Sermon Audio & Review
Morning Worship Series
Romans 12:14-16
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Not Ashamed (Romans)
- August 5, 2018
- Audio Video
Love's Final Intentions.
We have been studying the love Christians should have within the body of Christ (Romans 12:9-16). The pointed commands beginning in verse 13 seem random, but they do flow from what Paul wrote in the verses just before. Love that is holy, relational, passionate in serving and persevering, will be aware in these ways.
Proverbs 23:4-5
- Pastor Mike Hixson
- Category: Morning Worship Series
- July 29, 2018
- Audio Video Notes
Discernment will protect you from becoming a workaholic for wealth.
Ten years ago, the values of homes and stocks plummeted as the housing bubble popped. Many people lost significant amounts from their retirement accounts and significant investments, their homes, seemingly overnight. When wealth can disappear so quickly, is it worth spending all our energy for it? There is virtue in hard work, but not when it is done for the purpose of wealth that disappears. Wisdom is more valuable than any material treasure. Proverbs 23:4-5 teaches us that wisdom or discernment protects us from becoming workaholics to gain wealth.
Romans 12:13
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Not Ashamed (Romans)
- July 22, 2018
- Audio Video
The Character of Christian Community, Part 3.
The latter half of Romans 12 instructs Christians on the kind of love we should display. Our love is holy, relational, passionate, and aware. A series of direct imperatives begins in Romans 12:13. Love is intentional about its surroundings.
Psalm 11
- Pastor Kent Hobi
- Category: Morning Worship Series
- July 15, 2018
- Audio Video Notes
What can the righteous do when the foundations are destroyed?
The question posed in Psalm 11:3 addresses a human need. The wickedness around David, the writer of this Psalm, threatened to undermine the foundations of the nation of Israel, God's people. In our day, it seems that the foundations of our country are being threatened as well. The foundations of the church are undermined when many Protestant denominations deny the authority of Scripture, the sanctity of marriage, and the sacred nature of human sexuality as God defines it. Personally, at times it seems that the foundations of one's life are being destroyed by loss of health, financial security, or valued relationships.
In such uncertain times, the righteous take refuge in the Lord! David unpacks 4 activities that the righteous practice in order to take refuge in the Lord.
Romans 12:10-12
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Not Ashamed (Romans)
- July 8, 2018
- Audio Video Notes
The Character of Christian Community, Part 2.
We are studying the third section of Romans 12. When people are transformed by grace (Romans 12:1-2) and functioning well in the body of Christ (Romans 12:3-8), we are able to love each other as God intends.
Romans 12:9
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Not Ashamed (Romans)
- July 1, 2018
- Audio Video
The Character of Christian Community.
Romans 12:9-16’s list of responsibilities may seem to have no rhyme or reason to their order, but they fit into the chapter context perfectly. Romans 12 begins the practical portion of the book as we seek to live God’s glorious gospel outlined in Romans 1-11. If the chapter is a 3-story house, verses 1-2 are the foundation. Verses 3-8 are the first floor named Community. The second floor, verses 9-16, is about Compassion. Verses 17-21 address our Commission.
Romans 12:3-8
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Not Ashamed (Romans)
- June 24, 2018
- Audio Video Notes
The Activity of Humility.
As a child, were you fascinated by small wonders like lightning bugs? G.K. Chesterton said, "What is wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.”
As Christians, God has placed us in a miraculous world of wonder. He calls it Christ's body, the church. As we move into the practical portion of the book, Romans 12:3-8 gives us the first practical aspect of our salvation.
Romans 12:2
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Not Ashamed (Romans)
- June 17, 2018
- Audio Video Notes
The Key to Being a Successful Father.
Survival shows intrigue us when we see how shockingly few things are necessary to survive in a wilderness. The world we live in is an extreme, fallen, undiscerning spiritual wilderness, but the Lord has provided us with the simple yet essential tools of spiritual survival for daily living.
Romans 12:1
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Not Ashamed (Romans)
- June 10, 2018
- Audio Video Notes
We Live What We Believe.
We live in the most informed generation possibly of all time. We have an enormous amount of information available to us, whether it is legitimate or not. Thomas Jefferson used the phrase "knowledge is power" in his letters at least four times, each time regarding the establishment of a state university in Virginia. He also believed in the power of knowledge to bring safety and happiness.
Despite the amount of knowledge acquired by all generations leading to ours, we still have not curbed societal ills of hatred, violence, immorality, and addiction. Knowledge cannot control our passions. It cannot change the human condition.
There is only one kind of knowledge that can permanently change a person. "Only intelligent commitment of a life in light of God's gift of salvation can curb the human condition" (Bennett). Only God receives the glory for changing a human being and sustaining that transformation (Romans 11:36). Sinful people need to hear of Christ and surrender their hearts to His authority.
Romans 11:33-36
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Not Ashamed (Romans)
- June 3, 2018
- Audio Video Notes
The Glory of God in Salvation Forever.
Alva J. McClain said, "the person who knows well the first 11 chapters of the book of Romans knows more about the philosophy of human history than all the wisest historians that the world has ever seen. There is a philosophy of history here that is unmatched. It makes the historians on the earth appear like children playing with their toys." This passage simplifies what man has complicated. Paul reflects on the beauty of simplicity in salvation: humanity is composed of 2 groups of people, who both have 1 Savior. God has given our biggest difficulty the simplest solution in Jesus Christ.
Your Life God's Way
Organizing Life by God's Principles
The Pastoral Epistles: 1 Timothy
Pastor Tim Potter leads an in-depth study of Paul's first epistle to Timothy.
The Book of Genesis
Pastor Tim Potter leads us through an in-depth look at the first book of the Bible.
The Book of Ephesians
Paul's epistle to the church in Ephesus.
