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Scripture Reading: Daniel 6:20-23 . Title of Message: God is Faithful “God is faithful!” Silas’s Accident Praying for your spiritual refreshment this week Pastor and for satan to be subdued. It must be important if all of these distractions have occurred already. - Jon Griffeth “God is faithful!” Deuteronomy…

King Nebuchadnezzar, To the nations and peoples of every language, who live in all the earth: May you prosper greatly! It is my pleasure to tell you about the miraculous signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me. How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an eternal…

Remember the message of the book of Amos. Big Idea of Amos: Sin has consequences, responsibility accompanies privilege, God is faithful, and whether your circumstances are from your choices or outside forces, there is hope for the hopeless. In the Bible, visions and dreams are often revelatory in nature.…

When we are Thankful We are more satisfied 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, And into his courts with praise: Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. When we take all the praise. We turn into People we don’t want to be. 24 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most…

Intro Can you see the stars? If you look out the window can you see the stars? What if I told you there was a way that you could, right now, in the middle of the day, see the stars? You might think that you would need to climb up really high and stick your head out of the atmosphere so you could see....…

Overcoming Conflict We are studying the first few chapters of the book of Daniel and barely scratching the surface of the amazing wisdom set forth by Daniel and his friends. The book of Daniel is one of the most appropriate books in scripture that addresses the challenges we face in our culture today.…

Tough as Nails Today we are starting a new series we are calling “Unbreakable”. In this series we are going to look at the first few chapters of the book of Daniel. For several weeks now, God has been putting Daniel on my mind. Specifically this early part of his life. As I was preparing for this series…

When we call ourselves Christians, we will usually acknowledge that God is in control. We admit that He is sovereign. But to what extent? What are the things that we say that God is sovereign over, but then we are anxious about? We come back to King Neb. He has seen the power of God to reveal dreams,…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

Tell me! (Telephone ringing slide) _ _ _ _ _ _ do not read below_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Wise men were not very wise were they? But God’s wisdom was made known to Daniel and now time to let the king know the meaning of the dream. (Intro/illustration) You went to the doctor, you told him your symptoms, he did…

Intro Story of Daniel and his friends being brought out of their nation, their culture. Daniel and his friends stayed true to their faith and enjoyed the culture and influenced it. Most people today think we have to choose sides… either give in to the culture or live a life if faith. As we look at Daniel,…

Be careful what you think will bring you peace and happiness. Financial success does not equal happiness or peace. Watch out for pride. We will see it in the story of Neb. Neb has a dream that doesn’t put him at rest. We have something that the world does not have - the Lord. Be spirit filled! Neb attested…

Intro: We have been going through Daniel chapter 4 and looking at “The Reflection of a King”. Last week we looked at this second dream that King Nebuchadnezzar had (his first dream is recorded in Chapter 2). You might remember that he called all of his occult advisors in to interpret the dream and once…

Ps. 13:1-4 “1 How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep…

Responding to the Government This is another significant area of Christian response. We’ve considered how Christians should respond to others (12:14-16), to evil (12:17-21), and now to the government. This is in tune with discerning the good, acceptable, perfect will of God (12:2), and in tune with relating…

What does it mean that God is "Holy, Holy, Holy"? How does this effect the church and world today? Is the church proclaiming God's holiness or basking in her sinfulness? Join Pastor Steve as he examines Isaiah 6:1-4.

If it’s weird it’s important Last week we saw that many of the common views of Gen 6:1-4 are seriously flawed. We need to remember that the proper context for reading any biblical text is the context in which it was written. The Biblical writers of the New Testament were influenced by works in their…

Prayer meeting last week and this week. I would like them to continue. My vision is that we would have evening service at 6 and prayer meeting at 7; we’re not there yet. 39 And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. 40 And when he came to the…

Peril and Providence We went through a few questions rather quickly last time as we were ending the study. There was a comment about God’s decisions involving risks at times. How is that appropriate? If God knew (knows) what was going to happen - and if he predestines the events - where’s the risk? Perhaps…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

Introduction Well good morning once again. It’s good to be with you today. Go ahead and turn in your Bible to the book of Hebrews, chapter 3. We are going to be diving into verses 7-19 this morning. As you do that I want to call your attention to a couple of additional announcements. On June 26 we are…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

summary Revelation 17-18 overlaps a good deal with elements in preceding chapters, most notably 13-16. In those earlier chapters readers were introduced to the Beast, the symbolic representation of anti-Eden chaos drawn from Daniel 7 ; Babylon as a metaphor for that system and cipher for the present…