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Last week, I explained what I am doing. This is the second of two weeks of Thanksgiving. Last week, I talked about how I am thankful that the church is a family. We talked about what it means and how we should live because of it. If you were not able to be here, I encourage you to go back and watch or…

- 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…

Numbers 4:3 Chag Sameach Shavuot!! REVIEW TORAH GPS We continue to use the Torah as our guide to do our portions So far we have come from Genesis to now Numbers, and God has been at work We started talking about Bamidbar - in the wilderness / Numbers So far we can summarize what we have studied by Cumulative…

THE ANGEL AND THE LITTLE BOOK THE ANGEL AND THE LITTLE BOOK John has just finished the account of the sounding of the first six of the seven trumpets, together with the plagues or woes which accompanied them. We would expect him now to relate the sounding of the seventh trumpet; but instead of doing…

A. Rapport for the time Michael Phelps swam 13 kilometres a day, six or seven days a week…at least 80,000 meters every week. 1 trip down the pool is 25 meters..Trained in 2 sessions a day spending 5-6 hours in the pool a day. Michael Phelps 400 a day in a pool... 10,000—calories a day…divided into 3…

Isaiah 54:1-55:5 Review We continue with the new cycle of Halftarah readings We have taught from the Torah portions directly for the last 3 years We are dedicating this new cycle to the teaching of every Haftarah that accompanies every Torah Portion in the corresponding cycle The Halfarah are supplementary…

Isaiah prophesied many times about Jesus, and one of those prophecies was this: There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might,…

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering…

Standing in the Council Let’s face it. Few bible readers know much about the prophets, who after the conquest take a back seat to David, Solomon, and maybe a couple of the judges. The average Christian reads the prophetic material only when the pastor needs a good sermon on sin or judgment. The prophets…

Acts 11:19-30

For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober,…

Noach Noah Introduction Last Torah portion we talked about the Bible being written in Hebrew Unless we study the Bible from the Hebrew perspective, we miss the whole message of redemption, the significance imbedded in it Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Genesis 6:9-11:32 But will only cover…

All of us experience ups and downs, mountaintops and valleys, joys and frustrations in our day-to-day discipleship for Christ. But God’s Word Possesses God’s Power, and in today’s text, our Lord Jesus not only realistically recognizes this state of affairs in our discipleship, but, above all, encourages…

All of us experience ups and downs, mountaintops and valleys, joys and frustrations in our day-to-day discipleship for Christ. In today’s text, our Lord Jesus not only realistically recognizes this state of affairs, but, above all, encourages us with the good news that joy will have the last word in…

Intro: I remember many of the lessons my father taught me, but the most memorable was when he busted a wooden paddle across my back side. I had been fighting with my sister about the radio. Two important lessons I learned that day, one don’t fight with my sister, two don’t interrupt Dad when he was busy…

In my first year of teaching in Lodi Unified, I was told that we had received a lot of COVID stimulus money from the State of California or the Federal Government or some place. I wasn’t the only teacher told this, all the special education teachers were told this, and we were told ask for whatever you…

I once saw a gas station, it was a small one, 4 pumps and a little food access area. Similar to the old abandoned one on the corner of Thornton and I think Rivara across from the 7-Eleven which is now an auto body shop. But you know what was different about this gas station, it went through a hurricane.…

Call of the Prophet Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord . And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking. Here Ezekiel…

Ezekiel 1 Part Two We will finish chapter one today, in reality it is more supportive of the simplicity of the element Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them. As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction:…

Summary This is part one of the following: The vision of Ezekiel (also described in Ezekiel 10 ) is one of the more famous in scripture. It is also one of the most misunderstood. In these two meetings we will describe what we are looking at in Ezekiel 1 and what it means. Along the way, it will be clear…

Where are we heading? Today we will just give a lay of the land and plan for the study. Who is Ezekiel? What is the book about, and that sort of thing. How does it flow? Some of the major things we will run into in it. Some of the topics that scholars zero in on with respect to Ezekiel. So we will introduce…

1 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. 2 On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin), 3 the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel…

Ezekiel, the watchman of Israel, is one we ought to emulate as we are the watchmen of the world for the glory of Christ with the Gospel of Christ.

Most of you have seen the logo for RCA. It pictures a small black and white dog, head cocked with a puzzled look on its face, looking into the horn of an old Victrola record player. You may even know the name of that picture—“His Master’s Voice.” But have you ever wondered why the dog looks confused…

Revelation 2:18 (ESV) 18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: Thyatira, the smallest of the seven cities but one that receives the longest of the seven messages. It was about forty miles southeast of Pergamum Pagan worship was associated with trade guilds in that each guild had its guardian…