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What’s the Big Deal About Baptism?

January 26, 2020

What's the Big Deal?

Acts 8:36

Mark Smith

What’s the Big Deal About Baptism?

Date Preached: January 26, 2020

Series: What's the Big Deal?

Speaker: Mark Smith

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You can attend different church baptism services and find a different ways in which churches baptize. Some sprinkle, others pour, some put a watery cross on the forehead, others fully immerse. Not only that, you find some churches baptizing infants and others baptizing only older children and adults. Is there a correct way people are to be baptized and who is it that should be baptized and why? We'll check what the New Testament has to say about this subject, if anything, and see if we can discover what the big deal is about baptism.

What’s the Big Deal About Baptism?

What’s The Big Deal About Church Membership?

January 19, 2020

What's the Big Deal?

Ephesians 5:25-27

Mark Smith

What’s The Big Deal About Church Membership?

Date Preached: January 19, 2020

Series: What's the Big Deal?

Speaker: Mark Smith

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In a day when many of us have issues with authority and commitment we are naturally shy about joining things. Should we be thinking differently about joining a church, about becoming a church member? If so, why? Today we'll try to answer these questions.

What’s The Big Deal About Church Membership?

What’s the Big Deal About Attending Church?

January 12, 2020

What's the Big Deal?

Luke 4:6-

Mark Smith

What’s the Big Deal About Attending Church?

Date Preached: January 12, 2020

Series: What's the Big Deal?

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Church attendance is trending downward in the US, primarily because people are attending less frequently. Should we care? What difference does it make if I am not in church as often as I used to be? In other words, what's the big deal about attending church? You'll get some clear answers to this question in this message.

What’s the Big Deal About Attending Church?

A Prayer for 2020

January 5, 2020

Stand Alone Sermons

2 Thessalonians 3:1

Mark Smith

A Prayer for 2020

Date Preached: January 5, 2020

Series: Stand Alone Sermons

Speaker: Mark Smith

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One of Paul's prayer requests seems surprisingly appropriate for our area this year. It is one I'd like to suggest we pray regularly throughout the coming year. It's a big prayer, a God-sized prayer, but one Paul was certain God could answer if people prayed. Will you join me in regularly praying this prayer this year?

A Prayer for 2020

Receiving God’s Christmas Gift to Us

December 22, 2019

Your Best Christmas Ever

John 1:10-13

Mark Smith

Receiving God’s Christmas Gift to Us

Date Preached: December 22, 2019

Series: Your Best Christmas Ever

Speaker: Mark Smith

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The first Christmas gift dates to well before the visit of the Magi to the young boy, Jesus. In fact, it dates back in the mind and intention of God to creation itself. This Christmas gift is one we all need and it is free, but it will never benefit us until we receive it. What is it? How do we receive it? That's what this message explains.

Receiving God’s Christmas Gift to Us

The Very First Christmas Gift

December 15, 2019

Your Best Christmas Ever

John 3:16

Mark Smith

The Very First Christmas Gift

Date Preached: December 15, 2019

Series: Your Best Christmas Ever

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Gift-giving has been a practice at Christmas ever since the Magi brought gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the young boy Jesus. However, their's were not the first Christmas gifts, nor were they the first gift-givers at Christmas. As our scripture tells us today, God was the first Christmas gift-giver, and his Son was the first Christmas gift. Just why God gave his son and the difference his gift can make to us is our focus in this message.

The Very First Christmas Gift

A Night of Wonder

December 8, 2019

Your Best Christmas Ever

Luke 2:8-20

Mark Smith

A Night of Wonder

Date Preached: December 8, 2019

Series: Your Best Christmas Ever

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Christmas is filled with wonder for children. Even those of us who are older enjoy seeing in person the tree at Rockefeller Center or a house all decorated with beautiful lights for the Christmas season. The first Christmas was a night of wonders befitting the person who was born that night. The wonders associated with Jesus didn't end that night. In fact, there is one wonder that we can experience today because that first night of wonders happened.

A Night of Wonder

Christmas Anticipation

December 1, 2019

Your Best Christmas Ever

Isaiah 9:1-7

Mark Smith

Christmas Anticipation

Date Preached: December 1, 2019

Series: Your Best Christmas Ever

Speaker: Mark Smith

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"...while visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads." Clement Clarke Moore's words capture so succinctly the anticipation that children. especially, feel about Christmas. Anticipation for Christmas dates back over 2,000 years to a small corner of the Roman Empire, where many of God's people, the Jews, eagerly awaited the appearing of their Messiah. Why there was so much anticipation back then and what we can anticipate today as a result of the first Christmas will be our theme in this message.

Christmas Anticipation

Walk By the Spirit

November 24, 2019

Meet the Holy Spirit

Galatians 5:16-26

Mark Smith

Walk By the Spirit

Date Preached: November 24, 2019

Series: Meet the Holy Spirit

Speaker: Mark Smith

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There is no better way to end a series of messages on the Holy Spirit with Paul's command to walk by the Spirit. We are not just to learn about the Holy Spirit but are to apply what we've learned, and this is how we are to apply it. What does it mean to walk by the Spirit? How would we know when we are? These are questions we'll be able to answer in this message.

Walk By the Spirit

You Are Gifted for Ministry

November 17, 2019

Meet the Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians 12:4-30

Mark Smith

You Are Gifted for Ministry

Date Preached: November 17, 2019

Series: Meet the Holy Spirit

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Every Christian has been given at least one spiritual gift so that all of us can be involved in ministry, Our gifts make us valuable to others in the body of Christ and their gifts are important to our own spiritual health and growth. What spiritual gifts are, how they are given, what some of them are, and God's purpose for giving them will all be in focus in this message about the further work of the Holy Spirit in believers' lives.

You Are Gifted for Ministry

Hindering the Holy Spirit

November 3, 2019

Meet the Holy Spirit

Mark Smith

Hindering the Holy Spirit

Date Preached: November 3, 2019

Series: Meet the Holy Spirit

Speaker: Mark Smith

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So far our study of the work of the Holy Spirit in Christians and in the church has been extraordinarily positive and encouraging. However, we must take a little time to issue a warning about our relationship with the Holy Spirit. As powerful as the Spirit is, we can actually hinder his working. This is quite serious, so today we'll discover four ways we might be guilty of doing this and have a chance to examine ourselves to see if we are hindering the Spirit's work. Let's be open to his conviction as we listen today.

Hindering the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit at Work in Non-Christians

October 27, 2019

Meet the Holy Spirit

Mark Smith

The Holy Spirit at Work in Non-Christians

Date Preached: October 27, 2019

Series: Meet the Holy Spirit

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Does the Holy Spirit have anything to do with non-Christians? After all, he is the special gift of Christians and plays an essential role in their lives. Does that mean his work is restricted to believers? We'll quickly learn the answer to that question is no, and we'll then discover four key rioles the Holy Spirit is playing in the lives of non-Christians we know and in non-Christians everywhere.

The Holy Spirit at Work in Non-Christians

The Holy Spirit at Work in the Church

October 20, 2019

Meet the Holy Spirit

Mark Smith

The Holy Spirit at Work in the Church

Date Preached: October 20, 2019

Series: Meet the Holy Spirit

Speaker: Mark Smith

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The church owes its existence to the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit there would be no church, as we learned from our study of Acts and our earlier studies in this series. We readily think of the absolute necessity of the Holy Spirit's work in expanding the church into the world in fulfillment of Jesus' promise in Acts 1:8, but the Holy Spirit is also carrying on other work in the church that is critical to its life and health as well. In this message we'll look at seven on-going ministries the Holy Spirit has in the church today.

The Holy Spirit at Work in the Church

The Holy Spirit at Work in Believers

October 13, 2019

Meet the Holy Spirit

Mark Smith

The Holy Spirit at Work in Believers

Date Preached: October 13, 2019

Series: Meet the Holy Spirit

Speaker: Mark Smith

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We've already discovered the critical importance of the Holy Spirit in the life of believers. However, there is a lot more to be said than what we've already covered. In this message we'll focus on three critical needs in the Christian's life that the Holy Spirit takes care of. In all, there are ten ministries of the Holy Spirit we'll need to cover in order to do this.

The Holy Spirit at Work in Believers

In the Path of the Spirit’s Moving

October 6, 2019

Meet the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 5:18-9

Mark Smith

In the Path of the Spirit’s Moving

Date Preached: October 6, 2019

Series: Meet the Holy Spirit

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Being filled with the Holy Spirit has a deep impact on a believer's life, but the impact is not to end there. As we'll discover, immediately after commanding us to be filled with the Holy Spirit, Paul describes four ways in which this filling will be demonstrated. Each of these involves a different significant relationship in our life. All our closest and most important relationships are in the path of the Holy Spirit's moving in our life. Rivers of living water (John 7:37-39) do flow out of those who are filled with the Spirit.

In the Path of the Spirit’s Moving

Be Filled with the Spirit!

September 29, 2019

Meet the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 5:18

Mark Smith

Be Filled with the Spirit!

Date Preached: September 29, 2019

Series: Meet the Holy Spirit

Speaker: Mark Smith

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We are never commanded to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit or baptized by the Holy Spirit, but there is something we are commanded to do: to be filled with the Holy Spirit. In Acts we saw believers filled with the Holy Spirit or full of the Holy Spirit. What does this mean? How is a person filled with the Holy Spirit? What can we expect if we are filled with the Spirit? We'll discover all of that in this message.

Be Filled with the Spirit!

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