March 6, 2022The TrinityPastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes I. Biblical Distinctive II. Critical Warning Common Heresies:1. God exists in three persons, and not three personalities – Modalism2. God is one, not three different Gods – Tritheism3. Jesus is not eternally subordinate to God – Arianism III. Central Picture Matthew 3:16-17And when Jesus was baptized, immediately […]
Polaris – Week 2
God, His Being and AttributesFebruary 27, 2022Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes Deuteronomy 6:4-5“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” I. Our God is personal“The Lord our God” Romans 5:6-11For while […]
Polaris Week 1 – Scripture
February 20, 2022Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes 2 Timothy 3:14-17But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. […]
1 John 4:19-21 // Love: Week 7
February 13, 2022Pastor Frank Bowden Sermon Notes 1 John 4:19-21We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have […]
1 John 4:17-18 // Love: Week 6
February 6, 2022Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes I. Don’t Worry Be Happy 1 John 4:17aBy this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, Our confidence will grow as we walk with the Father II. More, More About Jesus 1 John 4:17bbecause as he is so also […]
1 John 4:15-16: Love Week 5
January 30, 2022Pastor Ricky Smith Sermon Notes I. Love Changes Everything 1 John 4:15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. A. Confession Jesus is King whether we acknowledge Him or not. 2 Corinthians 5:1717 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. […]
1 John 4:13-14 – Love: Week 4
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. […]