Sermons by Pastor Wordell

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Coming Soon: The King of Glory

Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Psalm 24 1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; 2 for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters. 3 Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? 4 The one who has clean […]

Saints Triumphant

Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring […]

You are God’s Servant to Do Good to Others

Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes 34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your […]

Real Life Treasure

Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Have you ever seen someone’s face the moment they find a treasure? Maybe you can think of a movie or TV show, but in 2006 it happened in real life.[1] Amanda Reece was remodeling her bathroom so she hired a contractor. He was under the medicine cabinet, ripping […]

How to Rest

Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”    How’s that going for you? I think about my life and the lives of people I talked to this week. Our days fill up with errands and activities, and […]

COMPLAIN < CONFESS < SING

Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Some parts of the Bible are letters. Some parts of the Bible are stories. Some are songs. What would you call this? Jeremiah 20:7-13 7 You deceived me, LORD, and I was deceived; you overpowered me, and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me. 8 […]

Proclaiming the Triune God

Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Nobody in this room would disagree: our world is hurting. Nobody in this room would disagree: God can help. But how? One time, God helped a hurting world by sending a prophet named Isaiah to be the voice of reason and the voice of comfort in a hurting […]

God Gets Fired Up

Life Guide 1 Kings 18:16-45 (NIV) 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?” 18 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the Lord’s commands and have […]