Sermons

Love Biblically defined Philia based on agreement friendship Sterge in family affection Eros love between the sexes Agapee it is born in Christianity as there is no trace of it in any heathen writings Eroos is upward movement while agapee is downward movement. Eroos lifts man up, but agapee brings God down and indwells us so we can also show… Continue reading Loving your neighbor as Yourself

Where we have been. We want to be good ground so we can produce a harvest for the kingdom of God. Break up hard ground (Attitude of superiority) Pull out rocks that make us shallow (lose interest and become offended) Pull out weeks that choke out what God wants to do in our lives (love of wealth) Mark 12 states… Continue reading Living Near the Kingdom (Loving God with all our strength)

Mark 12: 29 the most important commandment You Must love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Heart means compassion Mind, means curiosity Soul means wonder A. We can lose the awe of the world around us Psalm 29: 7 The voice of the Lord strikes with bolts of lightening. All those in the temple… Continue reading Not Far From the Kingdom – Love with all your soul

Mark 12: 28 What is the most important commandment? Loving God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength. If we can grasp what this means, we are not living far from the kingdom of God. Heart = passion Mind = curiosity 1. The Brain. The brain is an incredible thing which has amazing abilities to grow and learn…. Continue reading Not Far From the Kingdom – Love with all your Mind

You must love God with all your heart Mark 12: 30 1. Our hearts can become like well trampled ground (Luke 8: 12) Trampled means an air of superiority or becoming a sermon proof christian. Ezekiel 36: 26 “I will give you anew heart and put a new spirit inyou; I will remove from you your heart of stone and… Continue reading Not Far From the Kingdom – Love with all your heart

Jesus is being challenged by questions from the crowd Where do you get your authority from (Question asked in Luke version of the story) This is comparable to asking “Who says you have the truth?” Should we pay taxes? Trying to make Christianity look foolish Questions of the resurrection those who are set in their beliefs and just want to… Continue reading Not Far From the Kingdom

Simplicity is defined as freedom from complexity Complexity is defined as composed of many different parts, hard to understand or deal with. Oliver Wendell Holmes former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court distinguished between two types of symplicity. Simplicity on the near side of complexity and simplicity on the far side of complexity. He said he would not give a… Continue reading Missional Grace – Audacious in the Midst of Complexity

God has poured His grace out on us to make us missional (purposeful) in what we do Romans 8: 28 All things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose. 1. Christian Karma Karma is the belief that everything balances out int he end. Some believe in Karma because God talks about… Continue reading Missional Grace – Three Groanings

Walking in the Spirit What do we have to know to be able to walk in the spirit and overcome temptation? Romans 8: 2 – 11 1. Killing the Old Man. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin… Continue reading Missional Grace – Walk After the Spirit

We at HTC need to be missional (focused) in the way we do ministry and Romans 8 tells us how we can do that. To really understand Romans 8 we have to look at Romans 1 – 7 and see what got us to Romans 8 Man is defined as being totally corrupt. We have rejected God Romans 1: 21… Continue reading Missional Grace – No Condemnation

Romans 16: 19, 20 I want you to be wise in doing right and to stay innocent of any wrong. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. To have peace we need a biblical persistence Luke 18: 1 – 3 give me justice in my fight with my enemy. Some of us will not go to… Continue reading Names of God – Peace

  We want to look at why it seems that God doesn’t seem to answer prayers through the example of Gideon Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine press Judges 6: 11, 12 He asked where God was in the midst of their problems Vs 13, 14, but God answered that question through a prophet in Judges 6: 8 –… Continue reading Names of God – Why Prayers Go Unanswered