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God graciously bestows blessing that He may rescind for rebellion.

Paul A Man on A MISSION Scripture: Acts 20 through ch 28 Topic: Endurance GOAL: encourage saints that are ready to quit 1. To Know: Where their strength comes from 2. To Feel: Empowered 3. To Do: Get up INTRO: Main Idea --> Pauls Heartbeat We are going to look at a few chapters that comprises the end…

“The Firm” by John Grisham - a few selected paragraphs do not make for a full reading and details Do we do that with the Bible at times? Bounce around reading sections based a topic we’re studying? What if we took a book of the Bible and read it from beginning to the end and discover the flow of information…

We are a couple of weeks in our new series, the Bible. This week we're going to look at the different literary styles in the Bible. I'm pulling most of this information from The Bible Project's How to Study the Bible series, episode 3. If you're like me and didn't pay much attention in school, this information…

I know I said we were going to be doing a biographical study on David, but I have really been struggling with that, and I truly fell God pointing me in another direction, and because of that I have to change my direction. I do apologize for the inconsistency of the last few messages, I believe I was…

Where it Started As I mentioned a while back we are going to do something a little different we are going to look at the various Scriptures that paint a picture of David’s life. This is what you would call a biographical sermon series. We will be introduced to hopefully familiar characters, and My hope…

Evening 10 March 24

Sometimes we try so hard to make Christmas feel special that forget the ways in which Christmas is also ordinary; God did something special when Jesus was born at Christmas, but it came into an ordinary world in an ordinary way.

Learn what unusual devotion looks like from the lives of Simeon and Anna, two of the earliest people to recognize who Jesus was.

Introduction Harry Houdini was an escape artist. They tried all kinds of ways to keep Harry Houdini locked up. They would bury him in a coffin, but he would get out. They would sew him up in canvas bags and throw him in the river, but he would come out. He was placed in many different gadgets, but nothing…

Introduction Good morning and welcome to First Community Church, where we worship God in Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time. We are so glad that each and everyone of you are here today both here in the sanctuary and in the sanctuary of your own home. Know that if you are watching at home and cannot…

Three Men and Their Reputations ( Does Your Life Bring Glory To God?) 3 JOHN 1–14 All of us share an invaluable possession. It goes with us wherever we go, but amazingly, it also goes where we dont. Furthermore, what you think of this prized possession is not necessarily what others think of it. I speak…

The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Make sure you answer the call for workers.

If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Mark chapter 8. We are going to begin reading with our last paragraph from last week’s sermon and then continue on through the end of chapter 8. So look with me at Mark 8:27-33 27 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages…

The Purpose of Life Mark 10:35–45 (ESV) 35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” 36 And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?” 37 And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand…

INTRODUCTION We’ve seen in the first 10 chapters of Hebrews that Jesus Christ is superior in every way: The superior Revelation ( Hebrews 1:1-2 ; 4:12-13 ). The superior Person ( Hebrews 1:3-14 ). The superior Man ( Hebrews 1:9-13 ). The superior High Priest ( Hebrews 3:1-6 ; 4:14-16 ; 5:5-10 ; 7:23-28…

Jesus Grows Up This morning we are going to wrap up the opening and prologue of Luke. Let’s not forget that throughout these opening chapters of Luke’s gospel that Luke is setting up an epic retelling of Jesus’ life and ministry. His purpose in these opening chapters is to create in us a sense of awe…

The Gospel of Jesus When I was thinking about switching gears for Easter and doing a short sermon series, I immediately had an idea to do a Birth Story, a story that highlighted Jesus’ life, and then obviously the resurrection story. But I didn’t know which stories I wanted to cover. Like if you were…

1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that…

The sixth petition of the Lord's Prayer

The Gospel of Jesus Over the last several weeks we’ve looked at what’s been going on in Jesus’ life. We went over his baptism by John and his temptation in the desert. This morning we are going to look at and examine his first sermon in Luke’s Gospel. Jesus has just verified that he is indeed the victorious…

To translate is to restate the meaning of words in one language with words of another. Translation of Scripture is part of the work of interpreting and communicating it. Regarding Don Quixote Don Quixote, “The first modern novel”, was written in 1605; Original language was Spanish. First Translated into…

Introduction (prayer) Last week we began by looking at two assumptions we bring into this class: 1) That it is actually possible both to know and to meet with God; and 2) That we should meet with God on a consistent, even daily basis. As you’ll see on your handout, we said that a quiet time is “part…