Sermons Archive (Page 6)

Sermons Archive (Page 6)

JESUS’ MISSION AND OUR MISSION

JESUS’ MISSION AND OUR MISSION Matthew 4.23-25 New Year’s Day 2023 Acts 1.3 “He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.” (esv) OUR MISSION IS TO BE A PEOPLE WHO KNOW … THE Truth OF God v. 23a “Now Jesus began … teaching in their synagogues …” (csb) THE Gospel OF THE Kingdom v. 23a “Now Jesus began … preaching the good news…
2022 HFBC Christmas Eve Service

THE GIFT OF NEW STRENGTH

THE GIFT OF NEW STRENGTHGod Gives New Gifts – Part 4 of 4Advent 2022Isaiah 35:1-10 vv. 3–4 “Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who have an anxious heart, ‘Be strong; fear not!’” (esv) Luke 7.22 “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.”…

THE GIFT OF A NEW DAY

THE GIFT OF A NEW DAYGod Gives New Gifts – Part 2 of 4Advent 2022Isaiah 9.1-7 v. 22 “And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.” (esv) v. 3 “… they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.” (esv) v. 2 “… on those living in the land of the shadow of death…

THE GIFT OF A NEW PLAN

THE GIFT OF A NEW PLANGod Gives New Gifts – Part 1 of 4Advent 2022Jeremiah 31.31-34 v. 31 “… the days are coming … when I will make a new covenant …” (esv) Hebrews 9.15 “… Christ is the mediator of a new covenant …” (niv) v. 32 “This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors … that they broke …” (csb) WHAT HOPE DOES GOD’S NEW PLAN GIVE? New Love CAN ARISE FROM Dead…

NAVIGATING BY THANKING

NAVIGATING BY THANKINGThanksgiving 20221 Corinthians 1.4-9 v. 4 “I give thanks … because of the grace … given you in Christ Jesus …” (esv) WE NAVIGATE BY GRATITUDE THAT … WE HAVE Experienced God’s Grace v. 4 “I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus …” (esv)  Acts 5.40-41 “They called the apostles in and had them flogged … The apostles left … rejoicing because they…

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ABSENT ONE

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ABSENT ONEJudges 19-21We Need A Better Savior – Part 16 Hosea 9.9 “They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah …”  21.25 “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (esv) GOD’S KING IS A … TEACHER WHO Limits Man’s Depravity Jeremiah 17.9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick …”  Matthew 7.28–29 “… the crowds were astonished at his…

PUTTING THE PROPER PRICE ON PRAYER

PUTTING THE PROPER PRICE ON PRAYERJohn 14.11-17 vv. 13–14 “Whatever you ask in my name … If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.” (esv) OUR PRAYERS ARE PRECIOUS BECAUSE … Relational PRAYERS ARE Rare  The Man Born Blind: John 9.31 “We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.”  Isaiah 59.1-2 “Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that…

Life Lessons from the Womb

Life Lessons from the WombLuke 1:39-45Jared Marshall- Marsha’s Place Executive Director Three Truths to Embrace:  The Goodness of Every Life in the Womb Psalm 127:3 – “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward…” The Personhood of Every Child in the Womb Luke 1:15 – “…and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.” The Full Deity and Humanity of Jesus Christ in the Womb Luke 1:43 –…

SAMSON: A MIRROR OF REDEMPTION

SAMSON: A MIRROR OF REDEMPTIONJudges 16We Need A Better Savior – Part 14 James 1.22–24 “… if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror … and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.” (esv) OUR HEARTS ARE MADE WISE AS WE REALIZE … Privilege CAN LEAD TO Presumption v. 3 “… he got up and took hold of…

SAMSON: RAISING THE PRICE OF COMPROMISE

SAMSON: RAISING THE PRICE OF COMPROMISEJudges 15We Need A Better Savior – Part 13 v. 4 “His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD …” (esv) TO CREATE CULTURAL SEPARATION GOD WILL … MAKE US Uncomfortable v. 11b “I merely did to them what they did to me.” (niv)      v. 11a “Don’t you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us?” (niv) James 4.4 “Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the…