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Date: 04/27/2025Passage: Romans 1:15-17 Series: Stand Alones (2025) Preacher: Dr. Richie AllenNotes (PDF): https://shm.to/0W4punG
Preacher: Dr. Paul KellyScripture: Matthew 28:16-20
Preacher: Dr. Tiffany Robinson Bible Passages: Luke 22:14-27 Sermon Series: Maundy Thursday
Guest Preacher - Dr Anthony LathamSeries: Guest Preacher Preacher: Dr. Anthony LathamLord's Day MorningDate: 13th April 2025Passages: Mark 4:1-10Mark 4:35-41
We REST so that we might be free to worship God; and we give God worship, in part, by TRUSTING him enough to rest.Preacher: Dr. Garrett Hope.FIND US ONLINE
Dr. Lamma Mansour, a Christian Palestinian from Nazareth, holds a DPhil and MPhil in Social Policy and Intervention from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She also earned a BSc in Psychology from the University of Haifa. Her research, which centers on young people in Israel-Palestine, has been featured in leading academic journals. In addition to her scholarly work, Dr. Mansour actively serves in her local church in Nazareth and contributes to conversations on the intersection of faith and society through various local and global platforms as a writer and speaker.
2nd Sunday of Lent
Sermon by Dr. Kevin Watson.
Worship: Kwanzaa Sunday; Minister: Rev. Debbie Weatherspoon; Preacher: Dr. Dianne Rush Woods; Message: “We Are All Kwanzaa People”; Scripture: Luke 2: 41-51; Music director: Scott Jespersen; Worship Leaders: Judy Kriege, Jordan Jerrels, Erin Adachi Kriege, Becky Wheat, Susan Jardin; Audio engineer: Paul Nasman; Podcast producer: Ethan Toven-Lindsey
Preacher: Dr. Paul Kelly Scripture: Luke 2:8-20
Preacher: Dr. Paul Kelly Scripture: Colossians 4:7-18
Ike helps us explore how Paul's life was transformed by God's grace, from persecutor to preacher, becoming a chosen instrument of God's purpose. Drawing on powerful scripture like 1 Peter 1:6-7, Acts 9:15-16, and Galatians 1:11-24, Pastor Ike dives into Paul's transformation and how we, too, can become instruments for noble purposes. Whether in the junk pile, on the anvil, or in the Master's hands, God shapes us through trials and grace for His glory.
What does it look like to have a faith in the seemingly impossible? Mark 11:23. Preacher: Dr. Garrett Hope. https://firstcovenantlincoln.org/ https://www.facebook.com/FirstCovLincoln/ https://www.youtube.com/@FirstCovLincoln/
Guest Preacher: Dr. Matt DuvallDirector of Development for McAfee School of Theology
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2/18/2024
Our circumstances do not define us or our relationship to God. Our response, primarily how we think about our circumstances, defines our relationship with God. Matthew 13:1-9, (18-23). Preacher: Dr. Garrett Hope. https://firstcovenantlincoln.org/ https://www.facebook.com/FirstCovLincoln/ https://www.youtube.com/@FirstCovLincoln/
Matthew 11:28. Preacher: Dr. Garrett Hope https://firstcovenantlincoln.org/ https://www.facebook.com/FirstCovLincoln/ https://www.youtube.com/
Dr. Chuck Kelley joined us on the 75th anniversary of Stapleton Baptist and preached from the book of Philippians.
Preacher: Dr. Billye Brim Categories: Guest Speaker Location: Victory Center, 2032 US HWY 64, Guymon, Oklahoma, 73942
Preacher: Dr. Billye Brim Categories: Guest Speaker Location: Victory Center, 2032 US HWY 64, Guymon, Oklahoma, 73942
Sermon by Dr. Matt Ayars
CURRENT SERMON SERIES: Jesus taught about an utterly different way of relating to the world as we know it—a way that turns the values and priorities of his followers upside-down and inside-out. In his best-known teaching, the Sermon on the Mount, he lays out a blueprint for embracing a new way of life that overturns conventional wisdom, traditional power structures, and our personal assumptions about what a “blessed” life looks like, offering a radical plan for an alternative way of being.
In the parable of the patient landowner and the rebellious tenants, Christ once again shows us that those who claim to be the most devout Jews are really the ones farthest from the kingdom of God. They have had a very long history of hard-heartedness, and because they will murder the very Son of God, they will face the crushing judgment of the Lord. Preacher: Dr. Shawn Merithew Scripture Text: Luke 20:9-18
One of the major problems with the secular world is that it refuses to acknowledge that our Lord in heaven has absolute authority over every aspect of life. He has revealed His divine will in Scripture, and we are in physical, spiritual, and cultural peril because we have denied His authority and rejected His truth. Sadly, Israel was effectively in the same place during the time of Christ. They had the veneer of biblical religion, but the majority of them had rejected God's own Son. Preacher: Dr. Shawn Merithew Scripture Text: Luke 20:1-8
What is it that moves the Lord of Glory to weep? In this passage, He wept over the stubborn lostness of His own people, and the judgment that He knew they were going to suffer for their rejection of Him. What is even more amazing is that though He wept over their rejection, He still went to them – He went to them to cleanse the temple and to teach them the truth of eternity. Preacher: Dr. Shawn Merithew Scripture Text: Luke 19:41-48
PREACHER: Dr. Brian Payne 1 | Kingdom Prayer Is a Penitent Prayer (11:4a) 2 | Kingdom Living is a Forgiving Life (11:4b) Seven Untruths About Forgiveness: 1. Forgiveness is not forgetting. God doesn't forget. 2. Forgiving someone doesn't mean you no longer feel the pain of the offense. 3. Forgiving someone doesn't mean you stop longing for justice. 4. Forgiveness doesn't mean you make it easy for the offenders to hurt you again. 5. Forgiveness is rarely a one time event. 6. Forgiveness won't lead the offender to become more entrenched in his sin. 7. Forgiveness is not motivated primarily by self-interest. Seven Truths About Forgiveness: 1. God in Christ forgave us by absorbing in himself the destructive consequences of our sin against him. 2. God expects believers to forgive others in the way he forgave them (Ephesians 4:32). 3. God's forgiveness is conditional (Acts 20:21). 4. God forgave us in Christ by canceling the debt we owed him. 5. Forgiving others as God has forgiven us means we refuse to be vigilantes. 6. Forgiving others as God has forgiven us means that we do good rather than evil to them (Romans 12:17). 7. Forgiveness is an act of the will more than it is a feeling.
PREACHER: Dr. Brian Payne Luke 11:4c 1 | Kingdom Prayer is a Preemptive Prayer (Luke 11:4c)
When Jesus came to earth to complete His work of redemption, He came in complete humility in his birth, was hated by rulers from his infancy, and was raised in complete obscurity in the town of Nazareth. When He entered Jerusalem for the last time before His crucifixion, He came in humble poverty, without royal robes, riding on the foal of a donkey. In this sermon, we see how Jesus was worshiped on Palm Sunday, and explore how He is worthy of worship at all times. Preacher: Dr. Shawn Merithew Scripture Text: Luke 19:28-40
With well-known sinners like Zacchaeus coming to faith in Christ, and Jesus getting closer to Jerusalem, Messianic fervor was building. People began spreading the idea that God's kingdom was coming right now. So Jesus told them this parable of the 10 servants and the minas to help them understand that the fullness of the kingdom was not coming now, but when it did, the faithful would be called to account and the guilty punished. Preacher: Dr. Shawn Merithew Scripture Text: Luke 19:11-27
This week, we come to the story of another sinner that Jesus met on the road through Jericho. Zacchaeus was rich and had his sight, but he was in just as deep a state of need as the blind beggar. The Holy Spirit led Luke to place these two passages, and therefore these two characters, side-by-side. Through the first man, we see the focus on faith. Through the second man, we see a focus on repentance. Through both, we see the compassion of the Savior who came to seek and to save the lost! Preacher: Dr. Shawn Merithew Scripture Text: Luke 19:1-10
Christ is a compassionate Savior, and His call to all of humanity is to come to Him and trust in Him for forgiveness and grace and healing and life. How sad it is that the prevailing wisdom of the age teaches either that there is no God, or that if there is One, He is not to be bothered. In this passage of Scripture, we see a desperate, blind beggar who would not be silenced by the crowd because he knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that Jesus was his only hope of salvation. Preacher: Dr. Shawn Merithew Scripture Text: Luke 18:35-43
The rich young ruler's rejection of the call to follow Christ raised a question in Peter's heart: “What about us, Lord? We have left everything to follow You; What about us?” In Jesus's answer, we have the promise of reward for all who believe in Him, and we have the description of His torturous death and resurrection by which He would purchase this reward. Preacher: Dr. Shawn Merithew Scripture Text: Luke 18:28-34
The parable of the rich young ruler is most often preached as a story about the danger of loving money or making wealth an idol in one's life, and those truths are certainly center stage here. But what is actually happening here is that Jesus is using the issue of idolizing wealth to teach us about true goodness, to teach us about our need for an imputed goodness – more specifically, an imputed righteousness. Are you a good person? Let's see. . . Preacher: Dr. Shawn Merithew Scripture Text: Luke 18:18-27
Most pastors, when preaching this text about parents bringing their infants to Jesus, go right to the subject of how to lead your children to Christ. Our hearts and minds are rightly drawn to consider something so very important, but this text really isn't about showing our children the right way to Christ's Kingdom. It's more about how our children show us the right way to Christ's Kingdom. Preacher: Dr. Shawn Merithew Scripture Text: Luke 18:15-17
As we continue through chapter 18 of the Gospel of Luke, we are exploring another parable given by Jesus – the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector who went up to the temple to pray. I have entitled this sermon “The TRUE Sinner's Prayer” because what we are taught here is that a true prayer for salvation is God-centered and is characterized by humility, brokenness over sin, and absolute dependence upon the mercy of God. Preacher: Dr. Shawn Merithew Scripture Text: Luke 18:9-14
PREACHER: Dr. Brian Payne | Pastor Luke 11:2 1 | Kingdom Prayer is a Jealous Prayer (11:2b) Two Aspects: 1. It's an expression of fact. 2. It's a longing for the fulfillment. 2 | Kingdom Prayer is a Missional Prayer (11:2c) The Meaning Of the Kingdom: 1. Scripture starts with the assertion that God, as Creator, is the sovereign ruler of the universe. 2. But, even though God is the universal Lord, after the Fall, God's rightful rule over creation is rejected. 3. After the Fall, the Old Testament makes a distinction between the sovereign reign of God over the entire creation and the coming of his saving reign (Genesis 3:15; 12:1-3). The saving reign will come through a king from the seed of Abraham/David (This becomes the storyline of the Bible). 4. The New Testament announces that in Jesus Christ the kingdom has come (Mark 1:15).
PREACHER: Dr. Brian Payne | Pastor Luke 11:3 1 | Kingdom Prayer is a Dependent Prayer (11:3) Why Is This Petition Important? 1. It fosters contentment. 2. It cultivates humility. 3. It teaches us generosity. 4. It cultivates gratitude.