Message Title: Shipwreck: To avoid shipwreck we need Shipmates!
Series: Shipwreck

Key verses:
1 Timothy 1:18-19, Hebrews 10:19-25

Sermon Notes:
1. Our faith in Jesus sails in community.
2. To keep your faith in Jesus off the rocks you need others.
3. You need shipmates and your shipmates need you.
4. Spiritual growth happens in meaningful relationships.

In the scriptures we are commanded to:

5. Love each other, pray for each other, encourage each other, admonish each other, serve each other, teach each other, accept each other, honor each other, forgive each other, be committed to each other, bear each other’s burdens–all in the Love of Christ.

Message Title: Shipwreck: To avoid shipwreck we need a compass!
Series: Shipwreck

Key verses:
1 Timothy 1:18-19, Psalm 119:105, Romans 10:17

Sermon Notes:

1. The Bible is a Library of 66 books written between 1,450 BC to 90 AD.
2. The Bible was written by over 40 different people on 3 different continents in 3 different languages.
3. The writers of the Bible were kings, statesman, priests, prophets, a tax collector, physician, a tentmaker, a fisherman.
4. Miraculously they produced a set of writings that is a marvelous unity in its doctrine, historical viewpoints, ethics, and expectations.
5. Throughout these 1,500 years there is a consistent view of God, man, sin, salvation, a coming Messiah, and a Kingdom.
6. The Scriptures and the Savior are inner linked!
7. The word of God builds faith.
8. The Word of God guides faith.

How do you allow the Word of God to guide you?

9. You have to Believe it works.
10. You have to allow it to sink into the core of your heart.
11. You have to seek its course.

Message Title: The Fearless Man of God
Series: Fearless
Key verses:
2 Timothy 1:7 New King James Version (NKJV)
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Matt 1:20 New International Version (NIV)
But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.”

Sermon Notes:

Characteristics of the Fearless Man of God:

1. He is not afraid of what others think of him.
2. He will leave his comfort zone to obey the Lord
3. He’s willing to take the hit for those he loves

Message Title: Fearless
Series: Fearless

Key verses:
2 Timothy 1:7New King James Version (NKJV)
7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Acts 1:8New International Version (NIV)
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Romans 8:11New International Version (NIV)
11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of[a] his Spirit who lives in you.

Sermon Notes:

Notes:
1. When God asks us to do something and step out of our comfort zone we usually experience some kind of fear.
2. The whole Christmas event is surrounded by God moving and His people being afraid of what He is asking them to do!
3. God has not given you a Spirit of fear to run from the battle.
4. power….bold
5. love……loving
6. sound mind…..sensible

Message Title: To Caesar What Is Caesar’s
Series: In God We Trust

Verses used: Romans 13:1- 7; John 19:11; Jeremiah 25:8-9; Matt 22:18-2; 1 Peter 2:10-17; John 18:36; Acts 5:27-29; Daniel 3:28

Key verses: Matt 22:21; Romans 13:1-7; 1 Pet 2:13-17

Sermon Notes:

Notes:

1. As far as we can, we are to submit to the ruling authorities.

a) We should submit to the ruling authorities because God is sovereign over human government.

b) We should submit because human government has a purpose in God’s plan – to bring punishment against those who do wrong.

c) We should submit because offering others what they are owed is the right thing to do.

d) We should submit because we are servants of God and people are ready to criticize our message.

e) We should submit because we are foreigners and exiles on this earth, passing through as we await the coming kingdom of our Lord and Savior.

2. When the ruling authorities directly contradict what God requires of us, we must obey God.

a) We must spread the gospel even if it’s forbidden.

b) We must worship our God, and refuse to worship something or someone else.

c) We must refuse to participate in actions which are a violation of God’s expressed will.