Sermons

Sunday Breakfast – January 2025

Carols Service 2024 at Glyfada Christian Center

Candlelight Service 2024 at the Glyfada Christian Center

The Holy Spirit in Christmas

Pastor Gail Welcome 1. We needed to Change the PowerPoint entirely. Because we needed some help with our some of our songs. I’m really glad to be here this morning. I had cataract removal surgery on Friday, and logically I shouldn’t be...

Holy Spirit – We’re part of the Family of God

Pastor Gail – Welcome 1. So, Father, while we organize lots of things, we want to praise You, He is always here, whether we’ve got our everything ready or not. That’s exciting that You understand our humanity, and You’re so pleased...

The Holy Spirit is Charismatic

Pastor Brian – Welcome and prayer 1. Good Morning to those in the room and to those out there. We continue to believe today that this is the Lord’s Day, that it is His intention to be with us today, and so it is our responsibility to...

The Holy Spirit – The Secret Place

Pastor Gail – Introduction and prayer 1. Good morning. We’re glad for those of you who are here. Is it raining more outside? Well, praise the Lord. He is a good, good God, Amen. And we are so honored to gather in His name. No matter...

The Holy Spirit Speaks

Eva-Lena Main Message 1. Maybe that was a bit of an abrupt transition. But at the same time, it is just so special to be able to stand here and to experience God’s presence so closely. As you know, we have been speaking about the Holy...

The Holy Spirit and Prayer

Pastor Gail – Opening and Prayer 1. It’s a beautiful day today to be in the house of the Lord. A lot of us have been very busy this last week. I think we’re playing catch-up with ourselves. And that’s the wonderful thing about the Lord...

The Holy Spirit – Living Water

Pastor Gail – welcome and prayer 1. Good morning to you. I’m telling you the room looks great. I pray and I’m believing that we will look like this every week. I just declare for our Swedes, all of you, America, whatever country...

The Holy Spirit and Love – the Agent of Transformation in us

Pastor Gail – Opening and Prayer 1. Please remain standing. Open your Bibles to 1 Corinthians 13:1-4. If you need a Bible, we have Bibles we can pass out. Vary familiar passage of Scripture. “If I speak in the tongues of men or of...

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Leto – Opening 1. Good morning to all. It’s good to be here. Today, we’ll begin by reading from the Word of God. Psalm 138:1-4, “I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart; before the “gods” I will sing your praise. I will bow down...

Being Led by the Holy Spirit

Pastor Brian – Opening and Prayer 1. Lord, it is so easy to sing the words of the song, and ask You to open our eyes, the eyes of our heart. But Lord, I have it in my spirit today, that Lord, You’re not looking for the words of the...

The Holy Spirit is God

Billy Hellmark – Opening and Prayer 1. I welcome you warmly. You are welcome to stand or sit down if you would like. We’ll read a Psalm together. So, why not stand when we read from the Word of God. We’ll be reading from Psalm...

The Holy Spirit – Our Helper

Pastor Gail – Opening and Prayer 1. What a privilege it is to declare that He is the Lord. If you would like, there are some Bibles around the room. We like to encourage people to take a paper Bible rather than their phones. You may...

Holy Spirit – Introduction

Pastor Gail – Opening Prayer 1. Good morning. You look really good. It’s great to see you today. Amen, and it’s always so good when we can come together, just take a moment out of our week, just to stop and concentrate on the Lord,...

GCC at the beach with testimonies, baptisms and praise

God’s Love, God’s Protection

Pastor Gail Opening Prayer 1. I always love to find myself in the company of those who want to praise God. To be able to worship Him with people that love Him. It’s wonderful to worship the Lord at home by yourself, we need to do that,...

I can’t get no satisfaction

Pastor Gail Opening prayer 1. Good morning. It’s good to see everyone. And for those of you online, we’re glad that you are with us. It’s always good, when we just put everything aside and worship the Lord. Father, we come before You...

Jesus says, it is I, don’t be afraid

Pastor Gail – Opening Prayer 1. Please remain standing for the reading of the Word. There are Bibles near you so that you can follow along. And for those who are following online, we are reading from 1 Peter 3:10-12a, “For, “Whoever...

The Goodness of God

Pastor Gail – Opening Prayer 1. Amen. Please remain standing, for the Word of God. Like I say every week, in August, I’m always excited to see who I’m going to see in Church. So, it’s always a surprise, every week, people I’ve...

The Church – The Body of Christ

Pastor Gail Stathis – Opening Prayer 1. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. We want to read today from 1 Samuel 3:8-10. I love this passage of Scripture. “A third time the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said,...

Running the Race – Sharing the Prize

Pastor Gail – Scripture Reading, Opening Prayer 1. Father, we thank You for today, You alone deserve all of our praise, Lord. So, today, Lord, as we gather together, we want You to be pleased with all that we do. Would you like to take...

It’s all about the Book

Anton Beukes; Sarah Wheway – Oikos Outreach Kefalonia 1. Anton: We just want to share that we had. We shared with you before we went, and we want to thank you for all your prayers and encouragement. The outreach was in 2 parts. All 12...

Focus your Eyes upon Jesus

Pastor Johnny Scroggins Hi, everyone, smile first. Everybody looks better with a smile on your face. Besides Brian, anybody tired right now? This is what they tell me, it takes more muscles to frown, than it does to smile. And so,...

We are Church – Its Two Goals

Pastor Gail Stathis – Main Message I’m going to talk today, we don’t have a PowerPoint, if you don’t have a Bible, I’m not to go into a lot of Scriptures today. But you may want to have your Bible handy. We are talking about, ‘We are...

How God speaks to our souls, in the midst of the darkness.

Reading the Word – Prayer – Stavro Antoniades Please remain standing for the reading of the Word of the Lord. We will read from Psalm 119:105-106, “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. I have taken an oath and...

Pentecost 2024

Pentecost 2024 Pastor Gail Stathis Prayer If you would, would you open your Bibles to Joel, it’s in the Old Testament. Joel 2:28, “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old...

The Kingdom of God and the Church – Part 2

Brian van Deventer opening, Prayer and announcements I have to begin with an apology this morning. I don’t know why I’m apologizing actually; I started losing my voice on my way to church. So, if I struggle through the morning, you’ll...

We are Church

The Kingdom of God and the Church – Part 1

The Kingdom of God and the Church Brian van Deventer prayer Holy Spirit, we welcome You here today, we thank You that Yu have prepared the way. And Holy Spirit, You’ve gone before us. Lord, I believe that You have prepared hearts and...

We are the Church held together with the cement of God’s Love

Gail Stathis Prayer Good morning. I’m really glad to be with you today. It’s a very interesting morning. Last night there was a group of people from all over Greece, that came to celebrate the Sandas family. It’s been such a joy to...

The Church – Help us to do a new thing Lord

Pastor Gail Stathis – Opening Prayer It’s always so good to always come together to worship the Lord. And we’re glad for those with us on line today. If you have your Bibles, and if not, there are Bibles around on the seats. We’d like...

GCC Mission and Vision

Brian van Deventer Amen and Good morning. Grab your Bibles, and our first Scripture is going to be Hebrews 10:24,25. This is one of those Sundays where you wish that every regular member or attender of the Church could be here today....

Easter Service 2024 – He is our Solid Rock – He will never Fail us

Gail Stathis He won’t fail. Never. And tonight, as a celebration of that, often we remember on Easter Friday or Saturday, we remember Jesus as the Sacrificial Lamb. But He wasn’t just a Sacrificial Lamb, He became the biggest Victor...

Be Light – Eternal Truth and Facts

Gail Stathis Praise God. I had a different word, at 6 o’clock this morning, the Lord changed it. I’ve been really troubled for a season now, about truth and facts. They may not always be the same. There was a woman with an issue of...

Be Light – Grace, a gift from God

Pastor Steve Dixon Praise God. Greetings in the name of Jesus, and I wanted to play this piano because it’s anointed over here. Wow! I love the worship; I love the worship. It is worship with thanksgiving to our great God that brings...

Be Light – Back to our original created form

Pastor Terren Anderson Good morning. It’s an honor to be here today. We must give tanks to pastor Gail, pastor Brian, for the invitation to come and be here with you today. We love the work that they do, you are pastored by two...

Be Light – How long will we Suffer for

Be Light – How long will we Suffer for Leto Karantoni Good morning. I thank our pastors for the opportunity to share the Word of God. And above all I praise God that He gives us the opportunity to be here and to praise Him and worship...

Be Light – Take care of God’s Flock

Be Light – Take care of God’s Flock Korina Skale Sorry about my voice, we’ll apologize in advance. I don’t often preach; I am usually just a teacher. And as I was preparing today, God’s like, “We’re doing something...

Be Light – The End of all things is near

Billy Hellmark. Είμαι ο Βασίλης and this is Billy. Nice to meet you all. It’s good to be with you, and to look at the Word of God together. During this time, we’ve been looking at 1 Peter. In Swedish we say the letter or the epistle....

Victory Christian School – Wednesday Night Praise, Prayer, Bible Study

Be Light – Be a Do-er not a Don’t-er

You’re lucky because I have a flight to catch this afternoon, and I haven’t packed yet and I have to take my dogs to their babysitter. Turn with me to 1 Peter 4: 1-2. I’m probably going to skip the first part of this very quickly,...

Be Light – Eternal Protection in Christ

Be Light – Eternal Protection in ChristGood morning to you all. It is great to be a part of this family. Last week I didn’t get the chance to reply or talk about becoming a part of this congregation. I believe speak for Kata and...

I will follow Jesus – This requires Action

Our Local Family, New Members (Anton Beukes, Henneke Cook, Michal Witt, Katerina Witt) and Communion Again, one of these things, the printer problem. But I got what I need. Hallelujah. We’re going to have communion in just a moment,...

Be Light – Without Fear

Be Light – Without Fear As I told you before having no notes can make things dangerous or helpful. We continue talking about Being Light. So, turn with me to 1 Peter 3:8-16. We’ll skip a little ahead from what we said last week. As...

Be Light – Jesus Christ the Living Stone

You may be seated. I’m going to change the order of service this morning. Leto will do the announcements and the offering at the end. Kids, you can go, head on up. We bless you as you go. We pray that you have a great morning. I just...

Be Light – Being Light means Being Holy

Lord, as we turn to your Word today, I pray that You would feed us, with the food of the Spirit that brings us strength. I pray Lord that You would quicken our minds, that You would open us up, so that we could hear You. Lord as we...

Be Light – Have Hope

Be Light – Have Hope This hymn is a very nice prayer, ‘Open up my eyes in wonder and show me who You are and fill me, with Your heart and lead me in Your love and to those around me’. That’s a good prayer to pray, and even as we turn...

Be Light – Who is Christ to You?

Be Light – Who is Christ to You? Opening Prayer Certainly, the Lord is here this morning. And as we worship, whatever might be hindering you, it will fall away and you’ll know He’s here. We want to look at the word for a second this...

Be Light

Be Light Good morning. Everybody greet your neighbor again. Make sure they’re awake. Look at that neighbor again and call him a stranger. We are going a little further from what pastor Gail preached last week. If you weren’t here or...

I Am Living Eternally Right Now

I Am Living Eternally Right Now Please remain standing for the reading of the Word. I would like you to read with me if you have your Bibles Psalm 138:1-3 “I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart; before the “gods” I will sing your...

Christmas Service 2023 at GCC

Christmas Candle light Service 2023

Christmas Candle light Service 2023 Pastor Gail Amen, we’re so glad you’re here for candlelight. It’s a night of great Joy. It’s absolutely a celebration, and we’re very glad you’re here. Today we want to light the 4th candle for...

Joy – Celebrating Jesus

The Symbolism of the Candles of Christmas Korina Skale; Eleni Atmatzidou This morning we are starting the 3rd Sunday of Advent, and we’re going to talk a little bit about the symbolism of the Advent candles. First of all, the circle...

Kelly Mahan Testimony; Advent, the Season of Waiting

Advent, the Season of Waiting The Testimony of Kelly Mahan The week before last, we had the wonderful privilege, of baptizing Kelly Mahan in the sea. Today will be her last Sunday, and she’s going to share her testimony with us. Thank...

Thanksgiving and Caleb’s Testimony

Thanksgiving & Caleb Testimony Amen, you may be said, thank God. It’s great to see everybody this morning. I’m excited, you’ll get to taste my stuffing in the turkey. It’s so exciting to be together today, as a family to sit at the...

Breaking through your roof to be the Amazing Jesus to others

Breaking through your roof to be the Amazing Jesus to others Please be seated. I’m going to take the offering at the end. And Sarah and Anton, I’m going to have you to share just a little bit your testimonies in Jordan. I won’t be very...

Being the Church outside the Walls

Being the Church outside the Walls Now Lord, we declare that as a prayer today, that You would show us how to declare Your love to those around us, because indeed Lord, there is no one like You. I Jesus’ Name Amen. It’s good to see...

Come, Lord Jesus, Come

Come, Lord Jesus, Come Good morning. Are you all good? Men, Hallelujah. So glad to be with you all today. I’m always glad when I come back to Glyfada. I think pastors Gail and Brian are making a habit out of this. I would like to share...

Eternity and Everyone

Eternity and Everyone Today I’m going to be preaching about “Eternity and Everyone”. This may be part 3 of last 2 Sundays. I’m very much captured in my heart, as I see world events, that this local church and the Body of Christ...

Understand Eternal Life as never before

Understand Eternal Life as never before I come to you very humbly this morning. With what I hope is the fear of the Lord today. The sermon that I had last week, and this is part 2. I received these words before the war in the Holy Land...

What the Word says about the Last Days

What the Word says about the Last Days In every way possible, I felt like the enemy tried to hinder this word today. I even had the outline before I left for Constantinople, I sent it for translation, I arrived late back yesterday – my...

What does God look like?

What does God look like It’s nice to see all of you. And it’s also beautiful to praise the Lord together. So, thank you for worshipping with us. For a while we’ve been talking about really what God is like. Last week we heard about...

The Trinity

The Trinity Oh, what a joy it is to be here today. And what a beautiful Community of Faith here. You have something special here. I hope you appreciate that. I bring you greetings from our Church in Georgia, USA, and we are so glad to...

Understanding the Times, we are living in

Understanding the Times, we are living in Lord this is our prayer, “We want to be new wine on earth. In the name of Jesus, Amen”. What a joy to be in the House of the Lord today. I always miss you when I don’t get to be here. I just...

God’s Love Eliminates Fear

God’s Love that Eliminates fear It’s great to be here with you George. We’ve never met like this before, I think. We sang here, “You’re all I want”. This week we’re coming close to both Eva-Lena’s and my birthday, so, we asked each...

The Love of God

The Love of God I wanted to do a different word for today, about praying for everyone and about caring for everyone. Because we’re going to be talking for the next 10 years, when it will be the 2000-year celebration of the coming of...

Who Jesus says He is

Who Jesus says He is   I’d like to invite Andre; he was an associate pastor here. “Well thank you pastor Gail, Good morning, I’m very pleased to be here at home. If I start crying, it’s your fault. But I’d like to invite my wife...

God’s special personal creation

God’s special personal creation To the King of Heavens, all glory and honor and worship is due. I had the privilege of playing in the streets and in the fields, and I belong to that generation who grew up among the children who played...

Anointing Stavro as Deacon of the Local Church

Anointing Stavros as Deacon of the local Church For those of you who are watching, we are at the beach, and it’s a beautiful day, of course, it’s August. People take a little more time in the morning in the summer, because it’s relax...

I will Fix my Eyes on Jesus

Fix your Eyes on Jesus The first part of the video sermon is missing. We take it up from here: This last week, two people I, Brian and Evy know committed suicide in the last week. This is the highest rate of suicide ever recorded in...

Do Church – I am here, Present in my Church

Do Church – I am here, Present in my Church Lord, we thank You that we are here together to worship You and that we are all together blessed by You. We don’t just simply go to Church. We ARE the Church. I was thinking this past week,...

Do Church – Sharing our Faith

Do Church – Sharing our Faith Pastor Gail got it in her spirit that we should start using the gifts of other translators. So, if you speak both languages, you’re in trouble. I thank you for being here with me today, George. Joshua 5...

Do Church – How are we committed to Honor our Leaders

Do Church – How are we committed to Honor our Leaders Spent some time introducing himself to GCC people. So, today we’re going to look at, as part of the series “Being the Church” – “How we are committed to honor our Leaders”. Let’s...

Do Church – Teaching them to obey

Do Church – Teaching them to Obey I don’t know if you get excited talking about obedience. I’ll take you back more than 40 years ago, in the country where I grew up, we had compulsory military service, and when I reached that age, I...

Do Church – Being the Church and Making Disciples

Do Church – Being the Church and Making Disciples I don’t think I’ll speak really long today; I always say that but … I hear you all laughing. I love to preach! I love to preach! This topic “Being the Church and making Disciples”. It’s...

Do Church – Biblical Conflict Resolution

Do Church – Biblical Conflict Resolution 1. Good morning from me, it’s so nice to see familiar faces. My mind is torn between Greek and English at this moment. Let me give you a brief introduction. My wife and I came here in...

Do Church – Being an Attender, a Member and a Minister

Do Church – Being an Attender, a Member and a Minister Sarah Wheway: Good morning, all. We had a wonderful time of worship – this is why we gather together, to worship our Lord. I just saw a message from George “Come to the Church,...

Do Church – There’s Unity in the Church even in our Diversity

Do Church – There’s Unity in the Church even in our Diversity Good morning, all. We have another first today in that George is going to be doing his first Sunday translation. It’s good to be in the house of the Lord and to sense the...

Do Church – Gifted – Empowered to Serve

Do Church – Gifted – Empowered to Serve This is a good Sunday for today’s topic. You probably didn’t know this but pastors are always disappointed when people are missing from church, and some people think we just want numbers and...

Do Church – How much Christ is Committed to us

Do Church – How much Christ is Committed to us.   We welcome Ilias Papoutsides who will be doing the translating today (Giving Leto) a rest. I’ve known Ilias for a number of years and he loves the Lord. We are thankful for...

Revival

Revival   In the 1980’s a spirit of revival hit Australia, transforming the Christian landscape of Churches in Australia. Our Pastor and Church was experiencing an incredible movement of the Holy Spirit. I, as an 18-year-old...

Do Church – Tithing and Giving

Do Church – Core Principles of Local Church Participation – Tithing and Giving   I wrote a sermon on Friday and I tore it up. I wrote another one yesterday (Saturday) and I tore it up again. I put something together this...

Do Church – Committed to Worship God

Do Church – Committed to Worship God As a Church GCC is committed to Worship. Worship is a big word. It begins on the inside, that becomes expressions in acts of service and love. This is what Paul in Romans 12: 1,2 calls “true and...

Do Church – Serving People on the Margins

Do Church – Serving People on the Margins In the slide showing we see the main text, and someone has scribbled a lot of notes. If we take the Bible, many people write in the margins of their Bibles. However, the main text is what is of...

Do Church – Devoted to Service

Do Church – Devoted to Service God has given us life and His great mercy. We must be joyful about this – we have Jesus’ life inside of us. We have been talking about being the church, and we hear the word “devoted to” many time...

Easter Saturday – Do Church – Love for God’s Word

The message today will be different than the usual Easter Message. I believe it is a powerful word for the world in which we live today. Jesus lives in us and He wants us to love His word. Most of know Billy Graham, who preached the...

Easter Friday – Service of Humility

Humble service uses the Gifts of God, it glorifies God....

Easter Thursday – Humble Service – Jesus washes the Disciples’ feet

Easter Thursday – The First Passover – the Last Communion....

Easter Wednesday  – The Church Living in Unceasing Prayer

Because He lives we are in constant communication with Him....

Core Values – Holiness of Heart (Palm Sunday Service 2023)

Core Values – Devoted to Christ

Important to always remember that the Word is what builds us up and strengthens us. The subject of our services for a while now has been “Don’t Just simply go to church, be the Church”. Praise God we have been hearing...

Core Principles – Protect the Unity of my Church

Today, we’ll read many Scriptures, as we want them to speak for themselves. You’ll have all those Scriptures in your minds and then we’ll walk through some practical things from those Scriptures. Since we have no...

Support my Church through Studying the Bible

I can surely say that the Lord has never failed me. On the other hand, I have failed Him many times. Sometimes it seems that He has failed me, but He always comes up at the appropriate time. We continue our series and today the theme...

Responsibilities of being part of a Church – Go to Church

We’re using the slide “Don’t just go to church; Be the Church” and will continue to use it for a while yet. Last week we started on the theme of what are the responsibilities of being part of the Church....

Being the Church and our Responsibilities to the Church

You are designed and created by God to carry out His plan, and it’s His plan for us to execute it together. Jesus is the head of the Church, we’re His body and He wants us to pray, to fast, to give, to raise up the next...

The Church is a Family

It’s good to be here as a church family all together today. Jesus used metaphors when speaking to the people. Previously we talked about the Church being a flock, body, a field, a building, a temple and today about the Church...

The Church is a Flock

We are talking about simple concepts, we don’t go to church, we ARE the CHURCH. Bring people along to come to church. We are grateful to have this place where we can gather together. The mail reason why we are here is so that we...

The Church is a Body

Today we’ll talk about the Church as a Body. These words come from the Scriptures. They paint particular pictures. According to 1 Cor 12: 27 “YOU are the Body of Christ”. This is not for someone else but for YOU. We...

Fellowship

Remember last week we had 4 Pillars on the screen.  The Apostle’s Teaching, Fellowship, The Breaking of Bread and Prayer. Today we will speak about Fellowship. In our main passage in Acts 2 we see a lot of Fellowship, even...

Being the Church – Being Devoted to Christ

The Lord is calling us (GCC) to put Him first, to keep our eyes on Jesus. Our single choice in life must be to live for Christ. How Devotion is defined: We can do lip service (saying we love Him) but we must prove it. Like saying we...

Be the Church

Don’t just go to Church but BE the CHURCH. We are here helping each other get energy for life, we’re honoring God by meeting together to honor Him. But this is not the life of the Church. It is who you are at your job, how...

Paul to the Ephesians – Back in the Sanctuary in 2023

Praise God from the moment you ask Jesus in your life You may have no inheritance here on earth but you’ll enjoy a heavenly inheritance forever. Let’s keep the flame burning, when the world is heavy against us and the...

The Christmas Story: A Christmas Eve Celebration 2022

Candlelight Service 2022

Red Letter Series – The Distinguishing Mark of a Christian

We have been talking about God’s Glory, He alone deserves all the Glory, since He is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent. As we accept Jesus into our hearts, following Him and we enter into glory which a non-believer can not...

Red Letter Series – The Glory of God

We remember the famous scene when a multitude of Angels made an announcement to the shepherds “Glory to God in the Highest and peace to men” which begins the Christmas story. God in the form of man entered our world. The...

Red Letter Series – Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life

The Gospel of John is known as the Gospel of the 7 Signs. The 7th sign performed by Jesus was the resurrection of Lazarus from the dead, showing us even before Jesus’ death, and resurrection, that death has been conquered by the...

Red Letter Series – Healing a Man Born Blind

The healing of the man born blind started in John Chapter 9 but we are now reading from Chapter 10. The Jews had decided that if someone was born blind it was due to sin, either their parent’s or theirs. The healing of a man BORN...

Red Letter Series – Freedom in Jesus

In the book of John, we see many introductions to Jesus – the Good Shepherd, the Door, the Water (not just tap water but the water of Life through the Holy Spirit). Remember God still speaks today! He’s the God of the...

Red Letter Series – If you thirst, Come to Me and Drink

In those days during the feast of Tabernacles, where the Israelites lived in tents during their journey in the Exodus from Egypt.  Jesus went to Jerusalem secretly initially. The people put up tents in the squares or in the streets in...

Red Letter Series – Jesus didn’t come to give us bread but to be the Bread of Life

Red Letter Series – Do I want to get well

Jesus heals an invalid on the Sabbath. The Pharisees are angry about this. The man should not carry his mat on the Sabbath. Three Points: Jesus is in Jerusalem again, and He makes it a point to go to a pool where the sick were, waiting...

Red Letter Series – The Reality of Heaven in our Lives

We need to build on eternal things. But we often find excuses. Let’s think about heaven. The real essence is how does heaven produce all the good things. To receive from heaven, we must understand it’s culture – which...

Red Letter Series – Nicodemus meets Jesus

John was the youngest of the Apostles and lived the longest. He was also the closest to Jesus. John and James were called the sons of thunder. John walked very close to Jesus. All his life he reflected on who Jesus was. He goes deep in...

Red Letter Series – Jesus, the Light that FOREVER overcomes darkness!

The Word was God and took flesh and dwelled among us. This is the most basic of Christian doctrine but is not simple. Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. Everything we believe about Jesus depends on this – that Jesus Christ...

Red Letter Series – The Resurrection of Jesus

Red Letter Series – Carrying our Cross

Jesus starts out in a surprising way. He talked about loving – even your enemies, and here He says about whoever wants to follow Him must hate his mother and father, wife and children, even his own life. What is going on here?...

Red Letter Series – When the Good News Doesn’t Sound so Good

We always like to have a good view of Jesus: The Healing Jesus, The Forgiving Jesus; Bringing Joy to the Earth Jesus But another side to the Character of Jesus, which reveals the purpose of Jesus: Jesus tells us that following Him may...

Red Letter Series – Don’t Worry

In today’s message Jesus is warning about the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees, who were more concerned about the things of the world than the things of God (As Jesus had also done previously in the Sermon on the Mount). He...

Red Letter Series – Hypocrisy is foolishness

Jesus in the large multitude of people turned to His disciples, who needed to hear what he had to say. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. The more you rise in society, the more likely you are to live hypocritically. The fear of man...

Red Letter Series – Your eye is the lamp of your body

The words of Jesus here are important for 2 Reasons: You’ll reproduce on the outside what you cultivate on the inside, good or bad. Don’t let the bad things you see affect you negatively. Father show me who I am in You....

Red Letter Series – Seek the Holy Spirit every day

The Red Letters of Jesus in the Bible are lessons of Life for us Christians, forever, even as things change. We need to continue to knock and ask from God, and He will give us the best gift which is the Holy Spirit. Do not get drunk on...

Red Letter Series – He Taught us to Pray

This prayer is a model prayer.  This is a sample of how to pray. Jesus prayed before He did anything. Jesus got His strength and guidance through communication with the Father. If we want strength in the Christian life, prayer must be...

Red Letter Series – The Kingdom of God

We’ll be looking at examples and actions of Jesus. The Kingdom of God is mentioned 126 times in the Gospels only. What is the Kingdom of God? It’s the Reign of God. The Kingdom is bigger than us. We’re all tied...

Red Letter Series – Be Merciful – Love your Enemies

Love the Lord your God with all your might; But even more – love your enemies – even pray for those who curse us. Do not repay evil with evil. It is difficult for us to be this way, but what is impossible for man is...

Red Letter Series – Your faith has Saved you – Go in Peace

In this pericope, we see Jesus meeting 2 different people. The Religious Pharisee and this woman who lived a sinful life. This woman had the courage to come to this party, even though it was scandalous to come there. She brought an...

Red Letter Series – Choose Life – Devotional

Difference between being tempted and being tested, because cause God does not tempt us but does allow us to be tested. Temptation is what entices us to sin.  Testing is God trusting us to make the right choice. God presented the people...

Red Letter Series – Being Tempted by Satan

God never tempts us. We need to learn to resist temptation. Temptations that come from the world, the flesh, and satan. We live in a fallen world and many things come at us. It’s not always the devil. The devil troubles our...

Red Letter Series – Learning to Resist Temptation – Devotional

If we want to be like Jesus we need to be desirous to learn how He overcame temptation. We are often tempted when we face difficulties, or when we’re in a very comfortable time. Satan will always find an opportune time to tempt...

Repent and be Baptized

There’s misinformation in the thinking that people won’t be baptized because they are not yet worthy. I’m not yet ready to be baptized for all sorts of reasons and situations. But this is nowhere found in the Bible....

Red Letter Series – What is Water Baptism – Devotional

Repent and be Baptized. Don’t wait, now is the time to say that I will follow Jesus. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to be in us and with us all the time. I am a Child of God and I will obey Your Word. Lord we want to know You more....

Red Letter Series – Do not be Deceived

Today on Pentecost we love the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Miracles and all other things He gives to us. The Holy Spirit is our primary Teacher. He also warns us to be vigilant and careful in these times. Many today live in anxiety, even...

Red Letter Series – The Beginning of Birthpains – Devotional

Do not be Deceived! The Time is not yet – it is still to come. National wars, earthquakes and famines are the beginning of birthpains. You must be on your guard. Do not become fearful/anxious. God is still on His throne. Just...

Red Letter Series – Love your God, neighbor and enemy

The Sadducees and Pharisees were arguing about whether there would be a resurrection. They tried to pull Jesus into the discussion – Obviously said that there definitely would be a resurrection. Jesus was asked which is the...

Red Letter Series – Which was the most important Law? (Devotional)

Hear Oh Israel, The Lord our God is One – Shema...

Red Letter Series – The Danger of rejecting the Word

It all hangs on the historical fact that Jesus Died but Rose again from the dead. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. Jesus is not only a man who lived but He is the Word of...

Red Letter Series – Do we really differ that much from the Pharisees

Red Letter Series – Due to God’s Love we can have Faith in Him

Red Letter Series – Have Faith in God – Devotional

Red Letter Series – The Jews’ failure to transmit the Good News

Red Letter Series – It’s a matter of the Heart

How hard its is for a rich person to enter into the Kingdom of God. But all things are possible with God. Jesus spoke about how some people took unfair advantage of others, so become more and more wealthy. Jesus came to give us good...

Red Letter Series – The man went away sad – Devotional

Red Letter Series – All Authority belongs to Him – Jesus

Jesus is the head and each one of us is a member of the body...

Easter Week 2022 – Resurrection Celebration! (Saturday PM)

Holy Saturday – Μεγάλο Σάββατο Death is Defeated – Νίκησε το Θάνατο Matthew 27:62-66, Mark 16:1, Luke 23:56, John 19:40 Ματθαίος 27:62-66, Μάρκος 16:1, Λουκάς 23:56 και Ιωάννης 19:40 Morning Prayer: Father God, we can’t...

Easter Week 2022 – Good Friday – A Tale of Two Crowns

Holy Friday – Μεγάλη Παρασκευή   Facing Pontius Pilate – Μπροστά στο Πόντιο Πιλάτο Matthew 27:1-62, Mark 1115:1-47, Luke 22:63 – 23 Ματθαίος 27:1-62, Μάρκος 15:1-47, Λουκάς 22:63-23 και Ιωάννης 18:28-19 Morning...

Easter Week 2022 – Maundy Thursday – The Last Supper

Holy Thursday – Mεγάλη Πέμπτη   Jesus washed the Disciples Feet and Celebrated the Passover. Ο Χριστός Πλένει τα Πόδια των Μαθητών Του και Γιορτάζει Μαζί τους το Πάσχα Matthew 26:17-75, Mark 14:12-72, Luke 22:7-62, John...

Easter Week 2022: Holy Wednesday – Betrayal

Holy Wednesday – Μεγάλη Τεράρτη The Anointing of Jesus – Το Χρίσμα με Μύρο Matthew 26:6-13,    Mατθαίος 26:6-13 Morning Prayer:  Father God, as the woman in Bethany anointe3d Jesus with perfume, so we demonstrate our...

Easter Week 2022: Holy Monday Worship and Prayer

Holy Monday – Μεγάλη Δευτέρα Ο Καθαρισμός του Ναού – The clearing the temple and chastising Matthew 21:12, Mark 11:15, Luke 19, John 2:13-17 Ματθαίος 21:12, Μάρκος 11:15, Λουκάς 19 και Ιωάννης 2:13-17 Morning Prayer: Father God,...

Hosanna – Palm Sunday Service – 2022

Why did Jesus come into Jerusalem on a donkey? The Jews would select the perfect Passover lamb on this day. Look Oh Jerusalem, your King, the spotless Lamb of God is coming. We give you praise. Blessed is the King, the Messiah. Hosanna...