Sermons from 2016

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Who Cares?

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Luke 2:4-7.  Have you ever noticed that some things that really seem important at the time, if you wait awhile,  you realize they weren’t really important at all.  Twenty centuries ago who could have cared about the birth of a baby in Judea when all eyes of the world were on Rome.  Who cared?  God did. […]

Deliverance from Despair (Part 2)

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(Audio clip has blank recording until 5:42 during film clip playback.)  Psalm 42. The old song “Am I Blue?” could easily have been written by the Psalmist. In Psalms 42-43 (which originally may have been one psalm) the Psalmist is in the pits.  You name it… he was disappointed, discouraged, depressed down, stressed out and feeling, […]

Deliverance from Despair

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(Pt-1). Psalm 42. The old song “Am I Blue?” could easily have been written by the Psalmist. In Psalms 42-43 (which originally may have been one psalm) the Psalmist is in the pits.  You name it… he was disappointed, discouraged, depressed down, stressed out and feeling, “mighty low.”  This psalm lays before us two aspects for […]

The Life that Excels

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Psalm 36. This Psalm contrasts human wickedness at its worst and divine goodness at its best – what people claim will make you happy and what God says will make you happy. Innumerable voices are clamoring to convey their message of what it takes to excel in life, but in this Psalm Pastor Barry shares three […]

Reaching Your Full Potential

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Psalm 8. The most important question in life is, “What do you think of Christ?” The second most important question is found in verse 4 of Psalm 8, “What is man that you are mindful of him?” God’s answer asserts that He created us to have dominion, to be royalty. That was His intent but […]

The Truly Happy Person

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Psalm 1. [First 4 min is blank] Throughout Psalms there is the contrast between the wise man and the foolish man. We tend to associate wisdom with knowledge but the opposite of wisdom is not ignorance, it’s foolishness. The person who does not have time for God in his life is a fool, that is […]

What’s So Amazing About Grace?

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Romans 1:17. On the Christian Calendar each year is Reformation Sunday, observed the last Sunday in October. In this sermon Pastor Barry introduces Martin Luther, the father of The Reformation, and shares how his life was transformed by the realization that, “the just shall live by faith”. Speaking about that verses’ impact on his life Martin said, […]