Trans4mation Church

The names have been symbolic for over a century for a feud between two groups of people. If part of it, you were to love one and hate the other for they were the enemy. It was an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. Yet Jesus tells us we are to love our enemy. The American church seems to be in an eye for an eye, tooth for tooth mentality. They mock you...we mock them. They ridicule us...we ridicule them. It's not what Jesus has in mind. This message challenges believers to be an unoffended church who loves their enemies and presents the person of Christ.

The last thing Jesus did for His disciples was to wash their feet. This act of love was to become a foundation for which they were to love others. Jesus took the vessels of a servant to express his love but in so doing He creates vessels of love out of the disciples. Having received His love they were to become his pitcher through which love would be poured out on others. This message will challenge you to allow Him to make you a vessel of love.

Moses spoke to the generation of people who were going into the promised land. He was giving them instruction on how to live. He reminded them they were a people defined as loved by God. He reminded them they were a people who were to love God. And, he instructed them to be people who loved others. Love would define them and their actions as they possessed what God promised. This message reminds us that like them, we too, are a people who are loved by God, love God and love others.

This is the last sermon in the Out with the Old / In With the New Series. The book of Acts gives numerous examples of people hearing the message of Jesus, receiving the message of Jesus and then being baptized. These men and women were people who were being changed by the message of Jesus, who offered Himself as worship to the Father in order to redeem us. Upon hearing that message, it is interesting these people who heard and received the message also offered themselves in worship to the Father through baptism. The new man cannot worship according to the old covenant. This message will challenge you to be a new man who presents himself as a living sacrifice of worship to the Father.

Another sermon in our Out With the Old / In With The New series, this message takes a look at just who is the new man that is born when the old man dies. The bible tells us that person is a son of God. One of the greatest strategies of the devil is to get you to doubt you are a child of God and what that means. These principles will remind you that you indeed are a son and will help you to think as a son. The fullness of Christianity cannot be realized outside of the knowledge of sonship.

The Apostle Paul was once known as Saul the persecutor. He terrorized the early church but then became one of the churches' greatest apostles and ambassadors. How does that happen? How did he become a new man? What happened to the old man? This message takes a look at the conversion of Paul and his writing from Romans 6 to help us kill the old man so the new man can be raised by God.

The first message in the series: Out With the Old/In With The New, this message will encourage you to rid yourself of the Tobiahs in your life. Nehemiah found the enemy of God and His people residing in the temple because the priest allowed it. The rooms dedicated for the worship of God were replaced with the things of Tobiah...until someone threw him out. This message will remind you that you are a priest and a temple where Tobiah doesn’t belong. Throw him out.

Jesus proclaimed, “Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” The Bible also says: “God’s loving kindness leads us to repentance.” These two statements give us a foundation for repentance - God’s goodness. Seeing the kingdom of God in all its goodness and the King in all His goodness becomes the standard by which I measure myself, and find myself in need of a change of mind. Any other standard by which we repent is a faulty standard. This message will cause you to see the standard who is Jesus and His kingdom.

What is eternal life? When does it start? How does it impact my life now? These are some of the questions attempting to be answered through this, the last message in the sermon series, The Answer. Jesus was God’s plan to give eternal life to all who would believe in Him. This message will encourage you to perhaps see the concept of eternal life a little different than you may. It is a challenging but encouraging reminder for all of us to look to Jesus as the answer to life.

Death came as the consequence of sin and thereby became a shadow that lingered over humanity. The Bible says those sitting in the shadow of death had a great light dawn upon them. The Light? Jesus! Jesus was God’s answer to death as He came to destroy death and the one who had the power of death. This message helps us during this Christmas season celebrate the One that God sent to swallow up death and bring life and immortality.