Sunday Sermon: Secretly Slipped In Among You

Secretly Slipped In Among You

For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
— Jude 4 (NIV)
To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
— Jude 24-25 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: Happy Family

Happy Family

But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.
— Joshua 24:15 (NIV)
Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.
— Proverbs 17:1 (NIV)
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.
— Genesis 1:26 (NIV)
But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
— 1 Corinthians 7:2 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: A Peaceful Church

A Peaceful Church

Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
— Hebrews 13:4 (NIV)
There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,
— Acts 18:2 (NIV)
Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchreae because of a vow he had taken.
— Acts 18:18 (NIV)
and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.
— Acts 18:3 (NIV)
Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.
— Acts 18:24-26 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: A Peaceful Church

A Peaceful Church

Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
— Acts 9:31 (NIV)
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
— John 14:27 (NIV)
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
— Philippians 4:7 (NIV)
Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.
— Psalms 119:165 (NIV)