The Whole Story | The Perfect Library - Week 1

06/19/23 • 32 min

In this message, Pastor Mike tells us the full story that is presented in the Bible. He starts at the beginning when God created the Heavens and the Earth and ends with the current church and what we are called to do. This is a great message to watch or listen to get a bird's eye view of the entire story. It is fascinating to see how all the stories are connected and tell a larger grand story of God.

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Should We Evangelize? | Heaven & Hell - Week 5

A creation always has a creator.

There's no such thing as an intelligent creation without an intelligent creator. So what is our job? Our job is to convince the world they've been lied to. It's our primary objective. It's our purpose. Billy Graham said,

"I believe that one of the great problems in the church today is that we’re not really convinced that it is our responsibility to win people to Christ. We think it’s the responsibility of the evangelist or the pastor or the missionary. But it is the responsibility of every Christian."

Billy Graham

If only pastors are telling people about Jesus, we're in big trouble. Know why? Because people trust pastors less than they trust you. Get this, a survey asked people if they trust people in different professions, and only

39% trust clergy

The world doesn't trust clergy and you might think, "Oh that's just the world we live in. People don't trust institutions of any kind anymore," but that's not true. Here are some other professions:

39% trust clergy
89% trust nurses
79% trust doctors
75% trust teachers

People trust you MORE than they trust pastors. So we can't just hope pastors tell everyone about Jesus. It's got to be all of us. If we love people like Jesus told us to, we have to tell them about Jesus so they can make it to heaven.

Heaven & Hell Week 5 Teaching Text

Luke 16:19-31

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How to read the Bible? | The Perfect Library - Week 2

What if I told you there's such a thing as a perfect library?... Well, there is. The Bible.

I've been really intentional to tell people that the Bible is a Library, not a book. Why do I do that? Because that's what it is? What's the first thing you do when you walk into a library? You ask

Which book should I read first?

If the Bible is a book, you don't ask that. You just start reading in the beginning. If someone recommends a book to you, you don't say, where should I start reading? This is important because

Not all books of the Bible are equally applicable.

If you could only read one book of the Bible for the rest of your life, how many would pick Leviticus? They are all divinely inspired, but they’re not all as useful to new believers so here is how you should red the bible.

Start reading in Matthew.
Know the context.
Honor it
Read with a wise advisor.
Acquire the taste of Scripture.

If you will use the Bible as a guide to Jesus rather than as a tool to prove your points, it will lead you to depths you could never reach on your own. I Peter 1:23 says

For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.

Without the Word of God, you cannot grow spiritually. Does that mean you can only grow by reading the Bible? No, people grew spiritually before the Bible, But the Bible is the primary way we hear the Word of God.

24 As the Scriptures say, “People are like grass; their beauty is like a flower in the field. The grass withers and the flower fades. 25 But the word of