Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: A Flock of Blessings (Part 1) Text: 1 Timothy 5:17-25 Today’s Topic – A healthy church cares for its pastors biblically 1. Render the double honor of respect and compensation to your pastors 2. Refuse to believe everything you hear about your pastors 3. Rebuke your pastors publicly for persistent…
Series: Eastertide Title: Hurry Up and Wait! Text: Acts 1:12-26 Tonight’s Task: What should I do while I wait? 1. Surround yourself with the people of God 2. Pray earnestly in one accord 3. Continue the Lord’s work while you wait May your pause prepare you to prosper when God finally progresses forward!
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: Behold, Your Mother Text: 1 Timothy 5:3-16 Today’s Truth – A healthy church cares well for widows 1. Challenge family to care for their own 2. Encourage younger widows to remarry 3. Become family to the familyless widow May widows in our church family be well cared for as mothers…
Series: Eastertide Title: Witness to the Ends Text: Luke 24:45-53, Acts 1:1-10 Tonight Truth – Proclaim the gospel from here to the ends of the Earth until the end of the age 1. You have marching orders 2. You have an indweller and an intercessor 3. You have a time frame May the gospel continually…
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: Welcome to the Family Text: 1 Timothy 5:1-2 Today’s Truth – A healthy church relates to one another as a family 1. Cultivate connection and commitment to one another 2. Show love and honor to one another May you realize that church is not something you go to, but a…
Series: Eastertide Title: The Best News Text: Luke 24:36-49 1. There is news. 2. There is good news. 3. There is good news to tell the world. 4. There is good news to tell the world by the power the Holy Spirit. May we faithfully deliver the best news ever across the street and around…
Series: Eastertide Title: Jesus in All the Scripture Text: Luke 24:13-35
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: Great Expectations Text: 1 Timothy 4:11-16 Today’s Truth – A healthy church has healthy expectations for its pastors 1. Expect your pastors to be an example, even if they are young 2. Expect your pastors to devote themselves to ministering the Scripture 3. Expect your pastors to exercise and hone…
Series: Everybody’s Leading Somebody Title: Learner Text: Proverbs 1:5-7 Leadership Principle #10 – Good leaders are always learning 1. Love to learn 2. Learn first and foremost about God 3. Learn through multiple channels 4. Live your learning 5. Learn to lead 6. Leave what you’ve learned to others May your bigger learning make you…
Title: Our Living Hope Text: 1 Peter 1:3-5 Today’s Truth: When Jesus walked out of that tomb, hope walked out of that tomb 1. The hope of immense mercy 2. The hope of new birth 3. The hope of a great inheritance 4. The hope of a secure salvation May you have a living hope…