Wednesday 09/16/20 Series: Thru the Bible Message – In the Lord’s hands [powerpress] ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Thru the Bible: 1Chron. 21; 2Sam. 24 Israel’s sin & David’s disobedience We are going to toggle back and forth between 1Chron. & 2Sam. for a bit here at the beginning in order to not lose details in the comparison between the two accounts. The first historical incident we are looking at tonight is when David ordered a census in Israel. Now a census in itself would not have been wrong, but context and motive can turn ANY action, regardless of how […]
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Salvation…a 30,000′ View Pt. 1
Sunday 09/13/20 Series: Do we REALLY believe? MESSAGE: Salvation…a 30,000′ View Pt. 1 [powerpress] ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Salvation…a 30,000′ View Pt. 1 For weeks we have been using the 1st letter from Peter to illustrate suffering in the life of a believer… offering us practical examples of it in daily life… Such as at home with family, at work, toward government authorities… etc. We also saw in Peters letter the immediate connection between suffering (which is to deny your sinful tendencies) to forming Christ in you which is the entire goal of salvation. But why is forming Christ […]
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A Psalm of Deliverance
Wednesday 09/09/20 Series: Thru the Bible Message – A Psalm of Deliverance [powerpress] ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Thru the Bible: 1Chron. 20:4-8; 2Sam. 22-23 Last week, we ended in 2Samuel 21 where David showed tender-mercy to the woman Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, Saul’s concubine, who had worked for days to ward off beast and bird from the corpses of Saul’s sons who had died due to their breech of Israel’s oath to the Gibeonites. He saw to it that Saul & Jonathan’s remains, along with the bodies of these men, were properly buried, though he had to agree to […]
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Humility’s Role in our Glorification
Sunday 09/06/20 Series: Do we REALLY believe? MESSAGE: Humility’s Role in our Glorification Share this: Humility’s Role in our Glorification Last week our lesson was regarding Living for Jesus in difficult times and circumstances. We wrapped things up prematurely before we completed the end of the chapter in 1 Peter 4, so that is where we will pick up this week. Testing & proving were never very far from the minds of the Apostles and the early church “(12) Dear friends, when the fiery ordeal arises among you to test you, don’t be surprised by it, as if something unusual […]
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National Guilt
Wednesday 09/02/20 Series: Thru the Bible Message – National Guilt [powerpress] ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Thru the Bible: 2Sam. 20-21 If you remember we ended last week with a bit of a dispute over who had a greater lot in the matter of David being King in Israel. “(40) The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went with him. All the troops of Judah and half of Israel’s escorted the king. (41) Suddenly, all the men of Israel came to the king. They asked him, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and […]
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