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In 2021 gift, novelty, and souvenir store sales in the United States amounted to around 19 billion U.S. We’re getting to THAT TIME of year - AGAIN - when gift shopping becomes ever so popular... ALTHOUGH - I think “THAT TIME OF YEAR” is always - WIDENING. QUESTION: In regards to the GIFTS we get our…

Who Is In Charge? This is the reality of our social nature. Whenever more than 2 of us are in the room, we are curious who is in charge. If it’s just you and me, we know one of us will take hold of the moment. But if there is a gathering, we will make our greetings, but will not take charge of the moment…

I. GOD MAKES FOOLISH. 1 Corinthians 1:18–20 (ESV) — 18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” 20 Where is the…

Illus: My plans fell apart when I took Jonah to the Cardinals game and the Arch. (Because of construction we could not park anywhere within reason.) What about Topeka? We are under construction everywhere it seems like anymore. We're waiting, maybe confused, and trying to figure out where the heck our…

This Week’s Theme: Walking in Wisdom This Week’s Word is Wisdom : True wisdom includes spiritual discernment and, above all, the reverence and knowledge of God. Scripture declares that God alone is wise and discerning, and that human wisdom is often unable or unwilling to understand his ways. God’s wisdom…

Our readings for this morning are no doubt familiar to many of you. However, as always I encourage you to listen carefully to God’s Word, as if you were hearing it for the first time. Our Old Testament reading comes from Exodus 20:1-17 , and it is the Ten Commandments. Let’s listen to God’s Word to us:…

Intro; In this election year it is amazing how so many of the politicians have all the answers to America’s problems. Yet so many have been in government for years and the same problems that were around when they got in are still the same problems we face today. The self-centeredness of man is the reason…

Our Scripture lesson this morning is taken from 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 : Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our…

Devotion Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Prayer Announcements This Week’s Theme: Walking in Wisdom This Week’s Word is Wisdom : True wisdom includes spiritual discernment and, above all, the reverence and knowledge of God. Scripture declares…

Peter, John & James together served as the elders of authority in the Jerusalem church. James challenges those who claim to possess wisdom, yet they show little to no evidence. Jealousy and selfish ambition were evidence of false wisdom. The Greek eritheia (selfish ambition, NRSV) – a self-seeking pursuit…

Theme : A God Who Unveils Word for the Week is Omniscience : God’s infinite knowledge and understanding of things past, present, and future. Memory verse: Hebrews 4:13 “And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”…

Stay Home? Go Out? Open? Wait? Which Camp Are you In? The World says you must pick a side Does the Bible Speak to our Current Circumstances? Wisdom Literature King Solomon was the son of King David He walked in the ways of God and that pleased God He sacrificed to God and lived for God in the way his…

Big Idea: Trust God more than yourself! Proverbs 3:5–6 (ESV) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. 7 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord , and turn away from evil. 8 It will…

In verse 5 of this chapter and continuing through verse 17 of chapter 4, Paul truns his focus back on attacking the factions that have arisen in the church. If you have not been with us from the beginning, let me give you a few summary points to catch you up. Paul, the author of this book is writting…

Compare and Contrast Wrong wisdom and right wisdom. Okay wisdom and better wisdom. The wisdom of mankind/world is sometimes wrong, sometimes okay, but always far from God’s wisdom. Man’s wisdom is often in conflict with God’s wisdom, but sometimes it is is just inferior to God’s wisdom. I.e. religions,…

When the simple is confusing Side note: I am attempting something new that you can get on the outline printed or on the Faithlife outline on our site, a fill in the blank for some of, if not all of the questions asked today. This is an effort to help us to keep in on the facts of the scripture and to…

God's Wisdom fills His people wiht song and wonder.

Fool’s Gold What do you do when you realize that what you’ve been collecting is fool’s gold? Don’t be a fool. Stop collecting it and get rid of it. That’s what Paul wants the Corinthians to do with the wisdom that they’ve been pursuing. No Comparison Believers have a unique reason to be unimpressed with…

Treasure of wisdom and Knowledge 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.…

13 For “ whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Treasure of wisdom and Knowledge 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.…

Today, we are continuing our series of “What Child is This?” Last week we considered the angels appearing to the Shepherds, and asked, Why the Shepherds? What child is this that God chose to send the angels to the Shepherds? We saw that God foretold Jesus’ coming to Earth, and described him as a Shepherd.…

Treasure of wisdom and Knowledge 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.…

What is this widsom? Who can receive this wisdom and how? Who can't receive this wisdom and why? What does it look like for those to possess this wisdom?

20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; 21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: 22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?…