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Mother’s Day is the hardest sermon in the year for me to prepare. It is my one chance to give a shot in the arm for mom’s everywhere that they get can get through another year. It is my one shot to urge them specifically to be godly. It is my one change to put my foot in my mouth and alienate over 50%…

Intro: Theme/Topic (What’s the problem, the question, etc.) One thing you may not know about me is that I’ve had quite the acting career! As a kid my friends and I would use my dad’s camcorder to record skits we made up. And in high school I took some video production classes. My junior year, I got a…

I don’t know about you, but I love a good ballad. According to oxford, a ballad is a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture. Many ballads were written…

Exegetical Point: Homiletic Point: Intro Withholding obedience... kids, do you sometimes withhold you obedience? Are you slow to do what your parents ask of you? And then try to negotiate your obedience? The LORD Gives Over Judges follows a pattern of cycles, Disobedience - Oppression - Calling Out -…

While our attention is often on the details, God ultimately works in the bigger picture.

Building a People of God With Unusual Characters We are coming to a different part of our reflections on the amazing and unusual characters whom God uses to build his people. Moses brought God’s people out of Egypt, after more than 400 years subject to the whims of the Pharaohs. The Joshua was called…

Torah: Exodus 13:17-17:16 Haftarah: Judges 4:4-5:31 Road Map Review We have been developing the idea of two: , Two Two Two Two Two r Two Two two exiles - Hebrew Bitterness Pride Shema - 1. 2. 3. Picture of Korah Bold Picture of Tannin Picture of three plagues (1) (2) (3) New Moon Picture of Hodesh Full…

Intro Celebrating victory - What do you do to celebrate a win? In the Bible, after big victories sometimes they wrote a song about it, like Moses & Miriam after Israel went through the Red sea. Today we’re looking at the Song of Deborah & Barak which celebrates the victory that God won. Poetry adds a…

Introduction As we have been going through the book of Judges, we have been witnessing the rise, fall & rising up again of the COI. We have witnessed: How God brought them out of Egypt - where they’d been for over 400 years. Through the Judgments Through the Bondage Then finally, through the Red Sea…

Mary’s Journey: Mary was a POOR, ANONYMOUS teen-aged girl. God sent Gabriel to announce that Mary had a PRIVILEGED CALLING in his plan. Mary’s Calling: Give birth to the Messiah—OUT OF WEDLOCK. Travel to Bethlehem—at 9 MONTHS PREGNANT. Deliver the baby in someone else’s LIVING ROOM. Try to PARENT the…

Introduction As many know, we’ve been studying through the book of Judges and looking at the people that God used to deliver Israel. (Speak of the Judges Cycle: Sin, Judgment [chastening], Repentance, Deliverance) Othniel (National Revival) Lack of Separation leads to Assimilation BECAUSE: They Sorrowed,…

Happy Mother’s day to you!

Intro: A missionary on furlough told this story while visiting his home church in Michigan. "While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight at the…

Introduction Tonight the message in which I’m going to preach to you is a similar outline to one I preached here many years ago. As I pondered on what to preach tonight, the LORD laid this man and this message on my heart. The man to which we’ll speak there is very little said about him. What you see…

Introduction As we have mentioned and as we will continue to, the most important thing to notice know about this book is the cycle that is found throughout: Sin, Judgment (Chastening), Repentance & Deliverance. And then in order to deliver the COI, God would raise up a Judge - a leader of the people…

Hook? Previously on the feats of Samson Miraculous birth Nazirite - Set apart to Serve God God was using Samson to defeat the Philistines who had been oppressing Israel 40 years. God did this by filling him with his spirit, and giving him super-human strength. The first Superman! Instead of being set…

Open to Hebrews 11.32-40 ... Today we finish out chapter 11... In this final section the author gives us a generic grouping of examples to wrap up the point he has been trying to make since v. 1-2... We’ll look at these examples, not in too much detail, at least not like we have with the previous examples...…

The Lies We Tell Ourselves Let’s just jump right in… Our culture tells us many lies about sex and sexuality It tells us that sex doesn’t matter but also that sex is the most important thing about us. It tells us that gender is a social construct but also that gender is whatever I make it. It tells us…

INTRODUCTION We are beginning a new book today It’s 3 John It appears after 2 John and before Jude It is written by the same author as the gospel of John, first and second John and Revelation That man is the apostle John, disciple and apostle of Jesus Christ John is committed to two inseparable things:…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 9, Session 3 © 2018 LifeWay Christian Resources, Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., June 2022. Summary and Goal God had used Deborah, Barak, and Jael to give the Israelites victory over the…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 9, Session 3 © 2018 LifeWay Christian Resources, Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., June 2022. Summary and Goal God had used Deborah, Barak, and Jael to give the Israelites victory over the…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 9, Session 2 © 2018 LifeWay Christian Resources, Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., June 2022. Summary and Goal The era of the judges began with God providing Othniel to deliver Israel and…

SERMON TITLE: Jesus & Women SERMON TITLE: Jesus & Women Good Morning Here me this morning. Jesus elevates women. It’s Mother’s Day. Many of you in this room are mothers. Many of you in this may become mothers. Some of you in this room may long to be a mother but so far have been unable to conceive. Some…

Sign Wonders and Miracles How 2020 treating you? Let’s just say it was not what I was expecting, but on further reflection I have discovered it is exactly what God envisioned. Let me say this. Instead of looking at the turmoil, The Stock market crash; the price of oil plumeting, People running out of…