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Our good God resolves problems that He didn't cause.

Can life have any meaning in a naturalistic universe? Physicist Steven Weinberg doesn’t think so. He writes: “The more comprehensible the universe becomes, the more it also seems pointless.” Similarly, Richard Dawkins says: In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic…

Jesus did not come to be served, but to serve others. Our mission to serve others follows the example of Jesus.

Last week we started a journey looking at spiritual gifts in the church. We specified those spiritual gifts centering on the miraculous spiritual gifts or sign gifts that Paul deals with in the church in Corinth. Last week I made the case for the belief system called cessation ism, which holds to the…

Introduction Love for books - all sorts of books in my library. Most odd is books on funerals. Do a lot of them. Meeting with different families - all kinds of families. The biggest difference is the faith of the deceased. When they were and the family is, there is a spirit of hope and peace. When they…

God builds a rhythm into our lives. Worship helps keep that rhythm running smooth.

A time of worship for Thanksgiving Day

Peters Commitment Peter has seen Jesus heal people Seen Jesus cast out demons He has been semi-following Jesus bus has not yet become a true believer Peter knows that there is something special about Jesus Maybe Peter knows that Jesus is the Messiah but Peter still has not realized that Jesus is God…

The second Discourse (12:37–50) (1) The prophecy (12:37–41): Jesus tells the Jewish crowd their unbelief was prophesied centuries before by Isaiah ( ; ). Teleological plan of God meaning that prophecy is interwoven and infused with the absolute plan of God. Gods Word is not just correlational with human…

The authority of Christ and that of Scripture are one. R. C. Sproul Mark 1:21–28 This morning we are brought to Capernaum by Mark. Capernaum is where most of Jesus’s earthly ministry will take place from. Now, we must understand the Lord wasn’t random when he did things, he wasn’t random when he moved…

Intro: Prayer: I have seen people dead rise again I have seen the sick healed I have seen to wounded comforted I have seen the power of rejoicing in God I have seen the power of people together on their knees Prayer - Jesus prayed. He prayed early and he prayed often. Jesus prayed, as it says in Matt…

Welcome... Introduce self... Pray... Heavenly Father, thank you for another day in which we can freely gather and worship you. Reveal yourself to our hearts. Give me grace as I preach your word and teach us all through the power of your Holy Spirit. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Then Amalek came and fought with…

Judges 6:36-40 Gideon couldn’t conceive of carrying out the gargantuan task the Lord was requiring of him. He was too insignificant, too weak, too … whatever! How could Gideon—the least in his father’s house and identified with the weakest clan in Manasseh—ever deliver Israel from such a monstrous enemy…

God’s Providential Will Does God have an individual will for each believer? Suppose you say no: How does that view interact with Scripture? 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! If God does not have an individual…

Human Hope Hope there are several ways that hope is defined. *As a noun... 1.a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen: A: "he looked through her belongings in the hope of coming across some information" B. "I had high hopes of making the Olympic team" 2.a feeling of trust: A:…

We are continuing our series this morning Summer Stories. We have reach the end of this series this morning. The past Three weeks we have explores the lives of three people who had profound, life-changing encounters with Jesus. We will connect their stories to other modern-day individuals who have had…

As we get ready for the celebration of Jesus’ birth we’ve been looking at what John’s gospel says about who Jesus is. He starts by calling Jesus the Word who was with God, and in fact is God. This shows us that in Jesus we see both what God is like and what God wants of us. Because He is God, He shares…

Many names, Many ideas, Who is Jesus to you?

There is more to thanksgiving than feeling grateful; the act of giving thanks requires some attention to our boundaries.

1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.…

The day of Pentecost was the day that the promise had finally come upon the disciples of Christ taking them from merely being followers and believers to now becoming the literal living church of Jesus Christ. I don’t want us to think that this was some random event that took place because it was something…

Introduction The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson… A man named Ordinary who leaves the land of Familiar to pursue a dream given to him by God, the Dream Giver. With the Dream Giver’s help, he faces Bullies, fights Giants, endures the wasteland, and finally is asked by God the Dream Giver to let go of his…

John 18:38 (ESV) Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. This morning we are going to talk about worldviews. We will get to the definition of a worldview in just a moment, but first it might be helpful if we talk about a practical example. Let’s talk about…

We are a couple of weeks in our new series, the Bible. This week we're going to look at the different literary styles in the Bible. I'm pulling most of this information from The Bible Project's How to Study the Bible series, episode 3. If you're like me and didn't pay much attention in school, this information…

Sarah has passed away. Abraham is now very old . The focus of the Genesis account now begins to shift to Isaac, the only son of Abraham and Sarah, the son promised to them, the son through whom all the blessings of the promise will come. The focus is no longer on Abraham as such, though he’s still involved…