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Introduction Endurance and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. Is it all worth it? Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation.…

Good morning! Welcome to our 80’s Kick off - Im’s stoked about today... Big thanks to Sondra, Tiffany and Melinda and Pam getting this ready for the after party in fellowship hall… it going to be outrageous. . And for those of you who are visiting and didn’t get the memo. This is not normally how we…

Grace to you and peace, from God our Father, and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Today a “cancel-culture” environment has become more common than before, where simple disagreements and differences of opinion makes enemies out of friends. I recognize that I’m painting with a broad-brush,…

Introduction Good morning and welcome once again to this worship gathering of Hope Bible Fellowship. It is one of the great honors of my life to be your pastor and to be here today to proclaim the Word of God to you. We have a lot of ground to cover today so let’s just dive right in. If you have a Bible…

Unexpected Blessing We’ve been following Jacob in this series about identity. Jacob struggled with a bit of an identity crisis from before the time he was born. His brother, Esau, didn’t put much stock in his identity and actually sold his own birth right as first born son for a bowl of beans. Last week…

Intro Today and for the next 4 weeks we are going to take a look at the book of James. I am approaching this book differently than we have been doing other books. We are going to look at an overview of the book and give an executive summary of the three main themes found in this book. Today, I will introduce…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, as we come before you today, may our hearts, minds, and spirits be open to your still speaking voice this day, Amen. A Transition from Stewardship to Mission As we come to the end of our study of Stewardship and topics related to stewardship, we move into a time of…

The Way of Love Love, everyone wants it, everyone loves it, and the way of Christ is love and that is what we are looking at this morning. (Insert - Love makes the world go round) You know the song, and yes it is love, for love created the world, love holds the world in His hands, love was poured out…

Sermon for Week Three The Passover Lamb Exodus 12:1–13 We have reached the third week of our multi-week journey through the Bible. The first week we heard God’s promise to raise up a Savior from Eve’s descendants who would crush the serpent’s head, even as the serpent was biting his heel, which was accomplished…

Jacob's Business Business Ethics Implied Contracts

My dad was saved in his early twenties by hearing the gospel from a baptist pastor after my dad attended a gospel singing at his church. Some of his early growth in his faith came from WCRV 640 AM radio and the preaching programs that were aired on that channel. He learned from men like RC Sproul, John…

God’s Heart for the Lost 1 All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” 3 So he told them this parable: 4 “What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does…

Dysfunction in families can wreak havoc over multiple generations. We see this in the background of the life of Joseph. Joseph’s family tree demonstrates the truth of passages such as Exodus 34::7 which speaks of the sins of the parents affecting even the third and fourth generations. Now generational…

Introduction This has ben a great journey through the Book of Romans. It is one you need to study yourself - AMEN The following chapter flows together with chapters 10 and 11 so , read them together this week. Romans 9 (NASB95) 1 I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies…

Last week we began our final section in Genesis, focusing on the reunification of Joseph with his family. Due to the famine in the land, Joseph’s brothers came to Egypt to buy food, and Joseph took advantage of their ignorance to have them bring his brother Benjamin to see him. We were left last week…

Last time, we addressed the sin of the priests who had become lax in their worship as they sacrificed blind, lame, and sick animals to God. This showed their disregard for the Lord and what he required from them. They kept the best for themselves and dishonored God with the worst. They were loving God…

Ephesians 4:31–32 31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior. 32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you. A feeling of anger and resentment, caused particularly by…

I have another dad joke for you this morning to kick off today’s topic. Someone once said, “ I am very upset with my mom. When I was growing up she told me, ‘You can be whoever you want to be.’ That’s not true. Turns out Identity Theft is a crime! ” Today we are starting a new series called “Identity”.…

A Quick Recap of Recent Parables Lost Sheep (vs. 4-7) Lost Coin (vs. 8-10) ++Lost Son (vs. 11-32) The parable of the prodigal son is spoken of by Jesus with a collection of others that focused on lost people (sheep, coins, and now wayward sons), Why? Because the Pharisees were complaining that Jesus…

Exegetical Point: Homiletic Point: Abimilech leaves us hungering for a good King, who has a rightful claim to the throne, who uses might to protect people, who’s “shameful” death is actually a self-sacrificial deliverance of God’s people. David, then David’s descendant Jesus answer that longing. Intro…

Aged Men It’s the aged people in the congregation that provide its strength, its stability and its wisdom. Older believers should they be in great numbers in the future in the church are going to make the church a better place, a richer place. The maturity of godliness will be a benediction to the body…

People can change On our last Sabbath with Jonah we had left him right after the city of Nineveh repented and God relented. God used his brief message, (5 Hebrew words) to penetrate the hearts of the people of Nineveh. The people spread the message like wild fire. When the word reached the king, he didn’t…

Sibling rivalries have existed from the dawn of time. My brother and I are not much different. He is very smart, more feisty than I am, and three years younger. However, he did not mix well with the way we do school in this country. Poor guy had to have the same teachers I had four years earlier and…

What is love? Poets, philosophers, theologians and artists have attempted for a very long time to define that four letter word. Song writers have, too. Did you know that more songs have been written about love than any other topic in the world? Here’s a few of the songs about love. The Partridge family…