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Growing In Grace and Truth (2) 2 Peter WARNING – 2 Peter 2:18-19 Central Truth: There is N othing B etter than G rowing C loser to God! 2 Peter 1:3-11 Peter’s P urpose : To see believers G row in G race and K nowledge of God! > 2 Peter 1:2 and 3:18 Answers to the N egative : 1:1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10-11, 19,…

Walking in Obedience Following and adhering to God's commandments, teachings, and will in all aspects of life. It requires surrendering one's own desires and submitting to God's authority with faith, humility, and trust, demonstrating a genuine love for God and others through actions and attitudes. Thesis…

2 Peter 2 Good morning church! Happy Lord’s Day to you all. If you are joining us on line this morning welcome to you. We have some church family business to take care of before we get into our study this morning, and rather than do it after our service, or in the prayer room, or in my office, we want…

especially because you are an expert in all customs and questions among the Jews; therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. I beg of you, brethren, become…

We’re going to continue our study of James today in Chapter 3. James has been challenging us to become mature in our faith. This week, James turns his attention to the tongue. It’s another way of describing what we say. James is really concerned about the tongue. In fact, he mentions it in every chapter…

I stand before you today as someone who is addicted. I’m addicted to a lot of things. You all know about my ice cream addiction. We joke and laugh about that. But, we could talk about my desire to please people. We could talk about my past with pornography. I actually had to go through an addiction recovery…

Commercials fascinate me in so many ways. They have somewhere between 15 and 60 seconds to tell you, a. There’s a problem. b. There’s a solution to your problem. c. This is the answer. It doesn’t take a prophet to recognize there is a lot of division in our country and our world. And it’s not just varying…

Genesis 25:19-28:9 Malachi 1:1-2:7 Review In our last Halftarah portion we spoke about Abraham and David getting old זָקֵן Grow Old = ‎ ( zā·qēn ) Strongs 2204 Abraham makes Isaac his heir and David Salomon, despite the attempts of Adoniyahu to take over Now it’s time to speak about and to the generations…

Last week we left off at v.17 lets pick up there and continue on through to v.22. “Deceptions of False Teachers” What are they? What we are going to see in today's text is the following. Speak Great Arrogant words of emptiness Promises of freedom yet are themselves in bondage They have known the way…

Good morning Church family and guest. We are continuing today in our Series called “Growing in Grace and Knowledge” where we get from 2 Peter 3:18 “but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.” Today’s text is found in 2 Peter…

Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30 REVIEW This is our 8th message from Devarim elle-ha deverim = these are the words Picture of Journey Reason why the journeys -opportunities to learn The first generation that came out of Egypt was “thick headed” Devarim is like an executive meeting to evaluate where we have been,…

For the past four weeks, we’ve been in this series I’m calling “Framing Your Worldview.” We’re learning to look at life from God’s viewpoint. We’re looking at the major questions of life. We started the first week with, “ Why does it matter what I believe?” Does it really matter what I believe? We’ve…

2 Peter is the second letter that we have from the Apostle Peter in the New Testament, written to Gentile believers in Asia Minor. The overall theme of the book is that believers ought to continue faithfully in the truth as they await Christ’s return. 1 But false prophets also arose among the people,…

Numbers 30:1-36:13 REVIEW So far we can summarize what we have studied about Bamidbar - in the wilderness / Numbers by this Summary b’Midbar Sinai, count the army. Count Levites separately, and Naso everyone for special tasks. b’Ha’alot’cha the lamps, shine as a light to the nations. Though spies Sh’lach…

Announcements Are there any announcements? Good Friday Service is at 7pm. Rend Collective May 4, 7pm Communion Today is communion Sunday and all who are here that have received Jesus as Lord and Savior can come to the Table. Prayer Lord Jesus, we bow before you in humility and ask You to examine our…

INTRODUCTION Honesty Defined truthfulness, sincerity freedom from deceit or fraud We can all agree, christian and non-christian, that a Bible-based Christian must be truthful, sincere, not deceitful, and definitely not perpetrating a fraud. Christians Must Be Honest Note title of lesson Play on “do as…

This is our 3rd week in the teaching portion of our EMPTY acronym, our flyover of the New Testament. It’s a 40,000 foot flyover, but its giving us a sense of the overarching message of redemption and seeing the connections of the New Testament back to the Old, and the flow of the story from Genesis on.…

1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the…

I’d like to take a moment to address and clarify some things from last week’s discussion during our Fellowship & Focus hour. I just a heads up - we won’t be taking questions or comments right now for the sake of time, as well as to give people time to think about this. But, if you do have any questions…

On trips to Africa I have visited villages with trash and filth that overwhelm ones sense of sight & smell On medical calls as a firefighter medic I have responded to residences in filth that required one to shower and dispose of clothing afterwards I have also walked down streets in places like Las…

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…

1. Death is a state of {separation} . 2. Both believers and non-believers will be {raised} from the dead. 3. Believers Rewarded A. Immediate Reward a. This judgment will occur in heaven immediately {after} the rapture of the Church. 4 For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this…

False Prophets and Teachers But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and…

I believe: The church is plagued with dissatisfaction. The church is focusing more on being welcoming and entertaining than it is on worshiping God. The culture is pushing back on Christianity with such force that we must purify and reform ourselves, else be found to be hypocrites. Read 2 Peter 2 . 11…

Do you desire independence? Why? We often associate freedom with independence Is independence good or bad? Independence gives you freedom from and freedom to choose 19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. Independence…