Walking by Faith

Pastor Duane is continuing in the series The Journey of the Follower with today’s message, Exceptional Love. Jesus summed up the 10 commandments into 2, Love God and Love your neighbor, but who exactly is our neighbor? Today Pastor shows us just who our neighbor is and why it is so important to love exceptionally.

Exceptional Love

John 3:16 NKJV
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Matthew 22:37-40 NKJV
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

1 John 4:7-9 NIV
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Ephesians 3:17-19 NKJV
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Luke 7:47 NLV
I tell you, her many sins are forgiven because she loves much. But the one who has been forgiven little, loves little.”

Acts 10:38 NKJV
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Matthew 25:37-40 NKJV
“Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’

Proverbs 19:17 NLT
If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord— and he will repay you!

Matthew 6:4 NKJV
that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.

Malachi 3:8 NKJV
“Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.

Matthew 6:3 NKJV
But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Matthew 22:37-40 NKJV
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 5:23-24 NKJV
Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

1 John 4:20 NKJV
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

John 3:16 NKJV
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life

Romans 12:17-21 NIV
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Luke 23:24 NIV
Jesus said, .”“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you wonderful moms out there. Today’s message is all about how to honor our mothers. Pastor gives us some easy steps to take to show your mother and father that you love, respect and honor them. Let’s jump into Honoring with a Promise.

Pastor Duane is continuing in the series The Journey of the Follower with today’s message, Denying Yourself. In Matthew 16:24 it says- Then Jesus said to his followers, “If anyone wants to follow me, he must say ‘no’ to the things he wants...This is what it means to deny yourself. Saying no to the thing you want, putting your own wants ahead of what God wants for you. When put aside yourself, God will show you the paths which He prepared ahead of time for you. Let’s take a look.

Denying Yourself

Matthew 28:18-19 NKJV
“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples …

Matthew 16:24 NKJV
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

Luke 14:26-27 NKJV
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. 27 And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

1 Corinthians 6:20 NKJV
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Colossians 1:13 NKJV
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

Philippians 2:13 TNT
For God himself is at work in you, inspiring you to want those things which please him, and to work for them

Matthew 10:39 AMPC
Whoever finds his [lower] life will lose it [the higher life], and whoever loses his [lower] life on My account will find it [the higher life].

Romans 12:11 TNT
Do not let your enthusiasm wane; be spiritually alive. Bind yourselves to the Lord in service.

Matthew 20:28 NKJV
Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Mark 8:36 NKJV
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

2 Peter 3:10 & 13 NKJV
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Matthew 16:26 NKJV
For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

John 1:14 NKJV
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth

2 Corinthians 5:18-19 TBL
All these new things are from God who brought us back to himself through what Christ Jesus did. And God has given us the privilege of urging everyone to come into his favor and be reconciled to him. 19 For God was in Christ, restoring the world to himself, no longer counting men’s sins against them but blotting them out.

2 Corinthians 5:19b-20 TLB
This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others. 20 We are Christ’s ambassadors. God is using us to speak to you: we beg you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, receive the love he offers you—be reconciled to God.

Titus 2:11-12 NIV
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. 12 It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age,
John 8:3-11 NKJV
3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.
7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”
11 She said, “No one, Lord.”And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”

Isaiah 65:5 NKJV
Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, Do not come near me, For I am holier than you!’ These are smoke in My nostrils, A fire that burns all the day.

Isaiah 64:6 NKJV
But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.

Pastor Duane is continuing in the series The Journey of the Follower with today’s message, The End Goal. In Hebrews the Bible says to let us run the race that is before us and never give up. We should remove from our lives anything that would get in the way. Let us look only to Jesus; He is the truth the way and the light. When the journey gets hard we must endure by keeping our eye on the end goal, eternity with the one true king.

Today we have our good friend Dan Seaborn with us with a challenging message on how to become The Peacemaker.

Pastor Duane is continuing in the series The Journey of the Follower. The Bible tells us in Romans; Do not be shaped by this world. Instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you. And you will be able to know what is good and pleasing to God. When we are willing to give up everything to follow God and the Prepared Path he has for us that is when we’ve become a true disciple. Let's take a look at today’s message The Prepared Path.

The Prepared Path


Matthew 28:18-19a NKJV
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations…

Psalm 103:2 NKJV
Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits:

Luke 14:26-27 NKJV 26
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. 27 And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disc

Matthew 6:33 NKJV
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

2 Timothy 2:12 KJV
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him…

2 Timothy 2:3
You therefore must endure[a] hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 3:12 NKJV
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution

2 Corinthians 5:15 NKJV
and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

LUKE 16:15b NKJV
... For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Mark 16:18 KJV
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Luke 14:33 NIV
In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.

Habakkuk 2:1 NIV
...I will look to see what he will say to me…

Romans 12:1-2 MSG
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing

1 Corinthians 6:20 NKJV
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body [a]and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Matthew 6:24 NKJV
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and [a]mammon.

Philippians 2:10a -11 NKJV
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Who Jesus is throughout the Bible
In Genesis, he's the seed of the woman;
In Leviticus, he's the Passover lamb. He's our High Priest.
In Numbers, he's the pillar of fire at night and the cloud by day;
in Deuteronomy, he's a prophet like Moses;
in Joshua, the captain of salvation;
In Judges, he's our law giver;
In Ruth, he's our kinsman's redeemer;
in Samuel, he's our prophet;
in Chronicles, he's our king;
in Ezra, he's our faithful scribe;
in Nehemiah, he's the rebuilder of the walls of our broken-down lives;
in Job, he's our ever-living Redeemer;
in the Psalms, he's our shepherd;
in Proverbs & In Ecclesiastes, he's our wisdom;
in Song of Solomon, he's our bridegroom;
in Isaiah, he's the Prince of Peace;
In Lamentations, our weeping prophet;
in Ezekiel, that wonderful, full-of-faith man;
In Daniel, he's the fourth man in the fire;
in Hosea, he's the husband to the backslider;
In Joel, he's the baptizer in the Holy Spirit;
in Obadiah, our Savior;
in Jonah, our missionary;
in Micah, the messenger with beautiful feet;
in Nahum, our avenger;
In Habakkuk, our evangelist;
In Nehemiah, the fountain of blood that opens up to cleanse from sin and uncleanness; in Matthew, he's the Messiah;
In Mark, the wonderful worker of miracles;
In Luke, the Son of Man;
in John, the Son of God;
in Acts, the Holy Spirit moving among men;
In Romans, the justifier;
In Corinthians, the sanctifier;
In Galatians, the Redeemer;
In Ephesians, the unsearchable riches;
in Philippians, the supplier of all of our needs;
In Colossians, the go--the fullness of the Godhead;
In Thessalonians, the soon-coming King;
in Timothy, the mediator between God and man;
In Titus, our faithful pastor;
in Philemon, the friend of the oppressed;
in Hebrews, the blood of the everlasting covenant;
in Peter, he's the chief shepherd who will soon come;
in John, he's love;
In Jude, he's the Lord coming with 10,000s of his saints;
and in Revelation, again, he's King of kings, he's Lord of lords.
Every place in your Bible, it points to Jesus.




Genesis 22:12 NKJV
12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

Genesis 22:15-18 MSG
The angel of God spoke from Heaven a second time to Abraham: “I swear—God’s sure word!—because you have gone through with this, and have not refused to give me your son, your dear, dear son, I’ll bless you—oh, how I’ll bless you!

Matthew 6:33 NKJV
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.


LUKE 14:26 NKJV
26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

Pastor Duane is starting a new series, The Journey of the Follower. When we decide to give our lives to Christ we don’t instantly become a disciple, knowing everything there is to know about Jesus and the bible. No, this takes time, it's a journey for all of us. Pastor is going to explain the difference between being a Christian vs a Disciple in today's episode Qualifying the Called.