Our fourth and final Sunday in the I ❤️ My Church series is less a Sunday message and more of a Faith Mountain family conversation. The discussion focuses on what God has planned for the future of HIS Church.
The Church is one body with many parts. OUR Church is one part of THE Church - the global body of Christ. OUR Church is made up of people who, if you've accepted Christ, are part of the body of Christ. The third sermon in this series focuses on OUR Church and it's purpose, and how it impacts our people and our community.
Our teaching passage today - 1 Peter 2:9-12 - calls us "a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession." We are who we are because of "whose" we are! In the 2nd sermon in 'I "Heart" My Church' we discover how to find our identity.
Bill Hybels once said, "the local church is the hope of the world". That's a pretty bold statement, almost arrogant. But it's only arrogant if it's not true. When we understand that THE Church is the only entity in the entire world getting the word our about the cure for death, seeing it as the hope of the world makes perfect sense.
Virtually everyone has said "I wish I had more time ..." to whatever: rest, read, spend time with family, etc. But the truth is that we all have time for what we choose to have time for. In our fourth and final sermon in our I Choose series, the subject is choosing what is important over what is urgent.
John 16:33 says, "In this world, you will have trouble." The reality is that we will all experience pain in our lives. Some of this pain is beyond our control. In our third week of the I Choose series, we look at the pain that we can avoid by applying discipline to our lives.
In the second week of our series called I Choose, Pastor Ben discusses surrendering control. All of us battle, in some area, wanting to control, but the reality is whenever we are trying to control something that is not ours to control, it is a reflection of a really big spiritual problem.
Imagine waking up every single day with passion and purpose in your life knowing deep down what you are created to do. It drives you and the approval of others does not distract you… It is the choice that Pastor Ben encouraged us to make: I choose purpose over popularity.
Our final Carol in the series is O Come O Come Emmanuel. We focus on the name Emmanuel, which means "God is with us".
This week's Carol is Away in a Manger. While one picture the song brings is that of a newborn baby boy, there is another that focuses on his destiny as Lord. Over and over he is referred to as the "Little Lord Jesus". Since Jesus is referred to as Lord 740 times in the New Testament, today's sermon will help us to understand that he is LORD.
Our second week in the Carols series focuses on O Come All Ye Faithful. Originally written in latin and named Adeste Fideles, it is probably one of the most well-known carols known today.
You can only imagine what it would have been like to be there on that Holy night. To us today, I think the manger scene; You've got the Baby Jesus, and you've got the Virgin Mary, and you've got Joseph...
If you could ask God one question, what would it be? Our final sermon in our No Apologies series is driven by the single largest complaint people have with God. Why is there suffering in the world?
That Jesus is the only way to heaven is one of the most often cited objections to Christianity. It's offensive to some because it seems so narrow-minded, arrogant and bigoted. Today's sermon continues our No Apologies series with a discussion about this argument.
Throughout history, Christians have evangelized. They have shared the truths of Jesus' death and resurrection. So this morning we are going to talk about what evangelism looks like today in 2016.
Dennis Martin
The Bible is central to the Christian Faith. Understanding what the Bible is and what it isn't, what it says and what it doesn't say, how to use it and how not to , is one of the most important lessons any of us will ever learn in relation to Christianity. Today's sermon tells us to stop reading it... and start studying it.
Today's guest speaker, Greg Koukl, helps us to better understand the story of Jesus, in the hopes that we will be able to relay the good news to others.
Week two of our two-week emphasis on missions is from Crick Porier. He and his family are our missionaries in Estonia, and he has some wonderful things to share about what God is doing through their ministry.
Week one of our two week emphasis on missions focuses on David Roberts' ministry in Argentina.