Our sermon text will be [esvignore]Ephesians 6:14[/esvignore]. We’ll examine the breastplate of righteousness. This is an important piece of armor so we’ll investigate the significance of righteousness this week, and next week we will learn how to apply it and maintain holy living. We will be treading through this section slowly to glean much from…
By God’s grace we have been blessed with four wonderful years together as a congregation! Our sermon on this Anniversary Sunday is from [esvignore]Acts 2:42[/esvignore], as is our birthday tradition, but we examine [esvignore]Jeremiah 6:16[/esvignore] as well, and in this message, we focus more on five points from that text to show how [esvignore]Acts 2:42[/esvignore]…
Our sermon is from [esvignore]Ephesians 6:14[/esvignore]. We finally arrive at an actual piece of the Armor of God. We will examine the belt of truth and fnd out how if forms the trunk of the soldier’s strength. We’ll speak about girding the loins (from the KJV) and we will define the concept of truth. We’ll…
Here we come to [esvignore]Ephesians 6:13[/esvignore]. It is nearly the same admonition we find in [esvignore]Ephesians 6:11[/esvignore]. Why the repetition? We examine the importance of a repeated admonition. We also explore the reason Paul brings up evil again, and what is meant by “the evil day.” Its bad. Its ugly. Its sinful. We take a…
We come to [esvignore]Ephesians 6:12[/esvignore] in our study of the full armor of God and discover the nature of our conflict with our enemy. Here we learn about wrestling and overcoming, how it is a life-long and contest of endurance. We learn about flesh and blood, who the enemy has enlisted as help, and how…
As we progress through our study of the full armor of God, we have taken some time to heed the call to war and we have looked at the power of God to enable our resistance. Now we learn about our enemy and his sly tactics from [esvignore]Ephesians 6:11[/esvignore], and supplement with a number of…
In this sermon, we take an in-depth look at the power of God to keep us and strengthen us, especially with an eye toward suffering and trials. We learn from [esvignore]Ephesians 6:10[/esvignore] that we are to be strong in the power and might of the Lord. What is the nature of this power and how…
There is a war raging, and Christians are in it whether they know it or not. It takes courage to engage our threefold enemy, and we dare not engage without the proper weapons and defense. In the sermon, we begin a new series from [esvignore]Ephesians 6[/esvignore] on the Full Armor of God. In this introduction…
In this message, we take a break from our Ephesians series to hear a the simple goodness of the gospel from [esvignore]John 3:16[/esvignore]. Inspired by Pastor Richard Newton’s series of sermons for children found in his many books, this message is directed to the younger crowd, but not dumbed down. In fact, many parents were…
This message if from [esvignore]Ephesians 6:9[/esvignore] where there is an immense amount of learning packed into a very few words. Here we look at the command to masters about how they are expected to treat their slaves. Not applicable to you in this modern time? On the contrary, we will learn how Paul’s words are filled with immensely good application with regard…