Message Title: How do you know what you believe is true?
Series: How Do You Know?

Key verses: John 6:68-69

Sermon Notes:

 1. Faith and conviction encompasses a personal, spiritual journey involving an intellectual and experiential process.
2. The argument in John 6:22 begins over food.
3. Our work is to not work, but to believe in the work of Jesus.
4. Moses didn’t come down from heaven, but Jesus did!
5. Jesus is far greater than Moses, for He sustains us throughout all eternity–not just for the 40 years in the wilderness.

Message Title: Worship and Missions

Key verses: Rev. 5:9-14; Rom. 12:1; Acts 1:8

Sermon Notes:

I. Worship is the devotion of our hearts and lives to God because of what Jesus did on the cross.

II. Worship is never about us. It’s all about Him!

III. Worship is powerfully expressed in singing.

IV. Worship moves us to missions.

Message Title: Evading Jagged Rocks
Series: Shipwreck

Key verses:
Luke 8:4-15; John 6:63; Col. 2:6-8; Luke 12:16-20; Isa 6:9-10

Sermon Notes:

We become blind to the dangers in front of us and run aground on jagged rocks.

The way to penetrate a hard heart is to disguise the truth in a story.

We all face jagged rocks which can lead to shipwreck:

1. Worldly philosophies will leave us empty if we believe the lie.

2. Adversity will uproot us if we don’t have a foundation of faith.

3. Worry, wealth and pleasure can choke us if we let them overwhelm and take control.

The life you want—the abundant life—comes from perseverance.

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.