Sermon Notes

#1: A Gospel Centered Church #2: An Elder Led Church #3: A Complementarian Church #4: A Partnered Church #5: A Spirit Filled Church #6: A Reformed Church #7: A Missional Church “Our gospel-centrality entails not only treasuring the gospel personally but sharing it...

God’s grace is more abundant and powerful than our sins; therefore, we must live in the good of God’s grace. Paul’s Authority to Preach God’s Grace   The Galatians, the Recipients of God’s Grace “Paul’s saying, ‘You’ve made a mess of things, but all’s not lost!...

Eisegesis —allowing the presupposition of experience and personal opinion to cloud biblical interpretation Exegesis —critical and objective explanation for biblical interpretation “We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire...

Faith that works seeks to rescue those who are wandering away from the truth. 1. Some people in the church will wander away from the truth. 2. The church has a responsibility to seek to rescue those who are wandering away from the truth. “Brothers and sisters will...

 A faith that works is seen in a person and a church that prays faithfully. 1. Pray in every circumstance of life. “Life is always going to be a mixture of ups and downs, but the constant among Christians is to be how we respond—we are to bring it all before the Lord,...

LIE (verb) 1: to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive 2: to create a false or misleading impression LIE (noun) 1a: an assertion of something known or believed by the speaker or writer to be untrue with intent to deceive 1b: an untrue or inaccurate statement...

I. The Way in Which the Gospel Makes Us Merciful (The Gospel Root of Mercy) - By its very nature, the Gospel crushes any sense of merit and deservedness before God. - The Gospel replaces our “merit glasses” with “mercy glasses.”   II. The Ways in Which the Gospel...

“Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.”— 1 Corinthians 13:8 I.  Believers hear...

“As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.”—Acts 16:4-5...

James 5:7-11 When we don’t get what we want and life gets hard for us, we are not called to fight to get our own way; rather, we are commanded by God to be patient in our sufferings. We must be patient in our suffering. “So, James says, when it comes to the Lord’s...