Dining On the Living Bread
John 6:22-3
Rev. Bruce Brown
September 24, 2017
I. The Food that Spoils (verses 22-27)
II. The Bread that Lasts (verses 30-35)
III. The Work of God (verses 28-29)
“O Christ, in thee my soul hath found, and found in thee alone, the peace, the joy I sought so long, the bliss till now unknown. Now none but Christ can satisfy, no other name for me!There's love and life and lasting joy, Christ Jesus, found in thee.” ~ Frances Bevan
Prosperity Presbyterian Church
5533 PPC Drive, Charlotte NC 704-875-1182
Sunday Worship Service is at 10:00 AM - Come and worship with us.
LORD of the Storm
LORD of the Storm
John 6:16-21
Rev. Bruce Brown
I. Jesus' Disciples in the Storm (verses 16-18)
II. Jesus' Dominion over the Storm (verses 19-20)
III. Jesus' Deliverance through the Storm (verse 21)
"Trial... is part of the diet which all true Christians must expect. It is one of the means by which their grace is proved, and by which they find out what there is in themselves. Winter as well as summer -- cold as well as heat -- clouds as well as sunshine -- are all necessary to bring the fruit of the Spirit to ripeness and maturity." ~ J.C. Ryle
Christ the Provider
Christ the Provider
John 6:1-15
Rev. Bruce Brown
I. The Setup that Purposed His Plan (verses 1-6)
II. The Lack that Proved His Power (verses 7-11)
III. The Instruction that Provided a Principle (verses 12-13)
IV. The Provision the People Missed (verses 14-15, 51)
“Naturally in almost anything I offer to Christ, my reaction would be, “What is the good of that?” The point is, the use he makes of it is none of my business; it is his business, it is his blessing. So this grief, this loss, this suffering, this pain – whatever it is, which at the moment is God’s means of testing my faith and bringing me to the recognition of who he is – that is the thing I can offer.” ~ Elisabeth Elliot
Prosperity Presbyterian Church - 704-875-1182
5533 PPC Drive
Charlotte NC 28269
HEAR AND SAVOR
HEAR & SAVOR
September 3rd, 2017
PROSPERITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE
PSALM 19:7-14
I. THE WORD OF THE LORD (VSS 7-9)
II. WHAT THE WORD OF LORD BRINGS (VSS 7-9)
III. HOW TO SAVOR THE WORD (VSS 10-11)
Pastor Bruce Brown
“The challenge before us... is not merely to do what God says because he is God, but to desire what /god says because he is good. The challenge is not merely to pursue righteousness, but to prefer righteousness. The challenge is to get up in the morning and prayerfully meditate on the Scriptures until we experience joy and peace in believing 'the precious and very great promises of God' (Romans 15:13; 2 Peter 1:4).” ~ John Piper
Look and Listen
Prosperity Presbyterian Church Worship Service
10:00 AM August 27, 2017
Psalm 19;1-7
Rev. Bruce Brown
I. Creation Speaks! (verses 1-2)
II. How Creation Speaks (verses 3-6)
III. What Creation Doesn't Say (verse 7)
“To all who will look and listen, during the day God is proclaimed in cloud and sky and rain and rainbows. When day is done, the night takes over with moon and meteors and galaxies galore. Together, day and night consistently proclaim one message: ‘God is elegant! God is exquisite! God is enthralling!’”
Sam Storms
A New Security
II Corinthians 5:17-21
August 20, 2017
Rev. Richard Altork
10:00 AM Worship Service
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Prosperity Presbyterian Church, 5533 PPC Drive, Charlotte, NC 28269 - 704-875-1182
Basking in the Beauty of the Lord
Prosperity Presbyterian Church, 5533 PPC Drive, Charlotte NC
704-875-1182
Worship Service is at 10:00 AM
Rev. Bruce Brown
August 13, 2017
Psalm 27
I. The Soul's Passion (verses 1-6)
II. The Soul's Prayer (verses 7-12)
III. The Soul's Prescription (13-14)
“The glorious beauty of God will be what will forever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be their everlasting feast.” Jonathan Edwards
God Is My Shelter!
Prosperity Presbyterian Church
5533 PPC Drive, Charlotte NC 28269
704-875-1182 Ext. 4 for Office
Rev. Bruce Brown
Psalm 16
August 6, 2917
I. A commitment to God for Our Shelter (verses 1-4)
II. A Contentment in God as Our Inheritance (verses 5-7)
III. A Confidence that God Is Our Future (verses 8-11)
Q. What is your only comfort in life and death?
A. That I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from all the power of the devil. He also preserves me in such a way that without the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, all things must work together for my salvation. Therefore, by his Holy Spirit he also assures me of eternal life and makes me heartily willing and ready from now on to live for him. Heidelberg Catechism Question and Answer #1
The Trouble with Foolishness.
July 30, 2017
Rev. Bruce Brown
5533 PPC Drive, Charlotte 10:00 AM Worship Service
I. A Foolish Vow That Troubles Israel (verses 24-30)
II. Foolish Orders that Shift the Blame (verses 31-39)
III. A Foolish Act that angers the People (verses 40-46)
“What a fearful thing it is to leave God and His ways, and give one’s self up to the impulses of one’s own heart? Fearful for even the humblest of us, but infinitely fearful for one of great resources and influence, with a whole people under him!”
William G. Blaikie
Nothing Can Hinder the LORD
I SAMUEL 14:1-23
I. The Boldness of Faith (verses 1-7)
II. The Victory of Faith (verses 8-15)
III. The Rally of Faith (verses 16-23)
Nothing Can Hinder the LORD
Pastor Bruce Brown
Jonathan is the one man other than Saul in Israel's army to possess proper battle equipment, and he employs his sword not by sheathing it in besieged safety but by wielding it in daring faith. While Saul sits, Jonathan acts. While Saul's pious inactivity inspires no help from the LORD, Jonathan's faith-driven intiative receives God's mighty aid. ~ Richard D. Phillips
JULY 23, 2017 WORSHIP MESSAGE 10:00 AM
PROSPERITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 5533 PPC DRIVE, CHARLOTTE, NC 28269, 704-875-1182
Tried, Tested, and Tarnished
July 16, 2017 Worship Message 10:00 AM
Prosperity Presbyterian Church, 5533 PPC Drive, Charlotte, NC 28269, 704-875-1182
Rev. Bruce Brown
I Samuel 13
I. A Clue of Trouble in the Test (verses 2-7)
II. A Failure to Follow Through on Obedience (verses 8-15)
III. Our Hope in a Hopeless Situation (verses 16-22)
I will glory in my Redeemer
My life He bought, my love He owns
I have no longings for another
I’m satisfied in Him alone
I will glory in my Redeemer
His faithfulness my standing place
Though foes are mighty and rush upon me
My feet are firm, held by His grace
My feet are firm, held by His grace
Steve & Vicki Cook
A Farewell of Renewal
July 9, 2017
Rev. Bruce Brown
I Samuel 12:1-25
I. The Case Made (verses 1-15)
II. The Verdict Passed (verses 16-19)
III. The Grace Given (verses 20-25)
“There is then a dual emphasis in chapter 12: You must see your great evil (vv. 16-19) and yet you must see the LORD’s great steadfastness (vv. 20-25). Only the latter can keep you from despair over the former. It is not only by grace alone that we become God’s people but by grace alone that we remain his people.”
D. R. Davis
Sunday Worship Service is at 10:00 AM -- Everyone is welcome to attend.
Prosperity Presbyterian Church - 5533 PPC Drive - Charlotte NC - 704-875-1182
A Savior to the Fight
I Samuel 11
Rev. Bruce Brown
July 2, 2017
I. Why Deliverance is Needed (verses 1-4)
II. When Deliverance Comes (verses 5-11)
III. What Deliverance Renews (verses 12-15)
“I’d rather have Jesus than silver or gold; I’d rather be His than have riches untold; I’d rather have Jesus than houses or lands. I’d rather be led by His nail-pierced hand; Than to be the king of a vast domain or be held in sin’s dread sway. I’d rather have Jesus than anything this world affords today.” Rhea F. Miller
Come worship with us.
Prosperity Presbyterian Church, 5533 PPC Drive, Charlotte NC.
Sunday School is at 9:00 AM and the Worship Service is at 10:00 AM
A Missing King
I Samuel 10:17-27
Rev. Bruce Brown
June 25, 2017
I. God's Rebuke of Unbelief (verses 17-19)
II. God's Revelation of a King (verses 20-24)
III. God's Requirements a Necessity (verses 25-27)
“The main point of these verses is God’s continuing and relentless sovereignty. The people demanded a king, but they were not able to achieve independence from God. It was the Lord who chose and revealed Saul… Likewise, Christians will find that no matter how we may strive to grab the reigns of our own lives, deciding for ourselves how we will think and live, God remains relentlessly sovereign and he apportions all our circumstances. Either in faith or in unbelief, we will have God as our Lord and he will exercise his sovereign rule.”
Richard D. Phillips
Sunday School is at 9:00 AM
Worship Service is at 10:00 AM
Please come worship with us. Prosperity Presbyterian Church, 5533 PPC Drive. Charlotte, NC
704-875-1182
The Word Working Within
James 1:19-25
Rev. Richard Altork
June 18, 2017
"My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do." (NIV)
You are invited to worship with us Sunday at 10:00 AM.
Prosperity Presbyterian Church, 5533 PPC Drive, Charlotte, NC 28269
704-875-1182
Hidden Kingdom
I Samuel 10:1-16
Rev. Bruce Brown
I. God's Word to His Anointed (verses 1-8)
II. Saul's Equipment by the Spirit (verses 9-13)
III. the Hidden Kingdom (verses 14-16)
“Saul had a fleeting empowerment from God’s Spirit. But Jesus, as God’s true Son, was fully and constantly animated by the Spirit of God. “He who sent me is with me,” Jesus declared. “He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him” (John. 8:29).”
Richard Phillips
Prosperity Presbyterian Church - 5533 PPC Drive - Charlotte, NC 28269 - 704-875-1182
Sunday Worship Service is at 10:00 AM Everyone is welcome.
God's Wonderful Providence
I Samuel 9:1-25
Rev. Bruce Brown
i. The Circumstances for God's Providence
(verses 1-14)
II. The Compassion Behind God's Providence
(verses 15-17)
III. The Certainty of God's Providence
(verses 18-25)
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.
Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never failing skill
He treasures up His bright designs
And works His sov’reign will.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.
~ William Cowper, God Moves in a Mysterious Way
Our Worship Service is at 10:00 AM each Sunday.
Prosperity Presbyterian Church
5533 PPC Drive, Charlotte, NC Phone 704-875-1182
Trading God for Substitutes
I Samuel 8:1-27
May 28, 2017
Rev. Bruce Brown
I. Our Desire for Substitutes (verses 1-9)
II. God's Warning of Wisdom (verses 10-18)
III. Be Careful What You Ask For (verses 19-22)
Israel Demands a King
8 When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. 2 The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. 3 Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.
4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah 5 and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.”6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. 8 According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you. 9 Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.”
Samuel's Warning Against Kings
10 So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king from him. 11 He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.12 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. 15 He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. 16 He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men[a] and your donkeys, and put them to his work.17 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. 18 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
The Lord Grants Israel's Request
19 But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us, 20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” 21 And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord. 22 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey their voice and make them a king.” Samuel then said to the men of Israel, “Go every man to his city.”
“God has given us a King. He died upon the cross to bear our sin. He rose from the dead to reign in resurrection power and glory. Let us rejoice in him.” Gordon J. Keddie
Prosperity Presbyterian Church, 5533 PPC Drive, Charlotte, NC 28269
Sunday School is at 9:00 AM
Worship Service begins at 10:00 AM
Our Homecoming God
Luke 15:11-32
Rev. Bruce Brown
May 21, 2017
I. Two Distant Sons (verses 12-16; 25-30)
II. One Lavish Father (verses 21-24; 31-32
III. All the Way Home (verses 31-32)
Luke 15:11-32 (ESV)
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
11 And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. 13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.14 And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to[a] one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 16 And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.
17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’ 20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 But the father said to his servants,[c] ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. 23 And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.
25 “Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.’ 28 But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, 29 but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’ 31 And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”
“The lesson of these words was primarily meant for the Scribes and Pharisees. If their hearts had been in a right state, they would never have murmured at our Lord for receiving sinners. They would have remembered that the worst of publicans and sinners were their own brethren, and that if they themselves were different, it was grace alone that had made the difference. They would have been glad to see such helpless wanderers returning to the fold. They would have been thankful to see them plucked as brands from the burning, and not cast away forever. Of all these feelings, unhappily, they knew nothing. Wrapped in their own self-righteousness they murmured and found fault, when in reality they ought to have thanked God and rejoiced.” ~ R.C. Ryle
Prosperity Presbyterian Church - 5533 PPC Drive
Charlotte, NC - 704-875-1182
Worship Service is Sunday at 10:00 AM - Everyone is Welcome.
A Prayer for Wife and Mother
Proverbs 31:10-31
Pastor Bruce Brown
May 14, 2017
I. A Request for a Glowing Fear (verse 30)
II. A Request for a Giving Life (verses 12, 15, 20)
III. A Request for a Growing Skillfulness (verses 11-14, 16-19)
IV. A Request for a Guiding Influence (verses 23, 26, 28, 31)
"This woman is not a living in a perfect environmnet where life is a breeze. She is living in the real world, and she is up to the challenge. No wonder her husband trusts her. He feels honored to be her husband. This woman that God gave him is his greatest earthly treasure. In fact, there is only one person this husband trusts more than his wife, and that is Jesus Christ himself. She has won a deep place in his heart. She is "an excellent wife," and her husband cherishes her." ~ Ray Ortlund Jr.