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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…

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…

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…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 13, Session 3 © 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 Elijah was called to anoint Elisha as a prophet in Elijah’s place by the Lord…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 13, Session 3 © 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 Elijah was called to anoint Elisha as a prophet in Elijah’s place by the Lord…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 13, Session 3 © 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 Elijah was called to anoint Elisha as a prophet in Elijah’s place by the Lord…

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…

Grace to you and peace, from God our Father, and from our crucified, risen, and ascended Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. I am not much of a sports fan, but I do have teams that I’ll pay a little attention to. The first is the San Francisco Giants, of whom I have been a fan since childhood. The other is the…

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…

Grace to you and peace, from God our Father, and from our crucified, risen, and ascended Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. I am not much of a sports fan, but I do have teams that I’ll pay a little attention to. The first is the San Francisco Giants, of whom I have been a fan since childhood. The other is the…

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 Therefore I urge you, imitate me. Prayer Put Off You can’t lead others where you have not gone, and you cannot pass along what you don’t have So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple. Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of…

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…

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. A lot of us got interested in God because it seemed like he could something to our lives that we were missing. He could give us peace; help…

Opening Prayer: Heavenly Father, We come before You today with grateful hearts, thanking You for the gift of family and the privilege of coming together to seek Your face. As we gather in Your presence, we ask for Your Holy Spirit to be among us, guiding our thoughts and opening our hearts to the message…

For the past several weeks, we have been reading where everywhere Jesus goes, people have been asking the question, who is this man Jesus? When He calmed the storms, who is this man that even the winds and waves obey Him. When He cast the demons out, who is this man that even the spirits listen to Him…

Introduction Tonight we’re going to examine a topic that is more prevalent in the book of Psalms than you might imagine. And it’s also a topic that effects a lot of people. The topic is Depression. Depression is a subject that creates some controversy. Some will say that it’s simply a state of mind -…

Today we are starting a series that I hope you will find interesting and engaging, but above all my hope and prayer is that this series will be a tool that God will use in your life to reach a lost and dying world. Today we are going to go back to basics and study the Good News. If you don’t feel comfortable…

Introduction: The word determination means firmness of purpose or resolve. Those who are determined are not thrown off by outside influences. They are focused on the task at hand. Yesterday was Veterans Day. We are appreciative of those who have had the determination and fortitude to fight for our nation…