Our Mother's Day Morning Message for May 11, 2025

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                 "What A Christian Home Should Look Like"

                                               Text: II John 1-13

                                         

​Our Sunday morning messages are topical in nature. As pastor, I try to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit in the messages I preach. They vary on many subjects from both the Old Testament as well as the New Testament. However, regardless of my text, my goal is to explain the text by comparing scripture with scripture. My method of preaching is expository in nature with the attempt to explain each verse according to the context. I am a slave to the text. Wherever the text leads me that will be my focus.      

 

It is my goal that my congregation in our Sunday morning service walk away understanding the Word of God as the Holy Spirit directs me as their pastor.​

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This message prepares our church for Mother's Day. On Mother's Day, we will focus on battling truth in the home, while this message focuses on battling truth in the church. This little epistle opens a window so we can get a glimpse of the affairs of the early church. Nothing much has changed since those early days, we see people and their problems. This letter was written by the Apostle John, exiled on the island of Patmos now in his senior years at the age of ninety. He writes to one of the leaders of the church named Gaius, who is an encourager, and two other personalities of the church. One is a dictator, named Diotrephes who loves to have the preeminence, and the other one is one to follow in living the Christian life named Demetrius. One conclusion we can draw from this epistle is that the church is made up of sinners who need the touch of the Master's hand.

 

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I encourage you to listen to this message in it's entirety as I try to walk you through the meaning of this text. May this message encourage you as it did those who attended our morning service.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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                                            Pastor Michael R. Martin

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