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Advent as if a cheer Once finished, ask the question, “What’s that spell?” Then ask, “What’s that mean?” Odds are there will be a humorous silence. Say: “Advent comes from the Latin word adventus and means arrival or appearance. During these next four weeks of Advent, we are going to be celebrating and…

YHWH said to Abraham Chapter LIX.--God distinct from the Father conversed with Moses. When I had spoken these words, I continued: "Permit me, further, to show you from the book of Exodus how this same One, who is both Angel, and God, and Lord, and man, and who appeared in human form to Abraham and Isaac,11…

Jesus is the Creator, but is He a created being? How is Jesus the Light to mankind? Who was the witness to the Light?

Love is not arrogant. Continuing our 1 Corinthians 13 series, Jon explains the context behind those words and their relevance, especially to our online lives.

Verse by Verse study in the book of John.

Introduction In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. In the Septuagint, this word translates the majority of instances of Hebrew דָּבָר (dābār, “word”). Like the Hebrew word, logos has quite a large…

The Greek word logos simply means “word”; however, along with this most basic definition comes a host of quasi-technical and technical uses of the word logos in the Bible as well as ancient Greek literature. Logos is arguably the most debated and most discussed word in the Greek New Testament. Its most…

The Eternal Word becomes flesh for us and declares the Fathers mind to us.

The 4th gospel (John) is attested as written by John by Papias, disciple of Polycarp, from the first century AD. The earliest manuscript evidence of John that survives is P.90, which is John 18:36-19:1 dating from AD ~180. From the early second century, all four gospels were used together an authoritative.…

Verse by verse study on the book of John.

“In The Beginning” — I’d like to go on a little journey with you. — We are going to back to the late first century — To about the year 90 — Most scholars put the Gospel of John at 85AD to 105AD — The Temple was over run and destroyed by the Romans in 70AD — There is a war raging between Rome and the…

Introduction We love a good story, don’t we? It’s almost like we’re wired to organize our perceptions into narrative. We love a story! And as I was thinking this week about some of my favorite stories, a pattern began to show itself. In a lot of our favorite stories, the one who will later become a hero…

August 5, 2021 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ Heart (Pathos) What occupies our time? What motivates our actions? Where your treasure is, there your heart will be. ( Matt 6:21 ) How do we love God with…

​When we read, study, and hear the preaching of the four ​Gospels,​the Spirit ​increases our ​​knowledge ​of Christ, which produces faith in us. But not just the noun form of faith​;​ the Spirit produces the verb form of faith, as well​.​

For four thousand years God has been promising a Savior and now the Savior, He in the flesh, the Incarnation, has come.

This morning we’re going to be looking at the first five verses of the Gospel of John. And before we go any further, I would like to start by asking a question: Why did you come to church today? What was your motivation? Was it habit? Routine? The people? To learn something new? To receive encouragement?…

Introduction <<PRAY>> <<READ John 1:6-8>> Last week: The Shining Word - He has never been silent; he has never been distant; he has never been defeated This morning, we move from the eternal Word to the man He created and sent into the world as a witness to the Shining Word. John shows up at the beginning…

In this message, we will see the fundamental claim made about Jesus.

Being Christian means living out the Image of God Within Us.

When you spend time in preparation, you expect production. When you spend energy in development, you expect results. When put effort energy in practice, you expect progress. When you labor in the field, you expect produce. Nobody in their right mind hopes that the time invested in a project will end…

Rabbis tried to define the case law to keep Israel pure. Instead Jesus tells us we must take inward and live the apodictic law, for our of the heart come the passions that defile us. That is why Deut ch 4 says we must live the commandments without changing them. God will help one define them from the heart if our heart is to do his good. James points to the passions giving birth to death but the Father giving birth to life through the implanted logos. Thus acting out anger towards human is never good, for it does not work God’s righteousness. Instead, “receive the implanted logos” and that will guide us into right action. If it is just heard without action it is of no good to us. Therefore: not all that claims to be biblical and cites bible is from God. The heart of our faith is in the motivations of the heart, not outward ritual actions. It is whether I am living my life or performing my ritual under obedience to church authorities and coram deo. So slow down, listen carefully, and speak reluctantly and then instead of the death-producing, uncontrolled passions, receive the life-giving divine logos from the God who wills only good and become the best of creation doing those impulses God puts in your heart and then you will be walking in God’s loving life.

λόγος - pronounced- olego - meaning - statement

Introduction: A Light Shines in the Darkness Opening Illustration: I can remember very clearly the first time I thought seriously about death. Strangely enough it was at my grandmother’s house, when I was there for a sleepover. I was the only one of my siblings who was there, and I remember very clearly…