12/1/24 Worship Service & Sermon: A Covenant Keeping Advent - Matthew 1:1-18

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12/1/24 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Matthew 1:1-18
Title: A Covenant-keeping Advent
Speaker: Matt Carter
Worship Leader: Randy Hepler

Notes:

1. A Gospel built on two covenants
A. Davidic covenant
B. Abrahamic covenant

2. Grafted to Jesus' Family tree

3. God's faithfulness through generations
A. Famous and kingdom-advancing generations
B. Invisible generations
C. Foreign generations
D. Scandalous generations
E. Generations of division and exile
F. Generations in which kingship has vanished
G. The final generation

4. Two takeaways from our time in Matthew 1

#Jesus #david #abraham #covenant #generations

8/25/24 Worship Service & Sermon: Who, then, Is This? - Mark 4:35-41

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8/25/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Worship Leader: Randy Hepler
Speaker: Wendell Stoltzfus
Scripture: Mark 4:35-41
Title: Who, then, Is This?

On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side." And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?" And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?" And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

Notes:

1. The fisherman and the sea
A. Simon Peter
B. Sea of Galilee

2. Jesus in the boat
A. He had been teaching all day
B. He still had a lesson to teach that night

3. The storm
A. More than experienced fishermen could handle
B. Eventually, the disciples ask Jesus to help
C. Jesus rebukes the storm, then rebukes His disciples

4. The disciples' reaction
A. "Who then is this?"
B. These sinful men realize they're in the presence of the Holy One
C. Jesus' lesson for His disciples

5. The storms we encounter
A. What makes us afraid?
B. "Why are you so afraid?"

8/18/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Saints, When Absent from the Body, Are Present with the Lord - 2 Corinthians 5:8

8/18/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Worship Leader: Randy Hepler
Speaker: Jonathan Edwards (modified by Steve Estes)
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:8
Title: Saints, When Absent from the Body, Are Present with the Lord

2 Corinthians 5:8--We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Notes:

1. Departed saints live in the same wonderful place as Christ
A. Christ in Heaven still has a human nature
B. Heaven is a place
C. Angels are in Heaven
D. Departed saints are in Heaven
E. We who are saved will be in Heaven

2. The souls of saints in Heaven have an unhindered sight of Jesus Christ
A. When absent from friends, we can only think about them
B. "But then we shall see Him face to face"
C. Those in Heaven see Him "as He is"

3. Departed saints become perfectly like Him by seeing Him

4. Departed saints enjoy a glorious and immediate closeness with Him
A. Departed saints are present with the Lord
B. But His glorious state won't intimidate them
C. Reasons with His majesty won't intimidate them

6/23/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Recruiting Elisha - 1 Kings 19:19-21

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6/23/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Scripture: 1 Kings 19:19-21
Title: Recruiting Elisha
Worship Leader: Randy Hepler
Sermon: Senior Pastor Steve Estes

So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. "Let me kiss my father and mother good-by," he said, "and then I will come with you." "Go back," Elijah replied. "What have I done to you?" So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the mean and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his attendant.

Notes:

1. Elijah goes to Abel Meholah
A. The journey
B. The destination
C. The family of farmers

2. Elijah recruits Elisha
A. A hard-working heir
B. A silent summons

3. Elisha's response
A. He chases after Elijah
B. He asks to kiss his parents goodbye
C. He breaks all ties with the past

4. What the day's events meant for the people affected
A. Elijah
B. Elisha's parents
C. Elisha himself

#Elijah #Elisha

4/14/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: A Story of Three Dynasties - 1 Kings 16:8-28

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4/14/2024 Worship Service from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: 1 Kings 16:8-28
Title: A Story of Three Dynasties
Worship Leader: Randy Hepler
Speaker: Steve Estes

Notes:

1. Elah: The Carousing King
A. His degenerate reign
B. His sad end
C. A warning about the worship of pleasure
D. The double evil of pulling others into our own sins

2. Zimri: The Tough-Guy King
A .He ends Baasha's dynasty the same way it began
B. His dynasty ends in a blaze of defiance
C. The ultimate expression of self-determination

3. Four years of civil war

4. Omri: The Winner Who Was a Loser
A. Politically a winner
B. Spiritually a loser

#Elah #Zimri #Omri

1/7/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Solomon’s Golden Reign - 1 Kings 3-10

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1/7/2024 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Randy Helper
Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 1 Kings 3-10
Title: Solomon's Golden Reign

Notes:

1. Solomon as a ruler of power and strength

2. Solomon as a ruler of wisdom
A. God appears to him at Gibeon
B. The two prostitutes
C. Wisdom in literature and natural sciences

3. Solomon as a ruler of wealth
A. Refinery at the Gulf of Aqaba
B. Overland trade routes
C. Sea-going trade
D. Result

4. Solomon as worthy

5. Solomon as a ruler of honor, glory, and praise

#solomon #1kings

10/8/23 Worship Service and Sermon: The Shape of Christ in the Quietly Faithful - Philippians 2:25-30

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10/8/2023 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Philippians 2:25-30
Title: The Shape of Christ in the Quietly Faithful
Worship Leader: Randy Hepler
Speaker: Dr. Mark Garcia

I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need, for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill. Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious. So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and honor such men, for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.

Notes:

1. Paul's relationship to the church in Philippi
A. Converts at the river and at the jail
B. Philippians want to help Paul while he is in Jerusalem

2. Philippian church sent a letter to Paul in prison
A. They are poor and have problems with dissenting members
B. "Keep Epaphroditus and send Timothy"

3. Paul's letter to a church in turmoil
A. "Epaphroditus is the pastor you need"
B. A servant's heart without celebrity

4. What "Epaphrodituses" are in our midst?

7/30/23 Worship Service and Sermon: Suffering and Safety in Christ - Romans 8:18-28

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7/23/2023 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Randy Helper
Speaker: Tyler Estes
Scripture: Romans 8:18-28
Title: Suffering and Safety in Christ

Notes:

1. The primary theme of Romans 8 is that those who are in Christ are safe

2. The suffering of Christians is not something to treat lightly
A. Our sufferings are sometimes the result of our sin
B. But our sufferings are sometimes the result of another's sin
C. And our sufferings are sometimes the result of vanity in a fallen world
D. The Bible draws a connection between our sufferings and the glory that we receive with Christ

3. Our sufferings are insignificant compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us at Christ's Second Coming

4. We are sustained in our sufferings by the hope of our salvation

5. We are also sustained in our sufferings by the intercession of the Holy Spirit

6. Applications

#Romans #suffering

2/20/2022 Worship Service and Sermon: Cancer in the Church - Joshua 7

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2/20/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Randy Hepler
Speaker: Mark Estes
Title: Cancer in the Church
Scripture: Joshua 7

1. Sometimes a great victory is followed by a great defeat
a. Sin leads to defeat
b. Dissatisfaction leads to coveting
c. Decisive action is needed
d. Sin is a cancer-like threat

2. Unrepentant sin cannot be tolerated in the Christian life
a. Individually
b. Corporately
c. A word to the young

#sin #unrepentantsin #churchdiscipline