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Introduction Who is ready for a new year? Everyone loves new things. People love new things because our brains are naturally wired to be attracted to novelty. You can study all of the scientific reasoning behind this, there are chemical reactions that take place in our bodies when we experience new things.…

Christmas is a wonderful time of year. As kids, often the two most anticipated times of year are our birthdays and Christmas. Why? Because we get gifts! As adults, we may still look forward to receiving gifts, but we also realize that Christmas has more to offer. We not only receive gifts, we give gifts,…

In preparing for our time together today, I have been thinking on God’s faithfulness. More specifically I have been thinking about how forgetful I can be when it comes to God’s faithfulness. How often I seemingly forget, or don’t realize it. I know God is faithful and true. I know His ways are right…

Introduction In preparing for Christmas this year I wanted to take a slightly different approach. Most often when we think about Christmas, we begin in the New Testament. And yes that is the main focus of Christmas. We often read the story of Jesus birth in the book of Luke. Which is a wonderful place…

As we have wrapped up chapter 15 of Luke, I wanted to take the the next few weeks as we approach Thanksgiving to think biblically about giving thanks. As a church what are we thankful for? As individuals, as families, what are we thankful for? We have so much that we can be thankful for each and every…

Text - Subject - Theme - Thesis - Principle - Over the past few weeks we have been looking at the parable of the lost sons together. Each of the three main characters reflects different lessons. The prodigal shows us the devastating effects of sin and the nature of true repentance. The father shows us…

Text - Luke 15:11-32 Subject - Theme - Thesis - Principle - The story we are about to look at today is probably one of the most well known in all of the Bible. When I think of well known Bible stories I think of David and Goliath, Daniel and the Lion’s den, Noah and the ark, the Christmas story (Jesus…

Text - Luke 15:8-10 Subject - Theme - Thesis - Principle - Last week we began looking at Chapter 15 of Luke. Luke begins with the word now - implying a short time between the dinner party of chapter 14 and these people coming. He finished with ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear’. Luke’s very next…

Text - Luke 15:1-7 Subject - Love Theme - God’s love Thesis - God’s love is displayed through his effort to find the lost. Principle - I was having a conversation last week about our time here in the book of Luke and felt it would be good to talk a little about it here this morning. One thing that we…