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Your Best Life Now Ha-Foke Bah Hebrew Ha-Foke Bah English What brings true meaning to your life? The kind of meaning that satisfies you emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually. Meaning that leaves you shaking your head and feeling like no matter how hard you just worked on this thing, you feel…

Notes for message: Cf. to the beginning of Jesus’ ministry in John 2 , this could be the start of an inclusio that closes in the last week of Jesus’ ministry as He transitions from a very public ministry to a private ministry with His closest disciples (the Twelve). John gives an emphasis to this last…

The Early Church “Broke Bread” 42 All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer. 7 On the first day of the week, we gathered with the local believers to share in the Lord’s Supper. Paul was preaching…

Secular - A Christian man went on a safari When he was there, he found a huge lion. The man didn't have a gun and there was no way he could outrun the lion. So, he did the only thing he could do. He got on his knees and prayed "Dear God, I was always a good Christian. Will you perform a miracle and give…

Big Idea: Jesus addresses our motivation behind our generosity. We have to recognize the immediate daily tension of the underlying reasons of why we seek Jesus and why we choose to follow Him. Our hope is to move from the perspective of Christianity that begins with the idea of “what about me,” then…

{{Does every human hold worth? is there such a thing as worthless people? with our Christian worldview, our “right to life movement?” The answer is clear… or is it?}} Many years ago, a lawyer from Columbus Ohio once told a story of a case or a case study that he would use when he taught at Purdue and…

into So far we have learned from Mary’s obedience, Joseph’s patience and the shepherd boldness. Today we are going to learn a powerful lesson from the wise men. Lets take a moment to read their story. 1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise…

Give without expectation Reciprocity in the kingdom of God Love, bless, give Haters, oppressors and takers Lk 6.35 “35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful…

Bless You! When someone sneezes, what do you say? “Bless you.” Or you may say, “God bless you.” It is easy to say. So easy that it has become a normal response; so normal that we may need to think if we really mean it when we say this phrase. We write, “Bless you” on sympathy cards, get well cards, as…

Too many work all year to have a few days they spend doing what they want. Usually the of those days are recuperating from the year. They live for those few weeks. Many sacrifice peace and joy for those couple days. Life rule - Do what I love with people I love as often as possible. A man who chooses…

Saul had been king of Israel for 40 years. Although his leadership of the nation started well, two incidents in his role as king caused him to be rejected by the Lord. The Lord sent the prophet Samuel to anoint David as the next king of Israel but David would not become king right away. As we have seen,…

The intention of the heart is more often condemning that redeeming.

Moving beyond superficial observance to true relationship with our Creator

Genesis 3:1-7 , Psalm 14:1-3 , and Romans 1:18-23 What is atheism? Atheism, at its root, is a denial of the existence of God, gods, or goddesses (ultimately all supernatural) “Humanist theology, start to finish, is based on the denial of God and the supernatural.”—David A. Noebel This denial is absolutely…

Lk 6.35 -36 Lk 6.35-36 Sermon on the Mount “35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is…

In light of spiritual motivation( 1-5) These six implicit, but easily discernable, principles of motivation are: authority (1:1–2a), altruism (v. 2b), appreciation (v. 3a), appeal (v. 3b), affection (v. 4), and affirmation (v. 5). In light of your heritage in faith In light of your heritage in faith…

Truly I tell, you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me. In Nomine + What motivation lies behind acts of compassion? The Church’s worship is based around the idea of the sacrament or sign, which points towards the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven, and even more…

Introduction The Great Commandment 34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your…

here we are now @ TheTemple of Love Now when we talk about love we’re not talking about a healthy Godly love, but were talking about Inordinate affection - which implies that which is excessive and unnatural and without limitation To the extent that whatever your drawn to it posses a threat to try to…

Intro: We have been trekking through the book of Mark, in which he writes the memoirs of Peter. We know the purpose of his book/Gospel is to proclaim Jesus is the Christ, the son of God. He has been making a case for us, by first pointing to the fore runner that is to come, John the Baptist. Mark also…

This is the first in a series of lessons on the biblical concepts of faith and fellowship. This lesson will define fellowship and consider who and what we have fellowship with.

Commissioned to Serve Introduction: The Commission of 12 Ordinary Men The church is the greatest institution ever designed. God ordained this incredible organization built on blood-bought people before the foundation of the world according to Eph 1:4 . God in all of his infinite wisdom new who would…

*this is a riff off of Steve Huber’s sermon on Romans 16 , also check out andy crouches stuff on this which, I think steve pulled some of this from. We are going to talk about community today and love and friendship— maybe you’ve been lonely this week—- one of those weeks, or you realize that you’ve…