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Intro: Probably the most exciting parts of Bible reading are the genealogies of where we read someone begot someone, and they begot someone else, and we don’t know how to pronounce any of their names. Just kidding! Though genealogies are boring to most of us, they are very important God or he would not…

OCTOBER IS PREGNANCY & INFANT LOSS AWARENESS MONTH Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month was first declared by President Ronald Reagan on October 15, 1988. On that day he said: “When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow…

Join Pastor Jonathan as he discusses surrogacy from a Biblical perspective.

Join us today as we discuss the question, why does cancer exist?

Sec. 2. Article 22 of Chapter I of the Vermont Constitution is added to read: Article 22. [Personal reproductive liberty] That an individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed unless justified…

Scot McKnight says, “Theology prompts ethics. That is, beliefs about God and experiences with God undergird beliefs about what is right and wrong.” “Theology prompts ethics.” What we do follows what we believe, or at least that’s how it should work. I realize that doesn’t always happen; it doesn’t always…

1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. 2 We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, 3 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love…

Freedom! Jesus is offering true freedom but they are not accepting what He is offering at the high price (lol, tongue/cheek humor) of belief. What do you think the cost of freedom is? Toby Castleberry once said: “There is nothing like the freedom we can have in Jesus. No money can buy it, no status can…

FCF: We want to give God everything except what He wants from us. LO: We need to understand that the best indicator of our hearts is our everyday lives. AO: We need to commit to following God in the details of everyday life. Christ link: Jesus Intro: John the Baptist announced that Jesus was coming with…

Hoping Against Hope There are times in the biblical account when Sarah comes off as a bit … harsh. She was the wife of the great patriarch Abraham, so we tend to think of her with a degree of dignity and honor. But reading the biblical account of her life, it is impossible not to notice that she sometimes…

Opening • Welcome • One night, Michael Boudreaux stopped off in a barroom while he was in Texas. He deen’t know anyone, so to break de ice he axed a fellow at de bar eef he would like to hear an Aggie joke. When the fellow stood up he must have been 6’5” an’ weighed 280 pounds. He said, “A’hm an Aggie…

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light…

The Prophet Jeremiah was to be a Prophet God changed his life from being a priest God called him during a most evil time in Judah Jeremiah was a youth we will find out he is not a good speaker, does not know what to say But God has some pretty special things to say to Jeremiah and to us Read Jeremiah…

Scripture 1. Our relationship with Jesus is causational as it relates to our relationship with the Father Our relationship with God the father is intimately connected to Jesus Christ as the Son Sonship is primarily image and nature in the text but does also imply at times genetics which makes for intimate…

Intro Don’t take the easy way out. Naomi was an Israelite living in Moab, and she had a Moabite daughter-in-law named Ruth. Their husbands had died, they had no other children and so they were two widows out on their own trying to survive. They we vulnerable to starvation, to attack. Naomi hear’s the…

John 8:48-59

Last week we saw the end of the global flood, which destroyed all life on the earth except for Noah and his family. God released them and all the animals with them on the ark onto dry land, and God promised that He would never again curse the ground because of mankind’s sin. God’s discourse continues…

Self Control 28 Like a city that is broken into and without walls Is a man who has no control over his spirit. 11 A fool always loses his temper, But a wise man holds it back. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control;…

Intro – In 1857 the U.S. Supreme Court made a decision that today looks absolutely ridiculous . 7 of 9 Justices decided that a black slave named Dred Scott was nothing more than the property of his owner – and thus he had no rights as a citizen and no protection under the law of the United States or…

Mary’s Willingness Mary was a special person because of her willingness to bear a child to be a possible unwed teen mom to face the hostility of the towns people to have the possibility of her betrothed husband divorce her to live in deep poverty to be a servant of God and carry this child Her faith…

Creation Creator

The mission of the church is to reach into the lives of people; our commitment to growing meaningful relationships frames our actions as followers of Jesus.

It seems that our world is having an identity crisis. People not knowing who they are, developing things like “self esteem.” Self esteem is an idol. It is making everything about us and trying to feel better about ourselves. What we need is to esteem God, and from our high view of God we can see what…

Ephesians 4:7–11 (KJV 1900) 7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower…

We Like to… Debate? Last week, I started our time together by discussing how we, as human beings, are inquisitive. We like to know things. We like to know the answers to things. We spend huge chunks of our lives seeking truth, and researchers spend literally billions of their supporters dollars seeking…