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Text - Nehemiah 13 Subject - Drift Theme - Spiritual Drift Thesis - Principle - As Christians today, we must be aware to guard ourselves from spiritual drift. As we turn to our text this morning, we see an all to familiar yet still sad pattern of events. The cyclical pattern of returning to faithfulness…

For the last several years I have gotten up super early on Easter to think about how many people so easily awake to forget about Jesus and what He has done for us. Our society has not helped with this over the years. It is so easy to put things on our schedule on Sunday’s or just to sleep in on a Sunday…

The significance of the word “Know” The word “know” can carry a wide range of meanings. a person can know of someone or even have interacted with that person, but this would not denote a relationship. Thus, you might know that a person exists and know the title of his position, and yet not know the person…

READ: Josh 24:14-18 “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord . And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord , choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your…

Instead of trusting in God’s grace, the Israelites tried to control their fate through spiritual and military power. But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight…

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%…

Exegetical Point: The Success of the Joshua years quickly gave way to disobedience, then apostasy. Homiletic Point: Partial Faithfulness Leads to Partial Blessing Intro True Justice - Conquest. True faithfulness - conquest. Evil people - no innocents. God had taken away their “right” to the land. God…

If you were to reflect over the course of your life, how many meals really stick out to you as being just especially awesome meals? We all have eaten good food, but over time we forget about them, except for the exceptional ones, right? I can recall the first time I had gourmet duck. I can recall the…

We are continuing our survey of the Old Testament this morning, as we look at the overview of what took place after God revealed Himself to the people of Israel at Mt. Sinai. Each week, we have been asking two main questions. What do we learn about God? What do we learn about mankind, or ourselves? Over…

1 Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), 2 that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, 9 The Lord is not slack concerning…

5 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord , “That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. 6 In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called:…

Judges 2:8-15 When you consider the Greatest Generation – those who lived, worked, and toiled, sweat, sacrificed, fought and died for freedom and against tyranny. A generation that learned early that if you wanted to eat you had to work. Nothing was given to you; you had to go to work and work hard and…

While we love celebrating Mother’s Day, for some people it can be a difficult time. There may be mothers-in-waiting in the audience—women who have experienced infertility or miscarriages or who are still praying for God to bless them with a godly husband and family. Some may be grieving the loss of a…

In 1979 a passenger jet carrying 257 people left New Zealand for a sightseeing flight to Antarctica and back. Unknown to the pilots, however, there was a minor 2 degree error in the flight coordinates. This placed the aircraft 28 miles to the east of where the pilots thought they were. As they approached…

Lesson 2: Introduction Part 2 Last week we mainly gave a scope of what we are going to be covering in this study – the books that are involved and explained how the make of Israel went from one kingdom to a the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel. This week we are going to look at the subject & precursors…

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped…

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under…

Major issues of life: domestic abuse, terrorism, war upon war, child abuse, moral decline, the collapse of society, how to treat those who believe differently, abuse of power, lack of leaders, a relative concept of truth, practical over principle. Oh you thought I was talking about 2021, didn’t you?…

Confronting the Destruction of a Nation Judges 1-2 Intro : It does not take very long to discover that the book of Judges is not a very pleasant book. In fact, it one of the darkest books in the Bible. It describes a period in Israel’s history when they were without a strong, godly leader. Perhaps the…

Disobedience came 1 generatoin after the death of Joshua and led to severe discipline.

Intro Getting to know you Getting to know the area These stories are important Love of History Difference between history and nostalgia Evangelical Historian John Fea talks about nostalgia as a longing for a past that never really was, a frozen past that we look at with rose tinted glasses, a mis-remembering…

When I think of father’s in the scriptures many pictures and individuals come to mind… My favorite however is a man we know very little about, his name is Enoch. Genesis 5:21-22 simply states this about him... Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah. Then Enoch walked with God…

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…

Levite For Hire Judg 17 7 Bethlehem is not a Levite city The remaining descendants of Kohath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. moved there from his city Moved again and settled with Micah / priest for hire he was not satisfied…

Judges: A Few Good Men…And Women Introduction: What is the first word that comes to your mind when you hear the word “judge”? Turn to the person next to you and share what came into your mind first. Remember, no swearing in church. Some people think of something like this: (Flip Wilson of “Here Comes…