Some people are angry with God because He isn’t doing what you expected. God doesn’t want to meet your expectations because He wants to exceed them. His purpose is so much more important than our preferences. Problems With The Paradox 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance […]

Mercy is not getting what you deserve. Grace is getting what you don’t deserve. We have all sinned against God. We all deserve to die and be cast into hell. Yet, God has shown as mercy through faith in His son Jesus. God has shown us grace in giving to us eternal life though we’ve […]

No one can steal your joy because it is yours to manage. God gave it to you, so be a good steward of the joy of the Lord. Use that joy! It is your strength! One of the most flagrant mistakes you can make is to assign the strength of your joy to someone else! […]

On this Memorial Day holiday, those who forgot the value of our heritage and the source of our blessings, it will become very easy for us to take for granted all that we have and all that we are. Then in our wrong-headed self-confidence we will lose our way. For this reason it is crucial […]

The dualistic contrast between the ancient people of God, whom He led out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and the NT church. Paul asserts that the things that happened to them is recorded and preserved for us as examples of divine yeses and divine no’s that Israel was given as […]

Grace To Finish John 19:28-30 28. After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. 29. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. 30. When […]

  The entire life of the Lord Jesus is our redemptive provision, a gift of a merciful God to fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament, and complete the covenantal promise to the seed of Abraham. Jesus came to set captives free, and to offer a life of peace with God through the salvific activity […]

Today, all over the world, Christians are celebrating an event in the life of the Savior called Palm Sunday. Sermons, music, invocations will proclaim this day as a great day of celebration, and rightly so, but not for reasons common to our worship on the Sunday before Easter. Matthew 21:1-11 1 And when they drew […]

It has been said, “The opportunity of a lifetime is only available during the lifetime of the opportunity.” Opportunities are not always the obvious. Sometimes the critics and character assassins are the opportunity. When God opens a door, no man can shut it! Entry Ways And Opportunities In last week’s message, we ended the sermon […]

In spite of the rules, decide to practice some dangerous grace and get bold and aggressive. You’ve got to get close! Touch the hem! Cry Out! DANGEROUS GRACE As we approach the season of the Easter Celebration, we gather in this House, and in His Name, to worship and celebrate His gracious Lordship, and affirm […]

As those who were gathered 2,000 years ago at Pilate’s Judgement Hall, you must answer the same questions today. Don’t you want the promise of Heaven and the deliverance from fear of Hell? The only way to have both is to choose Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. Questions We Must Answer Matthew 27:15-26 15. […]

God’s intention is to admonish the church to be ready and not let the coming of the Lord catch them unprepared, “as a thief in the night.” In the Light of Eternity The two letters to the church at Thessalonika are called “The Books of the Advent”. That means, these two books of the Bible […]

The passage before us reveals the heart of the Savior and His power over every attempt of the adversary to hold on to people with desperate circumstances. Stretch Forth Thy Hand Mark 3:1-6 1. And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand. 2. And they […]

Sometimes GOD will interrupt what you think is a priority in order to teach you a deeper revelation, and a greater revelation of who He is! FAITH TO GO, GRACE TO STAY The second of the synoptic gospels projects the humble servant of Jehovah as a messenger from God with power and authority to heal, […]

All of us should be passionate about the mission of the church, that is, to go into all the world and preach the gospel, and make disciples. CHURCH GROWTH AMIDST OPPOSITION All of us should be passionate about the mission of the church, that is, to go into all the world and preach the gospel, […]

As we stand upon the threshold of a new set of days, months, and seasons, we again don’t know the future, but we know WHO holds the future; and our faith informs us that the same GOD WHO has brought us to this place, will no doubt, lead us on until we are presented by […]

On Tuesday, a global Christmas will be observed by billions of people all over the world, yet the vast majority will miss the real message first given by the Christmas Angel. Bible Text: Isaiah 1:18 | Speaker: Pastor Jerry Irwin | I’m Dreaming Of A White Christmas Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason […]

When you accept the light, it not only makes sin foreign and ugly, but it also makes everything good in the world shine with its full and true beauty. Bible Text: John 8:12 | Speaker: Pastor Jerry Irwin | CHRISTMAS LIGHTS John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the […]

Pastor Irwin teaches us that nothing can move a man to complete consecration to God like the fact that He [God] so loved us that He [God] gave His only-begotten Son [Jesus], that whoever believes in Him [Jesus] should not perish, but have everlasting life.   Speaker: Pastor Jerry Irwin | The Original Gift Ephesians […]

The Christmas Story is filled with people who sacrificed time, energy, and their own bodies in order for the purpose of God to be fulfilled. Jesus said that there was an offense that was connected to those who sacrificed their lives for Him, and Blessed was that person who would not be offended because of […]

Bible Text: Psalm 73:3-16 | Speaker: Pastor Jerry Irwin | A Faithful Vantage Point Where you stand determines what you see! This 73rd Psalm is the first of eleven consecutive psalms bearing the notation, A Psalm of Asaph. There is some question as to whether Asaph was the author or the person to whom they […]

Bible Text: Deuteronomy 32:9-12 | Speaker: Pastor Jerry Irwin | The New Dimension For You Deut. 32:9-12 9 For the LORD’S portion [is] his people: Jacob [is] the lot of his inheritance 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness: he led him about, he instructed him he kept […]

Bible Text: Matthew 16:13-18 | Speaker: Pastor Jerry Irwin | The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail Matt 6:13-18 13. When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14. And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, […]

Bible Text: Acts 27 | Speaker: Pastor Jerry Irwin | GOD WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN In Acts chapter 27, Paul is in the middle of the Adriatic Sea, where a violent storm has been churning the ocean into a raging deathtrap of wind and waves. He is traveling toward his destiny which is a God-ordained […]

Bible Text: Matthew 6:24 | Speaker: Pastor Jerry Irwin | Choosing A Master Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn […]