Sermons from 2018

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Effective Communication with God

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Mark 14:32-36. There is no prayer more poignant or passionate in all of scripture than the one recorded in Mark 14. Jesus’ prayer in a time of personal crisis gives us insight into what powerful and effective prayer really looks like. From this simple, short prayer Pastor Barry identifies four keys to effective communication with […]

Guest Speaker: Patrick Pang

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Dr. Patrick Pang is the Executive Director of Great Commission International Partnerships. The mission of GCIP is to accelerate Bible translation for people without God’s Word through partnerships with individuals and churches for the purpose of evangelism, discipleship and church planting in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. As the Founder and President of 10 Keys Ministries, […]

Guest Speaker: Andy Quient

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[ First 4 minutes of recording blank ] Rev. Andy Quient is the Acting Executive Minister for the American Baptist Churches of Los Angeles, the Southwest and Hawaii (ABCOFLASH). Andy left a highly successful career in international sales and management for a life in ministry and hasn’t looked back. His philosophy of ministry centers around […]

The Tithe Belongs to the Lord

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Malachi 3:8-10. The people in Malachi’s day were treating God badly. Their worship had turned from relational to ritual. They offered blemished sacrifices; the priests had become unfaithful; divorce was commonplace and easy; their words wearied God; businessmen were defrauding their workers, cheating their customers and taking advantage of widows, orphans and immigrants. But the […]

The Uses of Adversity

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II Corinthians 1:9. There is nothing that causes more people to stumble in the matter of faith than the problem of suffering. “…man is born unto trouble (Job 5:7).” We may think that we would prefer a world without it. Heaven will be such a place, but on this side of glory you might want to […]

Antidote for Anxiety

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Psalm 37:1-3, 5, 7. Worry, fear, & anxiety are the emotions Satan uses to discourage and defeat us and, in some instances, kill us. The effects of anxiety we see in scripture are graphic. Worry can negatively affect us physically, emotionally, spiritually and psychologically. What’s the solution?  In this sermon Pastor Barry offers a very practical, […]

100% Pure

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Proverbs 6:16-19. We know God is interested in purity.  He is concerned with holiness. We are to live pure, holy lives.  Often when the discussion turns to holiness we talk about external things to prove how pure we are.  Those external things are, quite often, insignificant because God is more concerned about internal things…what’s inside. […]