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Littleton Christian Church exists to celebrate and apply the gospel of Jesus Christ as we love God, love each other, and love the world. These sermons are intended to instruct us toward that goal.

  1. 3d ago

    Holy Love in Daily Life - 1 Thessalonians 4

    Holy Love in Daily Life - 1 Thessalonians 4 Rev. Mike Wright Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God (as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more. 2 For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality, 4 that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God. 6 In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly. 7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness. 8 Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. 9 Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. 10 And indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers and sisters in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, 11 to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you. 12 In this way you will live a decent life before outsiders and not be in need.

  2. Oct 25

    Life Together: 1 Thessalonians 3

    Life Together: 1 Thessalonians 3 Shana Mickey Teaching Text - 1 Thessalonians 3Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God (as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more. 2 For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality, 4 that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God. 6 In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly. 7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness. 8 Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. 9 Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. 10 And indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers and sisters in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, 11 to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you. 12 In this way you will live a decent life before outsiders and not be in need. The Lord Returns for Believers13 Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians. 15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

  3. Oct 18

    Brought into a Kingdom - 1 Thess. 2

    Brought into a Kingdom - 1 Thess. 2 Rev. Mike Wright 1 Thessalonians 2For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, about our coming to you—it has not proven to be purposeless. 2 But although we suffered earlier and were mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of much opposition. 3 For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit, 4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts. 5 For we never appeared with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is our witness— 6 nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others, 7  although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became little children among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children, 8 with such affection for you we were happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us. 9 For you recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe. 11 As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children, 12 exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory. 13 And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe. 14 For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews, 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people, 16 because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.

  4. Oct 11

    The Normal Christian Life - 1 Thes. 1

    The Normal Christian Life - 1 Thes. 1 Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - 1 Thessalonians 1From Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you! 2 We thank God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers, 3 because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 4 We know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you, 5 in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction (surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you). 6 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction. 7 As a result you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8 For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything. 9 For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

  5. Oct 4

    Hesed: God’s Redemptive Love

    Hesed: God's Redemptive Love Rev. Stephen Newhall Teaching Text - Psalm 107Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,and his loyal love endures.Let those delivered by the Lord speak out,those whom he delivered from the power of the enemy,and gathered from foreign lands,from east and west,from north and south.They wandered through the wilderness, in a wasteland;they found no road to a city in which to live.They were hungry and thirsty;they fainted from exhaustion.They cried out to the Lord in their distress;he delivered them from their troubles.He led them on a level road,that they might find a city in which to live.Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love,and for the amazing things he has done for people.For he has satisfied those who thirst,and those who hunger he has filled with food.They sat in utter darkness,bound in painful iron chains,because they had rebelled against God’s commands,and rejected the instructions of the Most High.So he used suffering to humble them;they stumbled and no one helped them up.They cried out to the Lord in their distress;he delivered them from their troubles.He brought them out of the utter darkness,and tore off their shackles.Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love,and for the amazing things he has done for people.For he shattered the bronze gates,and hacked through the iron bars.They acted like fools in their rebellious ways,and suffered because of their sins.They lost their appetite for all food,and they drew near the gates of death.They cried out to the Lord in their distress;he delivered them from their troubles.He sent them an assuring word and healed them;he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped.Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love,and for the amazing things he has done for people.Let them present thank offerings,and loudly proclaim what he has done.Some traveled on the sea in ships,and carried cargo over the vast waters.They witnessed the acts of the Lord,his amazing feats on the deep water.He gave the order for a windstorm,and it stirred up the waves of the sea.They reached up to the sky,then dropped into the depths.The sailors’ strength left them because the danger was so great.They swayed and staggered like drunks,and all their skill proved ineffective.They cried out to the Lord in their distress;he delivered them from their troubles.He calmed the storm,and the waves grew silent.The sailors rejoiced because the waves grew quiet,and he led them to the harbor they desired.Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love,and for the amazing things he has done for people.Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people.Let them praise him in the place where the leaders preside.He turned streams into a desert,springs of water into arid land,and a fruitful land into a barren place,because of the sin of its inhabitants.As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water,and a dry land into springs of water.He allowed the hungry to settle there,and they established a city in which to live.They cultivated fields,and planted vineyards,which yielded a harvest of fruit.He blessed them so that they became very numerous.He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down,because of painful distress and suffering.He would pour contempt upon princes,and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.Yet he protected the needy from oppression,and cared for his families like a flock of sheep.When the godly see this, they rejoice,and every sinner shuts his mouth.Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things.Let them consider the Lord’s acts of loyal love.

  6. Sep 20

    Hesed: God’s Purposes in History

    God's Purposes in History Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Psalm 105Give thanks to the Lord.Call on his name.Make known his accomplishments among the nations.2 Sing to him.Make music to him.Tell about all his miraculous deeds.3 Boast about his holy name.Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.4 Seek the Lord and the strength he gives.Seek his presence continually.5 Recall the miraculous deeds he performed,his mighty acts and the judgments he decreed,6 O children of Abraham, God’s servant,you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones.7 He is the Lord our God;he carries out judgment throughout the earth.8 He always remembers his covenantal decree,the promise he made to a thousand generations—9 the promise he made to Abraham,the promise he made by oath to Isaac.10 He gave it to Jacob as a decree,to Israel as a lasting promise,11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaanas the portion of your inheritance.”12 When they were few in number,just a very few, and resident foreigners within it,13 they wandered from nation to nation,and from one kingdom to another.14 He let no one oppress them;he disciplined kings for their sake,15 saying, “Don’t touch my chosen ones.Don’t harm my prophets.”16 He called down a famine upon the earth;he cut off all the food supply.17 He sent a man ahead of them—Joseph was sold as a servant.18 The shackles hurt his feet;his neck was placed in an iron collar,19 until the time when his prediction came true.The Lord’s word proved him right.20 The king authorized his release;the ruler of nations set him free.21 He put him in charge of his palace,and made him manager of all his property,22 giving him authority to imprison his officialsand to teach his advisers.23 Israel moved to Egypt;Jacob lived for a time in the land of Ham.24 The Lord made his people very fruitful,and made them more numerous than their enemies.25 He caused the Egyptians to hate his people,and to mistreat his servants.26 He sent his servant Moses,and Aaron, whom he had chosen.27 They executed his miraculous signs among them,and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.28 He made it dark;Moses and Aaron did not disobey his orders.29 He turned the Egyptians’ water into blood,and killed their fish.30 Their land was overrun by frogs,which even got into the rooms of their kings.31 He ordered flies to come;gnats invaded their whole territory.32 He sent hail along with the rain;there was lightning in their land.33 He destroyed their vines and fig trees,and broke the trees throughout their territory.34 He ordered locusts to come,innumerable grasshoppers.35 They ate all the vegetation in their land,and devoured the crops of their fields.36 He struck down all the firstborn in their land,the firstfruits of their reproductive power.37 He brought his people out enriched with silver and gold;none of his tribes stumbled.38 Egypt was happy when they left,for they were afraid of them.39 He spread out a cloud for a cover,and provided a fire to light up the night.40 They asked for food, and he sent quail;he satisfied them with food from the sky.41 He opened up a rock and water flowed out;a river ran through dry regions.42 Yes, he remembered the sacred promisehe made to Abraham his servant.43 When he led his people out, they rejoiced;his chosen ones shouted with joy.44 He handed the territory of nations over to them,and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,45 so that they might keep his commandsand obey his laws.Praise the Lord.

  7. Sep 13

    Hesed: God’s Purpose in Creation

    Hesed: God's Purpose in Creation Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Psalm 104Praise the Lord, O my soul!O Lord my God, you are magnificent.You are robed in splendor and majesty.2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment.He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,3 and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds.He makes the clouds his chariot,and travels on the wings of the wind.4 He makes the winds his messengers,and the flaming fire his attendant.5 He established the earth on its foundations;it will never be moved.6 The watery deep covered it like a garment;the waters reached above the mountains.7 Your shout made the waters retreat;at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off—8 as the mountains rose up,and the valleys went down—to the place you appointed for them.9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross,so that they would not cover the earth again.10 He turns springs into streams;they flow between the mountains.11 They provide water for all the animals in the field;the wild donkeys quench their thirst.12 The birds of the sky live beside them;they chirp among the bushes.13 He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace;the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.14 He provides grass for the cattle,and crops for people to cultivate,so they can produce food from the ground,15 as well as wine that makes people glad,and olive oil to make their faces shine,as well as bread that sustains them.16 The trees of the Lord receive all the rain they need,the cedars of Lebanon that he planted,17 where the birds make nests,near the evergreens in which the herons live.18 The wild goats live in the high mountains;the rock badgers find safety in the cliffs.19 He made the moon to mark the months,and the sun sets according to a regular schedule.20 You make it dark and night comes,during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.21 The lions roar for prey,seeking their food from God.22 When the sun rises, they withdrawand sleep in their dens.23 People then go out to do their work,and they labor until evening.24 How many living things you have made, O Lord!You have exhibited great skill in making all of them;the earth is full of the living things you have made.25 Over here is the deep, wide sea,which teems with innumerable swimming creatures,living things both small and large.26 The ships travel there,and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.27 All your creatures wait for youto provide them with food on a regular basis.28 You give food to them and they receive it;you open your hand and they are filled with food.29 When you ignore them, they panic.When you take away their life’s breath,they die and return to dust.30 When you send your life-giving breath, they are created,and you replenish the surface of the ground.31 May the splendor of the Lord endure.May the Lord find pleasure in the living things he has made.32 He looks down on the earth and it shakes;he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;I will sing praise to my God as long as I exist.34 May my thoughts be pleasing to him.I will rejoice in the Lord.35 May sinners disappear from the earth,and the wicked vanish.Praise the Lord, O my soul.Praise the Lord.

  8. Sep 6

    Hesed: God’s Heart for the Broken

    Hesed: God's Heart for the Broken Rev. Mike Wright Teaching Text - Psalm 103Praise the Lord, O my soul.With all that is within me, praise his holy name.2 Praise the Lord, O my soul.Do not forget all his kind deeds.3 He is the one who forgives all your sins,who heals all your diseases,4 who delivers your life from the Pit,who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,5 who satisfies your life with good things,so your youth is renewed like an eagle’s.6 The Lord does what is fair,and executes justice for all the oppressed.7 The Lord revealed his faithful acts to Moses,his deeds to the Israelites.8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful;he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.9 He does not always accuse,and does not stay angry.10 He does not deal with us as our sins deserve;he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve.11 For as the skies are high above the earth,so his loyal love towers over his faithful followers.12 As far as the eastern horizon is from the west,so he removes the guilt of our rebellious actions from us.13 As a father has compassion on his children,so the Lord has compassion on his faithful followers.14 For he knows what we are made of;he realizes we are made of clay.15 A person’s life is like grass.Like a flower in the field it flourishes,16 but when the hot wind blows, it disappears,and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.17 But the Lord continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers,and is faithful to their descendants,18 to those who keep his covenant,who are careful to obey his commands.19 The Lord has established his throne in heaven;his kingdom extends over everything.20 Praise the Lord, you angels of his,you powerful warriors who carry out his decreesand obey his orders.21 Praise the Lord, all you warriors of his,you servants of his who carry out his desires.22 Praise the Lord, all that he has made,in all the regions of his kingdom.Praise the Lord, O my soul.

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Littleton Christian Church exists to celebrate and apply the gospel of Jesus Christ as we love God, love each other, and love the world. These sermons are intended to instruct us toward that goal.

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