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And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. Thesis/ Central Idea: Man is created to be with God in a relationship entered into by faith, expressed…

Unfolding story of Genesis Series of crises that shape the story of God and God’s people. Adam and Eve Noah and his family Abram and Sarai Abraham and Isaac Jacob and Esau Grasping of the heel The birthright and the red stew The Father’s blessing Jacob gets his name from his relationship with Esau. Supplanter.…

Southern Israel is on fire. Israel has declared a state of war, the first such declaration since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Hamas, the Palestinian Arab terrorist organization in Gaza unleashed an attack on the general population of Southern Israel, killing over 200 and injuring more than 1,000 men,…

Matthew 1:18–25 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. 19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man , and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her…

In these last few Sundays together as we made our way through Luke 6 , we came to see how Jesus prepared for and began to announce the glorious kingdom of God. It is in God’s kingdom where wrongs will be set right and this lost world will be made new. And I pray that we also came to see that Jesus calls…

In Romans 5:1-5 Paul identifies the immediate result of being justified by faith which is the blessing of peace with God. Waking up from a nightmare You’re safe! Realization based on reality Immediate Result of Justification This is Paul’s next point. Our Standing (vv. 1-2) “Therefore...” - summary statement…

You’re safe now! If you where to rescue a child from danger, this is one of the first things you will try to convince them of. Paul is attempting to convince the Roman believers that through justification by faith, they are now safe. Immediate Result of Justification Paul’s main point - peace with God…

The people of Israel had forgotten their hope. Judea and Galilee were under direct control of the Roman Empire. The region where Jesus presumably spent his whole life, was overseen by a puppet kings of Rome, one of the sons of Herod the Great. Eventually, this puppet king Archelaus would be supplanted…

21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. 22 Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. To me, this last verse “Enoch walked with…

There are several people described as “walking with God” in the Bible, beginning with Enoch in Genesis 5:24 . 24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Noah is also described as “a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God” ( Genesis…

Intro: Questions! We all have them! Much of the time we value them because we were created with a desire to know. If you have a 2 or 3 year old all the questions can be annoying. Answers to our questions give us the opportunity to make adjustments and shape our lives. We can get with reality, or choose…

Review God created for us a love relationship. Has there been a time in your life when you questioned God’s love for you? In that experience, were there ways God was expressing His love for you? What scriptures do you turn to when looking for assurance of God? Two relationship focuses: His Work, and…

“We live in our ACTIONS, what we BELIEVE in our HEARTS.” — Dr. Fili Chambo This week I had the privilege of hearing one of our General Superintendents speak… This is what He said: (above) (repeat) We live our lives according to what we “Believe” in our hearts. That sounds an awful lot like the definition…

God’s Bride is Israel There is a recurring theme throughout the whole Bible relating to the institution of marriage. Once I was able to see that God sees the institution of marriage as holy. It is separate than any other relationship that we have with others. I myself failed at recognizing this early…

(S1) Which is better: a day at the beach or a day in the mountains? Bringing back bell bottoms/big hair? Walks in the park/ride on the subway? A mile run/jog to the mailbox? Fords/Chevy’s? McDonalds/Burger King? Cookies/cupcakes (or both)? We may not all agree on which is better, but can agree that there…

For hundreds of years, God’s people longed for His advent. The Messiah. Emmanuel. God with us. Finally, He came. Even though many did not recognize Him; even though most rejected Him; even though His own people killed Him on a cross, He came. He became one of us. I love the way John, the apostle (the…

Good Morning once again…I know this series has been a bit repetitive to what we have studied over the last few months but I feel compelled to remind you that we all need a good relationship with God and the best way to do that is to remind ourselves of how we go about creating the relationship from our…

1 The Lord said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’ 2 I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the…

As we continue our GOD’S NOT DEAD sermon series, we’ve seen how GOD’S NOT DEAD because He is still Transforming Lives , Helping Hurting People , and last week we saw how He is Solving People’s Problems . Today we are looking at how God is still Reconciling Relationships. Let me ask, How many you you…

This morning, we begin a journey through some of the most prolific writings about the birth of Christ, those from the Prophet Isaiah. As we journey through these texts this Advent, I want to encourage each of us to do more studying of the passages on our own for it is only through continuous study and…

Intro What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; You may have heard or read this phrase before, anyone know where it comes from? Shakespear - Romeo and Juliet - Juliet is trying to convince herself after meeting Romeo that if he only had a different last name,…

Hope you enjoyed the story of the fall of mankind last week. We are now going to look at Abram who became Abraham. God chose Abram, and we don’t really know why. but God chose him and made his descendants into a great nation… Israel. Abraham will be the Father of Israel which will be a country that is…

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, In the Progress Magazine…

Jesus, our Great High Priest, did all of the work and came close to us so we can draw near to God.