This Sunday at Church: Get Ice Cream with Someone

I happen to lead our Christianity 101 study, and it was designed to be done with lunch (and usually dessert!) and is in the home of one of our attendees. This helps us all learn and grow together. We share food and God’s Word, looking at His promises and inviting Him into our homes.

Daniel

This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Get Ice Cream with Someone. The early church has meals together. Hear Acts 2:46: “Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of […]

This Sunday at Church: Get Ice Cream with Someone

VerseD: 1 Chronicles 16:11

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

1 Chronicles 16:11, ESV

God is our true strength and peace. May we seek Him daily and every moment to guide us through life.

VerseD: 1 Corinthians 15:57

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:57, ESV

All we could offer God was our sin. Let us praise God that He has redeemed us from sin and death in His great power and grace!

VerseD: Luke 1:37

“For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Luke 1:37, ESV

We are unable to to do anything to earn our salvation from God’s wrath or eternal life of joy and peace.

But our Creator and Savior God can and has made a way for us through Jesus Christ.

VerseD: Psalm 56:3

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

Psalm 56:3, ESV

Our sin has spoiled this world, and it makes life hard.

But God has a plan, and we can trust that He has it all under control.

VerseD: Psalm 105:1

Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!

Psalm 105:1, ESV

It is God who does all things well. He has created everything, He has redeemed us through the blood of Christ, and He one day will restore all things.

Let us give Him our thanks and praise.

VerseD: Psalm 77:11-12

I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your wonders of old. I will ponder all your work, and meditate on your mighty deeds.

Psalm 77:11‭-‬12, ESV

We are pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things, wanting to do whateverwe want.

Except when we consider that there is God, who created everything, including us to whom He gave His likeness.

And then, in the midst of our sin and rebellion against Him, He came to us to redeem us.

VerseD: Ecclesiastes 12:13

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 12:13, ESV

We want to do things on our own, but the things of life are meaningless apart from God. When we submit to the Holy Spirit to helps act and be more Christ-like, we find our true purpose and meaning in life.

This Sunday at Church: Express praise if your Church teach from the Old Testament

I hear from folks in our congregation regularly how glad they are they can hear the full council of God from our pulpit. We follow the approach of alternating from a book or series of books from the Old Testament and the New Testament. We preached through Ruth, and are currently in Galatians.

I know I thank God for this little congregation and the leadership. I have been in enough churches that preach primarily topical messages (not necessarily bad in and of themselves, but they must be biblically sound and based!) and/or downloaded sermons from others. (And this was not in Southern Baptist Churches, like was heard of from Ed Litton as and before becoming the SBC president. Aht least he typically used fairly decent material. I have heard sermons pulled from known false teachers but that “sounded so good!”)

Daniel

For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Express praise if your Church teach from the Old Testament.   I think most churches on Sunday would be teaching on the New Testament.  That’s good.  But we must not forget that the Old Testament is also the Word of God. And the Old Testament is often […]

This Sunday at Church: Express praise if your Church teach from the Old Testament

VerseD: Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!

Psalm 143:10, ESV

We naturally want to do our own thing our own way. We must submit ourselves to the will of God, the Holy Spirit guiding us in all truth and transforming us into the image of Christ.