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This summer Trent has been preaching a short series of sermons from Romans chapters 5-8. The first is a message from Romans 5:1-11 called Surprise by Joy Here are the notes in a varied outline form: Surprised by joy: Romans 5:1-11 The surprising power the Gospel brings us to rejoice Intro Story about the power of surprise to bring us joy. Whenever we experience a relationship that is free from expectations they are full of surprise and they have the power to bring us joy… Fallen Condition Focus - Why we need to look at Rom 5?  We all struggle to find joy in our lives. Especially when we stress out to find whether we get the promotion…as we wonder why we are still suffering physically or financially. You might be miserable. You may just be bored, but we all struggle to find joy What I hope you take away from this? If you not yet believer? Usually some lack of joy has prompted your spiritual quest. You have tried to find satisfaction in work, jobs, travel, things…b...

Psalm 31 Sermon 3rd draft The passage of scripture we are looking at this morning is a lament Psalm of David. David may have written it about the time he faced Goliath. David could have been talking about the time when he was on the run and hiding out from King Saul.   It might be a prayer that David prayed later in his life when his own son leads a rebellion to take David’s throne. We know for sure that David is crying to the LORD for help. And then when we get the end of the prayer, he is commanding all God’s people, love the Lord. So, the Psalm focuses on two things, facing stress and loving the LORD. Stress is an in big problem for most of us. Many of you have already experienced stress today, it getting ready and making your way to church.   There is stress related to time, money, work, and relationships. We continually have more to do that we have time to do it. I don’t need to convince you that we live in a stressful world. Whether you think of the financial downturn of...

Sermon manuscript: Psalm 25, “ Trusting the Lord” By Trent McEntyre Introduction Personal greeting Humorous story about my family and the baptism of our baby Marshmallow Story There was a groundbreaking study done by a psychologist at Stanford University, in which he got a group of four years in room and place a marshmallow in front of them. Then he promised that any child, who waited until he came back, some 15 to 20 minutes later, would be rewarded with a second marshmallow. 14 years later, they tracked all these children and discovered that the “waiters” had grown into teenagers who were socially, emotionally and academically more competent than the four-year-olds who ate the marshmallow at once. “Waiting”, trusting the researcher’s promise in the face of a marshmallow at four was shown to be “twice as powerful a predictor of later academic prowess as IQ.” Have you ever imagined the success you or your kids might have in life if you were able to wait when you needed to? Waiting, ...