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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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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,…

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…

Introduction Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 In our previous Torah portion we talked about Moses feeling tired, perhaps even angry How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints? Moses had to establish lines of command through the tribes to organize…

Great Commandments In the next several weeks, you will find the parts of Deuteronomy we have already looked at and those to come interweaving with each other, with a continuous theme throughout. The theme is that through Moses, God is reminding the Israelites that He is their God, and has already shown…

Living as God’s People As I have continued to study this book of Deuteronomy, it has struck me more and more the nature of repetitiveness found there. And when you zoom out from just Deuteronomy, you find that the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, contain as well certain themes or statements…

Our first Scripture reading this morning is from the First Commandment as found in the book of Deuteronomy: “ ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “ ‘You shall have no other gods before me. For our second reading, I want to turn back one chapter,…

In our Responsive Reading, we have already heard the Ten Commandments as found in the book of Exodus in their entirety, consequently I am only going to read from the opening verses of the Deuteronomy version for our Scripture lesson. “ ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,…

Our Scripture text this morning is taken from Deuteronomy 5:1-6 : And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not…

Introduction So far we have discussed the book of Deuteronomy as the briefing Moses is giving the children of Israel, concerning the Law of God, given at Sinai. Last week, we talked about how words have power and meaning . We made emphasis on the following: Covenant = 27x love = 25x Remember =14x (9x…

Jealousy - Good? Bad? 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. What is jealousy? A greedy or prideful longing for something that belongs…

“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…

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,…

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

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:…

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…

The Sweet Grace of Thankfulness Ten Men Healed; One Man Saved Luke 17:11–19 (ESV) 11 On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. 12 And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance 13 and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have…