Great Lord’s Day at Crestview today.
In the AM, we started on the book of Hebrews with a sermon entitled Introductory Matters, which looks at the big themes that we see in the book of Hebrews. Great time around those truths.
In the PM, my sermon Marriage Foundation: God, sought to counter our culture’s view of marriage by looking at how God loved us in Christ as the foundation for marriage.
For all the Crestview peeps…
Rick Cornish’s sermon, Maturing In Christ Through The Word, from Colossians 1:28-29 is now online. I’ve listened to a bit so far and if you didn’t get a chance to hear it, or would like a refresher from Sunday, take advantage now…
Yesterday was a great day at Crestview as we journeyed together and thought about what God had to say to us about money, possessions, eternity.
In the AM service, my sermon Affluenza (2) from Matthew 6:21 is now online. This sermon sought to show how our hearts follow treasure (and yes I did quote O Brother Where Art Thou — “Do NOT seek the treasure”, thanks for wondering). Seriously, though, we must keep our hearts with all diligence, for from it flows the springs of life. I sought to encourage people to check their hearts in terms of the treasure they lay up.
In the PM service, we continued examining what a Gospel centered family is by looking at Families and Money from 1 Timothy 6:17-19. We are given good things from a good God so that we can do good (be generous and ready to share with others) for a good foundation for eternity. Applications were given about instilling these virtues in our children.
I hope this short series of sermon was helpful. Glorify God in these things, they have eternal ramifications.
Today’s sermon, Affluenza (1), is now online. Affluence would be defined as having lots of stuff and affluenza would be the disease or sickness associated with having lots of stuff. This sermon, from Matthew 6:19-20, helped diagnose affluenza (laying up earthly treasure) and provide a remedy for affluenza (lay up heavenly treasure).
I hope it was helpful. I did allude to Randy Alcorn’s book, the Treasure Principle. Here are the six keys I pointed to.
Last night’s sermon, Your Family Needs God’s Word, from James 1:16-25 is now online. In the world we live in, God’s Word or family worship is often pushed by the “tyranny of the urgent” to the side. In last night’s sermon in the Gospel-Centered family series, I tried to give an apologetic from God’s Word as to why it’s so important that we keep pursuing it. I hope this sermon encourages you to this as well.
We finished out our series on prayer by looking at Matthew 6:13. The sermon, Model Prayer (5), is now online. The big idea was that just like we need God to help with physical needs and our salvation, we also need His help for sanctification issues of fighting temptation and evil.
I’m hoping God uses these sermons on prayer in our church to draw us closer to Himself and make us a praying people.
Today’s sermon, Model Prayer (4) from Matthew 6:12 is now online. In previous posts, I’ve tried to highlight what today would be about. Forgiveness was the major theme. R.C. Sproul said praying this prayer is a very dangerous thing. Hopefully, the upshot from this is that God will work through His Word to make us people who are quick to forgive others in light of the amazing grace we’ve been shown by the Father. I hope it encourages you to do so.
Today’s sermon, Model Prayer (3) on Matthew 6:11 is now online. This sermon sought to flesh out what a dependent, trusting heart looks like towards a God who can “give us this day our daily bread.” Hopefully the sermon was helpful in making your heart more dependent on the God who gave you life.
No service this evening. Hope you have a blessed week full of trusting the Lord for the basics.
Recapping yesterday, we had a great AM Celebrating the Gospel, observing baptism and the Lord’s Supper. I don’t know about you, but hearing testimony of God’s Work to save some was very encouraging. And then, capping that off by coming together to the Lord’s table was a great blessing.
Then, in the evening, we had a great time of Corporate Prayer, specifically using Psalm 30 in our prayers for mission trips/teams, college students, and pregnancies.
I hope as we move into this week that you are encouraged because of the amazing message of the Gospel.
Well, we had another great Lord’s Day yesterday. In the AM, we looked at Matthew 6:10 in a sermon entitled Model Prayer (2). (There was a problem with the audio, but a manuscript will be available on Crestview’s Sermon Page.) Specifically, we looked at praying God-centered prayers for the Father’s reign and the Father’s will.
In the evening, my small group finished Thabiti’s book by seeing a healthy church member is a prayer warrior. In the course of discussing that, I mentioned some tools:
Valley of Vision
Andrew Case has the Scripture based prayer books for husbands
Operation World will email you an unreached people group each day.
Donald Whitney spoke of using the Psalms to pray each day.
Matthew Henry also has a Scriptural way to pray the Model Prayer.
Grab these tools and be helped by them.