Sermons From Village Bible Church (sugar Grove Campus)

God seeks to help us navigate the jungle in our lives by giving us: 1.  An explanation     Our jungles can come as a result of:        ●  The seasons of life        ●  Setbacks in life        ●  Success in life        ●  Stubbornness and sin 2.  A...

Essential # 1:  Devote yourself to Gospel-centered disciple making | 1‒2 Essential # 2:  Develop a Gospel-centered lifestyle  | 3‒7 Essential # 3:  Demonstrate a Gospel-centered passion  | 8‒10

Today we come to the third part in our series. In part one, we talked about the war that is going on around us. We need to be alert and ready to do battle in that war. In part two, we talked about our adversaries in that war: the devil, the world and...

Turn to Romans 7:14–25.  This is going to be our spiritual food for today.  As you turn there, I want to review with you where we are in our sermon series.  We started our series called, “Invisible War: Battling Against Evil,” at the beginning of the...

We are continuing our series entitled, “Invisible War: Winning Against Evil.” We're going to be bouncing all over the Scriptures today, looking at what different writers have to say about this war that we are fighting. As we’ve look at this...

Turn to the book of 1 Peter 5. We're in the second week of our series entitled, “The Invisible War: Winning Against Evil.” The focus of our summer is dedicated to this idea of the spiritual war that is going on around us. Last week, Pastor Steve...

We're talking about spiritual warfare today, which is a serious thing.  Our new sermon series is entitled, “Invisible War: Winning Against Evil.”  This is the first in a number of messages exposing the darkness, talking about winning against the...

7 Pictures of Jesus from the Book of Revelation 1.  The Lamb is revealed. | Revelation 5 2.  The Lamb redeems. | Revelation 7:9-17 3.  The Church conquers Satan by the blood of the Lamb. | Revelation 12:1-12 4.  The Marriage Feast of the Lamb |...

Today we finish up our three-week series from the one-page letter of Philemon, which is between Titus and Hebrews at the end of the New Testament.  We come again to the subject we’ve been looking at: reconciliation through forgiveness.  We’ve been...

We’re in the middle of a three-week study looking at the shortest of Paul’s letters written while he was in prison. He writes this letter not to a church, not to a group of people, but to one individual: a man by the name of Philemon. On the heels of...

We're going to take God's Word and turn to the book of Philemon.   We are beginning a series on forgiveness and reconciliation.  This series comes from one of the shortest books of the Bible: the book of Philemon.  It is only 25 verses...

Our passage today is found in Luke 24:13-35.  I know that for a lot of you, Easter is a great time.  Easter is a time of celebration.  Perhaps many of you will gather with family and friends.  It is a great Sunday.  For pastors, however, Easter Sunday...

Turn to Colossians 3:20-21. Currently we are studying the preeminence of Christ. He is the One Who is first and foremost in all of creation as He reigns supreme from the right hand of the throne of the Father in heaven. As we turn to Colossians...

Take God’s Word in your hands and turn to the book of Colossians. We are continuing in our series entitled “Preeminent.” This week we are in the second part of our series. In the first part we looked at chapters one and two. We talked about Christ’s...

Please take God’s Word and turn to the book of Colossians. Today, we are continuing in our “Preeminent” series. Last week, we shifted from looking at Christ’s preeminence in the world to how His preeminence affects our walks and relationships. We...

We have made it through the first half of our series, which focused on the false teaching and other things that were infecting the Colossian church.  Paul addressed those issues and struggles, clearly proclaiming that Jesus Christ is Preeminent.  He...

We are continuing in our series this week studying the book of Colossians, a New Testament book written by the Apostle Paul to a church going through a crisis and struggling to understand the true gospel. We’ve been investing our time in one...

Take God’s Word in your hands and turn to the book of Colossians.  Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning about one simple theme from God’s Word.  I hope that every time you hear the word “Colossians,” you will connect with this theme...

This week, we are continuing our series entitled, “Preeminent,” which looks at how Jesus is first in all things. He is the greatest. He is the most glorious. We need to allow that fact to influence every decision, every plan and every step we take...

Turn in your Bible to the book of Colossians as we continue in our series entitled, “Preeminent.” We have been learning about Christ’s place in this world. As we look at Colossians 2:6-10, notice that what we teach at this church comes from the...