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Pastor Phil preaches through John 19 and explains how such a horrible event can be called "Good Friday.
Pastor Phil preaches through John 19 and explains how such a horrible event can be called "Good Friday.
Because we are designed by God, we must look for him to provide everything we need. Too often we try to be self-sufficient, taking on Gods character of needing nothing, but that is not how we were designed to live.
Because we are not worth worshipping, we must serve the God who is.
Through the prophet Amos, God reveals that the heart of worship matters more than the act itself. Any form of worship not rooted in a desperate, authentic love of God, even in church, is idolatrous.
If we’re serious about being a disciple of Jesus, then we’ve must know9 what He’s calling us to. What Jesus tells all of us is that as disciples of Jesus we are all on mission, must face real opposition, and are called to make hard decisions.
Jesus how given you an obstacle that is intended to lead you straight to him in all of your need. Your faith can be deflated. Your faith can be wearied, but God will not allow it to be extinguished. God wont shut that door and keep you out. He will let your faith stay alive. Hes the one who keeps us; He keeps our faith going – so keep crying to Jesus, and follow him even if he is silent until he brings you to wherever he wants you to go.
Walking through a familiar story, Pastor Phil explains that Jesus offers hope for those who come to the end of themselves.
"What was once a robust, vibrant, and expectant hope that the day would come for that one sick sinner would be saved. But today, we’re not praying for him. Not because we don’t love them or want God’s best for them, but we are weary of praying for them. Does God care? Does care for the believer as we pray for strength to serve him well? What can we do to? What we learn today is that now that we know King Jesus has the authority to save all kinds of people, we must direct every sinner to Him.
When situations arise that are so fierce, so ominous, that our faith feels like its suffocating along with us, we can begin to doubt Jesus’ authority and especially when faith is challenged by fear. Fear leads us to wonder whether the God that has demonstrated his sovereignty over physical creation has any rival among the metaphysical. Jesus is sovereign over the natural, but is he any match for the supernatural?
Pastor Phil examines this popular story and explains that we must trust Him to forgive us since Jesus has the authority to forgive sins. Subscribe to our channel to see more moments from the Gathering Church! — To support our ministry and help us continue to change lives through the power of the Gospel, click here: https://www.tgcw.org/give — Follow our church at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGatheringWindsor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegatheringwindsor/ Our Website: https://www.tgcw.org — The Gathering Church exists to bring glory to God through lives changed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We have been proudly serving Windsor-Essex County since 2014. #bible #thegatheringchurchwindsor #jesus
When situations arise that are so fierce, so ominous, that our faith feels like its suffocating along with us, we can begin to doubt Jesus’ authority and especially when faith is challenged by fear. Fear leads us to wonder whether the God that has demonstrated his sovereignty over physical creation has any rival among the metaphysical. Jesus is sovereign over the natural, but is he any match for the supernatural?
“HAVE YOU UNDERESTIMATED THE COST OF SOMETHING ONLY TO REALIZE AFTER THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BIT OFF MORE THAN WE CAN CHEW? WHEN IT COMES TO DISCIPLESHIP, JESUS DOESN’T WANT US TO BE SURPRISED. HOW DO YOU COUNT THE COST WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT’S COMING IN YOUR LIFE?” THE ANSWER IS THAT JESUS REQUIRES, UPFRONT, A COMMITMENT TO THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE COST.”
* > Hebrews 11:1-7 is the passage and I understand the title of the presentation is “Genesis: Missing Piece of the Puzzle.” The write up could be something like, “Calvin Smith from Answers in Genesis visited The Gathering to provide an update on the work of this ministry and encourage the believers to trust God’s Word against all opposition.
The Kings kindness to outcasts
While worry, fear, and anxiety were a huge struggle even before COVID craziness of a few years ago, they are enormous struggles right now. How will we enter the New Year? For some, they’ll be fighting anxiety as the clock counts down. Yet, as the people of God, we can be assured that our Sovereign is in control even when we’re overwhelmed with fear and anxiety.
* > We look everywhere and try seemingly everything in order to have a better Christmas. We must remember that in order to have a better Christmas, we need to worship the better king.
Christmas isn’t about us or even our happiness. It’s about the man in the name – a man who is so much better. How does this better Adam give us a better understanding of ourselves, a better Savior, and a better hope for the future? If we are to have a better Christmas, we must receive the Better Adam
As the Apostle Paul concludes the letter to the Colossians, he encourages the believers to not forget the gospel but to focus on displaying it everywhere, all the time.
Who sees all of the excellent work every day? God does. As Christians, we should pursue excellence in our work not because we want to impress the boss, or to get a raise, we work first for Christ. He sees even when no one else does.
For many of us, there’s an underwritten rule: what happens at home stays at home and nobody on the inside is really going to snitch, exposing me for being earthly or sinful. Work is another area of our life where it’s easy to let our pursuit of Christ-likeness hide. Why not, right? If we can’t tell people about Jesus at work, why bother living like Christ either. But if we are committed Christ followers, we must seek to display Christ even in difficult places.
Jesus is incomparable. He alone is sufficient to save us and keep us and because of this, if we are Christians, then Jesus must be your life; not just Savior, but also Lord. It makes no sense that after having been made clean to then go back and live a sinful life.
False teachers had crept into the church in Colossae and were distorting the gospel with all kinds of legalistic ideas that offered spiritual growth. Pastor Phil explains that in order to progress towards the goal of becoming more like Christ, we must resist legalism and focus on Christ.
We have tendency, really a natural propensity to supplement salvation by adding in a little bit of us. Yet, salvation is a sovereign work of God – it does not need to be seasoned by us. That’s why God gets the Glory Alone.
When it comes to your salvation and mine, it’s not just faith alone in any old thing – it’s certainly not the amount of faith, but who you place your faith in. The Protestant Reformers didn’t fight for people to have faith; they insisted on what the Bible insists on: that salvation depends on Christ alone!
How do people receive the salvation that God offers? Pastor Phil explains the crucial teaching of Sola Fide: that people receive salvation in Jesus Christ through faith alone.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that a sinner can be made right with God, not by the complete and fully pleasing sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, but that grace requires additional merit. Today we find out whether Rome was right, or whether the Reformers, armed with the Bible, were correct in proclaiming salvation by Grace Alone.
If Satan can diminish the confidence that we have in the reliability, ability, authority and the profitability of the Scriptures, then Christianity is reduced to religion. The danger that the church has always faced and continues to face will define us and will either give us the confidence we need or will leave us as we slowly sink in the shifting sands of true today and wrong tomorrow.
While our prayer may seem so small next to the vastness of all that God will inevitably do, we must decide whether I pray or not. We wonder what difference our prayers might really make. Jesus models pray for us that reminds us that we need to pray more than we will know.
