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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people complete marathons. The official distance of the marathon is 26.2 miles. Some of the runners are elite competitors, but many are simply trying to run the distance no matter how long it takes. Here’s a picture of my friend Brent with his wife Karin after he…

31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord , when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though…

O Israel, hope in the Lord ! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption. And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities. New Testament writers used the word hope in only one way and that was to express the idea that one anticipates (usually with pleasure) what…

Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Introduction The book of Genesis is the book of beginnings, it describes where we came from, it declares what is wrong with us, it discloses where we are going It lays the foundations of human institutions Now unlike any other time…

Introduction We are once again back in our survey of the book of Jeremiah. I can’t remember if I pointed out to you this fact. Jeremiah is unlike other books of the Bible in the way that the chapters have been arranged. It has become a common belief that the arrangement of the chapters are not necessarily…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

Revelation 21:22 . 22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. Jeremiah prophesied this in Jeremiah 3:16-17 . 16 And when you have multiplied and been fruitful in the land, in those days, declares the Lord , they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant…

Revelation 21:1 . 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. The OT background for this verse is Isaiah 43:18–19 ; 65:17–19 ; 66:22 . 18 “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I am…

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…

Sunday October 16, 2022 Last week, in the 2nd service when we ended, we were looking at the context of Hebrews 13:6 6 So we may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear . What can man do to me?” You see, not fearing comes in a context of responding to the greater ministry that God has for…

"A Godly Independence Day". Based on Jeremiah 17:5-10. God's plan for our independence draws us nearer to God and His ordinances while those who worship self and other humans move away from God's blessings. How are we doing as a community and country?

Introduction Well good morning once again. It’s good to be with you today. Go ahead and turn in your Bible to the book of Hebrews, chapter 3. We are going to be diving into verses 7-19 this morning. As you do that I want to call your attention to a couple of additional announcements. On June 26 we are…

Grace Intro I love preaching verse by verse through the bible for a couple of reasons. I’m not smart enough or creative enough to come up with a different sermon series every few weeks. God’s word dictates what I will preach. This means that it will steer me away from pet peeves, hobby horses, and soap…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

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…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

Let us this morning continue in our series, “Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit” today is part 4 entitled “The Fruit of Patience”. Up to this point we have look within the fruit basket and explored closer the fruits of love, joy, and peace. These three are very nice often understood to some degree and…

AT this point in our narrative, Israel does know for sure what happens next. God had told them He would not go with them. This was for their safety because they had sinned a great sin and God was angry. Yes, they had repented of their sin. They had removed the ornaments from their bodies just as the…

Pray. Deep inside your rib cage, there is an organ that is responsible for carrying blood to every other part of your body. We call it your heart. The Hebrew people understood the heart as being both your emotion and your intellect. The word was meant to describe your inner self, something you had control…

INTRO: All the benefits of being a Christian are based on the foundational principle that God loves you. Not because of anything we have done, but just because He WANTS to. Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness was because He loves us. The greater suffering He endured later was because He loves us. He suffered.…

Introduction It can be so satisfying. Problem: Eventually you’ll want another one, or eat another. It only satisfies for a brief moment, then you want another. Transition: Every person in the world want to know what will make him or her happy. We’re all desperately seeking for the person, place, or thing…

What do you believe about God? What God do you serve?