Jeremiah 29:13
We exist for the very purpose of glorifying God.  God blesses God seekers.  We MUST seek the face of God.  When you can’t find God anywhere else, you can find Him in the Word.
(Sermon notes - Rev. Joey Burns)

The Seed, The Sower and The Soil

Luke 8:4-8

Many never mature in their walk with God.

James 1:21-25

We have got to be doers of the Word of God! 

    1. Fell by the wayside - trodden down.  So many people set in the house of God and not even respond.  The one who has let situations make his heart hard and won’t let God in.  When the heart is hard, the Word never gets in there.  The kind of people who aren’t effected by hearing the Word of God preached.  Some have let Satan move in and devour what God has spoken.

    2.  The rock or the stony ground.  They which, when they hear, receive joy but have no root.  In temptation they fall away.  A person who is emotionally touched, but when that feeling goes away, so does the faith.  The Word quickly vanishes away.  Below the emotions is a stubborned willed person who has no room for God.  When the time of testing comes, they are gone.  People looking for a crutch instead of a commitment.

“Jesus is not an accessory.” - Clay M. Bishop III

You can’t have one eye on Jesus and one eye on the world.  Fall away - desert, depart, refrain or withdraw themselves. 

    3.  Among the thorns - they that are choked with the things of life and bare no fruit.  They that are distracted.  If you don’t bare fruit, there are too many works of the flesh choking it out.  The person who comes to church when it’s convenient.  Who puts recreation and material goods in front of worshiping God.  The person who goes through the motions but never experiences the power of God.
(Sermon Notes - Rev. Brad Stevens - Preached 7/11/10)

The Church Prayed

Acts 1:14

1 Chronicles 16:11

2 Chronicles 7:14

Jeremiah 33:3

Matthew 7: 7-11

Ephesians 6:18

Proverbs 15:8

John 15:7

The only way we will truly know God’s purpose in through prayer.
(Sermon Notes - Rev. Joey Burns - Preached 1/4/09)

Shape Up!

Jude 1:3-7

It’s high time the people of God wake up from a sleep and realize Jesus is coming.  He hasn’t changed.  What was sin back then is sin today.  Once saved always saved is not sound doctrine.  Christianity is not a religion, it’s a reality.  If you’re a true child of God, you don’t live like the devil.
Perseverance + Faithfulness = INCREASE!!
(Sermon Notes - Rev. Brad Stevens - Preached 6/24/07)