Jesus entering the temple should be one of the most incredible moments of anyone's life. The Messiah, the King of Kings has come into the holy place of God. This is where the people of God should be able to come into the presence of God. Here is the righteousness, glory, exact representation of God. [...]

It is an Interesting thing how subtle our loyalties and dependencies can shift. Just who it is we are asking or relying on to "Save Us"! To whom are we saying "Hosanna" too? Sermon Notes

Let us learn from this and seek to lay our agendas down daily that we might hear what the Lord has to say, including the warnings from God, and thus be better prepared for that which is in store; The blessings, and the Sufferings. Sermon Notes

But what I like about this story is Bartimaeus had a need, he had limitations, but he did not hide behind or excuse them or even worse, condemn himself because of his condition. Sermon Notes

They've Heard this before…, it's not new…  but the don't really get it … so they just set it on the back burner…. they focus on the things they want to and like. You know what happens when this happens? "SELF-tianity"! Sermon Notes

God alone brings about this grace...we have no hand in the creation or completion of God's grace. Planned from all ages, begun, message sustained by prophets, sovereignly guided, manifested, carried out, completed, and delivered by God. Sermon Notes

We are going to take time to ask the Holy Spirit for revelation on the present as we reflect on the past and look to the future. Sermon Notes

I have found that if I apply this principle more, I get upset less. I am a child of God, loved as the prodigal, and I am also in humble servitude for all that He has done. Sermon Notes

Destruction does not negate the Builder… in fact the contrast illumines Him all the more. Our sin, our choices cost Him pain and suffering too. The only reason there is a Christmas is because we are Sinners… that need a Savior.  Sermon Notes

Christmas and the Cross are a display of God's love and the way He deals with sin. God and Humanity have always differed in the way they deal with sin right from the Garden of Eden. The incarnation (birth) life and death of Jesus is God's plan to deal with sin. Sermon Notes