The Church – 1st Service

The Church – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:

We Value…

• Direction – The Great Commission
  • Evangelism (2 Cor 5:17-20)
  • Equipping
• Diversity – The Great Commandment
  • Gifts (1 Cor 12:7)
  • People (Galatians 3:26-28)
  • Style
• Depth – The Great Commitment
  • Philemon 1:9-11
  • Growth
  • Serving
  • Trust
• The Church As…
  • A Body (Romans 12:5)
  • A Family
  • A Bride
  • A Fellowship
  • A Flock (John 10:11)
• Love as He Loves
• Love What He Loves

Church Birth Follow-up – 1st Service

Sermon Notes

2 Corinthians 8:1-5
2 Corinthians 8:6
2 Corinthians 8:16-17
2 Corinthians 8:3-5
Jeremiah 20:9

This year’s Women’s Retreat theme is
“Poured Out for Him”
and it is going to be an amazing weekend!

If you’ve never been to one before, if it’s been a while since you’ve gone, even if you go every year – this is your time!  The spiritual growth and bonding through laughter and tears that happen at women’s retreat cannot be recreated anywhere else!  Please make plans to join us this year!  Start saving, or let us know if you are worried because of financial burden – we will get you there for sure.

Click on the picture to go to the Silver Spur website and register online.  Make sure you choose the May 18-20 weekend.

You can also register at church on Sunday mornings beginning soon.

http://silverspur.com/womensretreat.htm

  What is Heaven?   – 1st Service

  What is Heaven ?   – 2nd Service

What is Heaven?
  Matt 6:9
  John 14:1-2
  Mark 13:32
  2 Cor 5:8
What will Heaven be like?
  Rev 21:3
  1 Cor 13:9-12
  Rev 21:4
  John 4:24
What will we do in Heaven?
  Rev 7:9-12
Why do people want to know about Heaven?

Why is so little written about Heaven compared to other topics in the Bible?
  Rev 21:22-24
The Bible is full to references to Heaven.

How can we focus on what we know so little about?
  2 Cor 4:18
  Heb 12:1-2

Do you get it?

Isaiah Week 4 – 1st Service

Isaiah Week 4 – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes

Introduction – Philippians 2:5-11

The Servant Exalted – Isaiah 52:13-15

The Servant’s Suffering – Isaiah 53:2-9

The Servant’s Satisfaction – Isaiah 53:10-12

Theological and Application dilemma

The Servant’s Invitation – Isaiah 53:1

Believed

Revealed

Isaiah 29:13-16

Isaiah 55:1-3

Are you thirsty?

Isaiah 40 – 1st Service (partial)

Isaiah 40 – 2nd Service

Grace

• Isaiah 40:1-2

Providence

• Isaiah 40:3-5

Assurance

• Isaiah 40:6-8

Hope

• Isaiah 40:9-11

God: Incomparable & Omnipotent

• Isaiah 40:12
• Isaiah 40:18
• Isaiah 40:22
• Isaiah 40:26

God: Sustaining

• Isaiah 40:27-28

God: Personal

• Isaiah 40:29-31

Isaiah- Week 2 – 1st Service

Isaiah- Week 2 – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes

All At The Beginning

• Isaiah 5:1-7
• Psalm 80:8-19
• Isaiah 27:2-6
• John 15:1-8

The Vine

The Vinekeeper

The Fruit

The Harvest

Isaiah – 1st Service

Isaiah – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes

Big Picture: It was the purpose of God to choose a people, based only on the sovereignty of God himself; to bring this people into the land of Palestine and to establish the city of Jerusalem as its capital; to establish a kingdom from which in time, the true King, the Messiah, the Redeemer, would come.

Isaiah The Book

• Isaiah 5:21

• Isaiah 48:11

• Isaiah 45:22-24

Isaiah The Man

• Isaiah 6:1-7

He Measured Himself

He Listened

Isaiah the Prophet

• Isaiah 6:8-13

He Questioned

He Endured

So…

Do we see the Lord?

Do we see ourselves?

Do we listen?

How do we respond?

Is your life paralleling the nation or Isaiah?

Tis The Season – 1st Service

Tis The Season – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:

Tis the Season…

• Of Remembering
• Of Loving
• Of Giving
  • John 3:16
• Of Thankfulness
  • 2 Corinthians 9:15
• Of Worship
  • Luke 2:13-14, 20
• Of Change
• Of Joy
  • Luke 2:10

What does belief in Jesus Christ mean?

  Are You Only with God in a Crowd? 1st Service

  Are You Only with God in a Crowd 2nd Service

Are you only with God in a crowd?

He desired men should receive Him, not simply for what he might give them, but for what he might be to them.

John 6:25   John 6:26-27   Ephesians 2:1

Romans 5:6   John 6:28   John 6:29

John 6:30-31   John 6:44   John 6:53

The challenge for this week

Read John chapter 5, read it every day!
Answer the question, “Are you only with God in the crowd”?

You’ve Got To Be Kidding? – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:

1 Thess 5:18

A Life Of Thanksgiving

Colossians 3:12-17

Thankful Thinking

• Praying Phil 4:6
• Indwelling Word & Worship
• Intentional Thinking

Thankful Sharing

• With God
• With Individuals
• With Family

Thankful Serving

1 Tim 1:12-17

  Love! 1st Service

  Love! 2nd Service

“All you need is love … altogether now!”

Faith … Hope … Love

One English Word … Many Meanings

The Most Excellent Way !!

I Cor 13:1-3

Go Big or Go Home!
     Dynamic Speaker
     Amazing Teacher
     Moving Faith
     Social Compassion
     Powerless Gifts

The Book of Love
I Cor 13:4-7

Love that Lasts
     The Most Excellent Way … Which NEVER Fails!

Love Enriches
     Is Not Selfish
Love Edifies
     Is not Envious
Love Endures
     Is “Always”

I Cor 13:13

Loving Others … best resembles the character of God in His relationship with us.

Hope- 1st Service

Hope- 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:
1 Thessalonians 4:13
Hebrews 6:19
1 Peter 1:3

Essential Element of the Gospel
Colossians 1:3-5

• Death, Burial, Resurrection–Fact
• Forgiven and Justified–Fact
• Indewelling of Holy Spirit–Fact
• Nothing separates from the Love of God–Fact
• Assurance of Eternal Life–Fact
• With Certainty – Hope–Fact

Therefore…
Without Christ, no Hope–Fact
As with Creation, we groan–Romans 8:22-25

So…

• Our Hope is from God
• Our Hope is a gift of Grace 2 Thessalonians 2:16
• Our Hope is strengthened by the Word
• Our Hope is rational and reasonable
• Our Hope is a confirmation of the Spirit within us
• Our Hope changes our grieving
• Our Hope makes us long for Christ’s Appearing – Titus 2:13

By Faith (Part 7) – 1st Service

By Faith (Part 7) – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:

Hebrews 12:1-3

Therefore…

Witnesses

Throw Off

Run

Staring at Jesus

Consider Him

Are you in the race?

Are you on a treadmill?

False Assumptions- 1st Service

False Assumptions- 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:
False Assumptions
Followers of Christ are passive.
People of faith are passive.
Those forgiven by Christ never struggle with their humanity.
As children adopted by God, we only get the good and easy, never the hard.

Hebrews 11:35-40

Triumph or Tragedy
Triumph & Tragedy
Triumph through Tragedy

Suffering…
…Hallelujah!

  Dreaming- 1st Service

  Dreaming- 2nd Service

Dream’s have “eternal value”
1.Does it line up with His Word?
2.Does it draw people to Jesus?

Luke 6:33
Hebrews 11:32-35
Ephesians 2:10
Jeremiah 29:11
I Samuel 13:14
Isaiah 46:8-11
Genesis 50:20

How do we dream?
1.Believe that God has dreams for you!
2.Do not settle!
  Judges 6:11-13
3.Heed His voice
4.Pursue the dream!
  Keep in constant communication with Him
  Don’t hurry the process

By Faith (Part 5) – 1st Service

By Faith (Part 5) – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes

How Big Is Your God?

Hebrews 11:29-31

What these events tell us about God

Crossing the Red Sea

No obstacle too big for our Creator God

The Walls of Jericho

God is a “wall-breaker”

Rahab The Prostitute

A Redeemer God who can use any person

What these events tell us about Faith

Faith involves Courage!

Not great faith by having great courage,

But great courage from great faith!

Great faith?

How big is your God?

  By Faith (Part 4) 1st Service

  By Faith (part 4) 2nd Service

Faith … Considering God

Or … By Fear?

Holy Fear – Awesome Respect

Human Fear – lack of confidence in God

“But What If?”

Hebrews 11:23

Hebrews 11:27

Hebrews 11:29

What if Fear Ruled You?
You would never know the blessing.

What if Faith Ruled You?
You can have peace and contentment.
We look for the ways how God works.

Remember …

God loves you and will be with you through anything

Focus on what is unseen, the eternal perspective (II Cor 4:16-18)

God Is In Control

A Reason to Fear
… for the unsaved

Faith is the answer to Fear
… for the Saved

By Faith (Part 3)- 1st Service

By Faith (Part3)- 2ndService

Sermon Notes:
The Greatest Inheritance
Hebrews 11:20-23
Passing the faith baton

The Environment of Faith
Your Home…
Training base or holding pen

By faith…Moses (24-28)
The Heritage of Faith
A Tough Faith
A Trusting Faith

By Faith! (Part 2) – 1st Service

By Faith! (Part 2) – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:

Hebrews 11

Walk a mile in his sandals…

Abraham

Life Lessons

This Isn’t On My Three Year Plan (Hebrews 11:8)

Perspective of Time (Hebrews 11:9-10)

A Covenant Promise (Hebrews 11:17-19)

Abandonment (Hebrews 11:15)

Trusting When Tough

Risk Factor

By Faith – 1st Service

By Faith – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:

A Sure Foundation

• Heb 11:1

A Creator

• Heb 11:3

A Shepherd

• Heb 11:4

A Servant

• Heb 11:5-6

A Builder

• Heb 11:7

Oh My God- 1st Service

 Oh My God- 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:

• System of Faith
• Saving Faith
     – Galatians 2:20
• Living Faith
     – Hebrews 11:1

It’s Only Natural- 1st Service

It’s Only Natural- 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:

God reveals Himself to us…

Lives within us..

To reveal Himself through us!

John 15:5

The True Vine

Bearing fruit is natural

Bearing fruit is a continuous process

Bearing fruit of the vine

• Gal 5:22-23

Every believer is a minister

• 2 Cor 5:17-21
• Matt 5:13-16
• Your ministry continues Jesus’s ministry on earth
• Ministry is a responsibility and a privilege
• Ministry has significance for now and eternity

Gardening helps

 Presence Driven – 1st Service

 Presence Driven – 2nd Service

God with us
Mathew 1:23
Philippians 2:5-11

That we might see Him

That we might seek Him

You “In” Christ
• 2 Corinthians 5:17
• 2 Corinthians 5:21
• Romans 8:1

Christ “In” You
• John 14:20
• Galations 2:20
• Colossions 1:27

God is with you !

Say Something- 1st Service

Sermon Notes:
Three Dollars Worth Please.
Is there a God?

• Psalms 19:1
• Romans 1:19-20

If there is a God, has He spoken?

• To Know God…
       … you must read the Bible.
• Revelation
       About God…From God.
  2 Peter 1:12-21
  
• To Grow…
       …you must learn & trust God’s Word.
  Hebrews 4:12
  
• To Show God…
       …you must live the Word.

The Word is useful!
2 Timothy 3:16

Thoroughly Equipped

God wants us to know Him!

Three Dollars Worth Please – 1st Service

Three Dollars Worth Please – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes

Intimacy With God

The Process of Intimacy

“The pursuit of intimacy is an intentional commitment to take steps toward God, and, in the process of that ‘Godward’ motion, to grow more deeply conscious of, connected to, and confident in Him alone, as the only source to satisfy, sustain and secure.” - Unknown Author

We must be…

• Intentional
• Faithful
• Changeable

It is not about…

• What God will do for us
  • 2 Corinthians 4:6-9, 16-18
• God as our co-pilot
• Comparing our “walk” with someone else
• Being perfect… judgmental… legalistic

Matthew 22:37-38

“Three Dollars Worth Please”

1 Corinthians 11:23-29

Communion & Mission Update- First Service

Communion & Mission Update- Second Service

Cassie and Whitney share with us about their Mission trip.

Seriously 3- 1st Service

Seriously 3- 2ndService

Sermon Notes:
Good things to unworthy people
            Why do I serve God?
Bad things to unworthy people
            Why do I serve God?
            Why me, God?

Worship in the tough times.
            Seriously? You’re joking.
Job 1:20-21

Worship is not a feeling.
Worship is trusting God.
            Isaiah 55:8-9
Worship is an act of faith.

Worship Living or Worship Wearing.

Seriously? (Part 2) – 1st Service

Seriously? (Part 2) – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:

Seriously??

• Why do bad those who don’t deserve it get good things?
• Or… Does it really benefit me to disobey God?

Foundational Understanding

• God is Good
• God is Sovereign

Our Response: to love, pray and influence

The Flip Side

• Why do bad things happen to good people?

Real Question: Why do bad things happen to me?

Psalms 73:16

The Cynic’s Question

• All Loving Or All Powerful

Hebrews 11:32-34, 11:35-38

Hard Times…

• Often show us our own weakness
• Often draw us near to God
• Often conform us to the image of Christ
• Often will bring peace through God’s presence

Psalms 73:28

• Draw Near
• Take Refuge
• Share

 Camp Revisited- 2nd Service

The Blessing of America – 1st Service

The Blessing of America – 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:

1 Timothy 2:1-6

A Passion for Prayer

• Requests
• Prayers
• Intercession
• Thanksgiving
• For Everyone

The American Dream or the Believers Promise

The Desire of God

The Changing of America

 The Happiest Place on Earth – Tomorrowland- 1st Service

 The Happiest Place on Earth – Tomorrowland- 2nd Service

“The Happiest Place on Earth” – Tomorrowland
“The future is today”

o It is not:
 When I get older…
 When I get paid…
 When summer comes…
 When I have more time…

o The future brings joy and hope because of what we are experiencing and doing today!

• Therefore, the question this morning is: “How do we shape our future?”

I. Know what “future” you are talking about (Hebrews 11:13-16)
a. Heaven (this is our goal)

II. Notice God (Matthew 6:25-34)

III. Collect the right treasure (Matthew 6:19-24)

IV. Seek Him (Matthew 6:25-34)
a. His Kingdom – For His will to be accomplished on earth
b. His righteousness – Complete submission to his leading in our life

V. Do not worry (Matthew 6:25-34)

• Last of all; know that the future has been written already, God wins! To completely grasp that, we must live victoriously now!
• Why was Tomorrowland so fun for people when it first opened? Because they were experiencing something they never imagined possible.
• I believe people today are looking for a Tomorrowland. It begins, continues and is completed by experiencing Christ today!
• The Happiest place on earth is within the hands of Christ!

Happiest Place On Earth – AdventureLand- 2nd Service

Sermon Notes:

Genesis 6:5-22
A Wicked Society
But Noah…
- Walked with God
- Trusted God’s Word
- Radical Transformation

2 Timothy 1:7
- A Spirit of Power
What drains our power?
- Fear
- Apathy
- Compromise
- Failure

DAD- the leader of the Adventure
- Trust God
- Obey God
- Be Faithful

As in the days of Noah…

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The Happiest Place On Earth – Fantasyland – 1st Service
The Happiest Place On Earth – Fantasyland – 2nd Service

Fantasy vs. Reality

James 2:14-26

Know vs. Show

Real Faith…

- Not just something you say

- Not just something you feel

- Not just an intellectual understanding

- Not just “one of many” ways

Ephesians 2:8-10

- Is strengthened through crisis

- Understands tough questions and tough answers

- Is assurance that God is in control

- Knows that fantasyland is usually selfish

- Knows that living in God’s “fullness” now far exceeds the world’s “fantasy”

So What…

- Where is your faith?