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So - Last week we finished up with the last chapter of 1 Kings… chapter 22 - And so - if you’ve been around here long enough you know that when we finish a book of the Bible... …I like to provide a RECAP of the book - in one concise - sermon. *Why? (I actually think it helps provide a necessary - OVERARCHING…

Luke 4:1-4 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” The Obstacle: Fixing It We live with the belief that EVERY problem MUST be fixed……

How many of you love roller coasters? How many of you loved roller coasters when you were younger? When we were kids, money was tight, and there was a period where my parents thought it was worth the investment to purchase season tickets to AstroWorld in Houston back when Houston had a theme park with…

Today we are wrapping up this six part study of the Good News called, “Life in 6 Words.” We get these six words by using the word “Gospel” as an acrostic. As a way of review, let’s walk through these six words one final time… G - God created us to be with Him. ( Genesis 1-2 ) O - Our sins separate us…

For the past couple of weeks - we’ve taken a close look at - Elijah - the prophet of God. We’ve seen him as a Man of Prayer... That BEING a man in constant COMMUNION with God - he was connected to... God’s Posture in the World God’s Providence God’s Preparation God’s Power We’ve also seen him as a Man…

Introduction This past week we held Revival Services - and for some of us, experienced a Revival. Rather than continue on in the series we’ve been in for the last month or so, I felt led to give you this message here today. But first, I want to revisit some of what we experienced here this week. SS -…

Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Whenever faith clings to the promises of God, doubt is always lingering in the back of our mind, constantly asking the serpent’s question in the garden, “Did God really say?” How striking to think that we must…

Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Whenever faith clings to the promises of God, doubt is always lingering in the back of our mind, constantly asking the serpent’s question in the garden, “Did God really say?” How striking to think that we must…

Welcome Good morning everyone, today in our Gospel Story sermon series we are skipping ahead a considerable amount of time. Last week we looked at what Solomon was doing that led to his downfall and today we will see just how big of an affect that had on the nation of Israel. Prayer Background After…

There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?” God should have the first word in the morning, and the last word in the evening What does it actually mean to pray? I’ve always assumed that praying is talking it’s asking that it involves…

TEXT: JAMES 5:7-11 | A PATIENT PURSUIT INTRO EXPLANATION : Here in these verses before us, 6 times in 5 verses James addresses this matter of patience or endurance. But what can be so quick to miss is the context in which James is saying these things about Patience. v.7 say, “Be patient THEREFORE” It…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 13, Session 2 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources, Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Nov. 2022. Summary and Goal After his initial meeting with King Ahab, in which he declared a drought over…

1 Kings 16:29-22:40 . A sad story tonight. It is sad because it is a story of departure from God to a new level. A key statement among the kings of Israel is that no longer when a new king is introduced did they do evil like Jeroboam, now you will see that they did evil like Ahab who went much further…

Introduction This Torah Portion goes from Numbers 25:10-30:1 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he…

Today we resolve conflicts in the bible. How do we work through the challenge of Christ with the challenge of life? This passage presents the concern at hand. Jesus is doing an ordinary thing - walking to Jerusalem and this seems to forfeit the extraordinary thing of Conversions and miracles. But the…

The prophet Elijah had a moment of losing faith when he thought his whole world was falling apart. God restores Elijah’s faith; God can restore our faith too.

Life is a journey. We say this in our world for a reason. Life has its highs, the mountaintops. Mt. Carmel, drought Life has its lows, the cave moments. This is where we pick up the story of Elijah. Be careful what we say. We can unintentionally be like Jezebel as we hear what God has done in other people’s…

Devotion Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Prayer A sense of unhappiness arising from a loss of confidence in one’s own abilities, in the reliability of God or in the power of the gospel. Discouragement can occur in the Christian life, especially when there is…

Intro 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We have these witnesses who are cheering us…

I have made the statement over this past year that “I would rather take a decade of 2020 over six months of 2019”. I’m not saying that the difficulties we as a family went through were more or less difficult than what God may be allowing you to go through What I am saying is that life brings struggles,…

We’re going to be looking at several texts this week. First, let’s pray. PRAYER Sovereign LORD, Sure Foundation, Mighty Deliverer, Holy God - the names used for you throughout Scripture remind us again and again that you are our Creator God. We need a touch of your healing this morning. We need a word…

3 And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly, 4 and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord , Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.) 15 And Elijah said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before…

The Assignment 5 “Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations— that’s what I had in mind for you.” Confession of Faith I am not moved by what I see or by what I feel. I am moved by what I believe. I believe…

Intro Have you ever tried to get out of something? give examples There is something that drives us to that point. Causes us to feel squirmy, uneasy, That something is FEAR. Touch on the examples The great prophet Elijah was in the same boat that we sometimes get in We are looking for a Way Out A: Elijah…

Sometimes we may have an idea of what God places in front of us; but what do we do when it all feels a bit overwhelming?