Sermons

In His Image

IN HIS IMAGE

In this lesson we are going to focus on the image of God. That’s the image that we bear! What should we look like? 

We are to be representatives and have been given a stewarding dominion over the physical creation by God. We reflect God on how we rule over and reflect His creation as ambassadors of His rule and not owners of His creation.

Now in Romans 3:23 we know that all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. But Jesus is our perfect model and we must be transformed into His image. . .

No Man Is An Island

NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

In 1624 a man named John Donne wrote a poem it goes like this: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. 

This is speaking about community, our dependence on God, and our responsibility to others. There are several lessons that we can learn from this. In this lesson I’d like to speak on the subject beginning with the understanding that – we were created to have connection with God and with one another. That God never designed us to live in isolation. Consider what God said in the beginning, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” – Genesis 2:18…

The Church From the Beginning

THE CHURCH FROM THE BEGINNING
“1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.” (Gen. 1:1-3)
The one true church Christ built was not an afterthought. I was in the mind of God before creation…

Open the Eyes of My Understanding

Paul wrote the Epistle to the Ephesians around A.D. 60–62 during his first Roman imprisonment. As one of the “Prison Epistles,” most believe it was written while he was under house arrest in Rome. Often cited alongside Colossians and Philemon as part of this period. Paul wants these saints to realize that they are the recipients of the many greatest blessings in Christ. Verse 18… He wants the “eyes of their understanding to be enlightened” When Paul said, “that you may know” he is saying I want you to have a tangible, touchable, experiential knowledge.