Sermons

When a church of Jesus becomes more tolerant than Jesus, that church has adopted the wrong definition of tolerance.
– Pastor Josh Blevins

“The Word without the Spirit will cause a church to dry up. The Spirit without the Word will cause a church to blow up. But the Spirit working through the Word will cause the church to grow up.”
-Pastor Josh Blevins

A compromised Church is all about convenience. The bar of behavior is lowered, and belief is diluted to make it easier for the carnal congregation to comply.
-Pastor Josh Blevins

“Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
John 10:10

The purpose of the Holy Spirit is to accomplish the will of God around us, within us, and through us.

Pastor Josh

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not [a]carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God…..

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

Breath in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy. Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.

Augustine