FROM RUINS TO RENEWAL: GOD REMEMBERS, REBUILDS & RESTORES HIS PEOPLE Main Idea of Nehemiah: The book of Nehemiah shows us how God remembers, rebuilds, and restores broken people and communities. He calls us to dependence, boldness, perseverance, trust, and obedience as we are shaped by His Word …

Four Ways to Participate in God’s Beautiful Work of Salvation 1. You can participate in God’s beautiful work of salvation if you will hear and believe the Gospel So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ. Romans 10:17 As it is said: “Today, if you he …

Main Idea: God calls us to live and leverage our lives for Christ and His mission.   God calls us to live a surrendered life. — Romans 12:1 We are saved by His loving sacrifice. We surrender as a living sacrifice. God calls us to live a sanctified life. — Romans 12:2 We must not be conformed  …

Baptist Faith and Message, Article VII The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.     The Lord’s Supper is rooted in the Pa …

In the Bleak Midwinter Verse 1 In the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone: snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, in the bleak midwinter, long ago.   Verse 2 Our God, heaven cannot hold him, nor earth sustain; heaven and earth shall flee awa …

Joy to the world; the Lord is come; Let Earth receive her King; Let ev’ry heart prepare him room, And heav’n and nature sing. Joy to the Earth, the Savior reigns; Our mortal songs employ, While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, Repeat the sounding joy. No more let sins and sorrows grow, No …

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Hark! the herald angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King; Peace on earth, and mercy mild—God and sinners reconciled!” Joyful, all ye nations rise, join the triumph of the skies; With th’ angelic hosts proclaim, “Christ is born in Bethlehem.” Hark! the Herald angels sing, …

O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant O come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem Come and behold him, born the King of angels O come let us adore him O come let us adore him O come let us adore him Christ the Lord God of God, light of light Lo, he abhors not the virgin’s womb Very God, begotten not c …

Main Idea: It is both foolish and devastating to reject Jesus as the Cornerstone Two Possible Responses to the Cornerstone Receive the Cornerstone and build your life on Him – Luke 20:17 Reject the Cornerstone and be destroyed – Luke 20:18 Some actively fight against Him Everyone who falls on that s …

Main Idea: Jesus calls His followers to faithfully steward their lives in preparation for His second coming.   There are three ways to live in the time between the cross and the second coming of Jesus Do the King’s will and reap the King’s reward – Luke 19:16-19 Dismiss the King’s command and r …