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The Journey Continues We have journeyed through the book of Hebrews and not find our way to the final chapter. Hebrews 13 seems at first to be a hard pivot from long and expositional paragraphs to a list of final actions and exhortations. As you navigate through the chapter you see that it makes perfect sense. Given…
Fire is fascinating. As a boy I love to play with a lighter, use a magnifying glass to ignite leaves, or stare at a campfire well into the night. Why is it so fascinating. Recently our family spent an evening with others in our church and we spent time around a fire pit. It was…
November 28, 2021Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes I. Blazing Fire of Obedience Hebrews 12:18-21For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to…
As children, our family friends had a basement, boxing gloves, and all boys. Needless to say, this was a ruthless combination. As our parents would sit around the table upstairs playing cards into the night, the boys would give our best impressions of Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler. It would start out in…
November 21, 2021Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes I. This Is For Your Own Good Hebrews 12:3-7Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten…
I’m about to open a can of worms in many households! When is it appropriate to decorate your home for Christmas? I know this is often a source of tension and debate. If you ask Hobby Lobby we should begin August 1. If you ask some of my friends, the Christmas tree should stay up…
November 14, 2021Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes I. Race Strategy Hebrews 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, A. Run in a Group –…
This past weekend our church hosted a 5K to raise awareness and support for Hopegivers International and their mission to care for orphans and widows in India. This is much more than a humanitarian mission, it is a strategic ministry to ultimately raise up church planters and missionaries to walk by faith in a persecuted…
November 7, 2021Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes I. Intersection of Faith and Worldview Hebrews 11:35-38Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in…
Spring 1985, my mom and dad were doing what any couple expecting a baby does days before the anticipated “birthday” of a new son or daughter, making all the last-minute preparations and being sure the go-bags were ready. Baby Bowden, in this case, me, was ready to greet the world, but an accident involving my…