2020 Bible Verses Overview

At our church, we’ve chosen a couple of dozen verses we are going to focus on in 2020. This message is an overview of half of them (I forgot to record the other half). Every 3 weeks or so, I will preach about one of the verses on this list. BR 2020 Bible Verses...

Colossians 1 – Casual Commentary

Colossians 1 Commentary What is “casual commentary”? Most Sunday’s we open up our time at church reading a chapter from the Bible. In the OT, it says in Ezra that he read the Scriptures and explained them so the people would understand. That is our...

The Baby Jesus – Christmas

Gabriel Announces Christ’s Birth Luke 1:26–33 (NKJV) 26 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And...

Thanksgiving 2019

1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 (NKJV)  16 Rejoice always,   17 pray without ceasing,   18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. It’s especially important to remember the true nature of Thanksgiving both from...

Matthew 7:7-12 The Golden Rule

7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for...

Matthew 7:6 – Dogs & Hogs

Hogs & Dogs 6 “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. This comes on the heals of teaching about judging. How are we to know who the hogs and dogs are unless we judge...

Matthew 7:1-6 – Judging

Do Not Worry At the time Jesus spoke this part of the sermon, the Jewish religion had become nothing but self-righteousness and hypocrisy for a hundreds of years.  Judgments were NOT made in the light of comparing “what is right according to God”.  The...

Matthew 6:25-34 Do Not Be Anxious (Worry)

Do Not Worry 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. 34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient...

Eternal Security – Part 5

Note: the “parts” to this message are not based on logical breaks in the notes below. The message is broken up into sections (parts) based on the amount of time I had to teach for each segment. So it one part may end and another start at an odd place in...

Eternal Security – Part 4

Note: the “parts” to this message are not based on logical breaks in the notes below. The message is broken up into sections (parts) based on the amount of time I had to teach for each segment. So it one part may end and another start at an odd place in...