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What is our purpose? Our answer to this question will determine our steps, especially if we are integrated people, for how we will live. The Westminster Catechism asks this question: What is the chief & highest end of man? This is a question which helps us to think “biblically” about how we live. The…

Wednesday night we launch REACH! Yes!!!! This church is one of the most valuable things we do as a church. REACH for us is the first touch with families in our area. We bus in approximately 80-100 students under the age of 18. We will feed dinner to 200 people and about 140 will be under the age of 18.…

I want to thank Ashley and our wonderful children this morning for putting on all of this for us. It does my heart good to see our children learning and singing about the Lord. Hopefully you have brought your Bibles this morning and i want you to turn with me to Psalm 63. I want to share this Psalm with…

Matthew 4:1-11 1 Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil, 2 and after he had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry. 3 And the tempter approached and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, order that these stones become bread.” 4 But he answered…

As we prepare for Easter, I want to kick off a short series on growing in our relationship with Jesus. What is the largest desert in the World? Sahara, Mojave? Some who have been there would say Iraq... What is the largest desert in the world? Antartica Before you think that I’ve lost my mind, a desert…

See four marks of a genuine faith as demonstrated in this story about an Ethiopian official on a desert road.

Some start strong and finish well. Demas showed promise but ended up leaving Paul in a lurch. Let’s look at Demas’ life and learn what happened.

Faith is tested in both the Hebrews and Rahab. God rewards with miraculous provision.

On the tail of 3 rebellions, Moses commissions explorers to persuade the people that God's promises are good.

After fearful retreat, God cleanses and bandages the wound then starts on a process of recovery by providing in 4 ways.

Secret sin harms the community. The Community is obligated to deal with sin.

Allegiance to our Captain is more important than any act of service.

Joy is not just an emotion we feel that depends upon our circumstances; joy is an attitude built within us by the Holy Spirit which reflects the joy of Christ through us to others.

Desert This morning, I have a proposal for you. It might not seem likely at first, but I hope you soon come to realize the truth of this statement. My proposal is this: We live in a desert. Oh sure there might be trees and rain and green things. And by the dictionary’s technical definition my proposal…

Introduction: It was 2007. I had worked for a church for ten years as their youth minister. When I began ten years before I promised the teens I would not leave unless the church decided it was time for me to leave. I was committed to the church, to the teens, and to helping them connect to God. Out…

TEXT: Ex 3:1-4 1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked,…

When the Gospel is Not the Gospel A. Deserting the Gospel A. Deserting the Gospel 1. How sad that the Galatians were already turning to a different gospel. Galatians 1:6-8 6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—…

This morning we delve into a piece of Jesus’ Passion Narrative that does not normally get much attention. We typically read the Passion story all as one story on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, or most often on Good Friday. I think part of the reason that we gloss over this story is that we do not want…

Have you ever been less than enthusiastic about doing something? Perhaps you’ve been tapped to be part of leadership for a community group, the local school PTSA, here at our church, or even for our presbytery. When you’re tapped out, what is your typical response? One of the things I love about Moses…

Announcement s Are there any announcements? Wednesday April 27 at 6:30pm our own Mike Swenson will be graduating for the Rebuilder’s Life Transformation program at the Christian Aid Center. It will be in the new women’s and children’s facility. Please join us in celebrating what the Lord has done, is…

The prophets speak of God’s peace NOT as rest which comes apart from our places of wilderness, BUT as rest that comes even within our places of wilderness.

Order of Service Welcome Prayer Hymn - Dear Lord and Father of mankind (MP 111) Notices Prayer Meeting - 7:30pm Friday 7pm - Online Sunday Morning 11am & 6pm Tithes & Offerings - £ Main Prayer Hymn - MEEKNESS AND MAJESTY (315) Reading Do your best to come to me soon. For Demas, in love with this present…

Prophetic Title ..... 31 On the way, Jesus told them, “Tonight all of you will desert me. For the Scriptures say, ‘God will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ 32 But after I have been raised from the dead, I will go ahead of you to Galilee and meet you there.” 33 Peter…

Evangelically Last week we saw the trees as saved and unsaved we saw the desert scrub as an unsaved person living in the desert not knowing anything about a the living water the source of a new life not even knowing that he is cursed by God not knowing the depth of his sin the cursed person is destined…

Grumbling in the desert of Sin Not “sin” but “clay” and “Thorns” -> Sinai Barren place Thirsting for water End up at Horeb - Mt. Sinai “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?” Massah & Meribah - Temptation and Strife “Is the LORD among us or not?”…