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It is the third Sunday of Advent. The series of messages we are considering over this season is based on the titles which the prophet Isaiah gives to the Messiah in Isaiah 9:6 . Isaiah 9:6 (NIV) 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will…

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…

1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be…

Isaiah 42-45 Good evening church! Just a reminder that we are transitioning back to our Growth Groups for the months of May and June, so wherever we leave off tonight, we will pick back up the first week in July and continue on through the summer with our midweek study. I’m excited to get into the Word…

Today we come to Yahweh’s closing argument in a case He brought on His own behalf. He has summoned the nations to come before Him, and so that His people would know they are His, He is making His case that the idols of the nations are nothing, He is everything, and He will redeem His people for His own…

Introduction 28 Who says of Cyrus, ‘ He is My shepherd, And he shall perform all My pleasure, Saying to Jerusalem, “You shall be built,” And to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.” ’ 1 “Thus says the Lord to His anointed, To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held— To subdue nations before him And…

The Beginning State in Genesis 1 Is Nonfunctional If existence in the ancient world was best defined in functional terms rather than material ones, as suggested in previous chapters, and “create” is the activity that brings the transition from nonexistence to existence, then “creation” would also be…

Isaiah 45-46

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 continued our review of Isaiah 53, and of Acts 8, viewing the Gospel of Isaiah, and the remainder of Luke's account of Philip and the Ethiopean.

I Have Engraved You on the Palms of My Hands Isaiah 49:8–16 (ESV) 8 Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages, 9 saying to the…

Introduction What is Paul doing in this Letter? Paul is writing to both Jews and Gentiles about how they need to team up and be a spring board to go to Spain. Paul wants to bring the people that were divided in tower of babel back into the family of God. Compare Genesis 10 with Acts you’ll see every…

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…

Comfort 1 Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord ’s hand double for all her sins. Last Week Last Sunday I spoke about “Shocking Hope.” A reminder that Christian…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 15, Session 1 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Jan. 2023. Summary and Goal In the previous unit, we explored why God would judge the sins of His people.…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 15, Session 1 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Jan. 2023. Summary and Goal In the previous unit, we explored why God would judge the sins of His people.…

14 Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter. Central Idea: Honesty is behavior, in action and words, aiming to convey truth. This quality is essential to God's nature and purposes and is His people's standard.…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

Title : Rebuilding Had a different message in mind last week, but after praying, felt led to let that sit and stew on a back burner for a while, let it marinate a while longer… and today we’re diving into the minor prophet, Haggai. Text : Haggai 1:1-11 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth…

Introduction Well good morning once again. It’s good to be with you today. Go ahead and turn in your Bible to the book of Hebrews, chapter 3. We are going to be diving into verses 7-19 this morning. As you do that I want to call your attention to a couple of additional announcements. On June 26 we are…

Summary Revelation 21-22 is John’s climactic vision of the new Jerusalem and new earth. In Part 1 we looked at how Israelites thought about the concept of “temple” and how that concept led John to conflate the expectation of a new temple and see fulfillment of that expectation in a city (the new Jerusalem)…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. The Shema The Shema refers to a couple lines from the book of Deuteronomy (6:4-5), that became a daily prayer in Ancient Israelite tradition. It’s the…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…