Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Jim Sole

The Practice of Fellowship – Part 4

In this sermon we are looking at our commitment to ”fellowship” by defining it and identifying the components that make true Biblical fellowship. This is part of our vision for 2018 “to love one another” and we are doing so by obeying the Scripture mandate to “examine ourselves.” In this process, Acts 2:42 is our “surgeon” exposing us to what healthy churches and Christians are committed to.

Our Union In Christ – Part 2

This Lord’s Day evening we continue our sermon series titled “Our Union in Christ”. The truth of our oneness in the Lord Jesus is the key to understanding our salvation and the way of living out the Christian life. To those ends, we are looking at the necessity of our union in Christ as well as what this union does for us in our relationship to sin.

Being the Church God is Building – Part 3

We continue casting of our vision for 2018 “to love one another” and we are doing so by obeying the Scripture mandate to “examine ourselves.” In this process, Acts 2:42 is our “surgeon” exposing us to what healthy churches and Christians are committed to – “And they continued steadfast in the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer.” This Lord’s Day, we are looking at “the apostles’ teaching” and the four ways we are devoted to it – hearing, reading, studying and obeying their teaching.

Our Union In Christ – Part 1

This Lord’s Day evening we will begin a sermon series titled “Our Union in Christ”. The truth of our oneness in the Lord Jesus is the key to understanding God’s purpose in our salvation as well living out the Christian life as He intends; full of joy, direction, and intimacy with Him. As we grasp our oneness in Christ so we grasp the Christian life.

Being the Church God is Building – Part 2

As we look to the New Year and the casting of our vision for 2018 “to love one another”, it is a great time to obey the Scripture mandate to “examine ourselves.” In this process, we will be in Acts 2:42 and evaluate ourselves based on what characterized the practice of the early church – “And they continued steadfast in the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer.” It is these four things which are in healthy churches. And these four things must be in healthy individual Christians in order to have healthy churches.

Being the Church God is Building

As we look to the New Year, we want to reaffirm and cast our vision into 2018. Last year, we adopted our vision from Ephesians 3:14-19 – to know the love of Christ. This year, our desire is to build off that with a vision to put that love more into action. It is the action of striving to love one another more earnestly and giving ourselves and our world the reality of our faith and life in Jesus Christ.