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CPR for Your One – Part 1

February 2, 2025

Who's Your One?

Mark 4:1-20, John 4:35-38, 2 Corinthians 3:6-8

Mark Smith

CPR for Your One – Part 1

Date Preached: February 2, 2025

Series: Who's Your One?

Speaker: Mark Smith

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In this message we'll discuss the first part of practicing evangelism CPR with your one. We'll see what evangelism CPR is, then have a chance to decide the sort of cultivating activity we might need to use to prepare our one to receive the gospel.

CPR for Your One – Part 1

The Value of One

January 26, 2025

Who's Your One?

Luke 15

Mark Smith

The Value of One

Date Preached: January 26, 2025

Series: Who's Your One?

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Is one soul worth the effort it might take to reach him/her for Jesus and eternal life? There is no question that God cares about the one, every one. In this message we'll remind ourselves of how much God values one lost soul. When we focus on just one person and seek to bring that person to Christ we delight God and he will be overjoyed when that one comes to Jesus as Savior and Lord.

The Value of One

Praying for Your One – How?

January 19, 2025

Who's Your One?

1 Timothy 2:1-4

Mark Smith

Praying for Your One – How?

Date Preached: January 19, 2025

Series: Who's Your One?

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Last week we learned that God wants us to pray for lost people, our one included, and also some reasons why prayer is a critical part of trying to reach someone for Christ. This week we turn to the question, "How do I pray for my one?" This is an important question, since we don't have any model prayers or any recorded prayers in the Bible for lost people. Yet there is plenty of information in the Bible that enables us to find quite a few things to pray for as we seek to lead our one to Christ,

Notes File: https://note.church/archived?church=NorthPark&sermonid=69609

Praying for Your One – How?

Praying for Your One – Why?

January 12, 2025

Who's Your One?

1 Timothy 2:1-4

Mark Smith

Praying for Your One – Why?

Date Preached: January 12, 2025

Series: Who's Your One?

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Most of us believe in prayer, but sometimes we wonder about praying for our lost friends. Does it make a difference? Why should we pray? How should we pray? We'll tackle these issues in these next two sermons. Today: why should we pray for our one? Next week: how should we pray for our one?

If you've wondered about praying for a lost friend, these messages should be of help to you.

Note file: https://note.church/archived?church=NorthPark&sermonid=68293

Praying for Your One – Why?

Who’s Your One? – Identifying Your One

January 5, 2025

Who's Your One?

John 1:40-51, Mark 2:1-12, Acts 8:26-29, Acts 10:24-33, Acts 16:13-15, 16-18, 27-30, Acts 18:24-28

Mark Smith

Who’s Your One? – Identifying Your One

Date Preached: January 5, 2025

Series: Who's Your One?

Speaker: Mark Smith

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All around us we see lost people. How are we ever going to have an impact on them? Personal evangelism is the way most of us came to Christ and the was most people will come to Christ. But with so many lost people around us, who do we try to reach? That's the question we'll try to answer in this message.

We're beginning a series entitled "Who's Your One?" Instead of thinking we have to reach everyone, we'll start by thinking of reaching just one person for Christ in the next year. We'll begin by identifying who that one is and, then, over the next few weeks we'll learn what we can do to help reach that one for Christ.

Note File: https://note.church/archived?church=NorthPark&sermonid=68172

Who’s Your One? – Identifying Your One

The Promised One – Coming Again

December 29, 2024

The Promised One

Titus 2:11-13

Ron Gabon

The Promised One – Coming Again

Date Preached: December 29, 2024

Series: The Promised One

Speaker: Ron Gabon

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The Promised One made us a promise, that he was going to come again. In his appearing at the first Christmas, he brought salvation, peace with God, and God's grace into our lives. He died for our sins, rose from death, and forty days later ascended to heaven. But he promised to return and establish justice and righteousness upon the earth. We are to live in anticipation of his return, saying No to sin and growing in righteousness.

The Promised One – Coming Again

The Promised One – Bringer of Peace

December 22, 2024

The Promised One

Isaiah 9:1-7

Mark Smith

The Promised One – Bringer of Peace

Date Preached: December 22, 2024

Series: The Promised One

Speaker: Mark Smith

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As the Promised One Jesus bore the title, Prince of Peace, for he fulfilled the prophecy given through Isaiah in Isaiah 9:6-7. We all long for world peace, but the peace Jesus brought was something else. We'll discover that in this message. We'll also learn how this peace can be ours. Perhaps it's something you could use.

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The Promised One – Bringer of Peace

The Promised One – A Savior from Sin

December 15, 2024

The Promised One

Isaiah 53:1-12

Mark Smith

The Promised One – A Savior from Sin

Date Preached: December 15, 2024

Series: The Promised One

Speaker: Mark Smith

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God long ago promised that one of the offspring of Eve would bruise Satan's head. We saw that the Promised One would would do this was Jesus of Nazareth. We learned that this Promised One would come from the line of Abram and be a blessing to all peoples. We learned that Jesus of Nazareth descended from Abram and through his death and resurrection offered the gift of forgiveness and eternal life to all peoples.

In this message we'll look at the most comprehensive prophecy concerning the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, a prophecy only he fulfilled. It was a prophecy of not just of death, but death for others, taking their sin upon himself so that God could justify those who believe in Jesus as Savior.

Note file: https://note.church/archived?church=NorthPark&sermonid=67833

The Promised One – A Savior from Sin

The Promised One – A Blessing for All People

December 8, 2024

The Promised One

Genesis 12:1-3, Acts 3:25-26, Galatians 3:8-9

Mark Smith

The Promised One – A Blessing for All People

Date Preached: December 8, 2024

Series: The Promised One

Speaker: Mark Smith

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In Genesis 3 we learned that a descendant of Eve would bruise the head of the serpent who'd led her into sin (Satan). Hundreds of years later, God gave a promise to a man name Abram. Through him all the peoples of the earth would be blessed. But what was that blessing and how would it come? The New Testament answers our questions. Jesus, the descendant of Abram, blessed all peoples by dying on the cross for their sins and offering eternal life to them through repentance and faith in him. We'll see how he is the Promised One in this message.

Note file: https://note.church/archived?church=NorthPark&sermonid=67652

The Promised One – A Blessing for All People

The Promised One – Defeater of Satan

December 1, 2024

The Promised One

Genesis 3:15

Mark Smith

The Promised One – Defeater of Satan

Date Preached: December 1, 2024

Series: The Promised One

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Notes

At the first Christmas God fulfilled promises he'd made centuries before. The very first of these promises dates back to the tragedy of Adam and Eve's sin in the Garden. There God dispensed judgment upon Adam, Eve, and the serpent. He also promised Eve that her offspring would bruise the head of the serpent, even as he bruised her offspring's heel.

When we sort through the meaning of this first promise and then see it in light of the coming of Jesus, we cannot come to any other conclusion except that Jesus was the one God promised who would bring destruction upon the serpent.

Who this serpent was, what he has done since the Garden, and what Jesus did to him are all questions answered in this first message about The Promised One - Defeater of Satan.

The Promised One – Defeater of Satan

Thankful Serving

November 24, 2024

A Thankful Church

1 Timothy 1:12, 2 Timothy 1:3

Mark Smith

Thankful Serving

Date Preached: November 24, 2024

Series: A Thankful Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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A thankful church serves God and others out of gratitude for what God has done for it. Paul serves as a model of serving thankfully. We'll see why he served this way and we'll learn three sources of gratitude that can motivate us and any church that wants to so to serve thankfully.

Thankful Serving

Thankful Giving

November 17, 2024

A Thankful Church

2 Corinthians 8:1-5, 9:11-12

Mark Smith

Thankful Giving

Date Preached: November 17, 2024

Series: A Thankful Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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A thankful church gives out of thankfulness. We'll see that in a group of churches who surprised the Apostle Paul with the depth of their giving. From these churches we'll learn some characteristics of churches that give thankfully, and we'll have an opportunity to answer the questions, "Am I a thankful giver?" and "Is my church a thankful giving church?"

Thankful Giving

Thankful Praying

November 10, 2024

A Thankful Church

Colossians 4:2

Mark Smith

Thankful Praying

Date Preached: November 10, 2024

Series: A Thankful Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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A thankful church is known through thankful praying. Paul instructed the Colossian church to pray with thanksgiving. He unites prayer and thanksgiving in other passages, as well. Thanks and prayer should go together. Knowing that is the easy part. Doing it consistently is the challenge.

In this message we'll consider five obstacles we (or our church) will have to overcome to be consistently thankful in our prayers.

Thankful Praying

A Thankful Church

November 3, 2024

A Thankful Church

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Mark Smith

A Thankful Church

Date Preached: November 3, 2024

Series: A Thankful Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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Not only are individual Christians to be thankful people, but churches are to be thankful churches. It makes a big difference in the fellowship, worship, service, decision-making, and outlook of the church to be thankful. As we'll see, Paul instructed a church that had a lot to complain about to always be thankful. We'll look at how that is possible as we thinks about what we have to be thankful for in our church.

A Thankful Church

Be the Church: Reach

October 20, 2024

Be the Church

Acts 1:8, 2:41, 2:47, 8:4, 13:1-4

Mark Smith

Be the Church: Reach

Date Preached: October 20, 2024

Series: Be the Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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The early church connected, grew, and served. They also reached. They were reaching people where they were and they were reaching by going out and planting new churches. We need to be reaching, too. In this message we'll define reaching, explain why we should reach, what we are reaching people for, and what the message is that we are trying to reach others with. We'll conclude with an opportunity to commit ourselves to reaching others for Jesus.

Be the Church: Reach

Be the Church – Serve

October 13, 2024

Be the Church

Acts 2:41-47

Mark Smith

Be the Church – Serve

Date Preached: October 13, 2024

Series: Be the Church

Speaker: Mark Smith

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We've learned that believers need to connect with God and others and are to continue to grow spiritually. The third action word for the believers is 'serve'. The first believers served others in many ways: opening their homes for church services, giving money to care for those who were in need, serving meals to others, and taking care of widows. In this message we'll see that the New Testament teaches us that every believer is to serve and is to think of himself or herself as a servant. We'll learn about the significance of serving and the many opportunities we have to serve within the church and outside the church.

Be the Church – Serve

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