February 26, 2024
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Sermon Series , This is My Story
| Tags: This is My Story, Testimony
I was saved at an early age. We started going to church, and I heard about being a Christian and if I confess my sins and ask Jesus into my heart, I would go to heaven. I believe in him and I remember really being on fire for him. I'd would tell my friends and family about Jesus, and wanted everyone to hear the good news.Over the next few years, I really started to stray f...
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June 21, 2022
by Tommy Clayton
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Sermon Series
| Tags: trouble, Psalms, Psalm 46
The most infamous heretic in church history was a man named Arius in the fourth century. He denied the deity of Jesus Christ. He taught that Jesus was a created being, not divine, not eternal, and therefore, not fully God. Those claims alarmed church leaders and put Arius on the heresy watch-list....
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June 21, 2022
by Tommy Clayton
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Sermon Series
| Tags: romans, Engage, Sin, Indwelling Sin
I recently read the story of the Worst Roommate ever. Bad roommates are late on rent. They don’t flush the toilet. They make noise and fight over the thermostat setting. But this roommate takes conflict to a whole new level. Here’s the story:...
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April 19, 2022
by Tommy Clayton
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Sermon Series
| Tags: Gospel, romans, Engage, Incentive
In Romans chapter 7, Paul brings clarity to a question Christians have struggled to answer for a long time: how do we as followers of Jesus relate to God’s moral law?...
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April 12, 2022
by Matt Karr
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Sermon Series
| Tags: Holy Week, I Am, Easter
Triumph. Humility. Confrontation. Celebration. Betrayal. Anxiety. Prayer. Trials. Torture. Death. Weeping. Resurrection. Victory. Jesus had quite the week. ...
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January 19, 2022
by Tommy Clayton
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Sermon Series
| Tags: grace, 5th Sunday Service, Law and Grace, Law, Bad Church
Author Philip Yancey describes himself as, “a pilgrim, still 'in recovery' from a bad church upbringing, searching for the possibility of a faith rooted in grace instead of fear.”...
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November 11, 2021
by Tommy Clayton
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Sermon Series
| Tags: romans, Engage, Suffering, Trials
I met a lady years ago and began inviting her church. She was not opposed to Christianity, she just had been out of church for years. One random Sunday she showed up and loved the service. She even filled out a connect card and asked for follow up. A close member of her family needed counseling. Our church reached out and met her need. She began to attend more regularly. S...
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November 2, 2021
by Tommy Clayton
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Sermon Series , Sermon Series
| Tags: Justification
When Jesus saves us, what changes? We know our sins have been forgiven and we’ll go to heaven when we die. But it doesn’t take 27 books and 260 chapters (The New Testament) to tell us that. What else changes when we believe the gospel?
In his letter to the church in Rome, Paul argues that our justification breaks in with three new realities. He explains them in chapte...
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November 2, 2021
by Tommy Clayton
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Category:
Sermon Series , Sermon Series
| Tags: Justification
When Jesus saves us, what changes? We know our sins have been forgiven and we’ll go to heaven when we die. But it doesn’t take 27 books and 260 chapters (The New Testament) to tell us that. What else changes when we believe the gospel?
In his letter to the church in Rome, Paul argues that our justification breaks in with three new realities. He explains them in chapte...
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October 27, 2021
by Tommy Clayton
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Category:
Sermon Series
After their parents died, three brothers living in New Jersey were cleaning up the estate. They saw a painting hanging up in the dining room that had always creeped them out as kids....
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