2024-07-21 A Frustrated Prophet by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Habakkuk 1:1-17 1 This is the message that the prophet Habakkuk received in a vision. 2 How long, O Lord, must I call for help? But you do not listen! “Violence is everywhere!” I cry, but you do not come to save. 3 Must I forever see these evil deeds? Why must I watch all thi…

2024-07-14 The Seven C's of History by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 Timothy 1:17 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.By Mandeville Bible Church

2024-07-07 Avoid the Detour to Idolatry by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture: 1 John 5:18-21 18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20 And we know that t…

2024-06-30 Let There Be Light by Shane O'Hara Scripture: Genesis 1:1-3 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. English Standa…

2024-06-16 Avoid the Detour of Discounting God’s Testimony by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 5:6-12 6 This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and…

2024-06-09 Avoid the Detour of Burden Scripture Reference: 1 John 5:1-5 by Pastor Chris Berg 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is God's Messiah has become a child of God. And if we love God, our Father, we will love his other children too. 2 How do we know that we love God's children? We know it when we love God and we do what he tells us to do. 3…

2024-06-02 Avoid The Detour Of Fear by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 4:7-21 7 My friends, we should all love each other. It is God who makes us able to love other people. Everyone who loves other people has become a child of God. That person knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love other people does not know God. We know this because G…

2024-05-26 Avoid the Detour of False Teaching by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 4:1-6 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God:every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the fle…

2024-05-19 Avoid the Detour of Selfishness by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 3:16-24 16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? …

2024-05-12 Avoid The Detour Of Envy by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 3:10-15 10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginni…

2024-05-05 Redeeming The Time by Seth Carroll Scripture Reference: Ecclesiastes 1-3 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? 4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the e…

2024-04-28 Avoid the Detour of Lawlessness by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 3:4-10 4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 6 No one who remains in Him sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him…

2024-04-21 Don't Detour Into Impurity by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 2:28-3:3 28 And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.…

2024-04-14 Don’t Be Detoured By Defectors by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 2:18-27 18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would…

2024-03-31 I AM The Resurrection and The Life by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: John 11:26-27 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”By Mandeville Bible Church

2024-03-24 Avoid The Detour Of This World by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture: 1 John 2:12-17 12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake. 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you,…

2024-03-17 Avoid The Detour of Hate by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 2:3-11 3 And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. 4 If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth. 5 But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they lo…

2024-03-10 Avoid The Detour of Sin by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 1:5-2:2 5 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; 7 but if we walk in …

2024-03-03 The Reality of Joyful Fellowship Forever by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture: 1 John 1:1-4 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— 2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and procl…

2024-02-25 On The Road Again by Steve Hudson Scripture Reference: Luke 24:13-35 13 That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, 14 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 15 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went w…

2024-02-18 Lesson From The Tabernacle - Part 2 by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 25:10-33, 36:8-38 10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 11 You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, an…

2024-02-11 Lesson From The Tabernacle - Part 1 by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 25:10-33, 36:8-38 10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 11 You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, an…

2024-02-04 In Their Midst? by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 25:1-9 25 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. 3 And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronz…

2024-01-28 Ratifying The Covenant by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 24:1-8, 32:1-35 1 Then the Lord instructed Moses: “Come up here to me, and bring along Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders. All of you must worship from a distance. 2 Only Moses is allowed to come near to the Lord. The others must not come near, and n…

2024-01-21 The Ten Commandments by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture: Exodus 20:1-18 The Ten Commandments 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likenes…