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"The Power of Prayer" 2 Corinthians 1:11
As Kingdom people we've been granted the great privilege of prayer. We are children of the King and so we have access to the throne of grace both in intercession for others and communion with God. We don't pray to inform God but to seek what He would have us to do. Prayer is a dialogue not a monologue where we do all the talking. An important part of our prayer life is listening.
Sunday, April 13 , 2025
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"A Sentence of Death" 2 Corinthians 1:8-10
Paul understood the authentic Christian life is one of affliction and challenges. There were times when Paul despaired for his life and it seemed like there was no way out. He took the sentence of death on himself so that he would not trust in himself but keep all of his hope on Christ as his deliverer.
Sunday, April 6 , 2025
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"Suffering & Comfort" 2 Corinthians 1:5-7
To be one with Christ is to have periods of suffering in life but we are never alone. We have the promise of His presence with us at all times. To desire to live godly is to suffer with our rejected Messiah. He is the God of all comfort and when we have been through trials we are able to comfort others who are going through trials. In the challenges of life don't focus on your circumstances but on your Christ. He will sustain you.
Sunday, March 30 , 2025
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"God of all Comfort" 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
It is imperative we know as saints that we are beloved children of an all knowing, loving God. When the trials of life come at us we can then see and experience the comfort of God. He comes to us in our afflictions with comfort. When we are weak He come with His strength. Since God is for us we are fully equipped and prepared for all that comes our way and to minister others the same comfort we have received.
Sunday, March 23 , 2025
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"Grace & Peace" 2 Corinthians 1:1-2
Paul identifies the believers in Corinth as saints. They aren't saints because of any personal effort or achievement. They are saints because they are the holy possession of God. We become saints the moment we are born-again as a gift of God's grace which brings us to peace with God and experiencing the peace of God.
Sunday, March 16 , 2025
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"When Others See A Shepard Boy God May See A King" Pastor Ritchie Curtis
Pastor Ritchie spoke of the story of David.
Sunday, March 9 , 2025
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"Fully Equipped" Hebrews 13:18-25
The writer of Hebrews closes out the epistle seeking the prayers of the saints. Reminding them of the peace we enjoy because of the eternal covenant established by the one-time perfect sacrifice of Jesus. In Him we have everything we need to live a life pleasing to Him.
Sunday, March 2 , 2025
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"Sacrifices of Praise" Hebrews 13:14-17
We are being given some final instructions and reminders in chapter 13 of Hebrews. We are to remember that we are citizens of an eternal city with a new kingdom and King to direct our lives during our temporary residency while on this earth. When we focus on all He has done for us it can't help but produce sacrifices of praise to Him who has accomplish all on our behalf. As Christ ones we need to be ready to help others in need with the resources God has entrusted to our care.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
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"Sanctified Outside The Camp" Hebrews 13:10-13
The Tabernacle was situated outside the camp of Israel so that if someone wanted to make sacrifice or meet God they had to go outside the camp. In the Old Covenant it was impossible to be one with God but in the New Covenant we are in Him through faith in His perfect sacrifice. Jesus was taken outside the gates and gave His life a sacrifice that we who receive Him are sanctified in Him. We believers as Christ ones need to be prepared to leave our own comfort zone to engage a dark world with the love and life of Jesus the Christ.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
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"A Never Changing Jesus" Hebrews 13:7-9
The Gospel is Good News because the foundation is Christ. It's not about any of our successes or failures but His perfect sacrifice on our behalf. We have to be discerning of false teachers and their false gospel that puts the focus on the Christian. Our security is not found how well we perform but the fact of His immutability. He never changes. He chose you to be His beloved child and He will never change how He feels about you.
Sunday, February 9, 2025
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"Learning Contentment" Hebrews 13:5-6
Contentment is not something we are born with but we do need to learn it in order to be free the covetousness and love of money the world tells us is normal. We belong to Christ and all we have belongs to Him. It really isn't the possessions we are stewards over but when money and things begin to possess us and give us a false sense of sufficiency. It has its foundation in the promise that He will always be with us. Since God is for us, we don't have to fear man.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
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"Honorable Marriage" Hebrews 13:4
There is warning from God that marriage a sacred union and sexual union is reserved for marriage. When we are involved in immorality we take God into that immorality, sinning not just against God but ourselves. God promises to judge this sin. It isn't that we aren't forgiven but there are horizontal consequences for this sin.
Sunday, January 26, 2025
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"When Things Go Wrong"
We must try to remember that our God is sovereign over all and He is good. There are times when our circumstances aren't God but these are the very times we hold on to His promise to us that He using all things together for our good. He loves as His own beloved children is constantly working to conform us to His image.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
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"The 411" 2 Corinthians 5:17-20 Bryan Thomas
Pastor Bryan Thomas review the Timothy Principle that he taught previously. Passing on the baton of faith. He taught us a simple way to share our faith through the 4 questions. We looked at the "why", the "who", the "what" and the "when".
Sunday, January 12, 2025
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"Continue in Love" Hebrews 13:1-3
It is God who calls each of us to love, be hospitable and join in the sufferings of the brethren.
Sunday, January 5, 2025
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"A Consuming Fire" Hebrews 12:26-29
The coming of the Old Covenant with the Law was a scary sight with a great shaking of the earth. When the Lord returns it will both Heaven and Earth. God' wrath is a consuming fire that will consume all who remain in their sin and purify all the effects of sin. The believers security is in Christ alone, but all who refuse Him suffer the consequences of their sin.
Sunday, December 29, 2024
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"Mt Zion" Hebrews 12:22-25
The book of Hebrews describes two very different Mountains with two very different covenants. Mt. Sinai was a very scary place for the people because it was a Law Covenant and required perfection with God as the judge. Mt. Zion or Jerusalem the place of Christ suffering, death and resurrection was a New covenant where all who believe in Him receive all He is and has done as Savior inviting each of us into relationship with our Abba Father.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
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"Mt Sainai" Hebrews 12:18-21
Mt Sanai is a picture of the God's absolute holiness. Moses developed a relationship with God and he not fear as the people who didn't hunger for relationship. The people couldn't shake their slave mentality and told Moses to bring them the message and they would obey. The Law commanded them to obey but couldn't empower obedience. When we desire relationship obedience isn't a burden.
Sunday, December 15, 2024
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"The Root of Bitterness" Hebrews 12:15-17
We are told to diligent in making sure that all mankind hear and receive the grace of God. Grace is more than God giving us something we could never deserve. Grace is a person, Jesus. We don't have to have an answer to every question we just witness of what the Lord has done for us. Grace is to be growing in our lives so that we act and speak more and more like Jesus. Jesus, Grace, is what brings us complete forgiveness. We are called to forgive as we are forgiven and this is the antidote for all bitterness. Bitterness is like a root the bores into the soul and crushes it and defiles so many.
Sunday, December 8, 2024
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"Pursue Holiness" Hebrews 12:12-14
Just as we have learned that our loving Father disciplines us for our good. We are called to alongside our brothers and sisters in Christ and encourage them to find strength in the Lord and to pursue a life in union with Him. He makes us holy and then seeks to express it in our lives as we allow Him to live His life through us.
Sunday, December 1, 2024
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"Loving Discipline" Hebrews 12:7-11
Discipline is an expression of God's love for His children. When we go through difficult times and challenges we need to remember that God isn't punishing us for any sin but training us and preparing us to be expressions of His life.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
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The Hand Off-2 Timothy 2:1-7 Bryan Thomas
Pastor Bryan from Life Change Church gave a powerful message from 2 Timothy 2:1-7 on passing the baton as we take the Gospel into a hurting world and make disciples.
Sunday, November 17, 2024
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"Loving Correction" Hebrews 12:4-6
As God's beloved children we are blessed to have our Abba correcting us out of His love. He never punishes us for our sins as Jesus has dealt completely with all our sins and transgressions. Sin will punish you but not God. God is the one continually works to bring about our transformation so that we might be conformed to His image.
Sunday, November 10, 2024
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"Running Your Race" Hebrews 12:1-3
We have so many examples of imperfect people walking with their perfect God. Life is presented to us as a journey or a race and we are reminded to run the race before us leaving behind all that would hinder us in our pursuit of the King and His Kingdom. Fix your eyes upon Jesus who demonstrated the journey of faith and obedience. He endured in great agony the will of the Father for the joy of what His one time perfect sacrifice in bringing many into relationship with their creator.
Sunday, November 3, 2024
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"By Faith Moses" Hebrews 11:23-29
Moses life is a beautiful picture of faith working the impossible for God's people. His parents didn't fear Pharaoh because they had a higher authority. At 40 Moses chose to identify with Israel and left the riches of the temple to deliver his people. He was confident they would know he was chosen to deliver them. In fact things didn't go as he planed and he ran for his life and spent 40 years in exile. Now at the age of 80 he's called by God to deliver Israel and he had lost all of his self-confidence. He comes to know God in great intimacy and his faith is demonstrated in his obeying God in difficult circumstances.
Sunday, October 27, 2024
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"Generational Faith" Hebrews 11:20-22
Abraham's faith was passed on the Isaac and then to Jacob. They handed to covenant promises of God to their children. None of them were perfect people but they were in a relationship with a perfect God. They were looking into the future trusting in the promises and faithfulness of God.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
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"A Better Country" Hebrews 11:14-19
Even though they had not obtained the fullness of the promise the Patriarchs realized they were looking for a better country and city not made by the hands of men but by God. Faith leads us to see that we too have an inheritance that is eternal in Heaven just waiting for us.
Sunday, October 13, 2024
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"By Faith Abraham & Sarah" Hebrews 11:8-13
The story of Abraham and Sarah is a beautiful picture of the faith walk. Think of the great privilege you and I have been given to walk with God. To hear His voice and obey. It is just a heart given over to our King and recognize that we are only temporary residents here and waiting to be in presence of the Godhead. Abraham and Sarah did not have perfect walk with God. There were times in the journey that they didn't trust God but try to remember faith finds its source in God's faithfulness not ours.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
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"Noah's Faith" Hebrews 11:7
Noah demonstrates faith through his walk with God. He understood the will of God to build an ark even though he had never seen it rain or experienced any kind of flood. He walked with God and the response was to obey God even while being mocked by an evil generation. Faith always has it's source in God. Each of us have the same privilege to walk with God, hear His voice and obey.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
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"Enoch's Walk of Faith" Hebrews 11:5-6
Enoch appears in the scripture as a man who walked with God for 365 years before the Lord took him into presence without experiencing physical death. To walk with God is to participate with God moment by moment responding to all that God desired. He was a man of true faith and true faith is what please God. It wasn't a once and done but a journey with His Lord. God takes him up just prior to Noah building the ark and the great flood.
Sunday, September 22, 2024
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"By Faith Abel" Hebrews 11:4
God ordained a time and place for Adam and his descendants to bring offerings and what those offerings should be. While Abel brought an offering which included the shedding of blood Cain brought what he wanted and not what God directed. Our offerings are to be centered on what pleases God and not what pleases self. Cain represents the great many people who don't mind worshipping God as long as it is on their own terms.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
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"Faith" Hebrews 11:1-3"
Sunday, September 8, 2024
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"A Better Possession" Hebrews 10:32-39"
This section reminds them of how they had endured suffering with the believers because they have a better eternal possession. The things of this world are not what we hold on to but the eternal. It is their faith that preserves the souls of the believers in times of great persecution.
Sunday, September 1, 2024
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"Vengeance is Mine" Hebrews 10:26-31
The author of Hebrews is reminding those who had come alongside and supported the faithful disciples that there was to turning back because there is no substitute for the one time perfect sacrifice of Jesus. To reject Jesus as the Messiah was to remain in their sin and under judgment. God alone is the judge. It isn't that He's looking for someone to punish. He sent His only begotten Son to offer forgiveness and eternal life to all. There are tragic consequences for those who reject Him.
Sunday, August 25, 2024
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"Stir Up Love" Hebrews 10:23-25
This passage is an important reminder of how we are individually called to be a functioning member of the body. We gather as an assembly so that we can encourage one another in the love of God and whatever way He desires to express His life though us. Far from being independent He calls us to be an interdependent body.
Sunday, August 18, 2024
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"Confidence Through His Blood" Hebrews 10:19-22
The Gospel is far more than a ticket to heaven; it is an invitation to be in relationship with our creator. The perfect, one-time sacrifice of Jesus gives us direct access to the Father. We have a oneness with Him so that as we find life in Him and He lives in us we are His temple. So, we have absolute confidence to walk in an intimate relationship with Him. This is all a gift of His grace. It is no longer about us, what we do or don't do but His shed blood on the cross in which we become the beloved children of God and fully accepted. All the barriers to intimacy with the Lord have been removed by His sacrifice and He is our great High Priest, having cleansed us and made us pure.
Sunday, August 11, 2024
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"Once for All" Hebrews 10:8-18
Jesus came as our perfect High Priest to offer Himself as the perfect offering once for all. He took all of our sins this is how we are sanctified. Our Spirit comes to life with the life of God as the Holy Spirit indwells us and we belong instantly to God as sanctified and God continues to work in us so that our sanctification becomes experiential as grow in our discipleship. Not only does He promise to never leave us but also to remember our sins no more.
Sunday, August 4, 2024
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"A Shadow of the Good Things" Hebrews 10:1-7
The sacrifices and ceremonies of the Old Covenant could never deal with the issue of sin. God the Father loved us so much that He sent His Son to be the one time perfect sacrifice for all our sins. Sacrifices are never a substitute for obedience. We are forgiven and made complete by entrusting ourselves to His perfect sacrifice. It is a gift of His grace by faith that liberates us to a life of obedience, understanding the Lord's will is always our best.
Sunday, July 28, 2024
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Missions is our Mission
Today we looked at the importance of faithfulness to the Great Commission and our recent trip to Sri Lanka
Sunday, July 21, 2024
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"One Sacrifice for the Sins of Many" Hebrews 9:23-28
Jesus' sacrifice was perfect in every way. He ushered us into the very presence of the Father. It was a once for all sacrifice that never needs to be repeated. We each have one life and then face judgment. Because of His perfect sacrifice for all our sins we will be judged righteous in Him. This is a gift of God's grace that we receive through faith.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
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"Mediator of a New Covenant" Hebrews 9:15-22
In this passage that both the shedding of blood and the death of the sinless one was necessary to bring us into an unbreakable covenant with God. The security of the Christian is found only in the finished work of the Christ!
Sunday, July 9, 2024
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"Living life with all the gusto you can get" I Corinthians 15:1-2
Pastor Ritchie spoke about living your life with all of the gusto you can.
Sunday, June 23, 2024
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"HIM not sin, Relationship not Religion" Brad Badders
Brad brought us a message about no condemnation through HIM and having a relationship with Christ.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
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Faith Bible Church - Boerne, Texas
Sunday, June 9, 2024
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"Sacrifices that Can't Perfect" Hebrews 9:1-10
The sacrifices of the Old Testament were a temporary covering for sins of ignorance. The holy place was sealed off from the public and the priest but on the day of atonement the high priest would make a sacrifice for himself and then for the people. Our High Priest had no sin of His own and offered Himself to completely cleanse us from sin.
Sunday, June 2, 2024
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"The New Covenant Part 2" Hebrews 8:8-13
The New Covenant is established by Jesus' perfect sacrifice. He takes our faithfulness our of the equation and promises to do all to give us security as His beloved children. The Mosaic covenant was faulty in that it depended on their obedience. The New Covenant comes and shows us that it is no longer an external list but an internal relationship with our creator. We inherit the promises of Abraham through faith.
Sunday, May 26, 2024
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"The New Covenant" Hebrews 8:1-7
Understanding the New Covenant is essential to experiencing peace and freedom in the Christian life. You can't blend the two covenants. To live under the covenant of Moses is to be under a curse and to be under the New Covenant is the freedom and empowerment to live for the king and His kingdom. There is no longer any list of demands to seek acceptance or righteousness with God. The New Covenant is to entrust ourselves to Jesus and His perfect sacrifice as our perfect High-Priest. There is nothing to add to perfect! We have everything we will ever need and now we get to live in a responsive relationship with Christ who died for us and as us so He could live in us and express His life through us. We are free from being consumer and now as the very temple of the Lord recognize we are not our own.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
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"Judaism Set Aside" Hebrews 7:20-28
The main theme of chapter 7 is the superiority of Jesus' priesthood over that of Aaron. Jesus as our High Priest establishes a New Covenant in which He deals completely with our sin through His one time sacrifice and provides a secure salvation and is our eternal intercessor.
Sunday, May 12, 2024
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"The Law Makes Nothing Perfect" Hebrews 7:15-19
The purpose of the Law was not to make us righteous but to show all of humanity their guilt and need for a Savior. Jesus comes as a new kind of priest which does away with the old through His one time, perfect sacrifice.
Sunday, May 5, 2024
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"Perfection Attained" Hebrews 7:11-14
The Levitical priesthood could not give mankind what we all needed, to be totally forgiven and made whole. The Law demanded perfection but could not empower us to be perfect. To be perfect is to be made whole or complete and this is a gift we receive from Jesus who was not of the tribe of Levi but Judah. So, Jesus is a priest after the type of Melchizedek. He had a perfect priesthood, with a perfect offering that brings us completeness and wholeness.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
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"Abraham and Melchizedek"
Melchizedek was a superior priest to the descendants of Aaron as evidence of Abraham paying him a tithe from the spoils of war. Melchizedek blessed Abraham. Our giving should be a reflection of our honor of God and done with joy as everything we have belongs to Him,. He has made us to be a royal priesthood that we can go directly to God and are free to bless others.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
