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Sec. 2. Article 22 of Chapter I of the Vermont Constitution is added to read: Article 22. [Personal reproductive liberty] That an individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed unless justified…

Who Bothers to Thank God? Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and from our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. My mother, as well as Tanya’s, taught us to write “Thank You Notes”. If ever I missed, a lecture would follow and sometimes punishment. I wish I did a better job of writing thank…

Homework Read Genesis 6-9 Genesis 6 Wickedness on the Earth 6:1-2 The sons of God. I’m going with the Sethian view. We saw the dividing point last week between the the lineage of God, and the lineage of Satan. What we see here is a mixing of the two lineages. When they begin mixing, it doesn’t end well.…

I Ain’t Worried We just have a couple more weeks of this series remaining. This has been a fun series and it’s hard to believe that we’ve already listened to four different songs. Today’s song is fairly new. After it’s debut, it reached number six on the charts in the US. If you have seen the new Top…

Emerging from the Ark And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea.…

Intro If we haven’t met... Hear, love, and obey... Connect cards... Helpful tool for us to get to know you, answer questions, and pray for you. Introduce Mike Good morning, Mike! Mike Paterson - one of the missionaries we support, former elder of Gateway... Mike is here to continue our sermon series…

Faithful God Gen 8:1-3 “But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, and…

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the…

Intro Today we’re talking about conquest. It is one of those themes running throughout the pages of the Bible. It’s part of our continuing look at the Big Picture of the Bible. We’ve seen the flow of Creation to recreation. We saw the Unfolding covenants that end with our everlasting unity with Christ.…

In our last Torah Portion we attempted to look at Shemot from a bigger perspective, remembering that Messiah is for the preparation of the Exodus Shemot is divided in two big Themes: Part 1: Israel’s Liberation from Egypt: Ch 1-18 Part 2: Israel’s Adoption CH 19-40 We saw and continue to see how Shemot…

You make a perfect world. Everything is right. From the first star to the smallest creature that walk upon the planet. You step back when you’re done and you look over your creation, and you announce, That’s good. Very Good. Genesis 1:31 (ESV) 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it…

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed…

Divine Transgression After the ruin of Eden, the human story heads south in a hurry. That is to be expected. The curses that followed the events in the garden bound the fate of humanity with the spiritual descendents of the Nachash, all those who oppose the rule of God either in the earthly or spiritual…

Noach Noah Introduction Last Torah portion we talked about the Bible being written in Hebrew Unless we study the Bible from the Hebrew perspective, we miss the whole message of redemption, the significance imbedded in it Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Genesis 6:9-11:32 But will only cover…

1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. The mission of Jesus was to save the world from its sin. When Jesus began His ministry, He had one…

Jonah 3:1-10 Altitudes did not follow or lead the actions of Jonah. When God gives a second chance, He is being gracious. 1. The Second Calling of Jonah, vs 1-4. v. 1-2 — We have no indication in the scriptures of when this second commission was given by the LORD. God in his sovereignty could have chosen…

We spoke last week on the corruption of the world after the fall. How the world was becoming increasingly sinful. How there was a war between righteousness, and evil. Great judgement was going to fall on the earth. This brings us to the point of the flood. A time when God would de-create, and re-create…

Exodus 30:11-34:35 Review TORAH GPS I Do Mishpatim 10 Words Cornerstone Prism Ephod 144000 Introduction While as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, Or the primal dust of the world. When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He drew a circle on the face of the deep, When He established…

4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 6 Therefore, when…

The Predictions About The Messiah in Pentateuch Both Jewish and Christian traditions from the early centuries found references to the Messiah in the Law, also known as Pentateuch. Some of the most controversial passages among the scholarly world are Gen. 3:15 , Gen. 49:8-12 , Num. 24:17-19 , Deut. 18:18-19…

If it’s weird it’s important Last week we saw that many of the common views of Gen 6:1-4 are seriously flawed. We need to remember that the proper context for reading any biblical text is the context in which it was written. The Biblical writers of the New Testament were influenced by works in their…

Eating together is an important feature of almost all cultures. But what makes it so important to share food with others? Is it the same for Christians, or does it have even more significance? Join us as we look at why eating together is so important, and how we can do it better.

1 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that…

Connecting the Dots When things are not easy to reconcile in our minds. Read 1 “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. 2 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his…

What is prayer? Communication with God, primarily offered in the second-person voice (addressing God directly). May include petition, entreaty, supplication, thanksgiving, praise, hymns, and lament. Prayer is not exclusive to Christianity, however, The biblical examples of prayer portray Yahweh as a…