8/13/2023 Worship Service and Sermon: Finding Bread for Your Friends - Luke 11:1-13

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Scripture: Luke 11:1-13
Title: Finding Bread for Your Friends
Speaker: Wendell Stoltzfus
Worship Leader: Dawson Estes

Notes:

1. The Prayer and the Parable
A. The theme in Luke 11 is prayer
B. And yet, we struggle to pray

2. The Three Friends
A. An Unexpected Guest
B. An Inconvenient Hour
C. Who the three friends represent

3. The Bread of Assurance
A. We who have the Bread of life rub shoulders with those who don't
B. In the terms of the parable, each of the three friends is, ultimately, starving

4. Real Bread, Real Impudence
A. No doubt many of us struggle with assurance at times
B. Obnoxious persistence in prayer
C. How do we begin?

5. God's Answer to Prayer
A. Jesus says you and I are the link between His bread and our hungry friends
B. What will happen if you pray for your hungry friends every day?
C. What if we don't see any change?

6. Conclusion
A. An Inconvenienced Friend
B. An Unfailing God

#Luke #assurance #prayer

4/16/2023 Worship Service and Sermon: Christians Refuse to Lose Heart - 2 Corinthians 4:1-6

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4/16/2023 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Tyler Estes
Sermon: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
Title: Christians Refusing to Lose Heart

Therefore, since through God's mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of the age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," make his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ.

Notes:

1. Christians are sorely tempted to lose heart

2. Reasons a Christian might lose heart
A. Paul will mention many reasons later in 2 Corinthians
B. One reason mentioned in these verses: Lack of success in ministry

3. Christians who lose heart may be tempted to change the gospel message
A. Describing "changing the gospel message"
B. The opposite of changing the gospel message

4. Christians who lose heart may be tempted to make themselves more important than the message (preach themselves)
A. Describing "preach themselves"
B. The opposite of preaching themselves

5. Why does Paul not lose heart? Two reasons in these verses, with more to come
A. God has shown him great mercy
B. God can penetrate the deepest darkness

#discouragement #gospel #assurance