Category: Sermon
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Love Grows – Part II of a 5 week sermon series called “We Love First,” delivered at First Church Coral Springs on Sunday, May 7, 2017
Either Growing, or… Now that the weather is warmer, and the rains have started, everything has started growing again – rapidly. I’m enjoying my bonsai trees – as they are sprouting new growth and blooming. But, I’m also daily weeding and trimming, just to keep everything under control. Growth…
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We Love First – Part 1 of a 5-week Sermon Series called “We Love First” – preached at First Church Coral Springs on April 30, 2017.
What’s the Vision? Almost as soon as I arrived last summer, as your new pastor, some of you were asking, “What’s your vision for First Church?” What’s my vision? Are you kidding? At that point I was still trying to find the grocery store, the movie theater, a new dentist! …
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Restored – A message preached on Easter Sunday, 2017, at First Church of Coral Springs, to conclude a Lent series called “Restoration.”
During the season of Lent, our theme has been “Restoration,” as in when someone takes something that is old and broken-down – an old house, an old car, an old piece of furniture – and takes the time to restore it into something new. Similarly, we have said that is…
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“Mountains of Books” – a Second Good Friday Sermon, Preached on April 14th, 2017, in the Evening at First Church of Coral Springs
Revelation 20 says that there are books in heaven that contain the records of everything that every human has ever said or done. Imagine that. A book that contains every sin you have ever committed. Every evil thought. Every unkind word. Every selfishness. Every disobedience. Every unfaithfulness. Every missed opportunity…
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The Road to Restoration: The 6th Sermon in a Series Called, “Restoration,” preached at First Church Coral Springs, on Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017
In the year 1010 BC, King David and his army attacked and conquered Jerusalem, driving out the Jebusite inhabitants, taking Jerusalem as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. In the year 925 BC, Jerusalem was temporarily captured and pillaged by the Egyptian armies, led by Pharaoh Sheshonk I. In the year 586 BC,…
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Restored Minds – the 5th message in a sermon series called “Restoration,” preached on April 2, 2017 at First Church of Coral Springs
We’ve been talking, lately, about how God takes broken things and restores them into something new. Today, I want to talk about the most broken thing of all – our minds. I’m sorry to tell you this – you have broken mind and it needs restoration. If you think I’m…
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Restored Fortunes – the fourth sermon in a series called “Restoration,” preached on March 26, 2017 at First Church Coral Springs.
This is the fourth sermon in a series called, “Restoration.” The basic premise of the series is that God can take what is broken, worn-out, and seemingly beyond repair, and restore the broken pieces and parts into something new and beautiful. So far, we have talked about God restoring our…
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