Category: Sermons

The best gifts are unwrapped….no one likes to see a gift go unwrapped and the best gifts have a purpose and are used often.

Well, it is officially the last moment…if you are going to purchase someone a gift and haven’t gotten it yet, this is it. You may be on the hunt for the perfect gift but what is the perfect gift. Picking out any old gift is easy but finding the right …

We have talked about some facts and some possibilities and today will be no different. Today we are going to read the story in a different light I am going to challenge some of our traditions. Sometimes we make the stories so fantastic rather than people believing them they reject …

One of the great mysteries of the narrative is the star. What was this star a miracle some kind of natural phenomena? Yes is the answer.

The Bible is a combination of 66 books written by 40 authors over a period of thousands of years yet it is an integrated messaging system that tells a story completely connected from first words to the last….let’s take a little quirky things from the first 10 people in Jesus genealogy…their names tell a story from Adam to Noah…there is something important in every word in the Bible including the genealogies

What makes the difference between the Christian and the world is not whether we will go through trials it is whether we can trust God through them. By faith we choose to rejoice not in the circumstance but in the God who causes us to get through and rise above all circumstances.

As we enter into the Christmas season some take the story to heart, other just accept that it is what everyone believes so they just go along with it, and others think it is foolish and that there are so many mistakes or made-up facts in the narrative that it can’t be true. I hope to prove to you that everything is true, every word and that there are no contradictions or made-up facts at all. The story, primarily supplied to us by Matthew and Luke is true and accurate in every detail. Afterall if we can’t trust this story, can we trust any of it. I want to take it from the image so familiar that it is almost a fairy tale to a truth you can stand on.

Freedom – you may be saying I live in the freest nation in the world, I have never been in bondage but we do end up in bondage sometimes to shame, guilt, anger, fear, unforgiveness, debt, alcohol, drugs, food, spending, as well as the little boxes of limitation we place ourselves into, and so many other things. Here are some promises regarding your freedom.

I want to encourage you today about God’s promises regarding meeting all of your needs often when we talk about these promises we are talking about finances and while I will touch on those today, we have many greater needs than simply financial. God wants to supply in exceeding abundance as we allow His power to work within us.