January 23, 2022Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes I. A Reassuring Inheritance 1 John 4:13By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 1 John 3:24Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides […]
1 John 4:11-12 – Love: Week 4
January 16, 2022Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes I. Mirror Image 1 John 4:11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 3:16By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.Our responsibility to love sincerely […]
1 John 4:9-10 – Love: Week 2
January 9, 2022Pastor Alan Smith Sermon Notes 1 John 4:9-10In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son […]
1 John 4:7-8 – Love: Week 1
January 2, 2022Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes A heart of love works to communicate love in a language the other can understand 1. Family Foundation 1 John 4:7aBeloved, 2. Family Resemblance 1 John 4:7blet us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 3. […]
Luke 2:8-17: Emmanuel Week 4
December 26, 2021Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes I. God Takes Joy in Using the Rejected Luke 2:8And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 2 Corinthians 12:9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in […]
They Won’t Go Away
One summer I had the great idea to transplant a few elephant ear plants from a local school to our front flower bed at home. The fact that the school was begging me to take them should have been a sign, but elephant ear plants hold a bit of nostalgia with me. My papa had […]
Isaiah 11:1-5 – Emmanuel Week 3
December 19, 2021Pastor Frank Bowden Sermon Notes Isaiah prophesied that Jesus would be… the only person, Isaiah 11:1There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. with sufficient power, Isaiah 11:2And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom […]
Romans 8 – Emmanuel Week 2
December 12, 2021Pastor Alan Smith Sermon Notes I. The Law of Sin Romans 7:7-12What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law […]
Matthew 1:23 – Emmanuel – Week 1
December 5, 2021Pastor Philip Harike Sermon Notes Matthew 1:18-25Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put […]
Hebrews 12:18-29 – Second Wind 15
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 […]