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Blowing your money This time next week, the NRL season will be about to begin, with two games coming from Las Vegas. It’s the same city in which countless people from around the world tuned in to watch the Superbowl. It’s also the city which has a reputation for the big casinos. The place where the rich,…

2 Thessalonians 1 1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly,…

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” The Lord said, “If you had faith like a mustard seed, you could tell this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. King David was granted great wealth and ability, which enabled him to set things up for his Solomon,…

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” The Lord said, “If you had faith like a mustard seed, you could tell this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. King David was granted great wealth and ability, which enabled him to set things up for his Solomon,…

Introduction: What would life be like without family? What would life be like without church family? We need both and it is a major blessing to help us get through the difficulties of this life. {Insert Illustration} We are going to take a short journey through the Book of 2 Thessalonians as we worship…

Introduction Text You have cause to give thanks. vv. 3-4 Source of thanks of Paul, but also other believers as they observed one another. Growth of faith and love - things you control. Your growth causes others to give thanks - look for growth! Even in affliction. We normalize the extremes. Features…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

Introduction It’s good to know a background, have some ground work done before delving into a study of another book of the Bible. So here is some brief things to know before we go. 1 For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain, 2 but after we had already suffered and been…

3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 19 Beloved,…

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…

Our own struggles and persecutions... Remembering in communion we always close with… until He comes… we are looking to the day in which He returns! As things on this earth get more difficult, as chaos and evil increase we long for and look for that day all the more Many have approached me over the years…

Foundations are the most important thing yet often unseen part of any ediface. If the foundation of a building is not sound then the building will collapse when placed under stress. But if the foundations is sound then the building can withstand extreme stress. Cultures have foundations. These are the…

John 5:25-30

Choose the correct building materials. The Church is like a building construction project. It is a metaphor of teachers and teachings... Teachers and Teachings Let’s trace the context here... Paul is rebuking the Corinthians for their divisiveness over their leaders (1:10-17). The reason the Corinthians…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Intro: Charles Swindoll in his book “Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back” tells the story of a farmer who wanted to impress his hunting buddies. To impress them, he bought the smartest, most expensive hunting dog he could find. He trained this dog to do things no other dog on earth could do---impossible…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

Last Spring, we studied through the Sermon on the Mount. One of the great themes of Matthew is the coming kingdom. The Book of Revelation speaks of the time when that new kingdom is fully realized. I shared with our Elders a week ago an observation that I gleaned about songs describing Heaven. Historically…

That the Word of the Lord May Progress God is doing a work, not just in our generation, but in all of creation and time. That work is to show himself as the God of love, of life, of goodness and mercy. People in the world are lost and without hope. Left only to the joy or sorrow of the moment. 12 that…

The Dilemma of Belief. Have you ever had those moments when you wondered, “Is this really true?” Maybe life has gotten difficult. Maybe you have come to the Derailment of your hopes and dreams like Joseph, Mary’s husband, when he found out that his betrothed bride was pregnant after all his time and…

trouble and turmoil marks our world we see it in the unrest that happens internationally as nations experience conflict with each other it has been estimated that in the last 3500 yrs there have only been 300 years of peace! (Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History, P81) it has also been estimated…