Sermons from July 2013
Check Your Life (Matthew 25)
Continuing the discussion on adoption, Pastor Ricley walks us through our part in the adoption process through a discussion of Matthew 25. You can bring a child home from the orphanage to live in your home, but if they don’t recognize your parenthood and authority in their lives, it makes a loving relationship difficult at best. All those in the parables in Matthew 25…
Documents of Adoption
Romans 8:15 says, “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” Pastor Ricley calls on us to examine our hearts to see if we truly believe we’ve been adopted by God or if we’re seeing God through the eyes of religion, afraid that we won’t measure up. The Spirit of adoption frees…
A Call to Prayer
The church has lost her sense of the sovereign presence of God. The power that God intended for His church is no where to be seen and it’s no more evident than in the moral decay and loss of hope in the world around us. We need signs in the church today so people can see God moving in our lives. The people at Pentecost were in agreement that they needed the power that…