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Show Kids Video: Like Elijah here, God will come in and boost our faith when we are down or tired. Maybe like Elijah we try to avoid the impossible situations. Maybe that is our life philosophy to not be put in situations where God has to come through for us. We all have these times in our lives where…

OT is a foreign country Such a different world. NT is relateable. We can see much of ourselves in the people and stories. OT is different. strange. Told in a totally different way. I’ve been reading a book over the last few weeks by a Chinese-American author, and the style is quite different to what…

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, The Bible admits that it’s hard. We have these witnesses cheering us on, but the problem…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 13, Session 3 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources, Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Nov. 2022. Summary and Goal Elijah was called to anoint Elisha as a prophet in Elijah’s place by the Lord…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 13, Session 3 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources, Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Nov. 2022. Summary and Goal Elijah was called to anoint Elisha as a prophet in Elijah’s place by the Lord…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 13, Session 3 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources, Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Nov. 2022. Summary and Goal Elijah was called to anoint Elisha as a prophet in Elijah’s place by the Lord…

SLIDE: Pic of Mulberry I didn’t know that this is what a mulberry looks like - BUT - recently I was standing in line at a Store in Strongsville... And I look down - and i see a bag near the check-out - and it says “MULBERRY” on it. I stopped - and my brain automatically started singing the song... And…

Who remembers going on a long trip back in the day - and needing to pull out a - MAP - to get where you were going? Who remembers answering a phone that hung on the wall? Or picking up a phone and hitting ‘0’ for the operator - and getting a real person? Who remembers payphones? Who remembers video games…

You ever wondered if the Spirit of God is in you? Or how you can know? Have you ever wanted to experience the power of God in your life? Well, our text 2 Kings 2-3 , is going to show us a man who did a few things to show not only himself, but the kingdom of Israel, that the Spirit of God was with him...…

From my short-lived research this week - from what I could find, the largest manufactured jigsaw puzzle - available for purchase... Total Number of Pieces: 60,000 Overall Dimensions: 8 ft. tall - - 29 ft. long Year Released: 2022 Manufacturer: Dowdle Average Selling Retail Price: $800 Think about it:…

Mentors and Mentees *** Elijah and Elisha entering into a discipleship relationship Every Elijah needs an Elisha; every Elisha needs an Elijah Every Paul needs a Timothy; every Timothy needs a Paul Practical questions: Where are you growing because someone is investing in you? Where are you passing along…

The five senses... Ears (hearing) Skin and hair (touch) Eyes (sight) Tongue (taste) Nose (smell) If you had to RANK these in order of importance.... what would that look like? According to research (Aristotle - Greek Philosopher)…the order is... Sight Hearing Smell Taste Touch BUT - some might argue…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 13, Session 4 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Dec. 2022. Summary and Goal In the course of Elisha’s ministry, the king of Syria, to the northeast, decided…

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. I. Job's Recognition of God's Sovereignty A. Job's…

Coming out of Easter weekend can always be a challenge, BECAUSE every year, Easter will take for itself - at LEAST 2 weeks (sermons) - (sometimes more)... And it causes us to have to break from our trek through WHATEVER book we’re walking through at the time…as a church. …And it can take some time to…

Recovering That Which Was Lost 2 Kings 6:1-7 Here we see the one of the accounts of Elisha the prophet. This was not to long after the prophet Elijah had been taken up in a whirlwind. As many of you know, Elijah was one of the greatest prophets in the Old Testament. Elisha had taken the mantle, both…

Thanksgiving is this week, and the one thing that we should be most thankful for this week is God’s mercy towards sinners, because without his mercy we would all be hopelessly and forever lost. Without His mercy, there would be no hope of salvation, because no one has the ability to save us but God alone.…

Grace to you and peace, from God our Father, and from our crucified, risen, and ascended Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. I am not much of a sports fan, but I do have teams that I’ll pay a little attention to. The first is the San Francisco Giants, of whom I have been a fan since childhood. The other is the…

Kids 2 Kings 6:8-23 The king of Aram was at war with the kingdom of Israel. He kept trying to set up ambushes to get Israel’s trade caravans. But the prophet Elisha kept telling the king of Israel all about the ambushes, so the king of Israel could avoid them. This made the king of Aram really mad. He…

Text: 15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? 16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.…

Today we resolve conflicts in the bible. How do we work through the challenge of Christ with the challenge of life? This passage presents the concern at hand. Jesus is doing an ordinary thing - walking to Jerusalem and this seems to forfeit the extraordinary thing of Conversions and miracles. But the…

Grace to you and peace, from God our Father, and from our crucified, risen, and ascended Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. I am not much of a sports fan, but I do have teams that I’ll pay a little attention to. The first is the San Francisco Giants, of whom I have been a fan since childhood. The other is the…

Announcements Are there any announcements? We are looking for volunteers that would be willing to cut the grass. Please see Pastor John... May 29 will be baptism Sunday and a Potluck to follow in celebration. So if there is anyone that has a conviction to take this leap of faith see Pastor John or the…

If I was to ask you - What in ME - reminds you of my dad.... What would you say? There might be a few things that everyone agrees on... And in SEEING those things... I think you’d all agree that those THINGS - in a sense - PROVE that my dad - is MY dad. They would be - parts of my DAD - in me. EACH of…