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Hospitality is the act of making space for guests, visitors, or strangers, and extending to them the privileges of family; biblical hospitality focuses on how we will live as God’s people in relationship with people who are different from us.

I have walked on many streets and knocked on many doors as I have canvassed neighborhoods to pass out flyers, to evangelize, or simply to meet my neighbors. Do you know what many of those houses have in common? Most of them have some variation of a welcome mat. The welcome mat has been a staple of home…

23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow…

Summary of v1-25 Famine is severe and Jacob commands his sons to go to Egypt and buy food. Judah reminds his father that the man they purchase from in Egypt will not see them unless their brother is with them. Had Jacob not forbidden this, they would have already returned to purchase food twice. Jacob’s…

*** The verse that changed my life Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. *** Image: Good Samaritan: The Good Samaritan lived out the truth of that verse A Distance / Up Close Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on…

Abraham Watched The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them, and bowed down to the ground. *** Image: Three visitors Watching:…

Humility. Hospitiality. Christ’s Example

The word hospitality approximates the Greek word philoxenia, which means “love of the stranger.” Question: What does it mean to be a “Pro-Life” Christian? 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained…

Sermon Questions: Why do we need to keep our eyes focused on the cross? How can we keep our eyes focused on the cross? How is the antidote for worry? What are ways you’ve seen a church lose sight of the centrality of the cross? In the New Testament, the Greek word translated “hospitality” literally means…

Question: What is the difference between tolerance and approval? Question: Can we love those we disapprove of? Parents who love their children do not approve of everything they do. Is there any relationship on the planet where they agree on everything? Of course not! And yet, why is a person’s sexuality…

Intro: I walk into the house one day after a ball game down in KS to find that my mom is having me move into the basement for a night. Our unfinished, musty, spooky basement. It was the kind of place I didn’t venture to in the dark. And when you shut the lights off, you didn’t waste a moment and ran…

Last week, we said that hospitality is a three-legged stool, with the first leg being our experience of God's gracious nature. Tonight we look at the second leg, hospitality as covenant union. Hospitality as Covenant Union Just as there is a real union between each believer and God, by virtue of covenant,…

25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth…

The end of all things is near . This isn’t as doomsday as it sounds. But it is true. The end of all things is near. Peter has just written about Jesus’ suffering, His death, His resurrection, and His ascension. It makes sense now for Peter to talk about the end. The end of all things is near. This doesn’t…

Passage 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they…

Elders/Presbyter - age and wisdom. This indicates the dignity or rank of the office. Pastor - job of shepherding. Spiritually taking care of God people. Feeding them with the Scriptures and mending those who are injured, seeking those who are wayward. Overseer/Bishop - job of administration of the church.…

Evening 21 January 24

If you desire to be first, what does that say about you? How can the lack of hospitality reveal your true spiritual condition? Join Pastor Steve as he examines 3 John 9-11 and the life of Diotrephes.

Inheritance the Lawyer how to inherit eternal life the answer Jesus gave to him is obey the law perfectly always without fault trying to help this man see his need of a savior inheritance only goes to the children and if you are not saved you are not a child the inheritance not only comes to you in the…

9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. 12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. 13 Contribute…

I’m so grateful to be able to worship with you all in person again. It was just almost three years ago when we worshipping virtually. What a weird time that was, and likely we will continue to talk think about it for years to come. It was so funny to me that just last year my son had a school spirit…

We’ve come to the final chapter of the letter of Hebrews… 2 more weeks after today... This chapter is not directly connected to the main point of the letter, but it is also not completely disconnected either... The final exhortations in chapter 13 are given to further help us understand how we are to…

Ideal Church What does the ideal church look like? Now, you might stop me there and remind me that actually, the ideal church doesn’t exist. (I don’t know if you’ve heard the old adage - if you find the perfect church, leave, because it’ll cease being perfect). But let’s just leave that aside and try…

Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22 REVIEW We completed the book of Bamidbar - in the wilderness / Numbers From that book, we will continue to speak about common themes in Deuteronomy/ Devarim Distorted Thinking Today very predominant We talked about the prophetic significance of the Golden Calf - idolatry We will…