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And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and…

A Clear Consideration of Wine from a Biblical Perspective 80% of all Americans have drunk alcohol in their lives. 70% have this year. 55% this month ad 25% have binged drunk this month. According to the CDC, Excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 95,000 deaths in the United States each year,…

18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” The question was about fasting. In the law, the fast of the Day of Atonement was the only required fast. After the…

Title : Rebuilding Had a different message in mind last week, but after praying, felt led to let that sit and stew on a back burner for a while, let it marinate a while longer… and today we’re diving into the minor prophet, Haggai. Text : Haggai 1:1-11 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth…

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. John’s introduction of Jesus, in the book of John, has occurred less than a week ago. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have…

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. On the third day there was…

Welcome Good morning everyone, today we are going to be looking at the book of Haggai together. Last week we looked at Nehemiah and how the walls of Jerusalem were built. Haggai takes place before Nehemiah, it is actually taking place during the book of Ezra. Now, if you’re asking yourself why we are…

32 “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure…

Noah’s Sons from whom the whole earth was dispersed Shem Oldest son ( Gen 10:21 ) Shemites, from where Abraham descended ( Gen 11:10-26 ), eventually Christ (see Lk 3:36 ) Ham Actually, the youngest ( Gen 9:24 ) Most notable here is his son was Canaan Every time Ham is mentioned we get reminded he is…

Haggai 1 1 In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of Yahweh came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2 “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘This people…

Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had…

Recap Last time we got a bit of a foundation for the study, we covered the start of kings in Israel with Saul, and then the anointing of David to be king. Remember the nation wanted to be like everyone else and have a king, which they already had God. After Saul was named king he was disobedient to God’s…

Believe only in what you can see or will you believe on the Word of God? Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego - Refused to bow down to other God’s. This is why Israel was in captivity, because they had stooped to worshiping false gods. But these three men, they refused all the advances and temptations to worship.…

2 Kings 4 Verses 1-7 Desperate need A horrible outcome if she can’t pay The Law said that if you couldn’t pay your debt you or your children could be taken to pay off the debt until the 7th year and then you would be released. 1 “Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. 2 When you buy…

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Introduction As we have mentioned earlier, Covid has changed my plans. I will be putting on hold the continuation of the Series of What we hold to be true. A key component of this series was to get together and to study the Main idea. As this is difficult to do, I will be putting that on hold, but hopefully…

Intro Week 3 of this series Looking at Identity Who are you? Who am I? Do we define ourselves as the world would seek to define us? Race Gender Politics Socio-economic class sexuality denomination so on and so forth Or do we define ourselves by and through Christ? If we are defining ourselves by Christ,…

1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech the high priest, saying, 2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This…

Are you a splitter or joiner? I remember the events of 9/11 distinctly. I watched as much of the television coverage as I could. I read through dozens of accounts of the awful tragedy. Each one was filled with eyewitness testimony that recalled how planes rammed the towers of the World Trade Center and…

# Title: Parched # John 7:37-39 Good morning once again. It's such a joy to stand before you and proclaim God's Word. This week I had the opportunity to attend a workshop of the Charles Simeon Trust. This is an organization that focuses on helping pastors improve and grow in their expositional preaching.…

Text - Nehemiah 8 Subject - Word Theme - God’s word. Thesis - Emphasis on God’s word is necessary for spiritual renewal. Principle - Spiritual restoration in our lives begins first with an emphasis on God’s word. Introduction Who enjoys seeing things get restored? Cars, furniture, houses, etc. There…

1 There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. 2 He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah…

Introduction We are starting a series titled Guard Rails. We all know what Guardrails are… we have them on many of our roads and all of our bridges. How many of you would drive across the Huey P Long Bridge if it didn’t have any guard rails? The official definition if a guard rail is… Guardrails: System…

1. The call to come close, 24:12-18. A. Command to ‘come up,’ 24:12 God’s invitation for Moses out of all the elders, Aaron and his sons to come even closer. Come up and stay. God will give Moses something when he reached the summit of Mount Sinai. Stone tablets with the law and the commandment, written…

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