Sermons

  Spread The Word “This New Life” Introduction: Brother and sisters, I want to ask you a question. What are you afraid of this morning? For some, you do not have to think beyond a second. You know exactly what you fear most. Others may have to ponder it a moment before you arrive at your answer.  Death. Failure. Public speaking. Singing in public.  Maybe you are starting a new job, moving to a new town, graduating from high school or college. The truth is that fear is something that everyone battles. Think of the great Bible characters. Do you know what they all had in common? That’s right…they were all afraid.  Isaiah was afraid. He felt that he was not good enough to be God’s prophet to Israel. “ “Woe to me! I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips”. Moses was scared to death to face the Pharaoh of Egypt. Moses suffered from a massive case of stage fright. “Moses said to the Lord, ‘Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never

  Spread The Word Born Again Opening Illustration: This morning I want to take a few minutes and reintroduce you to someone that you’ve heard of, maybe even known quite a bit. You’ve heard about him when you were a child in Sunday School. I spent some time looking back through my old Vacation Bible School files and realized that I have spoken about this character no less than 6 times in year’s past. I want this sermon, this message to be like a time machine for all of us. Consider this sanctuary to be 1975 Delorean fitted with the latest time travel technology. Our time stamp is 2000 years ago and our destination is Jerusalem. You are going to be an invisible fly on the wall during a conversation with Jesus and Nicodemus. That’s right, this morning you will be reintroduced to Nicodemus. Our text may just be the most important chapter in all of the Bible, John chapter 3. John chapter 3 verse 16 is perhaps the most famous Scripture in all the Bible and that passage is but a snippet o