Podcast: Download (Duration: 56:43 — 76.3MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 04/02/23 Message: Unscriptural expectations turn Hosannas into Crucify Him ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Unscriptural expectations turn Hosannas into Crucify Him It’s Palm Sunday and as I’ve told you many times in the past I really do not know why we celebrate it. The actual event was little more than a superficial hero’s welcome by the Jewish community into Jerusalem. It was something the disciples were quite unprepared for in that they would never have expected it! The weeks leading up to this event had been fraught with threats […]
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Suffering… the price of Intimacy
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:19:37 — 107.5MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 03/26/23 Message: Suffering… the price of Intimacy ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Suffering… the price of Intimacy Turn with me to Romans 8. We’ve been talking about our pursuit of knowing Jesus relationally in true intimacy through experiencing Him. The payoff is becoming like Him. We can only become like the Jesus we see. Or said another way. We will only become like Jesus to the degree that we have come to know Him. Paul said in one of his most well known statements, found in Php. 3:8-11, “(8) More […]
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To not just desire, but REQUIRE Him
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:09:48 — 95.0MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 03/19/23 Message: To not just desire, but REQUIRE Him ***Video is HERE*** Share this: To not just desire, but REQUIRE Him Since the beginning of the year we’ve been focused on words found in a passage in 2Peter. Those words are, “yourpursuit of knowing Jesus”. The word KNOW is the Greek word epignosis and means more than can be simply captured in words, but a reasonable stab at it is – to come to know more intimately by way of experience. According to Peter the pursuit of this knowledge […]
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Walking in the Light of what you know
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:07:11 — 91.9MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 03/12/23 Message: Walking in the Light of what you know ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Walking in the Light of what you know We’ve been talking about pursuing relational knowledge of Jesus… and the purpose of this pursuit, other than the pure bliss of knowing Him in true intimacy, is that it works to make us like Him. We have learned that what primarily fuels this pursuit is hunger for God. Not only desiring Him, but REQUIRING Him. As we sang this morning, “I’m desperate for You” or in […]
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The cost of hungering for God
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:13:43 — 126.3MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 03/05/23 Message: The cost of hungering for God ***Video is HERE*** Share this: The cost of hungering for God Last week we addressed one of the most important questions that could be posed to a believer – how hungry are you? We learned that hunger is among the greatest motivating factors which drives us in our pursuit of knowing God and is THE motivating factor which most pleases Him. Anyone could be moved to pursuing God in times of desperation and need, but to bring suffering upon yourself BECAUSE […]
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