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Archive for Grace – Page 2

Are You A Friend of God – Sermon – January 09 2011

Are You A Friend of God ? – Sermon – January 09 2011

A friendship with God – How can we be sure of it?  And what is it like?  Will God still be my friend though I still have so many faults, problems, sins, weaknesses?  How can we have confidence in our friendship with God?  How then do we become friends of God?

Listen for these questions and answers about “Are You A Friend of God ?”, in the 1-part MP3 Audio Sermon below.

Scriptures below from the church bulletin used in the Sermon:

Psalm 29,  Isaiah 42: 1-9,  Romans 6: 1-11,  Matthew 3: 13-17

Keywords: Grace,  we are a new creation in Christ, Abraham was a friend of God, David was a friend of God, Peter and Paul were friends of God, famous friends in sports were Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese,  a dying friend in World War II,

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MP3 Player - Are You A Friend of God ? - Sermon - January 09 2011

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Living Under Grace – Sermon – January 16 2011

Living Under Grace – Sermon – January 16 2011

What happens when our joy in the Christian life grows dim?  What’s going wrong?  How do we rekindle it?  How do we find joy again when we lose it?  That will be the main purpose of this message.

Listen for these questions and answers about “Living Under Grace”, in the 1-part MP3 Audio Sermon below.

Scriptures below from the church bulletin used in the Sermon:

Psalm 84: 1-7, 12,  Isaiah 51: 4-8,  Romans 6: 12-23,   Matthew 5: 17-20

Keywords: rejoice, show joy, rejoice in suffering, suffering produces endurance,  fear and guilt, guilt verse joy, troubled hearts, anguish of soul and gloom, grace and joy,

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MP3 Player - Living Under Grace - Sermon - January 16 2011

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Beyond The Horizon – Easter – Sermon – April 24 2011

Beyond The Horizon – Easter – Sermon – April 24 2011

What is out there for us, beyond the horizon, beyond this life, beyond this world, beyond death, when we die?  Are you ready to die?  Are you afraid?  Do you know for certain, what awaits you after death?

Listen for these questions and answers about “Beyond The Horizon – Easter”, below in the 1-part MP3 Audio Sermon below.

Scriptures below from the church bulletin used in the Sermon:

Psalm 118: 14-24,  Isaiah 26: 16-21,  Acts 26: 1, 19-29,  Matthew 28: 1-10

Keywords: heaven or hell, resurrection,  life after death,  salvation, muslim death, hindu and death, new ager and death,buddhism and death, die, good deeds, works verses grace, everlasting life with Christ

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MP3 Player - Beyond The Horizon - Easter - Sermon - April 24 2011

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The Lord Loves Righteous Deeds – Renewing Your Life By Service – Sermon – August 21 2011

The Lord Loves Righteous Deeds – Renewing Your Life By Service – Sermon – August 21 2011

What does it mean, when scripture, Jesus says we are not saved by works, but we are saved for works?  How do our works bear witness to our Faith?  Does God condemn no works?  What does service look like?  How does God renew us by Service?  Why has God not saved all the Jews?  Are his promises to Israel void, since many have rejected the Gospel?

Listen for these questions and answers about “The Lord Loves Righteous Deeds – Renewing Your Life By Service”, below in the 1-part MP3 Audio Sermon below.

Scriptures below from the church bulletin used in the Sermon:

Psalm 11,  Isaiah 1: 14-20,  Titus 2: 1-8, 11-15,  Matthew 12: 9-21

Keywords: saved for works,  grace verses works, feel unqualifed for works and witnessing,

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MP3 Player - The Lord Loves Righteous Deeds – Renewing Your Life By Service - Sermon - August 21 2011

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Renewing Your Life By The Grace of God – Sermon – August 28 2011

Renewing Your Life By The Grace of God – Sermon – August 28 2011

What is Grace?  How do I know Grace is for Me?   Who is not under Grace?  What if we forget about being saved by Grace and we drift toward Works?  How are we renewed through Grace?  How did the early church, the Roman Catholic church drift away from the Gospel?

Listen for these questions and answers about “Renewing Your Life By The Grace of God”, below in the 1-part MP3 Audio Sermon below.

Scriptures below from the church bulletin used in the Sermon:

Psalm 145: 3-13, 21,  Amos 9: 8-15,  Acts 15: 1-11,  Luke 5: 29-39

Keywords: Mother Theresa, Roman Catholics, losing Grace,  saved by Grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone,

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MP3 Player - Renewing Your Life By The Grace of God - Sermon - August 28 2011

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The Certainty of the Christian – Sermon – October 09 2011

The Certainty of the Christian – Sermon – October 09 2011

Are you an iron pillar of the rock of God’s truth?   What is uncertainty?   We live in a culture (America), with many religions being practiced.  How can our culture say that all these religions are true at the same time?  Is it possible that the unbelieving world, people in this country and abroad, just don’t believe that there is but one truth, in who our God is, and how we can be saved?  Does the Politically Correct world teach that it is not nice to say that one thing is truth?  Culture of the unbelieving world, teaches that each individual has truth, as only he sees it, else, we are being arrogant, or mean.    What is the Truth?  And how can we know, that the Truth is found only in the Bible?

Listen for these questions and answers about “The Certainty of the Christian”, below in the 1-part MP3 Audio Sermon below.

Scriptures below from the church bulletin used in the Sermon:

Psalm 119: 13-24,  Jeremiah 1: 4-10, 16-19,  Philippians 1: 19-30,  John 8: 48 -59

Keywords: truth, politically correct, shades of grey, truth and conviction, faith, belief

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MP3 Player - The Certainty of the Christian - Sermon - October 09 2011

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To Walk with God – Sermon – January 15 2012

To Walk with God – Sermon – January 15 2012

What do we need to do in order to walk with God and truly enjoy it?  How do we walk as Paul says rejoicing always in the Lord?  How can we learn to live day by day with God, trusting that he will provide?

Listen for these questions and answers about “To Walk with God”, below in the 1-part MP3 Audio Sermon below.

Scriptures will be listed below from the church bulletin used in the Sermon:

Psalm 37: 1-11,  Exodus 16: 14-20,  Philippians 4: 1-9,  Matthew 6: 25-34

Keywords: some things get in the way with our walk, unbelief, guilt regret, worry, anxiety, trust in God, Faith in God, lean on God, unbelief, conviction, powerful prayer

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MP3 Player - To Walk with God - Sermon - January 15 2012

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Living Under Grace – Sermon – August 26 2012

Living Under Grace – Sermon – August 26 2012

What does it mean to be under grace?   What does it mean to be People of Grace?  Did you know you can’t know Him or come to Him unless He calls you to Himself by grace?

Listen for these questions and answers about “Living Under Grace”, below in the 2-part Video or 1-part MP3 Audio Sermon below the Videos.

Scriptures below from the church bulletin used in the Sermon:

Psalm 145: 3 – 13, 21,  Lamentations 3: 1 – 6, 21 – 36,  Romans 5: 15 – 21,  John 8: 2 – 11

Keywords: Who We are in Christ, Our Identity in Christ, Royal Priesthood, God’s Own People

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MP3 Player - Living Under Grace - Sermon - August 26 2012

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Luther’s Discoveries Against Rome – Sermon – October 28 2012

Luther’s Discoveries Against Rome – Sermon – October 28 2012

Will there be a great falling away in the Church?  In what ways did the Roman Catholic Church go astray?  Why does the Roman Catholic Church go directly against the Gospel?  Why does the Roman Catholic Church say that those who belief in Grace alone through Faith alone in Christ alone are guaranteed Salvation will be accursed?  What is the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory, Celibacy, Fasting, Forbidding Marriage?

Listen for these questions and answers about “Luther’s Discoveries Against Rome”, below in the 2-part Video or 1-part MP3 Audio Sermon below the Videos.

Scriptures below from the church bulletin used in the Sermon:

Psalm 22: 16 – 31, 2 Kings 17: 6 – 14, 18, 2 Timothy 4: 1 – 8, Mark 13: 9 – 13

Keywords: signs of Jesus coming, the close of the age, the end times, the last days, Revelation, the AntiChrist, the anti-Christ, false teacher, false prophets, indulgences, hypocrisy, selling mass cards, Martin Luther and the 95 theses, the Pope, the Papacy, the Pope of Rome, who is the AntiChrist, signs of the end times, last days

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MP3 Player - Luther's Discoveries Against Rome - Sermon - October 28 2012

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Two Lives, Two Houses, Two Destinies – Sermon – December 30 2012

Two Lives, Two Houses, Two Destinies – Sermon – December 30 2012

Jesus is talking about our response to his word – whether we will do it or not?  The two lives of two men, both of them hear his word as believers, but there are only possible ways to respond to his teachings and words – Either you hear his words and do them, or you hear his words and don’t do them. Nothing in between.  What type of a Man are You?  What type of a house are you building, one on a deep foundation on rock, o r on the ground without a foundation?  What is meaning of a “house”  in the story?  Why is on man a fool and the other wise in this story?  What is the “Storm” that Jesus is talking about in this story?

Listen for these questions and answers about “Two Lives, Two Houses, Two Destinies – Sermon”, below in the 1-part MP3 Audio Sermon below.

Scriptures below from the church bulletin used in the Sermon:

Isaiah 45: 18 – 25, 1 John 3: 4 – 10, Luke 6: 46 – 49

Keywords: foundation, the rock, great storm of the second coming of Christ, justification by grace alone thru / through faith alone in christ alone, conviction

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MP3 Player - Two Lives, Two Houses, Two Destinies - Sermon - December 30 2012

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