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Have you ever wondered what to give someone for Father’s Day? If you think about Mother’s Day, the classic gifts are: flowers, fancy tea, a card, or a framed piece of kid art. You know, Mother’s Day gifts make sense. Except when someone completely throws convention to the wind and gives a tent peg. What…

1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be…

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…

Isaiah 20-23 Good evening Church! We are continuing on in the prophecy of Isaiah, attempting to complete this section where the prophet has been addressing the surrounding nations. Lots of stuff going on in this section, and I acknowledge that it is a difficult large chunk of Isaiah to get through, but…

In helping to prepare the residential program at the Transformation Project, I was introduced to Restorative Justice. This is an approach to criminal justice that places more emphasis on restoration of a criminal offender to a fruitful life in their community rather than retributive justice that can…

How many of you enjoy when we sing together, “Blessed Assurance”? It’s beautiful, isn’t it? Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, born of his Spirit, washed in his blood. As many of you know, I wish I had a deep voice that could just…

Does the way that you live give thanks to the Lord for His presence and at the same time, proclaim His greatness to to all people? As God’s people, we are called to live in such a way. Your trust in God dictates your manner of living and your manner of living proclaims in who or what you trust. The way…

Kids Takeaway of the day: Boundaries are Good! God - We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously…

Knowing what it is we here at Hickory Corners Bible Church believe and how it is we operate is important. HCBC Basics is a condensed class to look at our statement of faith, and how it is we apply what we believe to our church life. This session will focus on the doctrines related to the end times.

Isa 40 Isaiah 40:1–4 ““ Comfort , yes, comfort My people!” Says your God. “ Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the Lord’s hand Double for all her sins.” The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare…

Introduction It is the Christmas time. We have all read that passage in Matthew 1:23 ““The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).” taken from Isaiah 7:14 . Let’s Read the passage 10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 11 “Ask the Lord your…

As we began our study in “Believer Building” we talked about the phrase “One Another” and how it is used in the scriptures of what we are to do for each other in the body of Christ and for the world. We started out with “Love One Another”, as Jesus first loves us and how that phrase gives the world the…

32 But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, 33 sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. 34 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the…

And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. There were seven brothers; the…

13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. 14 John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15 But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.…

Introduction Turn with me to Mark ch 12 v 18. If you’re not normally here with us, I’ve been preaching through Mark’s gospel. And if I had planned it all out, we’d be in Mark ch 16 today, talking about what happened on that first Easter Sunday But we’re not. In the providence of God, we’re in Mark ch…

1 Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do…

Resurrection in the OT is “rare” Direct references to resurrection—coming back to life after physical death—are rare in the OT. The example of Elijah resurrecting a boy simply describes it as a return to life (חַי, ḥay ; 1 Kgs 17:22–23 ) with a restoration of the boy’s living essence (נֶפֶשׁ, nephesh…

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.

1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. 2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord . 3 And his delight shall…

summary The major focus of Rev 19:1-10 is the marriage supper of the Lamb (vv. 6-10). This meal, a celebration of the victory over the Beast and his followers, is the climax of an ancient Old Testament motif: the “meal with God” or communal meal in God’s house where the Lord is present with his people.…

What a great day to be here with you today! This is the day we celebrate the day Jesus made all things new. Today we celebrate not a dead Savior, but a Risen, Reigning, King who has given us life. We celebrate His victory over death and because of that, our victory too. Jesus made many claims during…

Resurrection Replaces My Own Reasoning 1 Corinthians 15.12-19 ICC’s PM service (4/16/22) I. Introduction 1. Prayers- God allow us to see ourselves in your word tonight, not just condemning the Corinthians or the people of the world, but may we be able to start with ourselves 2. Catch i. We have a problem…

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…