Pastor Frank
Speaker: Mike Cranford
Series: Tell Me a Story
Key verses: Luke 10:25-37; Ezek. 36:26.
Sermon Notes:
1. The road to Jericho is not safe. Will you walk it?
2. The people on the road are hurting. Will you help them?
3. The help people need is inconvenient and costly.
(a) Will you slow your journey?
(b) Will you give up your wealth to ease another’s pain?
Speaker: Lieutenant Gary Wyatt
Series: Civil Servant Sunday
Verses used: Deuteronomy 31:6, Romans 12:1-2, John 15:1-7, Galatians 5:16-26, Romans 8:28
Message Title: Debts of Forgiveness
Series: Tell Me a Story
Key verses:
Luke 7:41-43
Sermon Notes:
1. Jesus’ second parable is directed to the religious people of the day and it is all about love related to forgiveness.
Jesus has a problem with the Pharisee because:
2. In all his studying, he has misunderstood the heart of God and His love for people.
3. In all his studying, he has misunderstood himself before a Holy God.
4. How many sins do you think Jesus has forgiven you for in your life?
Message Title: The Pregnancy of a Calling
Key verses:
Luke 1: 26-35, 37-38
Sermon Notes:
What is a calling?
1) Calling is always about the Caller.
2) Calling is always a process.
3) Calling is always profitable.
“Encourage is helping someone find their courage to live out their God given calling”
Message Title: Wineskins of Change
Series: Tell Me a Story
Key verses:
Luke 5:36-39
Sermon Notes:
1. A parable is a heavenly truth placed in an earthly setting.
In the eyes of the Pharisees:
2. Jesus had the wrong theology.
3. Jesus hangs out with the wrong company.
4. Jesus and His disciples don’t act properly.
5. Jesus’ first parable is directed to the religious people of the day and it is all about change.
** The heavenly truth of the parable: Jesus isn’t a patch or an addition to the Scriptures, but the
fulfillment.
Entering into a relationship with Jesus requires that we change our:
6. Old way of thinking.
7. Old way of living.
8. Old way of believing.
Message Title: We Know
Series: How Do We Know?
Key verses:
John 6:67-69
Sermon Notes:
1. What do you believe?
2. How do you personally know?
Message Title: How Do We Know That the Bible Is Reliable? Part 2
Series: How Do We Know?
Key verses: Zach 9:9, 14:4, Lk 24:25-27
Sermon Notes:
1. Prophecy is the foretelling of what is to come.
**Scripture says that Messiah will:
2. Be born of a virgin(Gen 3:15, Is 7:14)
3. Be of the line of Abraham, Judah, David. (Gen 18:18, 49:10 Is 11:10.)
4. Be the Son of God. (Ps 2:7)
5. Be born in Bethlehem. (Micah 5:2)
6. Start His ministry around the Sea of Galilee (Is 9)
7. Perform miracles and bring freedom (Is 35: 5-6, Is 61:1)
8. Ride into Jerusalem on a donkey from the Mt of Olives (Zach 9:9. 14:4)
9. Be rejected by his people and put on trial ( Is 8:14-15, Is 53:3,7)
10. Be pierced through and scourged for the sins of others Is 53:5
11. Be with wicked men in his death. Is 53:9
12. Be buried in a rich man’s tomb Is 53:9
13. Justify the many and bear their sins in His death.
Message Title: How Do We Know That the Bible Is Reliable?
Series: How Do You Know?
Key verses: Jn 6:67-68, Romans 10:17, 2 Tim 3:15
Sermon Notes:
1. In the days of Jesus, the Scriptures were seen as authoritative writings from God.
2. For the follower of Jesus, the O.T. and the N.T. Scriptures have always been seen as authoritative writings from God.
The Bible is:
3. Historically accurate.
4. Archeologically accurate
5. Geographically accurate
6. The Bible is the most documented and preserved Book in ancient antiquity.
7. The purpose of the Bible is salvation. (2 Tim 3:15)
Message Title: How Do We Know That Christianity Is True?
Series: How Do You Know?
Key verses: John 14:6-9; 10:7-10; Romans 8:18-21; 5:12-17; John 1:1-14; John 3:3-8; 2 Cor. 5:16-17
Sermon Notes:
1. God writes His law on our hearts so that we would have the lives we were meant to have, and so that we would find our way to Him.
2. Christianity is the correct answer to the question of how we find God and receive the new life He offers us.
a. Religious systems other than Christianity try to provide an explanation for his moral law, but fall short of the truth.
b. Moral evil and natural disaster provide a driving context for people to find and freely choose the Creator, and for Him to reveal His love.
c. Our free will is insufficient to lead us to moral perfection. All it can do is lead us to the One who offers it to us.
3. God made new life possible by becoming a man and covering our moral shortfall at the cost of His own morally perfect life.
4. In Christ we have new life—spiritual life. We are born again. We are a new creation.
Message Title: How Do We Know That God Exists?
Series: How Do You Know?
Key verses: Romans 2:12-15; 3:21-24; 1 Cor. 15:30-32; Phil. 3:18-21
Sermon Notes:
1. People across all times and cultures have the same basic sense of right and wrong.
2. This conviction of right and wrong is a clue to the meaning of the universe.
3. Christianity is a more rational explanation of this experience than other worldviews.
4. Christianity offers not only the explanation, but also the solution to our failure to live up to God’s standards.
5. The solution that Christianity offers brings meaning, purpose, and an eternal destiny.