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We are reminded that God graciously promises to bring us into His new creation. We are encouraged to trust in God more deeply and more consistently.

Introduction I began to name this the ‘Bible Person Study’, but chose to go with the ‘Bible Character Study’. I hesitated to name it that, as I don’t want to diminish the fact that these are real people we’ll be examining. But the reason that it’s named the Bible Character Study is because we’ll be focusing…

Today we embark on a journey through scripture. Over the next fifteen weeks we will fly over the pages of scripture examining important moments in history and how God revealed himself and related to his people. The journey began this morning in our Sunday school hour where Kathryn taught on creation,…

INTRODUCTION: Welcome/Prayer In accordance to the gracious will of God, we have been gathered together to hear from God tonight. He will speak to us from 2 Samuel 9 , and He will give us an example of an incredible act of faithfulness by a king to a member of his enemy’s house. In doing so, God points…

INTRO Text Last week we looked at Hosea 4 where God began to spell out the charges He was bringing against Israel. For nearly 200 years Israel’s kings and priests led the people away from faithfulness to God. They exchanged worship and devotion of the one true God for the false gods of the neighboring…

Introduction 1 Peter 1:22-25 is where we will be this week. Back may years ago when I ran track… emphasis on many years ago. I had a certain strategy that I employed in High School. I knew that I wanted to win more than the other person did. So depending on who I was running against I employed two strategies.…

On Wednesday, my children received a book of riddles as a gift and have been asking us all riddles nearly non stop since then. The have been some good ones, some classic ones, some interesting ones, and all are fun ones. One of my favorites is the classic misdirection riddle. As I was going to St. Ives,…

The covenant promise of God in the Bible is more than a ticket to eternal salvation, it is also an invitation to a new community of people

INTRODUCTION (Smile): Welcome/Prayer (Review Chiastic structure of chapters 21-24) Our passage, 2 Samuel 22:1-30 … has us at the climax, the high point of this final section of 2 Samuel Today, by David’s very own words, not that of the author, but David himself, we read of his faith and his viewpoint…

Context: In response to Moses question to see God’s glory. His name is His glory,His nature,His character,His person,His doctrine,and His standard of living God’s proclamation and the view of His glory happened in transit A fixed view of glory is yet to come The best we have in this world is transient…

Crisis is never fun. An amen goes right there. No one likes a crisis. Crisis is a part of life. We cannot get through this world without a crisis at some point. To survive we must have hope. The reality is many who commit or attempt suicide do not have adequate hope to manage the crisis they find themselves…

Background of I Peter The Author Peter , an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, AUTHOR PROFILE: PETER • Simon, a fisherman, who followed John the Baptist until his brother Andrew introduced him to Jesus • Name changed to Peter…

Our Scripture lesson this morning comes from Deuteronomy 8:7-20 : For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees…

Introduction: According to multiple estimates, the average American produces around 4 pounds of trash per day. This amounts to a little over 1400 lbs of trash per year! Before you start worrying that this is going to be a political message, let me let you know why I mention this. We produce a lot of…

In Hosea chapter one, we saw the indictment God brought against Israel. Remember that the nation had split in two and the prophecies of this book focus on the northern kingdom. God took the marriage between Hosea and Gomer to illustrate the crimes Israel was committing against Him. The imagery of the…

“You shall not commit adultery. Introduction Applies to men and women Physical intimacy is for marriage and only marriage . Physical intimacy is discussed in the Bible in very positive ways. Song of Songs Start by discussing marriage, then the duties required, and finals the sins forbidden. Marriage…

For the last two months, we have been in Revelation looking at the seven churches in Revelation 2-3 , discovering some warnings that Christ gave to the churches. Today, we are going back in time to the land of Israel during the reign of king Solomon. Turn your Bibles to the book of 2 Chronicles chapter…

2) Do I own my faith? Is your faith the result of a cultural or family tradition — something you were raised with — or because you know it makes your girlfriend happy, or because your seminary scholarship depends on it, or because you live in a religious society where it's advantageous to be a "Christian?"Deep…

Today we come to our final sermon in this series walking through the book of Samuels. As I looked back through the sermons for this book of 2 Samuel... It took me some time staring at the content... But I feel like what I saw was a purposeful flow of information... …that - ON IT’S OWN - builds the story…

Ties in with previous verse, 5:15. There are three things that God desires from our text today. Remember that these three things are addressed to the covenant people of God, yet have relevance to the people of the new covenant — the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here is the first thing that God desires…

Context: In response to Moses question to see God’s glory. His name is His glory,His nature,His character,His person,His doctrine,and His standard of living God’s proclamation and the view of His glory happened in transit A fixed view of glory is yet to come The best we have in this world is transient…

Justice and mercy are the tangible expressions of loving our neighbors as God has loved us. They are the ways that we live like Jesus here and now, affirming the goodness of Gods image in others and anticipating the overflowing shalom peace and flourishing that characterizes Gods coming kingdom.

God’s gift given to his people has an expected result; the prophet Micah tells us that sometimes our expectations need to align with the gift God gives.

Elohim Human Sacrifice The Grace of God The Application of Faith

1 Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! 2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, 3 things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation…