Overcoming forgiven

Overcoming, not just forgiven

“Christians are not perfect, just forgiven.” A familiar phrase which has done more harm than good.

We have been conditioned in the modern church to accept defeat as a norm in the Christian life.

Yes we are forgiven, but the greatest message of the gospel is not one of forgiveness but one of overcoming!

As we conform to Jesus, sin continues to lose its grip on us. We begin living from victory to victory rather than from confession of sin to confession of sin.

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Derailed life peace

Don’t get Derailed from the Life & Peace of the Spirit

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:17:42 — 134.1MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS   Sunday 12/03/23 Title: Don’t get Derailed from the Life & Peace of the Spirit Message Video Player Message Audio Player: ***Video is HERE*** Share this:      Don’t get Derailed from the Life & Peace of the Spirit We have been going through Romans 8, seeking to identify ways of sensitizing our hearts to the voice and the promptings of the Holy Spirit. One of the ways that we identified of course, is how our fleshly passions serve as an obstacle to our intimacy with God. That anyone who walks […]

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Sent

I’ve sent them, even as You sent Me

Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:30 — 99.0MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSSSunday 01/30/22 Message –  I’ve sent them, even as You sent Me ***Video is HERE*** Share this: I’ve sent them, even as You sent Me Well last week we finished up chapter 16 in John as we’re working through Jesus’s last week on Earth with his disciples as a mortal man, and the lessons He was eager to teach them which He knew were the most vital lessons they needed to learn before His departure. I want to remind you that John 12-17 are somewhat sequencil in the way they are presented […]

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Fruit useful

Fruit useful for the Husbandman

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:16:27 — 130.4MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 01/16/22 Message –  Fruit useful for the Husbandman ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Fruit useful for the Husbandman Last week we ended in John 15:16 “(16)  You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.” The idea here is that once a character trait of Christ has come to fruition in the life of a believer it should remain […]

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Know Vine Keeper

Coming to Know the Vine Keeper

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:03:00 — 108.5MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 01/09/22 Message –  Coming to know the Vine Keeper ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Coming to Know the Vine Keeper We are still in John 15 where we are learning about our relationship with Jesus using the metaphor from the Old Testament which Jesus borrowed in His teaching.  As you remember, the idea that Jesus was revealing Himself to be the Vine and we the branches was a revolutionary idea. Israel had always been told THEY were the Vine of God’s planting. Now Jesus is claiming that role as His […]

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