Cottonwood Bible Church Sermons

Celebrate New LifeSeries: Ephesians Preacher: Daniel HarvillSunday Church ServiceDate: 31st December 2023Passage: Ephesians 4:17-32-------------------Celebrate New Life

Live on Gospel-Freedom! This News is Relevant! P3Series: Galatians Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 24th December 2023Passage: Galatians 6:11-18-------------------Live in Gospel-Freedom! We are justified! This news is very relevant!

Live on Gospel-Freedom! This News is Relevant! P2Series: Galatians Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 17th December 2023Passage: Galatians 6:1-10-------------------Live on Gospel-Freedom! This News is Relevant! P2 Gospel>Faith>Justification>Spirit>Love

Live in Gospel Freedom! This News is Relevant!Series: Galatians Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 10th December 2023Passage: Galatians 5:13-26-------------------Live in Gospel-Freedom! This News is Relevant!

Live in Gospel Freedom! It's Vital, So Stand Fast!Series: Galatians Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 3rd December 2023Passage: Galatians 5:1-12-------------------Live in Gospel Freedom! It's so vital, So stand Fast!

Live in Gospel Freedom! So Stand Fast!Series: Galatians Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 26th November 2023Passage: Galatians 4:21-5:1-------------------This news is vital, so stand fast in it! Stand fast in the gospel freedom we have in Christ!

Live in Gospel Freedom! Don't Go Back!Series: Galatians Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 19th November 2023Passage: Galatians 4:8-20-------------------This news is vital, so don't go back to Law! Don't go back to works! Don't go back to your former way of living!

Live in Gospel Freedom! This News is Vital because of Sonship!Series: Galatians Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 12th November 2023Passage: Galatians 3:23-4:7-------------------This news is vital because through it, we obtain sonship. We are heirs of the kingdom of Christ in Christ!

Live in Gospel FreedomSeries: Galatians Preacher: Ben MurraySunday Church ServiceDate: 5th November 2023Passage: Galatians 3:15-22

Live in Gospel Freedom! This News is Vital!Series: Galatians Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 22nd October 2023Passage: Galatians 2:11-21-------------------We are justified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, so live in this gospel-freedom! It's all by God's grace!

Live in Gospel Freedom! This News is Divine!Series: Galatians Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 15th October 2023Passage: Galatians 1:11-2:10-------------------This gospel-freedom news is divine; it is God-given and also grace-driven. God is the One who gave this message, and it's a message driven by His Grace alone.

Live in Gospel FreedomSeries: Galatians Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 8th October 2023Passage: Galatians 1:1-12-------------------Live in Gospel Freedom!

Seek Yahveh, the God of Judgment & Discipline, Salvation & Blessing Jumping for & Hoping in Him!Series: Zephaniah Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 1st October 2023Passage: Zephaniah 3:14-20-------------------We Jump for Joy for Yahveh! We strongly hope in Yahveh! He gives us His grace and is present with us!

Who Always Preserves His PeopleSeries: Zephaniah Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 24th September 2023Passage: Zephaniah 3:11-13-------------------Yahveh will remove the arrogant ones from among his people and will have His remnant who are meek, humble and trusting in Him.

Seek the Lord " Who Gives Us His Grace"Series: Zephaniah Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 10th September 2023Passage: Zephaniah 3:9-10-------------------God gives grace not just to Judah but to Gentile...to us!

Seek Yahveh, Waiting for Him!Series: Zephaniah Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 3rd September 2023Passage: Zephaniah 3:1-8-------------------Wait means to come to Yahveh, accept Yahveh, obey Yahveh, trust Yahveh!

Let's Do This! Let's Seek Him!Series: Zephaniah Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 20th August 2023Passage: Zephaniah 2:1-3-------------------Let's seek Christ! Let's seek righteousness! Let's seek humility! God calls us to seek Him, to seek righteousness, and to seek humility realizing our response doesn't guarantee His mercy, only His sovereign grace, which is fully displayed at the cross.

Seek Yahveh, the God of Judgment & Discipline, Salvation & Blessing Fearing Him Exclusively!Series: Zephaniah Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 6th August 2023Passage: Zephaniah 1:4-13-------------------God commands us to Love and fear Him exclusively, and He will do whatever it takes for us to seek, love, and fear Him singularly. God wants our worship, our attention, aur adoration, and our devotion exclusively. He is jealous of our love for Him alone.

Seek Yahveh, the God of Judgment & Discipline, Salvation & BlessingSeries: Zephaniah Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 30th July 2023Passage: Zephaniah 1:1-3-------------------God will just all peoples and discipline His own people so that all may repent and seek Him. When they do, He would show Himself to be their Savior and their Blesser.

Aaron Melton's Israel TripSeries: Miscellaneous Sunday Church ServiceDate: 23rd July 2023-------------------Aaron Melton had an amazing opportunity to visit Israel this summer through his school's archaeological program. He spent three weeks visiting the steps of Jesus Himself. Aaron had opportunities to share the Gospel and he shares his experience with us in a special message.

Break Away from Our Culture: God-Reliance vs. Self-RelianceSeries: Psalms Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 16th July 2023Passage: Psalm 30:1-12-------------------God will chisel away everything in our lives if He needs to in order to get us to solely rely upon Him. The Lord will graciously discipline us bringing us to broken repentance so that we will see how insufficient and weak we are and embrace His total sufficiency and reliability.

Give God the Credit He Deserves!Series: Psalms Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 9th July 2023Passage: Psalm 29:1-11-------------------When the storms of life rage, remember that our God is sovereignly in charge, so give Him the credit He deserves. When we do, He will strengthen us and give us His peace!

Psalm 27Series: Psalms Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 2nd July 2023Passage: Psalm 27:1-14-------------------The Lord is our Light and Salvation.

What Should Our Prayer Time Look Like?Series: Psalms Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 2nd July 2023Passage: Psalm 28:1-9-------------------When life looks bleak, when enemies strike, when trouble runs after you, stop and bring your supplications to the Lord, give Him the admiration He deserves, and intercede for His people.

The Valleys and MountainsSeries: Psalms Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 11th June 2023Passage: Psalm 25:1-22-------------------God is our Rescuer and our Deliverer as we face the valleys and mountains of life. This Psalm of David will show specifically how we get to respond to those valleys and mountains. This psalm is a calm, confident prayer for help against his enemies and for God's instructing, leading, and pardoning grace. We desperately need the guiding light of God's Word.

When Hope DespairsSeries: Psalms Preacher: Josh ArellanoSunday Church ServiceDate: 4th June 2023Passage: Psalm 13:1-6-------------------God's people suffer. Sometimes we feel like God has abandoned us. This psalm shows us three ways we can respond when we feel that way. We respond by bringing our complaint to God, but we don't stay there. We then ask God to act on our behalf and we renew our trust in God through His Word and His promises.

Seeing Depravity Solicits DeliveranceSeries: Psalms Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 21st May 2023Passage: Psalm 14:1-7-------------------Seeing man's depravity solicits God's deliverance! When you see humanity's sheer evil, solicit God's deliverance.

Come, Follow Jesus!Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 14th May 2023Passage: John 21:15-25-------------------Following Jesus means you love Him and obey Him. Love Jesus and obediently follow Him. Regardless of what others do or what Jesus has planned for other believers, we are called to follow Christ by loving and obeying Him.

Catching Fish with Jesus' PresenceSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 7th May 2023Passage: John 21:1-14-------------------Join God's mission. Remember Jesus' presence. Corporately, the Christian life is about the need for missions in and to the world, reminding ourselves that it is not possible without Jesus.

Believe Jesus and Proclaim JesusSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 30th April 2023Passage: John 20:24-31-------------------We trust the risen Jesus in His identity and mission. We proclaim the risen Jesus in His identity and mission. We fully rely upon the evidential, historical, factual, scientific, eyewitness testimony of the apostles of the risen Jesus so that we may believe and proclaim Jesus in the Christ and Son of God and may have life in His name.

Receive Peace; Give PeaceSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 23rd April 2023Passage: John 20:19-23-------------------We are receivers of peace and givers of peace. We are takers of peace and givers of peace. We are heirs of grace and heralds of grace. We are partakers of peace and participate in the mission of peace. In Jesus, we have peace; like Jesus, we're on mission; by Jesus we accomplish HIs mission; from Jesus; we proclaim with authority.

Find Grace, Not GriefSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 16th April 2023Passage: John 20:11-18-------------------In the resurrected Jesus, we find grace, not grief; life, not death; Spiritual and eternal, not partial and temporal; kinship, not distance. This is all due to the Father's grace toward us in the accomplished mission of the Son. We are so grateful for Christ!

Come, Know Jesus, Who Faced It All For UsSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 2nd April 2023Passage: John 19:1-42-------------------The Righteous God-Man-Kink faced injustice for our righteousness. The Pure King-Priest-Son faced crucifixion for our purification. The Mission-Completing, Scripture-Fulfilling Passover-King faced death and burial for our life and renewal.

Jesus is the Sovereign Servant, the Faithful Priest, the True Passover & Ruler, & the Only TruthSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 26th March 2023Passage: John 18:1-40-------------------Jesus is the sovereign servant who is in control and obeyed the Father in the Garden to bring into the Father's blessing, not His curse. Jesus is the faithful High Priest, who is the faithful mediator for us by dying for us and who motivates us to be His faithful witnesses. Jesus is the true Passover and Ruler, and the only Truth is who is our sacrifice, rules over those in power, and is the message of salvation.

Trinitarian Unity, Trinitarian Glory, Trinitarian LoveSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 19th March 2023Passage: John 17:20-26-------------------Jesus prays for us to have Trinitarian unity, glory, and love. Paralleling and thus partaking in Trinitarian unity truly displays Trinitarian love which leads to worldwide missions. Jesus prayed for us that we'd be one paralleling Trinitarian unity and thus partaking in Trinitarian unity, which means we have Trinitarian love for us and in us, all of which testifies to the world that the Father sent His Son and loves us just as He loves His Son.

Come, Know Jesus Who Is Consistently Praying for Us!Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 12th March 2023Passage: John 17:9-19-------------------Jesus prayed for His eleven disciples, and as He prayed for them, we can see that He was also praying for us, His other disciples. We take comfort and have the confidence in the fact that Jesu sprays consistently for us as His people, and our Holy Father hears Him.

Come, Know Jesus in His Glory and the Glory of the FatherSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 5th March 2023Passage: John 17:1-8-------------------The Father glorified the Son, and the Son glorified the Father, and we glorify both of them by responding to their glory. The Father glorified the Son by giving Him authority; the Son glorified the Father by obeying and revealing Him; we glorify both by obeying, knowing, receiving, understanding, and believing.

Come, Know Jesus! Through the Way Better Work of the Holy SpiritSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 19th February 2023Passage: John 16:4-15-------------------The work of the Holy Spirit is much better for us as Jesus' disciples because of His work of conviction to the world and His work of consolation to us both through the truth of God's Word.

Come, Know Jesus! But It'll Cost YouSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 12th February 2023Passage: John 15:18-16:4-------------------To follow Jesus will cost you: People will hate you. Not to follow Jesus means you side with the Jesus-hating, Jesus-persecuting world. This is Jesus' encouragement and exhortation to HIs disciples to stay the course and stay faithful on the eve of HIs departure. And even more encouraging: Help from the Trinitarian God!

Stay in Jesus, the Vine, the SonSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 5th February 2023Passage: John 15:1-17-------------------We are a new Christ-loved, love-focused community built on the love (and joy) that is between the Father and the Sone with an outward focus of bearing fruit so that the Father is glorified. The way to stay in the Vine is the stay in His love. The way we stay in HIs love is obeying His commands. What is his first command? To love.

Love Obedience Help FellowshipSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 29th January 2023Passage: John 14:15-31-------------------Knowing Jesus entails loving Jesus, obeying Jesus, and fellowshipping with Jesus. A true Christian loves Jesus by keeping His word, and that believer with enjoy true fellowship with the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit.

Comfort and CommissionSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 22nd January 2023Passage: John 14:1-14-------------------When fear and doubt set in, Jesus comforts and commissions us. When fear comes, Jesus calls to find comfort in trusting Him, in the promise of fellowship, in the cross, and in His sufficient identity, and He commission us to fulfill God's work. NOTE: We had technical difficulties during the sermon with the PowerPoint presentation, which Pastor Jim mentions a couple of times during the sermon. Thanks!

Glory, Shame, LoveSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 15th January 2023Passage: John 13:31-38-------------------God's glory is seen at the shameful cross, but it is also a display of His love. And this Love is the source of our love for each other, the nature of discipleship, and the key to missions. Christ served us! There are six aspects of Jesus to know that are listed here and we need to take them to heart.

Time Will Tell (If you know Him)Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 8th January 2023Passage: John 13:18-30-------------------Time will tell if followers of Jesus are truly His chosen ones. The ones chosen by Jesus will remain faithful to Jesus. Jesus' true chosen ones will not stumble in the darkness buy will walk in the light, staying faithful to Him and receiving Him. May this exhort and encourage us to remain faithful to Jesus, to rest in His love and grace, which He freely and graciously bestows.

Hallelujah! Praise Yahveh!Series: Special Message Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 1st January 2023Passage: Psalm 150:1-6-------------------Worship is the only proper response of our whole person to all that God is - acknowledge HIs greatness and His grandeur.

God Promises the King (of Peace)!Series: Special Message Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 25th December 2022Passage: Micah 5:2-5-------------------Even after Jesus' first coming, there still has been war; we wait for the day with the Savior born of a virgin will come to bring total peace as He reigns over the whole world in peace. God promises the King of Peace to come; He came to bring us peace with God, and He will bring peace to the whole world.

Come, Know Jesus at The CrossSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 18th December 2022Passage: John 13:1-17-------------------The deepest way to know Jesus as HIs followers is at the cross. It cleanses us and is also our mission as HIs followers, in that, we are called to serve each other the way Christ served us.

Come, Receive Jesus! Yet You Can't... And You Won't... But You Should!Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 11th December 2022Passage: John 12:37-50-------------------These verses show Jesus' final, last ditch effort, His final appeal, His last invitation to trust Him, believe into Him, and receive Him. All of humanity is not able to believe into Jesus and does not want to believe into Jesus, but we all should receive Jesus. Jesus makes his final appeal to the crowd, calling them to believe into Him. John the Evangelist gives us more info here about why people were not receiving or believing Jesus.

Come! Decide to Follow Jesus!Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 4th December 2022Passage: John 12:20-36-------------------Come, decide to follow Jesus, who is the seed who had to die to give life and who is the Light of the world. Follow Him by dying to self, so that you may become a son of light, trusting in Him. Because Jesus died, a decision must be made by everyone: either you decide to follow Him, believing into Him, or you reject Him. And if you reject Him, you will be judged like the ruler of this world.

Not What You're ExpectingSeries: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 27th November 2022Passage: John 12:12-19-------------------We expect God to act a certain way, but He doesn't quite do things the way we expect Him to do things. Yes, Jesus is The King, but He3 is not like any other king before Him and He establishes a very different kingdom than we think.

Come to the Korpse-King!Series: Gospel of John Preacher: Jim MastersSunday Church ServiceDate: 20th November 2022Passage: John 12:1-11-------------------The true posture of a Christian disciple is at the feet of our Korpse [Corpse] King. Only this King can give us life by His very corpse... the cross. Jesus gave us life by giving His life. He was crowned with thorns and dressed with shame before He would be crowned with a crown and dressed with honor.