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Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8 Haftarah: Isaiah 60:1-22 Review Three Weeks Picture of the Three Weeks of Sorrow/ 3 Rebukes 7 Consolations: “Nachamu Nachamu,” the doubled consoling. Comforted but Zion said Sometimes, you can feel alone even when you are with the one you love, especially when they…

Isaiah 59:16-20 , Romans 11:26-27 Scene 1: God is pleased with our goodness? In 2011 President Obama of the United States of America visited Australia. It was a big deal, President Obama was very famous as a great oratator and I remember at the time he was greated like a rock star. The Youth of Australia…

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…

Grace to you and peace, from God our Father, and from our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Advent means “coming” and our gatherings during these Wednesday evening services are exploring the progression of why this “Coming” is so important. Last Wednesday explored THE NEED for the Lord’s “Coming”…

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 60-61 Good evening Church! So glad to be with you guys tonight and so glad that you are here with me. I think for us today it is difficult at times to understand the difficulty that the Jews have in recognizing Jesus as their Messiah. Looking back for us at the Old Testament prophecies the picture…

Isaiah 58-59 Good evening church! So glad you came tonight to join us through this journey through Isaiah. Let’s pray… Show us what you have for us, purify our ways, that we would honor You and bless You. 1 “Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression,…

20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22 And on some have compassion, making a distinction; 23 but others save with fear, pulling them out…

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,…

And He Settled Torah: Gen. 37:1-40:23 Haftarah: Amos 2.6-3.8 Gospel: Matt 1.18-25 INTRODUCTION: After the promise of the seed of the woman The Book of Genesis is about the FIRSTBORN Is this the one who was promised? Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel—he was indeed the firstborn, but because…

(John Ramirez is Reading Isaiah 59 ) 1 Behold, the Lord ’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. 3 For your hands are…

This is the first Sunday of Advent. This year the last Sunday of Advent will fall on Christmas Day. This will be a test of the faithful. I say this tongue in cheek. Whether you attend church service or stay home an unwrap presents will determine how religious you are. Would you consider yourself a religious…

This Torah Portion: Genesis 18:1-22:24 Introduction 10 Steps I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bring the one -third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on…

Aikamme on eksynyt kauas mailman luomisesta ja Jeesuksen tekemistä ihmeteoista. Uskomme kohdet tulee olla Jeesus ja Hänen tekemänsä sovitustyö meidän elämässä. Emme voi nojata meidän subjektiivisiin kokemuksiin jotka elää omaa elämäänsä ja kokemuksemme meidän uskontilasta voi olla todella värittynyttä…

Introduction The subject of tongues is just like any other doctrinal study. Many churches teach many different things. Such diversity invariably leads one to ask the question: “How do I know which church and which teaching is right?” Obviously, differing views cannot contradict each other and both be…

Joy “Music is a fair and lovely gift of God which has often wakened and moved me to the joy of preaching.… Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.… My heart bubbles up and overflows in response to music, which has so often refreshed me and delivered me from dire…

Introduction 1 Behold, the Lord ’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers…

Series Faith that Works 18 Now someone may argue, “Some people have faith; others have good deeds.” But I say, “How can you show me your faith if you don’t have good deeds? I will show you my faith by my good deeds.” Faith that doesn’t work is useless So far, we have learned how to have a faith that…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

It is, and always has been our behavior, our sin that has separated us from God. The Lord says, “Call!”, say “Here is your God!”, “Lift up your voice like a trumpet”, “I will heal him; and I will lead him”. The Lord asks one thing, “turn away from transgression”. There is a God kind of life. There is a way for us to find peace and it begins as we “remove from among you the yoke, the finger-pointing and evil speech ... offer your soul to the hungry”. He says to “Clear the way!”

Mom, I need help. Ok! I will be there in just a minute. I need help. I am stranded on the side of the road. No problem. I will be there in 10 minutes. There is a solution to this vague time frame. This solution is unlike any other, so we have to come up with another word- “farclose” When you speak or…

Judah has pointed a finger at God and implied that they were doing everything right, and yet He was not blessing them. Something was not right, and instead of holding up a mirror to themselves, they blamed God for not doing right. When Author Philip Yancey was interviewed after the tragic death of Princess…

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 Inaugural Kingdom Jesus was teaching His disciples to pray the Phrase we have been looking at for the last few weeks is Your Kingdom Come the Kingdom was given to Adam with his bride Eve but with the fall also came the loss of the kingship of Adam we saw the blessing / Kingdom was going to come through…