8/4/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Elijah, Elisha and Chariots of Fire - 2 Kings 2

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8/4/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Worship Leader: Luke Stoltzfus
Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Kings 2
Title: Elijah, Elisha, and Chariots of Fire

Notes:

1. Vexation at Elijah's departure
A. Anxiety at coming change
B. The prophets go to Bethel
C. The prophets go to Jericho

2. The prophets go to the Jordan
A. Elijah's last miracle
B. Elijah asks his protege what he can do for him
C. God takes Elijah away in style
D. Elisha's reaction

3. God reveals Elijah's successor
A. Elisha mourns, then gets to work
B. Elisha is recognized as Elijah's successor

4. Three short episodes to start Elisha's ministry
A. Episode 1: Ordinary ministry with Jericho's prophets
B. Episode 2: Ministry of God's grace at Jericho
C. Episode 3: Ministry of God's judgment at Bethel

#elijah #elisha #chariotsoffire

1/15/23 Worship Service and Sermon: Children Born of God - John 1:12-13

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1/15/2023 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: John 1:12-13
Title: Children Born of God
Worship Leader: Mike Culbert
Speaker: Steve Estes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Notes:

1. People became children of God by believing in his Son

2. Believing is more than a feeling
A. To describe becoming a child of God, John uses an action word
B. (With fellow apostles) John coins a new expression to describe the activeness of faith in Christ
C. J.C. Ryle on the need to believe

3. Believing means trusting in a person, not just acknowledging a set of doctrines
A. John shows the personal nature of believing by the phrase "believed in his name"
B. John shows the personal nature of believing by adding a parallel word
C. Illustration: Steve the summer youth director

4. How people do not become children of God
A. Natural descent
B. Human decision
C. Husband's will

5. How people do become children of God

Benediction: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28)

May the saving grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

#John #believing #childrenofGod

1/8/2023 Worship Service and Sermon: The World Did Not Know Him - John 1:10-11

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1/8/2023 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: John 1:10-11
Title: The World Did Not Know Him
Worship Leader: Matt Lambert
Speaker: Steve Estes

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

Notes:

1. The fact that the world did not know him
A. Before public ministry
B. During public ministry

2. Why the world should have known him
A. World should have known him because it was made through him
B. World should have known him because he was in the world
C. World should have known him because he came to those in the best position to know him

3. Why did the world not know him?
A. World was spiritually blind
B. World was resistant

4. Applications
A. For the believer
B. For the resistant

#John #theWord #theworld

7/31/2022 Worship Service and Sermon: Being Mindful of the Wonder of the Gospel - Colossians 1:13-14

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7/31/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Andrew Hageman
Speaker: David Royes
Title: Being Mindful of the Wonder of the Gospel
Scripture: Colossians 1:13-14

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Notes:

1. The Terror of Being Lost
a. Spiritual enslavement is real.

2. The Centrality of Jesus Himself
a. Joy in God's Son
b. Fruit for God's Son
c. Union with God's Son

3. The often-overlooked means

1/31/2021 Worship Service and Sermon: Abraham's Children Avoiding Sodom's Fate - Genesis 18:17-21

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1/31/2021 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Speaker: Pastor Steve Estes
Title: Abraham's Children Avoiding Sodom's Fate
Scripture: Genesis 18:17-21