Galena Bible Church

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.

1 John: Here is Love

1 John 4:10 "In this is love, not that we
have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins."The world offers a paint by
numbers cheap imitation of the masterpiece called God's Love. Love has
become so misunderstood that the fundamental questions about it have to
be re-answered and not assumed. Where does love come from? What is love?
What are we to do with love? If you take away one lesson from this, let
it be this: God loves you. If that does not boggle your mind you have no
earthly idea what love is.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday November 16th, 2014.

1 John: Not everything is Christian

1 John 4:1-6The Apostle John gives a strong warning that not everyone who says they're teaching a Christian message actually is. That's why he warns us to "test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world." In this sermon Pastor Chris shows what John says we aught to do to test what is being said.Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday November 9th, 2014.

Practical Humble Saving Love

1 John 3:11-26What does it mean for a disciple of Jesus to "Love one another"? Does it give life or take it? Does it meet practical needs, or is all talk? Is love self serving, or does it operate in humility? And finally does it make us look more like Jesus. In this sermon Pastor Chris Kopp shares what Christian love looks like. Delivered to the Galena Bible Church, Sunday November 2nd, 2014.

Prayer is a powerful weapon...are we using it

Jon Casey reminds us of the truth that prayer is powerful. Are we using it to accomplish what God intends it for?Delivered to Galena Bible Church, Sunday October 26th, 2014.