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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…

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A life in view What are all of the best things that have happened in your life over: Your last 5 years: I came here to serve as your pastor, We have seen people be saved, recommit their lives to Jesus, and be baptized. Your last 10 years: My family grew again to 8 people, We were part of an amazing home…

This Week’s Theme: Show Some Love Word of the Week: Commandment - A a mandate; an order or injunction given by authority; charge; precept. Why do ye transgress the commandment of God. Matthew 15:3. Memory Verse: Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul,…

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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…

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,…

Why is it hard to obey? It is hard to obey because someone has asked us to do something contrary to our own desires and our pride doesn’t like that. Kids. It is hard when we want it to be our idea. Cleaning. Today we embark on a journey through a large chunk of Deuteronomy that centers on what we learn…

Perhaps no other commandment illustrates the inter-connectivity of the Law than the Tenth Commandment. When we are breaking one commandment, we are breaking other commandments. We begin with the commandment itself as found in the book of Deuteronomy. “ ‘And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And…

“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…

Luther not only writes about what we shouldn't do in adhering to the 10 Commandments, but also what we should do. In doing so, we turn a negative list into something positive. Our task as God's people is to make the world a better place -- not doing bad things will only get us so far. Doing good things will help the world become even better and closer to the community that God wants for us all.

Follow along as I read our passage in Galatians. 15 Brothers and sisters, I speak in terms of human relations: even though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it. 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not…

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…

Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 Haftarah: Isaiah 40:1-26 Review Three Weeks discomfort. The physical Temple Torah. Evil Inclination Picture of the Three Weeks of Sorrow/ 3 Rebukes 7 Consolations: Vision/ Hazon By Fire Introduction Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 Haftarah: Isaiah 40:1-26 7 Consolations:…

Introduction A. Preliminaries Welcome: Please turn with me in your Bibles to the sixth Chapter of Ephesians, beginning in verse 1. Our text this morning will be the first three verses of Chapter 6, which you can find on page 1162 in the navy blue Bibles found in your pews. Ephesians 6:1–3 (ESV) Children,…

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…

Numbers have great meaning and we can see what is about to come in 2024.

In order that we rightly understand the purpose and place of the Law, Paul begins to reveal to us that the Law itself is a vital component of the Gospel message!

Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25 REVIEW We started the book of Deuteronomy/ Devarim 3 weeks ago The Torah goes on to recount the 42 stations from the Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. We spoke of Devarim = Deuteronomy elle-ha deverim = these are the words Picture of Journey An 11 day journey that lasted…

Walk in the Truth As we continue on in our series on the book of Deuteronomy we come to a transition in Moses speech. If you remember chapter 1 verse 1 we are told that Moses is teaching the people: 1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah…

I know that we’ve been making our way through 1 & 2 Samuel - having just broke in to 2 Samuel a couple weeks ago... BUT... - with Easter on our door step – we’re actually going to start an Easter Series today that will take us right to Easter Sunday. · This series is one that we actually walked through…

This Week’s Theme: Choose Wisdom This Week’s Word is Wisdom: The quality of knowledge, discernment and understanding characteristic of God himself. True wisdom is a gift of the Holy Spirit. Scripture affirms that true human wisdom is a gift from God and points out the folly of trusting in mere human…

Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.” Moses said to…