2/2/25 Worship Service & Sermon: Love: Graces Better Than Gifts - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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2/2/25 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Title: Love: Graces Better Than Gifts
Worship Leader: Matt Griffith
Speaker: Steve Estes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Notes:

1. Introduction
A. Challenges facing the earliest Christians
B. How God equipped them

2. Love is more important than gifted speaking and teaching
A. The gift of tongues
B. The problem
C. The application

3. Love is much more important than mere religious activity
A. "If I have the gift of prophecy..."
B. "If I can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge..."
C. "If I have a faith that can move mountains..."

4. Love is more important than even acts of personal sacrifice
A. "If I give all I possess to the poor..."
B. "...and surrender my body to the flames..."

5. The result of no love
A. "I gain nothing"
B. "I am nothing"

6. Three closing thoughts

Benediction: (From Psalm 28) Praise be to the Lord, for he has heard our cry for mercy. Our hearts trust in him, and we are helped. Save your people and bless your inheritance, be our shepherd and carry us forever. Amen

#love #graces #gifts #nothing

1/26/25 Worship Service & Sermon: A Fine Wife - Proverbs 31:10-31

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1/26/25 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Proverbs 31:10-31
Title: A Fine Wife
Worship Leader: Matt Carter
Speaker: Steve Estes

Notes:

1. A wife of noble character
A. Who is the passage speaking of?
B. What if I'm not a wife or a mother?
C. A woman of noble character

2. First area of her attention: her husband
A. A helper suitable for him
B. "clothed in fine linen and purple"

3. Second area of her attention: her children
A. Basic needs
B. Involved in their lives
C. All this takes energy!

4. Third area of her attention: outside her home
A. Finances (for her home)
B. The needy

5. Near the end: "Who can find?!"

6. Applications

#wife #noble #noblecharacter

1/5/25 Worship Service & Sermon: The Christians Eternal Rest - Hebrews 4:9-10

1/5/25 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Hebrews 4:9-10
Title: The Christians Eternal Rest
Speaker: Steve Estes
Worship Leader: John Sletta

There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.

Notes:

1. Introduction
A. Baxter's life/illnesses
B. Old Testament saints in the desert were promised rest
C. Christians have hard lives, but God has promised eternal rest

2. Our eternal rest
A. Our eternal rest means the end of tiring effort
B. Our eternal rest means we will experience perfect love
C. Our eternal rest means we'll have the capacity for all heaven's delights

3. How our souls will respond to all this in heaven

#eternalrest #richardbaxter