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What are you doing here? Repeated question Out of my comfort zone learning lots of things Information vs. Experience Getting to know people Passion, gentleness, determination, mana Experiences I’ve never had before Tangata whenua side of powhiri sharing in the kitchen, and in the laundry making friends…

- Chag Sameach = joyous festival -particular appropriate for Sukkot We have been teaching on the Fall Feasts Today we will make a combination of the Feast of Sukkot, which is Seven Day We will speak in addition to the Torah Portion “This is the Blessing” about the 8th Day This is the last day after the…

15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name,…

1 This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave the Israelites before his death. Blessing- to invoke good. or other times to speak of a gift given Used in the OT 71 times Close to 100 times in NT This has made me realize I could do a whole series on what it means to bless someone, to be blessed,…

“No!” “You can’t!” “It won’t work!” “There is no way.” “We took a vote.” How do you hear it? Do these words give you a sense of victory, or do they give you a sense of defeat? It may depend on whether you’re the one hearing them or the one saying them. Either way the source of these words can often be…

We’ve been moving through CASKET EMPTY, and I don’t want us to lose sight of why we’re doing that. The whole idea of Casket Empty is to recognize God’s redemptive story throughout the Old Testament. Many have wondered did God create the world and then just leave it to run itself, and what we see throughout…

If we’re honest we’re always somewhere on the scale between belief and unbelief. I’ve shared with you many times the Father’s exclamation from Mark 9 when he brings his son to Jesus and asks him to heal him, “if he can.” Jesus responds: And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can’! All things are possible for…

I Promise You! God never made a promise that was too good to be true. Dwight L. Moody 20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. PROMISE . Declaration by one person to another that something will or will not be done, giving the person to whom it is made…

Introduction We are coming to the last in the series of David’s Life. David will not die in this passage but this passage and the rest of Samuel is more like an appendix to the story of David. Today we are talking about David’s Last Words. 2 Samuel 23:1-7 1 These are the last words of David: “The inspired…

God’s Law - God’s Council I’ll admit, it’s a little hard to get excited about the Law of God. How many of us would echo Paul’s sentiment, that he delighted in the Law of God in his heard? Or how many of us think of the law the way David did? The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony…

Vezot ha’ Bracha This is the Blessing Introduction Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12 But will only cover from Verse 1 to 29 Last Torah portion we spoke about the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32 We spoke about GIVE AN EAR Give EAR Requirement of our repentance - its prophetic…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

"Too blessed to be stressed" means that you are well-off enough in life that you shouldn't be worrying about trivial matters. It is a way of looking at your life from a macro perspective and remembering to be thankful for what you have. Ps 29 tells us The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.

Lately, we have been hearing a whole lot about an African American, George Floyd—and certainly for good reason. Today, I want to talk about another African American, Chris Paul. Mr. Paul plays for Oklahoma City, Thunder NBA team. He accomplished this by working hard in high school, and then in college.…

What do you believe about God? What God do you serve?

Last Spring, we studied through the Sermon on the Mount. One of the great themes of Matthew is the coming kingdom. The Book of Revelation speaks of the time when that new kingdom is fully realized. I shared with our Elders a week ago an observation that I gleaned about songs describing Heaven. Historically…

Joshua Chamberlain was a student of theology and a professor of rhetoric, not a soldier. But when duty called, Chamberlain answered. He climbed the ranks to become colonel of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Union Army. On July 2, 1863, Chamberlain and his three-hundred-soldier regiment were…

Introduction We are continuing along our Journey in the Book of Joshua. As Joshua is giving out the alloted land. Which tells us about each tribe. It is a wonderful time to look at each tribe as a whole. This week we are looking at the tribe of Simeon Joshua 19:1-9 The second allotment fell for Simeon,…

The Dilemma of Belief. Have you ever had those moments when you wondered, “Is this really true?” Maybe life has gotten difficult. Maybe you have come to the Derailment of your hopes and dreams like Joseph, Mary’s husband, when he found out that his betrothed bride was pregnant after all his time and…

God’s servants must do all they can to ensure that God’s program of blessing continues from generation to generation without interruption.

God promises to keep His people from all lasting spiritual and physical danger. He requires,however, that His people act responsibly.