TITLE: Darkness Can Handle the Light
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: John 1: 1-5
NOTES:
V 1:1 THE WORD, THE WORD, THE WORD
V 1:2-3 THE WORD STARTS IT AND THE WORD CAN CHANGE IT
V 1:4-5 THE WORDS WE SPEAK SHOULD BE LIGHT
TITLE: Darkness Can Handle the Light
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: John 1: 1-5
NOTES:
V 1:1 THE WORD, THE WORD, THE WORD
V 1:2-3 THE WORD STARTS IT AND THE WORD CAN CHANGE IT
V 1:4-5 THE WORDS WE SPEAK SHOULD BE LIGHT
TITLE: Happy is Blessed Wisdom is the Way to Blessing
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Proverbs 3:1-18
NOTES:
The Hebrew word “asher” is translated blessed or happy. Only God’s blessing bring true happiness. The only way to true happiness is blessing with the wisdom of God’s word.
Happy Birthday First Lady!
TITLE: Hear in Faith to Speak in Faith
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Romans 10:14-17
NOTES: People cannot be born again through human faith. They have to use God’s supernatural faith to receive God’s supernatural gift of salvation.
TITLE: Speak the Word Only
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Matthew 8: 1 – 13
NOTES:
Faith is exercised in confession and believing.
V 5-6 The Centurion Humbles Himself on Behalf of a Servant
V 7-8 The Centurion Acknowledges His Inferior Status as a Gentile
V 8-9 The Centurion Recognizes Jesus’ Unlimited Authority to Heal
V 10 Jesus Accepts This Attitude as Faith
Many church workers focus on getting people saved in churches where new people rarely visit; we may need to focus more on sharing the faith by word and deed in our communities outside church walls, and across cultural barriers as well.
New Beginnings Ministries of Jacksonville, Inc. hosted Soup, Sandwich & Salvation in partnership with Eastside Pal and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. This community outreach event supplied homeless individuals with a brown-bag lunch. A whooping 250 brown bag lunches were given away from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Downtown Jacksonville.
TITLE: Call Those Things How You Want, Not How You See Them
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Romans 4:1-25
NOTES:
VS 1-16 By grace we are saved
VS 17 Call it like God calls it
VS 18 Hope that is seen — not hope
VS 19 Stop looking at the fact and look at the truth
VS 20 Give God the glory, give God the praise
VS 21 God keeps his promises
Vs 22-25 Faith is what justifies us, not our works
Happy 51st Birthday Pastor Hawk!
TITLE: The Word Became Flesh and Your Word Will Become Flesh
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: John 1:1-14
NOTES:
V1-3 Everything starts with a word
V4-5 Your words give life to your thoughts and are light
V6-11 John bears record that Word is light
V12-14 The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us
TITLE: Praise Him, Praise ye the Lord
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Psalms 148:1-14
NOTES:
VS 1-2 All those who dwell in the heavens as well as the heavens themselves–both creatures and inanimate things — are called to praise.
VS 3-4 Catalog the inanimate objects of the heavens as it calls them to praise the Lord.
VS 5-6 Declare, God created and apportioned all these elements as part of God’s sovereign act of creation.
VS 7-12 Proceed in the call to praise downward from the heavens to the earth and sea.

TITLE: No More Excuses: Say What the Word Says
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Matthew 4: 1-11
NOTES:
VS.1-4 The Devil wants you to doubt you salvation
VS.5-7 The Devil will try to get you to doubt what God’s word says
VS.8-11 The Devil will try to give to you in return for worship
IN CLOSING I John 2:16 says For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.