Sunday Sermon: Yet I Will Rejoice in the Lord

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord

Does God Fare, Does God Care, Is God There ?

“yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.”
— Habakkuk 3:18-19 (NIV)
Pastor Philip John & Family (Please keep Sister Ligy in your prayers.)

Pastor Philip John & Family (Please keep Sister Ligy in your prayers.)

Sunday Sermon: Marked by God

Marked by God

“Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
— Isaiah 6:6-7 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: Arrow of Deception

Arrow of Deception

“One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you.”

But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Or should someone like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!” I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.”
— Nehemiah 6:10-12 (NIV)
Nehemiah's Reply: Should such a man as I flee?
“So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.”
— Isaiah 28:16 (NIV)
We are in a world of deception
“But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.”
— 2 Corinthians 11:3 (NIV)
“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”—”
— Ecclesiastes 12:1 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: Arrow of Open Letter

Arrow of Open Letter

“I sent him this reply: “Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head.”

They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.”

But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”
— Nehemiah 6:8-9 (NIV)
“When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.”
— Colossians 2:13-15 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: Arrow of Compromise

Arrow of Compromise

The 3 Enemies of the Church or Believer: The World, The Flesh & The Devil.

“When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it—though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates— Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono. But they were scheming to harm me;”
— Nehemiah 6:1-2 (NIV)
“so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?” Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave them the same answer.”
— Nehemiah 6:3-4 (NIV)
“You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. ”
— James 4:4 (NIV)
“But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.”
— Daniel 1:8 (NIV)