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What are you doing here? Repeated question Out of my comfort zone learning lots of things Information vs. Experience Getting to know people Passion, gentleness, determination, mana Experiences I’ve never had before Tangata whenua side of powhiri sharing in the kitchen, and in the laundry making friends…

Introduction I want to say at the onset, that as we began this series, I spent a few minutes explaining my apprehension to preach regarding the topic of money. I want to make something clear - I wasn’t then, and I’m not now apologizing for speaking on the topic. The Bible has much to say about it, therefore…

The Shepherd or the Thief 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. Warnings about how we might steal from others. Do not steal a person’s value. 15 “You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.…

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…

Back in 2012 I was in the middle of my senior year of college. I was serving in a local church heading up their AWANA program, and as a ministry leader and also a young man aspiring to a future in pastoral ministry, the pastor of the church invited me to attend the church’s administrative board’s annual…

Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19 REVIEW This is our 6th message from Devarim- Deuteronomy elle-ha deverim = these are the words Picture of Journey An 11 day journey that lasted 40 years Reason why the journeys are moments and opportunities to learn The first generation that came out of Egypt was “thick headed”…

15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name,…

Announcements Are there any announcements? We need to pull out the AC unit out of the window, so men, please stick around to help. Potluck is next week, so bring your favorite dish and enjoy a sweet time of fellowship! Priscilla’s baptism will be rescheduled as she is not feeling well. Please pray for…

Introduction Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Numbers 30:1-36:13 Matot= tribes ( מַּטּוֹת‎) and Masei= journeys (מַסְעֵי‎) Overall view of the Torah portion for this week: Numbers 30 : Vows Numbers 31 : Vengeance Numbers 32 : Vulnerability Numbers 33 : View the Past Numbers 34 : View Future…

When you go out - go out from where? In today’s portion it’s when you leave that place of covering : your home, your community, your city, your country. An opportunity to do the ‘ right thing ’ and honour your covering or to do the ‘ wrong thing ’ and dishonour your covering. When you ignore the teaching…

Intro: We live in an hour in which the home is under attack. And, I realize that this is an unpleasant topic to preach about, but it is one which touches every life in this room in one fashion or another. My desire this morning in talking about the matter of divorce and remarriage is to be sensitive…

Our main video recording did not record, our Proclaim presentation did not record, and our backup audio recording did not record, but our backup video recording did record, so the audio quality is very poor. I apologize for the inconvenience.

“No!” “You can’t!” “It won’t work!” “There is no way.” “We took a vote.” How do you hear it? Do these words give you a sense of victory, or do they give you a sense of defeat? It may depend on whether you’re the one hearing them or the one saying them. Either way the source of these words can often be…

We’ve been moving through CASKET EMPTY, and I don’t want us to lose sight of why we’re doing that. The whole idea of Casket Empty is to recognize God’s redemptive story throughout the Old Testament. Many have wondered did God create the world and then just leave it to run itself, and what we see throughout…

If we’re honest we’re always somewhere on the scale between belief and unbelief. I’ve shared with you many times the Father’s exclamation from Mark 9 when he brings his son to Jesus and asks him to heal him, “if he can.” Jesus responds: And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can’! All things are possible for…

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…

We are continuing to look at God’s will expressed through his choice. Deuteronomy 12:1-7 is the first place that we have “bahar” in the context of Yahweh choosing a place. However, I could not help but ask this question: Where is the first place God chose to dwell with his creation? He chose to dwell…

Genesis 2:18-25 By familiarizing ourselves with Genesis, esp. the first two chapters, we can reaffirm God’s purpose for our lives. And it is important that we reaffirm God’s purpose for what we will look at today – the foundational institution of marriage – because we have certainly lost our way as a…

Gnerosity is a gracious gift from the Lord that transforms our selfish hearts to love people and invest in his eternal kingdom

Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 21:10–25:19 Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1–10 Review Three Weeks Picture of the Three Weeks of Sorrow/ 3 Rebukes 7 Consolations: “Nachamu Nachamu,” the doubled consoling. Comforted but Zion said Sometimes, you can feel alone even when you are with the one you love, especially when they…

UNIT 10 A BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDING OF Justice Micah 6:1-8 Introduction Slide Lesson Title He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; And what doth the Lord require of thee, But to do justly, and to love mercy, And to walk humbly with thy God? These well-known words from the Old Testament were spoken by…

Salvation is offered to all equally, but circumstance like gender, age, family, and role DO impact the ways we relate to each other.

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…

Jeremiah 3-4 Good evening church. Just a reminder that this is our last Wednesday evening for the next 10 weeks as we are kicking off our Winter session of Growth Groups. So we will see how far we can get tonight in Jeremiah, picking up where we left off with chapter 3. Let’s Pray... 1 “They say, ‘If…

I. The Genesis Model - Genesis 2:22-25 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24 Therefore a man…