Four Mile Church

June 11, 2023 Anger Pastor: David Lyle Ephesians 4:26-27YouTube link

June 4, 2023 Falsehood Pastor: David Lyle Ephesians 4:25YouTube link

May 28, 2023 Assistant Pastor: Cammie Shelatz Acts 2, Romans 12 ~ Pentecost/MissionYouTube link

May 21, 2023 Walking in the Dark/Light (Exhortation) Ephesians 4:17-24YouTube link

May 14, 2023 Walking in the Light (2) Ephesians 4:20-24 “But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness." YouTube link

May 7, 2023 Walking in the Light (1) Ephesians 4:20-24 “But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness."YouTube link

April 30, 2023 Walking in the Dark (2) Ephesians 4:17-19 “Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity."YouTube link

April 23, 2023 Walking in the Dark (1) Ephesians 4:17-19 “Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity."YouTube link

April 16, 2023 Christian Maturity Ephesians 4:14-16 “so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love."YouTube link

April 7, 2023Good FridayAssistant Pastor: Cammie ShelatzYouTube link

April 9, 2023Easter SundayThief on the CrossLuke 23+24YouTube link

April 2, 2023 Palm Sunday - God's Gentle Power "The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, “Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!” John 12: 12-15 "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey." Zech 9:9YouTube link

March 26, 2023 Faith + Knowledge Ephesians 4:13 “until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."YouTube link

March 19, 2023 Equipping the Saints Ephesians 4:11-12 “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ..."YouTube link

March 12, 2023Church OfficesEphesians 4:11-12“And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ..."YouTube link

March 5, 2023 Grace in Proportion Ephesians 4:7-10 “But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.” (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)”YouTube link

February 19, 2023The Body of Christ - One (Exhortation)Ephesians 4:4-6“There is one body and one Spirit - just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call - one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”YouTube link

February 12, 2023 The Body of Christ - One (part 3) Ephesians 4:4-6 “There is one body and one Spirit - just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call - one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”YouTube link

February 5, 2023 The Body of Christ - One (part 2) Ephesians 4:4-6 “There is one body and one Spirit - just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call - one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”YouTube link

January 29, 2023 The Body of Christ - One (part 1) Ephesians 4:4-6 “There is one body and one Spirit - just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call - one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”YouTube link

January 22, 2023Calling ExhortationEphesians 4:1-3“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”YouTube link

January 15, 2023Our Calling 2Ephesians 4:1-3 “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”YouTube link

January 8, 2023 Our Calling 1 Ephesians 4:1-3 “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”YouTube link

January 1, 2023The Reconciliation of Man by God2 Cor. 5:17-21"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."YouTube link

December 18, 2022 Advent series - Glorious Ruins Magnificat 4 Luke 1:54-55 Mary's Song of Praise: The Magnificat “He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”YouTube link

December 11, 2022 Advent series - Glorious Ruins Magnificat 3 Luke 1:51-53 Mary's Song of Praise: The Magnificat “He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts; he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate; he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.”YouTube link

December 04, 2022 Advent series - Glorious Ruins Magnificat 2 Luke 1:50 Mary's Song of Praise: The Magnificat "And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.."YouTube link

November 27, 2022 Advent series - Glorious Ruins Magnificat 1 Luke 1:46-49 Mary's Song of Praise: The Magnificat "And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name."YouTube link

November 20, 2022Ephesians seriesBelief OverviewEphesians 1-3YouTube link

November 13, 2022 Ephesians series Prayer Review Ephesians 3:14-20 "For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us..."YouTube link

November 6, 2022 Ephesians series Prayer 7: God's Power + Eternal Glory Ephesians 3:20-21 "Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."YouTube link

October 30, 2022Ephesians seriesPrayer 6: Fullness of GodEphesians 3:19b “that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”YouTube link

October 16, 2022 Ephesians series Prayer 5: Love 2 Ephesians 3:17b-19a “that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge…”YouTube link

October 16, 2022 Ephesians series Prayer 4: Love 1 Ephesians 3:17b-19a “that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge…”YouTube link

October 09, 2022 Ephesians series Prayer 3: Faith + Love Ephesians 3:17b-18 “that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth..."YouTube link

October 02, 2022 Ephesians series Prayer 2 - Strength + Power Ephesians 3:16-17a “that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith…”YouTube link

September 25, 2022 Ephesians series Prayer 1 - God the Father Ephesians 3:14-15 “For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named…."YouTube link

September 18, 2022 Ephesians series The Church + The Pillars Romans 12:1-2 "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."YouTube link

September 11, 2022 Ephesians series The Church (part 2) Ephesians 3:11-13 "This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory."YouTube link

September 4, 2022Ephesians seriesThe Church (part 1)Ephesians 3:10"so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places."YouTube link

August 28, 2022 Ephesians series MinisterEphesians 3:7-9 "Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things,"

August 21, 2022 Ephesians series Gentiles Ephesians 3:1-6 "For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. This mystery is[a] that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel."YouTube link

August 14, 2022Ephesians seriesOne in Christ - pt3"And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit." -Ephesians 2:17-22YouTube link

August 7, 2022Ephesians seriesOne in Christ - pt2Ephesians 2:13-16"But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility."YouTube link

July 31, 2022Ephesians seriesOne in ChristEphesians 2:11-12"Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands) - remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world."YouTube link

July 24, 2022Ephesians seriesGrace through FaithEphesians 2:8-10 "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."YouTube link

July 17, 2022Ephesians seriesGrace through FaithEphesians 2:4-7"But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved - and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus."YouTube link

July 10, 2022Ephesians seriesGrace through FaithEphesians 2:1-3"And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience — among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind."YouTube link

July 03, 2022Ephesians seriesSupremacy of ChristEphesians 1:21-23"far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all."YouTube link

June 26, 2022Ephesians seriesSupremacy of ChristEphesians 1:19-20"and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,"YouTube link