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Messages from 2023

Messages from 2023

Luke 21:27-36 Jesus Followers Wait With Prayers

Series: AdventSpeaker: Mike LaughrunDate: December 31, 2023 Big Truth:Jesus Followers Wait With Prayers (27) And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. (28) Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”Luke 21:27-28 (34) “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly…

Jesus Followers Wait With Joy – Luke 2:1-14

Series: AdventSpeaker: Mike LaughrunDate: December 24, 2023 Luke 2:1-7(1) In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. (2) This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. (3) And all went to be registered, each to his own town. (4) And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house…

Jesus Followers Wait With Grace – Night Of Worship

Series: AdventSpeaker: Mike LaughrunDate: December 20, 2023 (1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) He was in the beginning with God. (3) All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. (4) In him was life, and the life was the light of men. (5) The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.John 1:1-5 (14) And…

Jesus Followers Wait With Purpose – 2 Peter 3:8-18

Series: AdventSpeaker: Mike Laughrun When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.Matthew 25:31 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.Hebrews 9:28 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;…

Jesus Followers Wait With Hope – Philippians 3:12–4:1

Series: AdventSpeaker: Daniel Broyles Big Truth: Jesus Followers Wait With Hope (Prize Jesus As The Treasure) Philippians 3:20-21From [heaven] we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. Philippians 3:12–4:1[12] Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me…

Jesus Followers Wait With Anticipation – 2 Timothy 4:1-8

Series: AdventSpeaker: Troy Temple Anticipation: Written in the Stars2 Timothy 4:1-8 What we look forward to will prioritize everything we do. 2 Timothy 4:1-8 (ESV)I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when…

The Church Is Radically Generous

Series: GivingSpeaker: Mike Laughrun (1) We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, (2) for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. (3) For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, (4) begging us earnestly for the favor of taking…

Neighbors & Nations: Is Your Vision Big Enough?

Series: Neighbors and NationsSpeaker: Zane Pratt – International Mission Board Is Your Vision Big Enough? Isaiah 49:1-6 (ESV) 1 Listen to me, O coastlands,and give attention, you peoples from afar.The LORD called me from the womb,from the body of my mother he named my name.2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword;in the shadow of his hand he hid me;he made me a polished arrow;in his quiver he hid me away.3 And he said to me, “You are my…

Neighbors & Nations: Jesus Followers Are Called To Go Make Disciples Together

Series: Neighbors and NationsSpeaker: Mike Laughrun (8) And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. (9) But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”Genesis 3:8-9 (2) And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and…

Hebrews 13:20-25 God Equips His Church To Do His Will

Series: Jesus Is The Better PursuitSpeaker: Paul Mermilliod Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for…

Hebrews 13:17-19 Jesus Equips His Church With Leaders

Series: Jesus Is The Better PursuitSpeaker: Paul Mermilliod Hebrews 13:17-19Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would…

Hebrews 13:1-16 Jesus Followers Worship Sacrificially

Series: Jesus Is The Better PursuitSpeaker: Justin Ray Hebrews 12:28-2928 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 13:1-161 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and…

Hebrews 12:18-29 Faith in Jesus Brings Worship

Series: Jesus Is The Better EnduranceSpeaker: Mike Laughrun (1) Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (2) looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand…

Hebrews 12:1-17 Faith in Jesus Brings Discipline

Series: Jesus Is The Better EnduranceSpeaker: Mike Laughrun (1) Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,(2) looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of…

Hebrews 11:32-12:2 Faith In Jesus Brings Endurance

Series: Jesus Is The Better HopeSpeaker: Daniel Broyles Big Truth: Faith In Jesus Brings Endurance Hebrews 11:32–12:2 [32] And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—[33] who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, [34] quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put…

Hebrews 11:23–31 Faith In Jesus Brings Deliverance

Series: Jesus Is The Better HopeSpeaker: Daniel Broyles Big Truth: Faith In Jesus Brings Deliverance Hebrews 11:23–31 [23] By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. [24] By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, [25] choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than…

Hebrews 11:8-22 Faith in Jesus brings Obedience

Series: Jesus Is The Better HopeSpeaker: Mike Laughrun Hebrews 11:8-22(8) By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. (9) By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. (10) For he was looking forward to…

Hebrews 10:36 – 11:7 Faith Is The Assurance Of Things Hoped For, The Conviction Of Things Not Seen

Series: Jesus Is The Better HopeSpeaker: Paul Mermilliod Hebrews 10:36 – 11:7 (ESV)36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For,“Yet a little while,and the coming one will come and will not delay;38 but my righteous one shall live by faith,and if he shrinks back,my soul has no pleasure in him.”39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but…

Hebrews 10:26-39 Faith In Jesus Changes The Way We Live

Series: Jesus Is The Better HopeSpeaker: Paul Mermilliod Hebrews 10:26-39 (ESV)26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will…

Hebrews 10:19-25 Jesus Is Our Access Part 2

Series: Jesus Is The Better HopeSpeaker: Daniel Broyles Big Truth: Jesus is Our Access We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus (Hebrews 10:19). Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God (Romans 5:2). Hebrews 10:19–25 [19] Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, [20] by the new…

Jesus is Our Access Hebrews 10:19–25

Big Truth: Jesus is Our Access We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus (Hebrews 10:19). Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God (Romans 5:2). Hebrews 10:19–25 [19] Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, [20] by the new and living way that he opened for us…

Hebrews 10:11–18 Jesus Is The Sufficient Sacrifice

Series: Jesus Is The Better SacrificeSpeaker: Daniel Broyles Big Truth:Jesus Is The Sufficient Sacrifice Hebrews 10:11–18[11] And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. [12] But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, [13] waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. [14] For by a single offering…

Hebrews 10:1-10 Jesus Is The Father’s Will For Atonement

Series: Jesus Is The Better SacrificeSpeaker: Mike Laughrun Hebrews 10:1-10(1) For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. (2) Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? (3) But in these…

Hebrews 9:23-28 Jesus Will Appear Again

Series: Jesus Is The Better CovenantSpeaker: Mike Laughrun Hebrews 9:23-28(23) Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.(24) For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. (25) Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the…

Hebrews 9:15-22 The Cost Of Sin Is Death

Series: Jesus Is The Better CovenantSpeaker: Mike Laughrun Hebrews 9:15-22(15) Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant,so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. (16) For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. (17) For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as…

Hebrews 8:13–9:14 Jesus’ Blood Sacrifice Of The New Covenant Perfects The Worshiper

Series: Jesus Is The Better CovenantSpeaker: Daniel Broyles Jesus’ Blood Sacrifice Of The New Covenant Perfects The Worshiper Hebrews 8:13–9:14[8:13] In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.[9:1] Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. [2] For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread…

Hebrews 8:13-9:14 The Blood Sacrifices Of The First Covenant Could Not Perfect The Worshiper

Series: Jesus Is The Better CovenantSpeaker: Daniel Broyles Hebrews 8:13–9:14[8:13] In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.[9:1] Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. [2] For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place. [3]…

Hebrews 8:1-13 Jesus Mediates a Better Covenant

Series: Jesus Is The Better CovenantSpeaker: Mike Laughrun (1) Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, (2) a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. (3) For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to…

Hebrews 7:21-28 Jesus Is Able To Save Forever

(21) …but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever.’” (22) This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant. (23) The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, (24) but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. (25) Consequently, he is able to save to…

Hebrews 7:11-22 Jesus Is The Guarantor Of A Better Covenant

Big Truth: Jesus Is The Guarantor Of A Better Covenant Hebrews 7:22 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant. Big Idea: Perfection Was Not Attainable Through The Old Covenant Hebrews 7:11–19 [11] Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron? [12] For…

Hebrews 7:11-19 Perfection Cannot Be Attained Through The Law

Series: Jesus Is The Better High PriestSpeaker: Paul Mermilliod Hebrews 7:11-1911 Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron? 12 For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well. 13 For the one of…

Hebrews 7:1-10 Melchizedek Is Greater Than Levi

Hebrews 7:1-10[1] For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, [2] and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. [3] He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but…
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