11/3/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: A Picture for Perseverance - Revelation 1:9-20

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11/3/2024 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Scripture: Revelation 1:9-20
Title: A Picture For Perseverance
Worship Leader: John Sletta
Speaker: David Royes

Notes:

1. An Audible Call

2. An Overwhelming Scene
A. His presence is real
B. His mediation is glorious
C. His wisdom is infinite
D. His perception is perfect
E. His conquest is ongoing

3. A Tangible Comfort
A. John's response
B. Jesus' reassurance

#revelation #Jesus #perseverance

5/26/2024 Worship Service & Sermon: Rain, Grace & Second Chances - 1 Kings 18:41-46

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5/26/2024 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: 1 Kings 18:41-46
Title: Rain, Grace, & Second Chances
Worship Leader: John Sletta
Sermon: Senior Pastor Steve Estes

And Elijah said to Ahab, "Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain." So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees. "Go and look toward the sea," he told his servant. And he went up and looked. "There is nothing there," he said. Seven times Elijah said, "Go back." The seventh time the servant reported, "A cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea." So Elijah said, "Go and tell Ahab, 'Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.'" Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain came on and Ahab rode off to Jezreel. The power of the LORD came upon Elijah and, tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

Notes:

1. Ahab and Elijah

2. The text's first great lessons come by watching Elijah pray
A. Prayer in public must be fueled by prayer in private
B. Prayer must follow (not just precede) our spiritual accomplishments
C. Prayer should major on God's agenda, not ours
D. Prayer should be in earnest

3. The text's final great lesson comes by watching Elijah run
A. Ahab's ill-desert
B. God's grace

#Ahab #Elijah #prayer #grace`

12/10/2023 Celebration Sunday Sermon: The Full Extent of His Love - John 13:1-2

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12/10/2023 Worship Service & Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: John Sletta
Speaker: Steve Estes, Senior Pastor
Scripture: John 13:1-2 (NIV 1984)
Title: Celebration Sunday Sermon: The Full Extent of His Love

It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. The evening meal was being served , and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus.

Notes:

1. Jesus washes His disciples' feet
A. Jesus had already loved them 1,000 ways
B. Now He shows them the full extent of His love

2. Jesus enables us to love Him and other people without exhaustion

3. Brick Lane goals for 2024
A. Ministries
i. Public worship
ii. Internal ministries
iii. Expand local outreach
iv. International outreach

B. What these ministries need
i. A building
ii. Staff
iii. Finances
iv. Prayer

7/9/2023 Worship Service & Sermon: The love of God for born-again believers

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7/9/2023 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Scripture: Various
Title: The love of God for born-again believers
Worship Leader: John Sletta
Speaker: Rich Goswiller

For [God] makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. (Matthew 5:45b)

God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Romans 5:5b)

I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. (Jeremiah 31:3b)

That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is in the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17b-19)

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you our with a mighty hand and redeemed you for the house of slavery. (Deuteronomy 7:6-8)

I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. (John 17:23)

The Lord you God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)

Notes:

1. God loves you with a redemptive love
A. God has a general love for all His creation (Matthew 5:45b)
B. God has a distinctive redeeming love for people He saves (Romans 5:5b)

2. God loves you with an eternal love (Jeremiah 31:3b)

3. God loves you with an infinite love (Ephesians 3:17b-19)

4. God loves you with an unchangeable love

5. God loves you with an unconditional love (Deuteronomy 7:6-8)
A. Does NOT mean God loves sinners the way they are!
B. Means God's love for you is unmerited.

6. God loves you with a special love
A. God loves to love His saints (Zephaniah 3:17)

3/19/2023 Worship Service and Sermon: Navigating Damaged Relationships - Philemon 1:1-6

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3/19/2023 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: John Sletta
Speaker: Joe Whalen
Scripture: Philemon 1:1-6
Title: Navigating Damaged Relationships

Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.

Notes:

1. Three primary people in Philemon
A. Philemon
B. Paul
C. Onesimus

2. Three directions for those of us with damaged relationships
A. Focus on what you have...not on what you don't have
i. Jesus is enough
B. Keep serving...you'll learn much about Jesus
i. Serving Jesus doesn't exempt us from difficulty
C. Keep trusting...we don't know what God is doing in the lives of others
i. God, the greatest Author in existence, knows the best ending to the story

#Philemon #damagedrelationships

1/29/23 Worship Service and Sermon: Sanctity of Human Life - Various Passages

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1/29/2023 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA

Scripture: Romans 1:20a, Genesis 2:7, Psalm 139:13-16, Jeremiah 1:5, Ecclesiastes 11:5, and Ephesians 1:4.
Title: Sanctity of Human Life
Worship Leader: John Sletta
Speaker: Mike Rudolf

Romans 1:20a: For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.

Genesis 2:7: then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Psalm 139:13-16: For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Jeremiah 1:5: Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

Ecclesiastes 11:5: As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

Ephesians 1:4: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing the the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world.

Notes:

1. Human life is sacred because it is God-created

2. Human life is sacred because it is made in God's image
A. Male and female
B. Eternal souls
C. More valuable than many sparrows

3a. Human life is sacred because God loves life
A. The right to life takes precedence over every other human right
B. God takes special care to craft each human life
C. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.

3b. Human life is sacred because God sent His Son to die on a cross to redeem it
A. Jesus, the Lamb of God, willingly went to Calvary
B. All of heaven celebrates when a sinner repents
C. Human life is made for God's glory
D. God lives human life beyond measure, born and unborn

4. Applications
A. Wake up if you've been napping on this issue
B. Imitate Jesus in humility and service
C. Keep on!

Summary:

1. Life is sacred because it is God created.
2. Life is sacred because life is in the image of the creator God.
3. Life is sacred because God loves life and sent his son to redeem it.

3/6/2022 Worship Service and Sermon: Responding to Calamity - Esther 4

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3/6/2022 Worship Service and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: John Sletta
Speaker: Andrew Hageman
Title: Responding to Calamity
Scripture: Esther 4

Main Points

1. Mordecai's Grief -- Feeling responsible for the coming calamity
2. Esther's Dilemma -- Contemplating responsibility to avert calamity
3. Esther's Response -- Living out faith as a sacrifice for many

Conclusion and Application

1. God's silence is not evidence of His absence.
a. God's sovereignty is much bigger than us.

2. The Bible's response to grief and difficulty is to turn our eyes upon God.
a. We can come boldly before the throne of God in our grief.

3. Esther's choice may be upon us.
a. Ask God to prepare us to sacrifice for the sake of Christ.

4. Only by Christ's power can we ever follow in Esther's footsteps
a. Christ is the true and better Esther, making atonement before the throne of God on behalf of all believers.

#Purim #calamity #Esther #responsibility

12/5/2021 Worship Service and Sermon: God is Sovereign. I am Responsible. – Judges 7:1-8

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12/5/2021 Worship and Sermon from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship leader: John Sletta
Sermon: George Murray
Title: God is Sovereign. I am Responsible.
Scripture: Judges 7:1-8