Loving

Loving Gifts from a Loving God

    Sunday 02/11/18  Series: He Gave Gifts Message – Loving Gifts from a Loving God Click HERE for Video     Introduction If you remember, we began this series with the letter Paul wrote to the Ephesian church and after all the encouragement he gave them, he pointed out that there is only ONE body we have been baptized into, serving ONE Lord and therefore sharing ONE Father Who is in, above and through us all. He then told us that when Jesus led away our captors into their eternal captivity He gave Gifts to men! What did He mean […]

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Wisdom

Wisdom & Supplies

  Wednesday 02/07/18  Message – Wisdom & Supplies Series: Thru the Bible – Exodus ***Video is HERE***       Keeping the Sabbath Exodus 31:12-17 The last command of God to Moses before giving him the 1st set of the 10 commandments was to keep the Sabbath holy. Israel supplies materials for the Tabernacle Exodus 25:1-9/30:11-16: God commissions Israel with the task of supplying for and building the tabernacle. A Gerah was a measurement of weight and was equal to about 1/20th of a shekel and 1/6000 of a talent. A shekel was a unit of weight for metals. It was […]

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Forsaken

My God, My God, why have your forsaken Me?

Share this:   My God, My God, why have your forsaken Me? Mark 15:34,  “(34)  And at three Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lemá sabachtháni?“ which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”  This passage has come under scrutiny in recent years, and scrutiny is sometimes good – so long as it is due to valid reasons within a given text.  If we cannot allow scripture to be questioned, then that becomes a statement that our beliefs need protecting because we are afraid that they cannot stand up under scrutiny.  I have […]

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Energies

Gifts, Ministries & Energies Pt. 1

    Sunday 02/04/18  Series: He Gave Gifts Message – Gifts, Ministries & Energies Pt. 1 Click HERE for Video     At the end of today’s message, I felt led to encourage our church towards faith in recognizing their gifts, using them and seeking God for the expression of greater gifts. I decided to separate that part of the message from the main portion and make it available here – Encouragement towards faith. Today we are going to learn about three categories of God’s grace given to His people, to equip, mature, strengthen, exhort, comfort and edify each other. […]

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God

God Proclaims His Name

    Wednesday 01/31/18  Message – God Proclaims His Name Series: Thru the Bible – Exodus 34 ***Video is HERE***   New Tablets… a New Way Exodus 34:1-2 Moses has to cut the tablets this time  – though God still wrote upon them. Exod. 20:25, “And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.” No reason is given for why hewn stone was acceptable for the commandments and not for the altar – yet many are suggested by commentators. The only […]

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