the language itself is not difficult.  Paul here is speaking directly and plainly about the differences of the state of the believer and non-believer.  And in so doing, Paul dispels some myths that most of us, especially as Americans, and even...

“The Great American Nebuchadnezzar“ How many of you remember where you were when you heard the news of 9/11?  Does anyone NOT remember? 9-11 is this generation’s defining world event. Like the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the Kennedy and MLK assassinations before it, 9-11 will be etched in our minds forever. And that makes...

“Love Joyfully Celebrates the Truth” Introduction  The Bad – taking pleasure at wrongdoing The Good – joyfully celebrating truth The Holy Concluding plans for saints.

Contradiction and Cold Case Christianity Matthew 28:1-4 Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone...