Sermons From Village Bible Church (sugar Grove Campus)

God Wins!!! Let’s turn to the Book of Haggai.  We’ve been in a series entitled “Consider Your Ways” and have been asking the question, “Am I about God’s business or am I about my own?”  We’ve used the illustration of two doors and we’ll talk about...

YOUR BEST LIFE NOW Haggai 2:10-19 Your best life involves: 1. A concept to remember.  The questions God asks address our: Sanctification Contamination 2. Consequences we can receive. These: Come from our faithlessness Are seen in...

Gaining God’s Perspective As we look at how we ought to be considering God’s ways—especially when it comes to our perspectives in life—let’s see what the Scriptures say in Haggai 2:1-9: In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the...

Haggai takes place during a time that was not the best for the people of Israel.  They had been taken away from their homes and all they knew in their homeland had been destroyed.  They were carted off to the nation of Babylon—which is modern-day...

I’m going to ask you to turn to the Old Testament Book of Haggai.  If you don’t know where it is, the best way to find it is to go to your table of contents.  It’s a small book at the end of the Old Testament.  In fact, it’s the second shortest book...

Giving your last full measure of devotion involves: 1.  Living your life without restrictions.     This involves:         ●  Sacrificing daily for God         ●  Seeing our departure as the beginning 2.  Living your life without regrets     This...

If you haven’t yet, turn to 1 Peter 5.  We’re in a series that we’ve entitled “Strangers in a Strange Land” that we’ve been in now for over six months.  We had the great privilege to have Betty Shiman  with us—a wonderful elderly woman who now lives...

Please open your Bibles to the book of 1 Peter, chapter five.  Our heading today is “Things My Mom Taught Me.”  It’s not per se a Mother’s Day message, but a reminder of some of the simple truths and themes that Peter is going to share in our lesson...

We’re in the last chapter of the Book of 1 Peter in a series entitled “Strangers in a Strange Land.”  As we come to this last chapter, we see that it speaks to the issue of leadership within the church.  We’ve been learning for some time now that God...

This strategy involves: 1.  Adopting a new attitude.     Involves:          •  Dying to our sinful desires.          •  Chasing after His commands.     This leads to:          •  Freaking out friends and family.     And means we should be:          ...

I’m going to ask that you take God’s Word in your hands.   We love to pick up God’s Word and teach through it verse by verse.  We’ve been going through one of the 66 books of the Bible—1 Peter which is a New Testament book that was written...

Let’s take God’s Word in our hands and continue our series entitled “Strangers in a Strange Land.”  We are midway through the third chapter of this five-chapter book written by Peter, a Galilean fisherman.  Though Peter had difficulties at first being...

Take God’s Word in your hands and turn with me to 1 Peter.  As we turn in our Bibles to 1 Peter 3, I want to remind you that you can be involved in greater study of this passage in community with other believers through many of the small groups we...

I’m going to ask you to turn in your Bibles to 1 Peter 3:1-6.  We’ll be continuing our process of going verse by verse through the Book of 1 Peter.  Let’s look at this text together: 1 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if...

Peter has laid forth a difficult theme and difficult road ahead for his readers in the book of 1 Peter.  He says in chapter one, “You shall be holy, for I [God] am holy” (1 Peter 1:16).  That is a tall order in a world full of temptation and sin.  Our...

Peter speaks of submission in the workplace by answering the following questions: 1.  What does it mean to submit?     Submission involves:          •  Knowing your role          •  Having a proper respect 2.  When should we submit?     Submission...

I’m going to ask you to open your Bible to 1 Peter 2:11-17. We’re going to be looking at verses 13-17 but we’ll be reading all seven verses. As you’re turning there, I want to read another passage for us to put into our hearts in order to prepare us...

Peter plays out three points right before us: the Position God Places Us In — Who we are as a people; the Passions Peter Pleads Us to Resist — What we are supposed to do as a people; and the Plan God Provides for Us to be Victorious — How we are to...

Are you a part of God's building project? God is at work and He’s looking for us to join Him as living stones who are brought together so we may see the house God is building and place all our faith and trust in Him. So that one day, in its full...

As we jump back into this series “Strangers in a Strange Land,” we find ourselves in 1 Peter 2:1-3.  I love how sometimes the calendar works so well with plans we don’t even think about having.  We have a great way to kick off this new year of...