24-0128: Jesus proves sufficient to hold life firm when He is the center of all hope and faith. King Ahaz rejected God’s offer for a sign to receive his promise, and instead let his fear drive him to make a deal with the devil. But that was no deal. God warned him that his...
24-0107: The Lord’s Blessing consumes the whole life of the one that delights in God’s Word. A new year brings new beginnings. And when we consider the life we want, the Lord’s blessing should be the desire of every follower of Jesus Christ. Psalm 1 contrasts a life of consumed by versus one lived...
23-0115: Jesus makes you new to produce a new kind of living that forms more of Him in you. Repentance is built on three foundational convictions of the new that Jesus creates in the Christian. And these convictions motivate a new pattern of thinking and living through faith. When we speak of the “process...
23-0108: Jesus makes you a new creation to live by faith in His Kingdom under His Lordship for His glory now. At the start of a new year so much attention is given to working on “you”, but most of this pertains only to the physical realm. In 1 Timothy 4:8 Pauls states that...
Christians strive, at all times, to live as we’ve been loved, to serve even when threat of our own well-being exists....
16_1009: The call of Christ leads people to become His followers that make more Christ-followers. Jesus models from the beginning of His ministry what He commissions his followers to do after His ascension, make more real Christ-followers. In this message Pastor Lane identifies the last two (of four) essentials of the call of a...
16_0904: Christ-followers are made new by faith in Jesus to walk in God’s peace. Pastor Lane continues the Made New series in this sermon as he considers the third aspect of the Christ-follower’s identity as Disciple. Disciples are learners and followers of Jesus, walking in God’s peace through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus...
16_0828: Christ-followers are made new to live in God’s love. Jesus gives Christians a new identity to live in God’s love as Worshiper and Servant. In this message, Pastor Lane sets forth an understanding of each the first two aspects of a Christ-follower’s new identity. Then, he shows the relationship between the two and...
16_0814: Christians are called by Jesus to love all people, because He perfectly loved us. Beginning with 1 John 4:19, Pastor Lane clarifies God’s love and what it has done for us in salvation. Then, he models a way for Christians to love others in faithful response to God’s love. Christians love others first,...
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. 2 Tim 1:6-7 Paul writes to Timothy as a man advanced in age toward the end of his ministry and life. Timothy served for years with Paul so he was no rookie. But Paul shows genuine concern that he not lose his fire for gospel ministry. We might be tempted to infer that Timothy...