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Over this past week, since Bro. Ron’s passing, I have learned a lot about Bro. Ron which I would like to share with you this afternoon. During a memorial service, such as this one, I like for the individual to speak for themselves. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,…

Introduction to Exodus Summary This episode launches our new book study series on the book of Exodus! As we do with every book study, this initial episode overviews the sorts of things to expect as we progress through Exodus: difficulties, controversies, and other points of interest relevant to understanding…

Welcome Prayer Tonight, we are moving from Tad’s incredibly practical preaching about hurry and busyness to a sermon tonight that is much more foundational and academic - a teaching sermon, not a preaching sermon. (hopefully that doesn’t make everyone groan!) The purpose of tonight's teaching message…

Last week we looked at the covenant that God made with Noah after the flood, and we saw the sin of man manifest itself in Noah and his sons. Consistent with the early records of mankind, a genealogy is given of the descendants of Noah and his 3 sons. Recall God’s command to be fruitful and multiply.…

105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. Why the Bible Can Be Trusted 35 Heaven and…

It’s been said that you can make the Bible say anything you want, that you can find verses to support whatever your position is. People have used the Bible to support slavery and oppose slavery, to limit the role of women in the church and to encourage their growing involvement, to justify war and to…

We are about to start Ephesians. Ephesians is a letter. But Why will this letter help you? #1 - it has a... A Credible Source 1:1a It’s going to be helpful because the person who wrote it knows what he is talking about. 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus,…

Why is Israel so important? Israel is central to the story of the Bible. The Bible records Israel’s past and prophecies about it’s future. The Jews are God’s chosen people through whom He provided a Savior to rescue mankind from their sins. This Savior, Jesus, was born in Israel, died in Israel, rose…

God uses the obscure, disables and common for His purpose.

John 4:43-54

Where are we heading? Today we will just give a lay of the land and plan for the study. Who is Ezekiel? What is the book about, and that sort of thing. How does it flow? Some of the major things we will run into in it. Some of the topics that scholars zero in on with respect to Ezekiel. So we will introduce…

1 Kings 15:25-16:28 We have always said this statement around here and it is a biblical one: All Scripture is profitable but it is not all as profitable. John 3:16 is much more profitable than 1 Chronicles and the first nine chapters in the here and now or more profitable than the scripture on ceremonial…

When God’s word is proclaimed, there are different levels of response, ranging from those who take no notice to those whose lives are transformed

Fact - Faith - Feeling And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other. And many false prophets will appear and will deceive many people. Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. This last 4 weeks we have had…

“The Painter who Draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies all the things placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence”. Leonardo Da Vinci So is it with someone who doesn’t know why and what they believe. What is the Old Testament? How…

Tonight we are going to look at the Bible. It was never meant to sit on your shelf, but to be read, studied and used a guide book for our lives. To deepen (or to form) your conviction that the Bible, as God’s Word, can be trusted more than your feelings, values, opinions, and culture. Think about this.…

Introduction Illustration : Working out, back spasm (wasn’t thinking about breathing until that happened) Breaths. We take them all the time without even knowing it. That’s awesome if the air you are breathing is clean and healthy. But for many people in this world, the air they breathe is polluted and…

Into Rock and a hard place? Stuck in a situation where any solution is as inaccessible as every other one. Such was the case for Aaron Ralston. He was an outdoor enthusiast and loved mountaineering. One trip near Canyonlands National Park in UT he was repelling down into a narrow canyon. In his maneuvering,…

Verses 31-33 Sadly the reforms and lifestyle of Josiah did not have a long lasting effect upon his own son nor upon the nation he spent his life trying to turn back to God. We spoke about this last week. What looked like a revival and great awakening in Josiah’s day was just a fad for most. As soon as…

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

An Introduction to the Letter Our study today is the first in our expositional study of the book of 1 Corinthians. As a matter of study, it is important to always look back at the letter itself and gain and understanding of the scope of the book, its purposes, it audience, etc. To accomplish this task,…

Isaiah = the salvation of Yahweh or Yahweh is salvation He is the son of Amoz not to be confused with Amos the prophet. The salvation of Yahweh is the theme of the book. the word salvation appears 26 times in the book of Isaiah while only appearing 7 times in all the other prophets combined. Chapters…

We are gonna finish chapter 5 with some closing remarks regarding the compassionate character of Nehemiah in contrast to the corruption of the nobles and officials who we looked at last week. This message is simply Compassion in a world of Cruelty. Cruelty is the DNA of our enemy while compassion is…

2 Timothy 3:14-17 THE PERFECTION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES Intro : The dictionary defines the word “ unique ” as follows, “ 1. only one: being the only one of its kind 2. better than others: superior to all others 3. unusual: different from others in a way that makes something worthy of note. ” We have…

1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that…