Thursday December 5, 2024"Micah's words, remembered in their shocking severity a hundred years later, deserve to be taken to heart by each generation of God's people. They challenge every attempt to misuse the service of God for one's own glory and profit. They are a dire warning against the complacency that can take God's love and reject his lords…

Wednesday December 4, 2024Intro: Assyrian invasion of Israel and Judah (722-701 B.C.): The darkness has descended. The northern kingdom is gone. The...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3091Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday December 1, 2024Intro: Micah is going to identify false prophets. He accuses them of failing to preach judgment. This is something that the church has been guilty of. There will be judgment for those who refuse Christ. In Israel, the people are more than willing to hear that everything is going to be okay, that judgment is not from God....fo…

Sunday November 24, 2024Judgment oracle: Address, Accusation, Judicial sentence, Conclusion. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3089Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday November 21, 2024Intro: A little history makes this passage pop.We need to first...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3088Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday November 20, 2024The prophet: Micaiah is a sentence name, meaning Who is like Yah? He artfully inserts his name in the people's hymn of praise at the end of the book: for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3087Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday November 17, 2024Main idea: Christ is our shield. Do not ever depend on any other fortification. "The struggle going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets. By armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root it is a...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=…

Thursday November 14, 2024Main idea: We must have Christ's compassion for all the outcasts and downcasts. Application: for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3085Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday November 13, 2024Main idea: Faith in an invitation by Christ into a relationship with Him. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3084Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday November 10, 2024Main idea: Jesus reaches the outcasts and the downcasts asking them to believe in Him, and He commissions us to do the same as Him. Jesus reached for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3083Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday November 7, 2024Main idea: Our lives in Christ are new and cannot mix with the old life.Jesus is going to use three illustrations, all related, to do the same thing. His...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3082Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday November 6, 2024Intro: All religion seeks to answer the question: How can a man be just with God? This was especially true, and vigorously...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3081Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday November 3, 2024Mat 9:1-8; It's Not Your Fault, or Is It? Main Idea: Christ has removed our shame by grace....for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3080Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday October 31, 2024Main idea: Jesus has the authority to calm the sea and the soul. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3079Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday October 30, 2024Main idea: To fully follow the Lord, the believer has to abandon his own will. He bids them to follow Him - to the land of the...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3078Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday October 27, 2024Main idea: His power was not used to subdue, but to show love that demands a response.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3077Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday October 24, 2024Main idea: Faith sees the unseen and counts on the impossible, according to God's will. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3076Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday October 23, 2024Main idea: Know your real need to be cleansed from sin and then offer it to others. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3075Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday October 20, 2024Main idea: Following the Lord by obedience to His Word will allow you to see His next miraculous work. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3074Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday October 17, 2024Main theme: The key to doing what Christ says is in the Beatitudes. Mat 7:24-27for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3073Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday October 16, 2024Main idea: The Golden Rule changes others and you into the mold of Christ. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3072Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday October 13, 2024Main idea: Jesus demands that we be genuine according to whom He has made us to be. God changed you...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3071Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday October 10, 2024Main idea: Keep asking, seeking, knocking is tenacity in life's journey on the way of Christ. Mat...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3070Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday October 9, 2024Main idea: Jesus demands that we participate in establishing His design for our life or we will not experience it.for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3069Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday October 6, 2024Main Idea: Asking God for virtue moves Him to design a way which the believer must seek on which there are many opportunities which the believer must choose to enter. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3068Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday October 3, 2024Are there holy things in your life that you are not enjoying? for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3067Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday October 2, 2024Main idea: Do not judge and also see what is obvious and have the wisdom to discern the difference. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3066Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday September 29, 2024Idea: A believer should not judge any other but in love serve them like Christ. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3065Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday September 26, 2024Idea: Worry is fueled by the future and Jesus drains this power away. Intro:...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3064Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday September 25, 2024Idea: Jesus teaches us how to focus on the good treasures of heaven when we start to become overwhelmed. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3063Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

September 22, 2024Main Idea: The believer is to walk by faith in this dangerous world without worry because God helps him daily. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3062Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday September 19, 2024Idea: The eye of desire is in every person and God gives us a choice to use it to seek light or darkness, while helping us to choose light. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3061Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday September 18, 2024Main idea for today: God helps us to make the correct choice to store up treasure in heaven by instructing us of our future apart from this world. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3060Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday September 15, 2024Main idea: The disciple of Christ has the option to see the treasures of heaven, which will cause heaven to fill his heart and light to fill his body. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3059Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday September 12, 2024You and I engage with the reality of meaning, without the ritual. In our subject currently, the Lord is teaching on worship of God the Father by each of us personally. He mentions three things; giving, praying, and fasting. All of them, to...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3058…

Wednesday September 11, 2024Intro: It is very, very difficult for a person to rid himself of the idea of self-preservation. It is a basic human instinct, or so we are told, and without it, the race would die out. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3057Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday September 8, 2024Christ has no accounting or bookkeeping in mind when He instructs us about forgiveness of others. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3056Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday September 5, 2024Intro: The Christian way of life is viewed in Scripture using the imagery of a journey. God does not drag you along this journey kicking and...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3055Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday September 4, 2024In this prayer, after we have glorified His name by making it holy, after we have longed for His king, have lives in its way and shined it forth; and after we have done His will - we ask for today's bread (not concerned about tomorrow); we ask for (or seek) forgiveness of all our debt, and forgive all others - and yet we …

Tuesday September 3, 2024Intro: Most people do not know that the debt they have to God is enormous. I wonder how many believers know that it is larger than can be counted - it is a multitude. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3053Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday September 1, 2024Intro: Believers, forgiven by means of the blood of Christ, are not suddenly exempt from the sin problem. We continue to sin. Are we to try and stop? Are we to just let it go and hope for the best? Are we to confess and move on? Are we to ask for forgiveness? What are we to do about our sin problem? Does Scripture tell us pr…

Thursday August 29, 2024We must desire to be supported in this life mainly for the purpose of doing God's desire. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3051Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday August 28, 2024Title: Mat 6:11; There Is a Reason God Keeps You Alive. Idea: Right priorities lead us...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3050Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Tuesday August 27, 2024Idea: The flesh tries many schemes to lessen the believer's commitment to the will of God. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3049Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday August 25, 2024 Idea: The Lord's prayer commits us to do His will and the process of conformity is long and, at times, painful. Intro: The first three petitions of the Lord's prayer phrased using third...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3048Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday August 18, 2024Heb 10:7"Then I said, 'Behold, I have come for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3047Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Thursday August 15, 2024Intro: Why should we pray, "Your kingdom come?" Isn't the kingdom coming whether we pray for it or not? for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3046Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Wednesday August 14, 2024Rejection of the kingdom and reasons for it - Mat 12. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3045Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Tuesday August 13, 2024Idea: We pray for the kingdom to come because we know it is the only kingdom for mankind. for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3044Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue

Sunday August 11, 2024Idea: Praying to hallow the Father's name rewards us with the blessing of becoming like Him in character. Introduction: When God takes steps to make the family of Jacob, now in the millions (begun...for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=3043Autor: Pastor Joe Sugrue