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Letting a Man See for the First Time

July 18, 2021

The Major Miracles of Jesus

John 9:1-7

Ron Gabon

Letting a Man See for the First Time

Date Preached: July 18, 2021

Series: The Major Miracles of Jesus

Speaker: Ron Gabon

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Never in his life had he been able to see. Most people even had the reason he had been born blind completely wrong. In giving sight to this blind man, Jesus not only taught us about God's hidden purposes, but created a powerful and undeniable witness of who he was. Spiritually blind eyes could have been opened by this miracle, but many were not. Are your eyes open to who Jesus really is? Give him a chance to help you to really see.

Letting a Man See for the First Time

Jesus Calms a Raging Sea

July 11, 2021

The Major Miracles of Jesus

Mark 4:35-41

Mark Smith

Jesus Calms a Raging Sea

Date Preached: July 11, 2021

Series: The Major Miracles of Jesus

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Nature responds to the command of Jesus. By his word winds cease and waves calm down. The story of this dramatic miracle challenges us to consider how ready we are to face crises. Will we face them with fear or with a faith that has grown enough so we can face them with calm and confidence?

Jesus Calms a Raging Sea

Healing the Servant of a Roman Soldier

July 4, 2021

The Major Miracles of Jesus

Matthew 8:5-13

Mark Smith

Healing the Servant of a Roman Soldier

Date Preached: July 4, 2021

Series: The Major Miracles of Jesus

Speaker: Mark Smith

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One of the first individually reported miracles of Jesus was done for a surprising person who turned out to have insight and faith severely lacking among most Jewish people. What is special about this man, the miracle he asked for, and the lessons for us today will emerge as we examine this account of one of Jesus' major miracles.

Healing the Servant of a Roman Soldier

Jesus, Man of Miracles

June 27, 2021

The Major Miracles of Jesus

Matthew 4:23-24

Mark Smith

Jesus, Man of Miracles

Date Preached: June 27, 2021

Series: The Major Miracles of Jesus

Speaker: Mark Smith

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In this introduction to a series on the major miracles of Jesus, we see the evidence that we cannot have the Jesus of the gospels without his miracles. They are inseparable. We'll survey the miracle-working ministry of Jesus, creating an FAQ of Jesus' miracles along the way. Listen in as we kick off a new series on the miracles of Jesus.

Jesus, Man of Miracles

Loving God Through Obeying Him

June 20, 2021

Loving God

John 14:15, John 14:21, John 14:23, 1 John 5:3, 2 John 6

Mark Smith

Loving God Through Obeying Him

Date Preached: June 20, 2021

Series: Loving God

Speaker: Mark Smith

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In this last message on loving God we'll turn to the simple statement of Jesus in John 14:15: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments." We'll look at the importance of obeying God, connect love and obedience, then look at Jesus' example of obedience as the demonstration of his love for God before we apply this way of showing love for God to our life.

Loving God Through Obeying Him

Loving God Through Giving To Him

June 13, 2021

Loving God

John 12:1-8

Mark Smith

Loving God Through Giving To Him

Date Preached: June 13, 2021

Series: Loving God

Speaker: Mark Smith

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God showed his love for us by giving. He gave his Son so we could have eternal life (John 3:16). We can also use giving to express our love for God. We'll meet a woman who did this and from her discover some characteristics of giving that shows love. Then we'll look at the characteristics of the kind of giving that comes from love, rather than other motivations.

If we are going to love God with all our heart, we can learn to use the language of giving to express our love.

Loving God Through Giving To Him

Loving God through Serving Him

June 6, 2021

Loving God

Luke 10:38-42

Mark Smith

Loving God through Serving Him

Date Preached: June 6, 2021

Series: Loving God

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Martha, Mary's sister, sometimes gets a bad rap. Jesus rebuked her (gently) and pointed to her sister, Mary, as an example of something Martha wasn't doing. As a result of this, some have exalted sitting at Jesus' feet over serving him. As we'll see, this is understanding Jesus incorrectly, and it denigrates something Jesus taught should characterize his followers. In this message we'll discover exactly what Martha was doing that was wrong, and see how acts of service can be a demonstration of love for Jesus as long as we avoid Martha's mistakes in serving.

Loving God through Serving Him

Loving God Through Spending Time with Him

May 30, 2021

Loving God

Luke 10:38-42

Mark Smith

Loving God Through Spending Time with Him

Date Preached: May 30, 2021

Series: Loving God

Speaker: Mark Smith

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In this message we learn that we can show our love for God by spending time with him. We'll meet a woman who did this and gained Jesus' approval for what she did, then discuss how we can spend quality time with Jesus as a way to tell him we love him.

Loving God Through Spending Time with Him

Loving God Through Praise and Worship

May 23, 2021

Loving God

Psalm 18:1-3

Mark Smith

Loving God Through Praise and Worship

Date Preached: May 23, 2021

Series: Loving God

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Do you ever leave a church service and feel better than when you came in? If so, you've experienced the power of praise and worship to help you express your love for God and to draw you closer to God. This week we'll see how one of the great lovers of God in the Bible used praise and worship as one of his chief ways to demonstrate that he loved God with all his heart. We'll learn that praise and worship are channels we can use daily to express our love for God and in the process find they will deepen our love for God.

Loving God Through Praise and Worship

Loving God – The Privilege

May 9, 2021

Luke 7:36-50

Mark Smith

Loving God – The Privilege

Date Preached: May 9, 2021

Speaker: Mark Smith

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There are two ways to think about loving God: as a duty or as a privilege. In this message we'll meet a person who treated love for God as a privilege. We'll see that viewing love for God as something we are privileged to be able to do, produces love is spontaneous, unashamed, open, and real. Thinking of loving God as a privilege is the right way to think about loving God.

Loving God – The Privilege

Loving God – Clearing the Obstacles

May 2, 2021

Matthew 6:24

Mark Smith

Loving God – Clearing the Obstacles

Date Preached: May 2, 2021

Speaker: Mark Smith

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In this message on loving God we deal with five obstacles that can block us from loving God as we should. These must be cleared out of the way before we will be able to show God that we love Him with all our heart.

Loving God – Clearing the Obstacles

Loving God with All Our Heart

April 25, 2021

Loving God

Matthew 22:37-38, 1 John 4:19

Mark Smith

Loving God with All Our Heart

Date Preached: April 25, 2021

Series: Loving God

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Much is written about God's love for us. Many songs have been written celebrating his love for us. Relatively few books have been written explaining how to love God. Few songs are available to help us tell God we love him. Yet the first commandment, according to Jesus, is to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind. Over the next few weeks we'll attempt to deal with this deficit in instruction by exploring how we can show our love for God and for his Son, Jesus.

Loving God with All Our Heart

Living With a Clear Conscience

April 18, 2021

Acts 24:16, 1 Timothy 1:18-19, Psalm 32:1-5, 1 John 1:9

Mark Smith

Living With a Clear Conscience

Date Preached: April 18, 2021

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Notes

When we do something wrong our conscience lets us know with feelings of guilt. We need to learn how to properly deal with guilt so we can regain a clear conscience and avoid the shame, fear, remorse, and physical and relational damage that unresolved guilt can produce. In this message we'll see that God wants us to live with a clear conscience and has provided a simple way we can regain it once it has been lost.

Living With a Clear Conscience

Forgive One Another

April 11, 2021

Matthew 18:21-35

Mark Smith

Forgive One Another

Date Preached: April 11, 2021

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Peter's question seemed reasonable. We've all asked something like it. His offer even seemed generous. What he heard from Jesus in response must have knocked him back on his heels.

When a relationship is broken something has come between two people. That something has to be taken out of the way for restoration to be possible. Peter understood. Forgiveness removes that obstacle. In this graduate level course on forgiveness we'll learn from Jesus what forgiveness actually involves, and how his radical requirement to forgive is not unreasonable. Join us as we learn to forgive one another.

Forgive One Another

Salvation’s Hope Restored

April 4, 2021

Luke 24:13-35

Mark Smith

Salvation’s Hope Restored

Date Preached: April 4, 2021

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Imagine experiencing the most crushing disappointment in your life. Then imagine just a few days later that what you thought you'd lost forever becomes yours again. These were the emotions experienced by two followers of Jesus during the final days of Jesus' earthly life. We catch them on Easter Sunday journeying home from Jerusalem and we watch as their hope for salvation, which had been lost seemingly forever, is restored by none other than the resurrected Jesus. Their hope for salvation was dramatically restored. That hope can become our hope, too, because Jesus rose from the dead.

Salvation’s Hope Restored

The Passion of Jesus

March 28, 2021

Mark 15:22-39

Mark Smith

The Passion of Jesus

Date Preached: March 28, 2021

Speaker: Mark Smith

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The word passion at one time meant 'suffering'. The term 'the passion of Jesus' referred to the suffering of Jesus on Good Friday. Passion also means emotion or strong feeling. What were the emotions of Jesus, the strong feelings of Jesus on that fateful day? We don't have a lot to go on except the words Jesus spoke that day, but they tell us a lot, and they reveal his true passion as he went to and as he hung on the cross.

The Passion of Jesus

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