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We were bought with a price Intro Begin Talking about Easter - 84% of people who don't go to church said they would if they were invited. Do begin thinking about and praying for people you want to have come to church with you . Today we will finish the series on Extraordinary Relationships . We have…

We're going to start a study in the book of Colossians. Let me describe the religious scene. See if this sounds a little familiar, what people are facing. A lot of people today when they think about how get closer to God, they really struggle with to do that . See if you've ever met anyone like this.…

Intro Relationships are vital to all of the areas of our lives. That's why we are looking at the state of relationships. This is a key area that will impact every other area of your life for good or for bad. We have to know how to build relationships God's way and not the worlds way . How many of you…

Intro Boudreaux & Thibidoux, two government maintenance workers were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up. A woman walked by and asked what they were doing. “We're supposed to find out the height of that flagpole but we don't have a ladder. The woman said, “Hand me that wrench out of your toolbox.”…

Intro By a show of hands, how many of you grew up with brothers and sisters in the house? Rollinson brothers … How many of you have difficult people in your workplace? John Wires… How many of you attend school? How many of you drive in traffic? Whether we are with family, at work, in school, or in traffic,…

Gen 28 is a low point in Jacob's life. tell some of his story 20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean. 21 Isaac pleaded with the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children.…

Intro Welcome people . We are beginning a new series called Extraordinary Relationships. On Feb 13, we have a Valentine Event that you can come to. This is a difficult time for relationships. People are more connected than ever before through technology but more disconnected than ever before. We have…

When I worked in Hospitals … we caught a thief who had been robbing the Dr offices. We had been trying to catch him for months… Tell the Story. Then the detectives told him that he took $4,000 from an office, he retorted… I only took 1500 … What do you do when you are driving, and a police car pulls…

Intro We are ending 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting and hopefully you have been blessed and moved closer to the Lord. This is the last of the All Things New. This is a year of New Beginnings for many of us… We have a New Beginnings God. All Things new has been about New Faith, New Fitness and New Freedom.…

Intro We are starting the last week of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. We are in week 3 of a new series all things new. We want this year to be the year of New Beginnings. God loves to give us a new beginnings all the time. All we have to do is to turn to him. He takes our lives and will make them brand…

Intro Have you ever woken up in the morning feeling you are surrounded… like everything was closing in on you? Maybe the doctor's report wasn't what you wanted ot hear. Maybe a family situation feels tense and has not been resolved. Maybe the future looks uncertain. That's the situation we find here…

Intro Any body glad to be in church today? Welcome to week 2 of all things New Series. Last weeks message, New Faith was a great message and if you want to go back and listen, it's on our website. We are also on Day 7 of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. We are starting week 2 tomorrow. Make sure to join…

Intro Worship - Teach - Pray individually - pray together… 25 min on your own - Prayer requests… prayer guide Pray out loud - it keeps you from being distracted. We will have music playing. Don't visit in the room… pray Don't go and pray for someone unsolicited… ask before you pray. You can get together…

Intro Happy New Year. We are so glad that you are here. We are streaming this on social media and it will be on our Website this week. We want this year to be a year of New Beginnings. It's a time for a reset. And the best way to do that is through the … 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting January 5th -25th…

INTRO NY Eve… Tomorrow beings a new year. The old is leaving and we get to begin all new. How may of you have made NY resolutions? Here are some NY Resolutions people have made… I won't bore my boss by with the same excuse for absences but will think of some new excuses. I will never again take a sleeping…

Christmas is fun, and it's especially fun to watch kids at this time of year. I did always wonder why parents would take their young children to Toys are Us during this time. But kids are fun. Joke - A little boy was praying a few weeks before Christmas. He prayed, “Lord, if you will give me a new bicycle…

What is your best Christmas memory or gift ever? While you think about that, here are some of mine growing up. Our church Live nativity scene . If it was cold, the ladies would have some wonderful hot chocolate ready in the fellowship hall. It was fun. Then on Christmas eve we would all go out of the…

We often talk about following Christ and that if we do that it will change our lives. You may not understand why it is good to follow Christ and his teachings, but today I want to give you some reasons to follow Jesus Christ. The love of God and His acceptance of us are based on grace. It's not based…

Intro Have you ever had one of those days when everything went wrong? You begin to think that maybe you shouldn't have gotten out of bed today? When making a smoothie, you forget to put the top on the blender and … ended up wearing his smoothie. There was a guy who jumped off the overpass to kill himself……

Intro There are times in our lives when what God gives us to do looks too small… too simple… too insignificant … to possibly become anything meaningful. Sometimes our dream is big, but the start is tiny … David was anointed King but began service to the king playing a harp. It was 15 years before he…

Intro One of the simplest, but very powerful ways we can serve and glorify the Lord is by doing good. Peter described the life of Jesus in these words. Acts 10:38 “ And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all…

One of the things that I have noticed over the years is how quickly people can flip you from being happy to angry. Have you ever noticed that? You could be having a great day… the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming… You feel great. And then some crazy-person walks into your life and in about…

Intro How many of you shudder at the thought of all the family gatherings during the holidays? During the holiday season we all spend more time than usual with family than we do the rest of the year. Someone said, but I'll claim it… It's good to see them come and it's good to see them go! Most of the…

Intro We are continuing the Series, God's Incredible Promises. There are over 7,000 promises in the Bible that God makes. Today, I want to talk about God's Promises to you when you are afraid of failing. Now you may not htink this is a big deal, so let me give you a little test. Do you ever worry about…

Lessons from Noah's Life: Genesis 6-9 Intro For the past weeks we have been looking at How God Turns Setbacks into Comebacks. We have looked at Business or work setbacks… at how after fishing all night the disciples caught nothing, but how Jesus turned it around for them. We have looked at How God Turns…

Intro Take out your notes. Tonight we will look at when we have a setback that seems irreversible. On your outline I have defined what a setback is. Setback: A loss of progress, a defeat of a plan, or a reversal of good fortune. Anything that sets you back. So today we will look at what do you need to…

Intro We have been a series about God's Incredible Promises. I have stated this before but there are over 7000 promises in the Bible that God makes for you and me. We have looked at God's promise about Heaven, about giving and generosity (some may have decided to begin tithing) , and the Holy Spirit.…

Intro We are in the 6th message on How God turns setbacks into comebacks . Tonight we will talk about How God turns a setback into a comeback when it looks too late for a come back. Now as soon as I say it's too late, you probably think about sports when it's too late for a comeback. In football when…

Intro A couple of Wednesdays ago, we used the story of Nehemiah to illustrate how a setback can make us feel like giving up or quitting. For those who attend our really good Wednesday services, you will remember that the Israelites began rebuilding the wall and built it to about half way but then something…

Replacing my fears with Faith For the last 4 weeks we have been teaching a series on how God turns setback into comebacks. Everybody loves a comeback. ( Saints game - Looked like it was going to be 0-5, but they came back) During the series, we have looked at several important points about setbacks and…

Intro This is #2 in our series, God's Incredible Promises. Last week, we looked at God's incredible promises about heaven. We will be looking at His promises about guidance. There are actually over 8,000 promises in the Bible for you and I from God. God always keeps His promises. I said last week that…

Much of Joseph's life included a series of painful setbacks from his dream to do great things with his life. But God used them to position Joseph for a spectacular comeback that saved 2 nations: Israel and Egypt. Intro Today we're going to look at the life of one of the most important characters in the…

Intro Funny church Signs One writer wrote that there are over 8,000 promises in the Bible for you and me. And for the next few weeks we will look at some of these promises to you… promises of direction… hope… healing… blessing… guidance and direction. God's promises are like a divine insurance policy…

Intro Maybe you will agree with me that it's always easier to start something, than it is to finish it, right ? It's easier to get into something, than it is to get out. It's easier to get into trouble than it is to get out of trouble. (Kelly's Heroes) It's easier to fill your schedule, than it is to…

EG: Little Jack - Pray people Pray! “ To Be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ” Martin Luther Prayer is Vital to the Christian Life. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for…

Intro We have all experienced setbacks in our lives. Some of us are going through them now. Maybe your setback is financial… relational… emotional… health issue… job setback… personal setback… spiritual setback… many differnt kinds of setbacks. One of the common side effects of setbacks is that can drain…

Intro We are in a series, The World Outside Our Window… So far we have learned that God has a plan for our world, and that plan is you and I living on mission for Him every day. We also learned that we are ambassadors for the Lord. We learned last week why we share our faith We are ambassadors for Jesus…

Intro America was built with this idea of rugged individualism. We are a group of tough people… or were. Many of us grew up with the idea that no matter what was going on, you didn't cry, certainly not in front of people. The trouble is that this has followed us into the church. No matter what is going…

Intro 9 years today. Week 3 of a series called World Outside of Our Window. We don't just build church for us. We believe we are on a mission to be better ourselves, but to touch the world outside of us. There is a natural gravitational pull towards selfishness so we have to intentionally focus outside…

Intro Welcome to River Church tonight… we will continue the series, How God Turns Setback into Comebacks . How many of you have needed a comeback before? LW we looked at What to do when you have a work setback. We looked a Peter, who made a living fishing, but spent all night fishing and caught nothing.…

Intro We have a Serve Day coming up … it's called Fall Festival . At the Fall Festival, the World outside our window will come to us and we have an opportunity to serve them, provide a safe place for their families to eat, have fun and take home some candy… all the while showing them the love of Jesus.…

Intro Welcome to River church this evening. It is so good to be back with you. PK and I had a great time on our vacation, but it's always good to get back home. Tonight, I want to begin a series I will call, How God Turns Setbacks into Comebacks. We live on a broken planet, everybody has problems, trials,…

Tonight we are going to look at human kinds oldest problem… temptation. It goes all the way back to Adam. We all will face it. Jesus faced it. And here's the thing. Sometimes eventhough you know it's wrong, you are tempted to say yes to it instead of no. It's difficult. Someone once said, I can resist…