Starting with the story of Peter and Cornelius, Pastor Robert Barnes reminds us of the power of the Holy Spirit to change our hearts and minds, and to break down the barriers between people. An order of service with sermon notes and announcements may be found here.
Sermon Tag: Holy Spirit
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The Power of the Holy Spirit — Traditional Service, May 28, 2023
Starting with the story of Peter and Cornelius, Pastor Robert Barnes reminds us of the power of the Holy Spirit to change our hearts and minds, and to break down the barriers between people. An order of service with sermon notes and announcements may be found here. Text: Acts 10
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Seeking Christ: Discerning the spirits and the Spirit — Worship Service, March 5, 2023
There are two questions that people have about the Spirit of God, or the Holy Spirit. The first question is, “Is the Holy Spirit real, or just a name we give to our emotions?” The second question is, “If the Holy Spirit is real, how can we tell the Spirit of God from a counterfeit?”...
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Follow the Star — Worship Service, January 1, 2023
How did the wise men notice the star and know what it meant? What commitment did it take to follow? And what does that mean for us? Dorinda Amissah challenges us to be willing to follow OUR star — the Holy Spirit. An order of worship with announcements may be found here.
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“The Sane Fanatic” or The Wesleyan Way of Following Jesus: Session #4 – The Holy Spirit and Holiness
Many people today make little room for faith in God, or they hope to have just enough faith to get by. That is understandable. That is only human. But deep down, all of us know that that approach makes no sense. Either God is not real and therefore does not matter at all, or God...
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“The Sane Fanatic” or The Wesleyan Way of Following Jesus: Session #3 – The Holy Spirit is a PERSON
To many people “Christian doctrine” has little to do with real faith. That is understandable if they associate the word doctrine with dry sermons and dusty books. In reality however, “Christian doctrine”, and even “theology”, are disciplines of thought that Christians developed in order to try to understand what God had done through Jesus Christ,...
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“The Sane Fanatic” or The Wesleyan Way of Following Jesus: Session #2 – The Work of the Holy Spirit
When many Christians think of the Holy Spirit, they imagine overly emotional fanatics speaking in unknown tongues, faith-healers working miracles that can’t always be verified, and celebrity prophets making predictions about national elections, the way that football prognosticators regularly tell us who is going to win the big game. For these reasons and more, it...
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“The Sane Fanatic” or The Wesleyan Way of Following Jesus: Session #1 – The Power of the Holy Spirit
If you are seeking a deeper walk with Christ, then these are confusing days to live in; particularly when it comes to the subject of “the power of the Holy Spirit”. On the one hand there are Christian teachers who constantly speak of miracles (which is good), but who also seem perfectly willing to reinvent...