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Isaiah 46-48 Good evening church! Thank you all for coming to our midweek service. We are picking up our study in the Book of Isaiah. We completed chapter 45 at our last midweek gathering…and I’m not going to recap other than to read just a couple verses from the end of that section. Isaiah 45:21-23…

Isaiah 40:27-41:16 Review We continue with the new cycle of Halftarah readings The Halfarah are supplementary scriptures that go alone with the Torah Portions The third reading from the book of Genesis is named Lech Lecha. It means "go forth." The first verse says, "Now the LORD said to Abram, 'Go forth…

1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be…

Introduction Good Fight, Right Race, Steadfast Faith Ultimate goal is heaven - Sojourner here for a little while (This World is Not My Home” We are on a journey of faith, persistence and joy Today we are going to talk about the Importance of our faith journey and growing our relationship with God 1.…

Where were you when... Kennedy was shot The last Americans left Vietnam The Challenger exploded The Berlin Wall came down The World Trade Centers were attacked America shut down for the pandemic of 2020 All of these are events we will remember forever because they mark the downfall of some system we…

Do you have peace in your life? So many people in our culture today live with a complete lack of peace in their lives. They have to manufacture a pretense of peace, through busyness, through drugs, through alcohol, through medication, etc. but they do not have true peace. This can be true of believers…

Introduction 1 “Hear this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah; Who swear by the name of the Lord , And make mention of the God of Israel, But not in truth or in righteousness; 2 For they call themselves after the holy city, And lean…

Have you ever had one of those days when everything went wrong? You begin to think… I shouldn’t have even gotten out of bed today. Guy who wanted to make a shake - he put everything in but forgot to put the top on the blender… he was wearing his smoothie… Guy who jumped off the overpass to kill himself……

The Holy Spirit - Part 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? 8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there . 9 If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 Even there Your hand shall…

Listen! That is the theme of chapter 48. Listen to God because He is our Master! And not Listen in one ear and out the other… Listen to Obey He speaks to sinful people! Which is a wonderful thing! He hasn’t given up on us. He still speaks. He predicts and it comes to pass! He plans and carries it out.…

I Have Engraved You on the Palms of My Hands Isaiah 49:8–16 (ESV) 8 Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages, 9 saying to the…

Comfort 1 Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord ’s hand double for all her sins. Last Week Last Sunday I spoke about “Shocking Hope.” A reminder that Christian…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 15, Session 1 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Jan. 2023. Summary and Goal In the previous unit, we explored why God would judge the sins of His people.…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 15, Session 1 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Jan. 2023. Summary and Goal In the previous unit, we explored why God would judge the sins of His people.…

Last week we saw God’s first interactions with Abram, the patriarch of the Jewish and Christian faith. By faith, he left his father’s household and went into the land of Canaan, the land that God promised to Abram’s descendants. The narrative actually ends with 13:1, with Abram leaving Egypt after having…

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…

Summary Revelation 21-22 is John’s climactic vision of the new Jerusalem and new earth. In Part 1 we looked at how Israelites thought about the concept of “temple” and how that concept led John to conflate the expectation of a new temple and see fulfillment of that expectation in a city (the new Jerusalem)…

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…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

Jeremiah Major prophet - BC 627 -580 Name means “Yahweh Exalts”. Known as the crying prophet Why do you think his nom de plume is the Crying prophet? Preparing the people for the enviable fall of Jerusalem Descendant of Abiathar - banished by Solomon. Baruch is his scribe Call and Mission of Jeremiah…

Unto thee, O Lord , do I lift up my soul. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, Let not mine enemies triumph over me. Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: Let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. Shew me thy ways, O Lord ; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach…

“Peace and Being Uplifting” "THE PEACE OF CHRIST" INTRODUCTION 1. Peace: a word conveying wonderful concepts... a. "a state of harmony, tranquility" b. "the absence of hostility, the absence of mental stress or anxiety" 2. In the Bible, the word peace is used to translate... a. Shalom (Hebrew) - completeness,…