New Year's 2015 - "A New You" - John 3:1-15

Well it's New Year’s 2015. How many of you guys have made a New Year’s Resolution? Culturally we love and celebrate New Year’s because it represents a time to start over, that we can change, that we can start off with a clean slate. I’m not against new year’s resolutions I think they can be helpful, I think they can be a form of repentance but New Year’s cannot produce a new you. Resolutions can produce behavior modification but not heart transformation

Big Idea: Jesus didn't come to make us better; he came to make us new! 

-The Necessity of New Birth (John 3:1-3) 

-The Nature of The New Birth (John 3:4-6)

-The Evidence of the New Birth (John 3:7-8)

-The Basis of the New Birth (John 3:9-15)

You can listen to "A New You" by following this link. 

  

------------- "I Am HEARD!" Ephesians 3:14-21 -----------

I preached this Sunday on the simple/paradoxical topic of prayer from Ephesians 3:14-21. It's been an interesting week studying, thinking and practicing a prayerful life of praying bold, audacious, God-honoring, sin-killing, people-transforming, kingdom-advancing prayers. God has been challenging me to stop praying for Him to simply maintain the status-quo and start praying big prayers for addictions to be broken, marriages to be reconciled, the lost to be saved, families to be transformed and legacies to be established for God's glory and our good!

I was thrilled to pray for a woman who had given her life to Jesus and was born again this Sunday and I hope and pray this message will continue to "bear fruit" in your life and the life of others.

Prayer "I Am HEARD! - Ephesians 3:14-21