A 12-week sermon series from the Bible as we preach through our proposed statement of faith. Pastor James, continues our series looking at Ephesians 1:3-14. “[Union with Christ is] the central truth of the whole doctrine of salvation.” - John Murray Life Group discussion questions: lifechurchnc.com/thiswebelieve Life Church exists to glorify God by…

A 12-week sermon series from the Bible as we preach through our proposed statement of faith. One of our elders, Randy Meeks, continues our series looking at Romans 5:12-21. “Sin is any lack of conformity to the moral law of God. Original sin is the state of all human beings at birth, and includes their sin nature, which is the root of all actual si…

A 12-week sermon series from the Bible as we preach through our proposed statement of faith. Pastor James continues our series looking at Genesis 1:26-28. “Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.” Isaiah 43:6-7 You make known to me th…

A 12-week sermon series from the Bible as we preach through our proposed statement of faith. Pastor James continues our series looking at John 16:4-15. "I needed God in a personal way – not as an object of my study, but as friend, guide, comforter. I needed an existential experience of the Holy One…I found the Scriptures to be helpful – even author…

Celebrating Resurrection Sunday at Life Church as we open God's Word to Hebrews 2:14-18. Life Group Discussion Questions: lifechurchnc.com/sermons Life Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who treasure Christ, grow together, and live on mission. Salisbury, NC Follow us online: lifechurchnc.com Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter…

A 12-week sermon series from the Bible as we preach through our proposed statement of faith. Pastor James continues our series looking at Galatians 4:4-7. “You sum up the whole of New Testament religion if you describe it as the knowledge of God as one’s holy Father. If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much…

A 12-week sermon series from the Bible as we preach through our proposed statement of faith. Pastor Matt continues our series looking at John 17:24. What was God doing before the Creation of the world? The Creator God is first a loving Father The Triune God makes us in His Image The Triune God is at work in salvation A triune God means my relations…

A 12-week sermon series from the Bible as we preach through our proposed statement of faith. Pastor James begins week one looking at 2 Peter 1:16-21. “It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” Communion Reflection Questions On what areas of my life have I failed to …

*Due to audio issues with this week's recording, the sermon transcript is available online here. Pastor James concludes our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 15:40-16:8. “Truly this man was the Son of God.” - Mark 15:39 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. - Mark 1:1 And he began to teach them that the Son …

We paused our sermon series in the gospel of Mark. Mark Etheridge, our Student Ministry Director shares God's Word with us from Nehemiah 8. Life Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who treasure Christ, grow together, and live on mission. Salisbury, NC Follow us online: lifechurchnc.com Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter…

Pastor Matt continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 15:1-39. The Death of Jesus from a Human Perspective: A Miscarriage of Justice in a Chaotic Atmosphere (Mark 15:1-15) The Death of Jesus from a Divine Reality: God’s Plan in a Controlled Atmosphere (Acts 2:22-33) Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him th…

Pastor James continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark. Life Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who treasure Christ, grow together, and live on mission. Salisbury, NC Follow us online: lifechurchnc.com Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter

Pastor Matt continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 14:26-52. Life Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who treasure Christ, grow together, and live on mission. Salisbury, NC Follow us online: lifechurchnc.com Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter

Pastor Matt continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 14:10-25. Life Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who treasure Christ, grow together, and live on mission. Salisbury, NC Follow us online: lifechurchnc.com Facebook Instagram YouTube TwitterOleh Life Church Salisbury

Pastor James continues our sermon series in Mark looking at Mark 14:1-11. Life Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who treasure Christ, grow together, and live on mission. Salisbury, NC Follow us online: lifechurchnc.com Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter

We begin the new returning to our sermon series in the gospel of Mark: Behold the Servant King. Pastor preaches through Mark 13:1-37. “The temple complex covered about thirty-five acres. The sanctuary stood one hundred and fifty feet high, as did the temple wall. The columns that held up the portico were so massive that three large men could barely…

Pastor Matt concludes our Advent and Christmas Series 'Unexpected Grace' looking at the life of Mary from Luke 1:36-56. Life Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who treasure Christ, grow together, and live on mission. Salisbury, NC Follow us online: lifechurchnc.com Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter…

Pastor James continues our Advent sermon series looking at the wife of Uriah from 2 Samuel 11:1-27. Life Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who treasure Christ, grow together, and live on mission. Salisbury, NC Follow us online: lifechurchnc.com Facebook Instagram YouTube TwitterOleh Life Church Salisbury

Pastor James continues our Advent sermon series looking at the story of Ruth. The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Matthew 1:1 “It is as though God intended this genealogy to say, ‘Oh, Christ is the kind of person who is not ashamed of sinners—in fact he even puts them in his family tree.’” - Martin Luthe…

Pastor James continues our Advent sermon series, Unexpected Grace, looking at the story of Rahab from Joshua 2:1-24. But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, as you swore to her.” So the young men who had been spies went in and brought o…

Unexpected Grace - our Advent sermon series - will follow the women in the genealogy of Jesus. Pastor Matt begins this series by looking at Genesis 38:1-30. Abraham is the father of Isaac Isaac is the father of Esau and Jacob Jacob marries Leah and Rachel Judah is one of twelve sons of Jacob Judah has three sons Er marries Tamar Onan Shelah Tamar h…

Matt Evans continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 12:35-44. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found…

Pastor Matt continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 12:28-34. “God is never satisfied with anything less than the devotion of our whole life for the whole duration of our lives.” - Sinclair Ferguson Loving God with our whole being includes: Obedience to His Word (Deut 6:2) Teaching His Word to others (Deut 6:7-9) Displayin…

Pastor James continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 12:18-27. “He who does not prepare for death is more than an ordinary fool. He is a madman.” - Charles Spurgeon “The best moment of a Christian’s life is his last one, because it is the one that is nearest heaven.” - Charles Spurgeon “Death is the funeral of all our sorr…

Pastor James continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 12:13-17. Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Romans 13:1 I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for k…

Pastor James continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 11:27-12:12. Life Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who treasure Christ, grow together, and live on mission. Salisbury, NC Follow us online: lifechurchnc.com Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter

Pastor Matt continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 11:12-25. Old Testament Passages on Fig Trees and God’s Judgment: Isaiah 34:1-4 Jeremiah 29:15-19 Hosea 2:10-12 Joel 1:1-12 Micah 7:1-7 And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, everyone w…

Pastor James continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 11:1-11. “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. And they will mock him and spit on him, and log him and kill him. And aft…

Pastor James continues our series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 10:32-52. Life Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who treasure Christ, grow together, and live on mission. Salisbury, NC Follow us online: lifechurchnc.com Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter

Pastor James continues our sermon series in Mark's gospel, looking at Mark 10:17-31. Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Galatians 6:6 Why is the love of money so dangerous? Money provides a feeding ground for many sinful attitudes and heart postures. Money moves us away from contentment, not toward co…

Pastor James continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 10:13-16. “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? - Mark 10:18 The kingdom of God is for the weak, the helpless, and the unimportant. Unless you receive the kingdom of God on that basis, you will never enter it. And they brought to him a man who was deaf a…

Pastor James continues our sermon series in the Gospel of Mark looking at Mark 10:1-12. When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house… - Deu…

Pastor James continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 9:33-50. _ Mark 9:33-50 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. - Mark 8:31 He was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “…

Pastor Matt continues our sermon series in the Gospel of Mark looking at Mark 9:14-32. Faith, a radical dependence on God, must be lived out in a broken world (Mark 9.14-19). It is not the amount of our faith that is key, it is the object of our faith (Mark 9.20-27). Moments of failure in our walk with God are opportunities to drive us to a deeper …

Pastor James continues our series in the gospel of Mark looking at Mark 9:2-13. "Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment." Psalm 104:1-2 "The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt." Psal…

We return to our sermon series in the Gospel of Mark. Pastor James picks up in Mark 8:22-9:1. "And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that “‘they may indeed see but not perceive…’” - Mark 4:11-12 “Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardene…

This morning we had the joy of ordaining new elders. Pastor James teaches through Titus 1:5-9 as we learn about the requirements for family life, character, and doctrine of elders. "So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd…

One of our elders, Randy Meeks, concludes our sermon series on the 10 Commandments series looking at Exodus 20:17. “ . . .desire isn’t evil because it’s strong. Desire becomes evil when it’s fixed on the wrong things.” - James Leithart Coveting: The person with an inordinate, excessive desire to possess what belongs to someone else. The unhealthy, …

Pastor Matt continues our sermon series on the Ten Commandments looking at Exodus 20:16. "On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness." - Deuteronomy 17:6 "The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death…

Pastor Matt continues our sermon series on the Ten Commandments by looking at Exodus 20:15. Why do we steal? We want more = greed We are competitive = jealousy We don’t trust God We deny the providence of God “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” - Augustine of Hippo, Confessions “What comes ou…

Pastor James continues our sermon series on the Ten Commandments looking at Exodus 20:14. Exodus 20:14 & Matthew 5:27-30 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days o…

Pastor James continues our sermon series on The Ten Commandments looking at Exodus 20:13. “When we study the sixth commandment carefully and come to understand its full implications, we find that no commandment is more blatantly or brutally violated.” - Philip Ryken 1) The Sixth Commandment and Israel “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall h…

Our student ministry director, Emory McNeely continues our sermon series on the 10 Commandments, looking at Exodus 20:12. Why is the fifth commandment important? What does the fifth commandment ask of us? “And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.” - Exodus 14:18 “Then Mo…

We paused our sermon series on the Ten Commandments to celebrate six baptisms this past Sunday. Pastor James preached a sermon on Acts 2:36-41. - "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the hear…

Pastor James continues our sermon series on The Ten Commandments looking at Exodus 20:8-11 "On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight." - Acts 20:7 "Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tom…

Pastor James continues our sermon series on the 10 Commandments looking at Exodus 20:7. "Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”" - Exodus 33:1…

Pastor Matt continues our sermon series on the Ten Commandments looking at Exodus 20:4-6. Ezekiel 18:20 2 Kings 10:28-31 Colossians 1:15 Life Church exists to glorify God by making disciples who treasure Christ, grow together, and live on mission. Salisbury, NC Follow us online: lifechurchnc.com Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter…

Pastor James begins our new sermon series on the 10 Commandments looking at Exodus 20:1-3. “In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.” - David Foster Wallace “After the Law has humbled, terrified, and…

Pastor James continues our series in the gospel of Mark, looking at Mark 8:1-21. The Hungry Crowd Is Satisfied (8:1-10) "And he got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded, for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened." - Mark 6:51-52 The Arrogant Pharisees Are Rejected (8:11-13)…

Pastor James continues our sermon series in the gospel of Mark, looking at Mark 7:31-37. "The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus; it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing." - Isaiah 35:1-2a "Say to those who have an anxious heart, “Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God…