The People God Uses To Serve His Church
Today in our text Philippians 2:19-30, we see the people God uses to serve His church. The context helps us understand the environment of the people Paul is writing to. Paul is calling the Philippian Christians to behave as citizens worthy of the gospel of Christ (1:27). Philippi was a Roman colony with a population of…
Read MoreWORKING OUT YOUR SALVATION
When light comes in, darkness scurries away. Light and darkness are mortal enemies, they cannot stay together in one place. Just as east is opposite of west, so light and darkness are mutually exclusive. Darkness is nothingness. Darkness is the absence of light. You once lived in darkness… maybe you still do. You lived in…
Read MoreTHINK LIKE JESUS
The Health guru says, “You are what you eat.” But that is not correct. “You are what you think!” The attitudes of your inner man is what you really are: “As a man thinks in His heart, so is he!” (Pr.23;7) Christians are to live with each other in such a way that the reality…
Read MoreFollowing in the Footsteps of Faith: The Presence of the Church
“Christianity is responsible for the way our society is organized and for the way we currently live. So extensive is the Christian contribution to our laws, our economics, our politics, our arts, our calendar, our holidays, and our moral and cultural priorities that historian J. M. Robers writes in The Triumph of the West,…
Read MoreFollowing in the Footsteps of Faith:The Power of the Church
Acts 1:12-2:47 I remember when my wife was nearing the end of her pregnancy with our second child. The closer the time came to deliver the busier and more active she got. She was busy cleaning the floors, dusting the housing, scrubbing the bathroom. She had this urge to clean the house. They call this…
Read MoreFollowing in the Footsteps of Faith: Re-orienting for the Future
Nearly 360 years before Christ was born there was a great Greek King by the name of Philip. 364 BC he became the King of a city-state known as Macedon. His military skills and expansionist vision of Macedonian greatness brought him early success. He conquered many other city-states and consolidated power. By 336 he was…
Read MoreFollowing in the Footsteps of Faith: Learning from the Past
“Learning from the Past: How the Church Changed the World” On May 25, 1977 a man named George Lucas released his first hit movie that would become a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. That movie was called, “Star Wars.” In 1981 they added the strange subtitle of “Episode IV: A New Hope.” It seemed strange…
Read MoreThe Price of True Devotion
Genesis 22:1-19 Today I want to take a few moments to look at the price tag of true devotion. I want us to see what it costs us to be the kind of Christian that inspires others to be a better Christian. Let’s examine the familiar passage of Genesis 22 where we will extract some…
Read MoreThe Missing Illustration
Yesterday we looked at “Are You A Christian, Evaluating Your Claim To Christianity” at Kitwe Church. In Mark 4 Jesus answers the question why so many professing Christians “fall away” and never bear fruit. Here is the “missing illustration” that for sake of time was dropped from that sermon, but is so helpful to our…
Read MoreToday Marks Two Years Of Ministry For Kitwe Church!
Kitwe Church exists to glorify God by making gospel-centered, reproducing disciples of Jesus Christ. Our identification as Christians is not national, ethnic or cultural, our identification is that we are children of the King. The church is the place where the world can see in microcosm what the Kingdom of God looks like. People from…
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