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New Testament

The Empowering Presence of the Spirit – Part 2

This Lord’s Day morning, Pastor Jim continues our sermon series in the New Testament book of Romans. In chapter eight, the theme of assurance rings out loud and clear, and it is the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit which provides such assurance to the believer. In these verses, we identify the spiritually-minded Christian knowing this assurance.

It’s Not Always Fast

MARK 8:22-25 – And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him.  And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?” And he…

Take The Backseat

MATTHEW 20:20-28 – Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your…

When All Looks Bad, It Isn’t

ACTS 27:18-25 – Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day to jettison the cargo. And on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands. When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned. Since they had been…