Galena Bible Church

Doctrine to Doxology: How do we worship the Holy Spirit?

John 16:7  Nevertheless, I tell you the
truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away,
the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.There
has not been as divisive a doctrinal disagreement over the last 100
years than the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Therefore many have failed
to teach on Him, and there fore compounded the confusion. Who is the
Holy Spirit? What does He do? And how are we to worship Him? John 16
teaches us more about the Holy Spirit than any other text in scripture.
Join us as we walk through this passage and learn to love the Holy
Spirit.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday February 1st 2015, by Pastor Chris Kopp.

Doctrine to Doxology: Trinity

Probably, no aspect of the nature of God is more misunderstood than the nature of the Trinity. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, three in one. What is the practical implications of the doctrine of the Trinity. How does it effect our daily activity? What does it mean in Romans 8 that God the Holy Spirit prays for us to God the Father over us on the basis of the finished work of God the Son in us?These are questions we'll deal with today as pastor Chris walks through the doctrine of the Trinity. Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday January 25th, 2015.

Doctrine to Doxology: I am because He is

Exodus 3:13-14  Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say to them?" God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"Moses asks a good question. Who is God? Is he knowable? The doctrine of God is a central doctrine of the Christian faith. If we come to false understandings, we'll come to a false god. God told Moses "I AM". If you claim to believe God is "I AM" yet continually behave as though "I AM not" then  you believe the later, rather than the former. Can it be said of you as it was of the patriarchs "I AM the God of (Insert your name here)"? Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday January 18th, 2015.

Doctrine To Doxology: Rightly Ascribing Greatness to Our God

Deuteronomy 32:3  For I will proclaim the name of the LORD;
ascribe greatness to our God!
 Everyone worships. But not everyone worships the God of
scripture. Even some people who profess to be “Christians” believe in a god
that can be found nowhere within the revelation of scripture. Therefore
doctrine (What we believe) always effects our doxology (praise of God). In this
sermon series Pastor Chris Kopp will teach on the major Doctrines of the
Christian faith and how they affect our worship to God. This sermon introduces
the subject and asks the question, “Who are you really worshiping?”
Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday January 11th,
2014.

God Dreams Bigger than You

Genesis 41:42  Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.The 17 year old boy Joseph who had his varicolored robe ripped from him and was sold into slavery could have never imagined that one day Pharaoh would robe him in his own fine linens. God's dream was bigger than Joseph's dream. Yet Joseph also couldn't see that it would take a dungeon to get him there. Are we willing to let the Lord strip us of the things that we dream of in order to robe us in His righteousness? In this sermon Pastor Chris Kopp explores the narrative of the life of Joseph. Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday December 28th, 2014.

Good News of Great JOY

Luk 2:10  And the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.Joy is a consistent theme throughout scripture but our experience of it is far from what we naturally expect. What we expect is more in line with the word "Happiness" but what is offered through Jesus at His coming is Joy. When you understand that the "good news of great joy" includes the cross you can stare down even death and cry "JOY"! This is the good news.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday December 22nd, 2014.

1John: We Know

1Jn 5:13  I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.Because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ there are a lot of things that we know. We know we have eternal life. We know we have confidence to pray to the Father and he hears us. We know that we are loved. In this final sermon from 1 John, Church Elder Martin Hornfischer teaches us what we can know through the Gospel.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday December 14th, 2014.

1 John: The Testimony Never Ends

1 John 5:6-121John 5:11-12  And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.Your testimony (the story of Jesus' work in the Gospel in you) contains your salvation experience, but no more ends there than your marriage does at "I do". In fact a billion years from now you'll still be sharing your testimony of Christ's goodness toward you. But have your ever heard that Jesus has a testimony? What is it and what does it say about Him? In this sermon Pastor Chris Kopp takes us through 1 John 5:6-12 and we'll see that:1. Jesus has a testimony, 2. We have a testimony, and 3.The world needs our witness.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday December 7th, 2014.

1 John: It takes faith to love

1 John 5:4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith.A Chiasm (>

1 John: Abiding Love

1John 4:16  So we have come to know
and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever
abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.When
Jesus tells us to "abide in my love" what does he mean? Just hang out
with Jesus? Feel "funny" about Jesus? No, abiding love is holistic and
love DOES more than it it ever FEELS like doing. The Apostle Jon describes a
vertical (God Man) abiding love, and a horizontal abiding
love (man his fellow man) and in this sermon Pastor Chris
describes what we do in abiding love.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday November 23rd, 2014.