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This Week’s Theme: Walk Cautiously Word for the Week is Walk: It is the action of traveling on foot at a normal pace, but figuratively it is The image of walking with God is used in Scripture to represent the behavior of believers in their relationship with God. Memory verse: 2 Corinthians 5:7 For we…

Wealth under the sun Ecclesiastes 4 and 5:8-22 BI: Many problems come when you love money, love Jesus and be content and give to Gospel ministry Introduction Well I wonder if you can tell me the artist of these songs. · Money don’t get everything its true but what I don’t get I can’t use, just give me…

Ecclesiastes, Part 6: Less is More Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 The teacher inserts something of a reality check or “interlude” within the body of laments of life under the sun. [Goal: To encourage God’s people to remember that “God is in the heaven and you are on the earth.” So, “fear God.” – Unpack “fear”, as…

Introduction The Mexican Fisherman An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village late one morning when a small boat docked. Inside the small boat was just one fisherman who had already caught several large fish. The American complimented the fisherman on the fish and…

God Himself There are many words of comfort found in scripture. This morning, I am going to focus on two words found together often in scripture, “but God”. Now these two words at times indicate God was ruling against humanity, and in other cases they show his great mercy towards humanity. The Bible…

Title: Life Lessons Paul’s Second Missionary Journey As we come to the end of Acts chapter 18, we also come to the end of Paul’s second missionary journey and the beginning of his third missionary journey. After Paul leaves Corinth, he sails across the Aegean Sea and stops in Ephesus. Even though the…

Exodus 20:7 Matthew 5:33-37 We come today to the third commandment. There really is a progression to these commandments, they almost build one upon another. I Am Your Lord - Thou Shalt have no other gods before me. In which we looked at Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, spirit, soul…

Life under the sun Ecclesiastes 1-2 Prayer Through your word we might know you. knowing you we might know wisdom for life. I pray that you might give us ears to hear, eyes to see, and a softened heart to see the reality of our lives and the wonderful truth of your Word. Introduction Ah… another day.…

Torah Portion: Numbers 19:1-22:1 Haftarah: Judges 11:1-33 Review Map of the Journey in the Wilderness Picture of the Priesthood of Zadok Zadok comes Sons of Levi/ Priesthood Genealogy Picture Sons of Levi: nazir Nazareth nṣr Picture of the Branch of Righteousness Picture of the two fig trees and the…

Solomon has been discussing all the things in life which are meaningless. Which is pretty much everything. Through the discussion, he begs his readers to turn to God to find satisfaction, peace, joy. But, to turn to God, we need to know him. Jesus himself said, while praying to the Father: Now this is…

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…

Ecclesiastes 5 1:7 1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and…

Ecclesiastes 4 Evil Under The Sun 1 Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them. 2 And I thought the dead who are already…

How many of you have ever watched the show “Undercover Boss”? The purpose is for the high ranking official or the owner of a corporation to change their appearance and infiltrate one of their places of employment to learn more about the TRUE inner working of their business. Sometimes they find loyal…

Meaningless Worship

14 I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. 18 Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for…

16 Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. 1 Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side…

True Worship I want to know why are you here today? Why did you take time out of your busy life to come to church this morning? Is it b/c you’ve done it since you were a child? Is it b/c you feel like it has to be done to check it off of your “good person” checklist? Were you dragged here by a friend…

Announcements Are there any announcements? Please pray for Mary Lewis and her family and friends. Bill passed away Saturday at 12:30pm. Today is Potluck Sunday and everyone is invited after church! It is downstairs in the fellowship hall. Good News! Mike, Eddie, and Art removed our stumps for us yesterday!…

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…

15/05/22

Intro: In my daily devotion readings,“All The Days” by Vance Havner, I came across an unusual word last December. He used this word for four consecutive days. The word is, “Nevertheless”. You have only to check your Bible concordance to discover how often that word “nevertheless” shows up [ 118 times…

Welcome Good morning everyone! Today we are picking up in our study of the book of Ecclesiastes at chapter 5. Now, chapter five contains a few topics but for our purposes this morning we aren’t going to cover each one. The first half of chapter 5 is what we are going to be focusing on this morning and…

1 Here is a tragedy I have observed under the sun, and it weighs heavily on humanity: 2 God gives a person riches, wealth, and honor so that he lacks nothing of all he desires for himself, but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a sickening tragedy.…

Welcome Good morning everyone, and if you are joining us online good morning as well! Today we are once again continuing in our series on Ecclesiastes, a book that a lot of us probably have ignored more than other books of the bible. But, we do that because it is a hard book to read. It can be depressing…