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31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord , when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though…

Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Introduction The book of Genesis is the book of beginnings, it describes where we came from, it declares what is wrong with us, it discloses where we are going It lays the foundations of human institutions Now unlike any other time…

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…

John 3:1–13 (CSB) 1 There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform these signs you do unless God were with him.” 3 Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you,…

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…

Sunday October 16, 2022 Last week, in the 2nd service when we ended, we were looking at the context of Hebrews 13:6 6 So we may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear . What can man do to me?” You see, not fearing comes in a context of responding to the greater ministry that God has for…

"A Godly Independence Day". Based on Jeremiah 17:5-10. God's plan for our independence draws us nearer to God and His ordinances while those who worship self and other humans move away from God's blessings. How are we doing as a community and country?

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…

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

What we will see as Jesus continues his ministry as seen through the eyes of John is an increase in opposition by those deemed religious in the eyes of the common Jew. The opposition gets more heated as Jesus does God’s work and does not adhere to the man-made rules for relationship to God. This event…

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…

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…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

Let us this morning continue in our series, “Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit” today is part 4 entitled “The Fruit of Patience”. Up to this point we have look within the fruit basket and explored closer the fruits of love, joy, and peace. These three are very nice often understood to some degree and…

AT this point in our narrative, Israel does know for sure what happens next. God had told them He would not go with them. This was for their safety because they had sinned a great sin and God was angry. Yes, they had repented of their sin. They had removed the ornaments from their bodies just as the…

Pray. Deep inside your rib cage, there is an organ that is responsible for carrying blood to every other part of your body. We call it your heart. The Hebrew people understood the heart as being both your emotion and your intellect. The word was meant to describe your inner self, something you had control…

ANNOUNCEMENTS Kids, Mrs. Stephanie has your lesson for you up on the Church Center App. Members Meeting May 30 FUNDRAISING for 80th Anniversary Nursery Workers Introduction In college I had an accident that found me dislocating my knee. It hurt. I was 6 weeks in a brace, and months of physio. Even now,…

INTRO: All the benefits of being a Christian are based on the foundational principle that God loves you. Not because of anything we have done, but just because He WANTS to. Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness was because He loves us. The greater suffering He endured later was because He loves us. He suffered.…

What do you believe about God? What God do you serve?

Many people resisted God, to the point of murder. Stephen was dragged before the Sanhedrin and accused of blasphemy. Stephen a man that was said to be “full of God’s grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people” was dragged before the Sanhedrin because Hellenistic Jews lied and…

Last Spring, we studied through the Sermon on the Mount. One of the great themes of Matthew is the coming kingdom. The Book of Revelation speaks of the time when that new kingdom is fully realized. I shared with our Elders a week ago an observation that I gleaned about songs describing Heaven. Historically…

The Book of Jeremiah Author: Jeremiah 650BC - 560BC Name: “The LORD exalts, lifts, raises” - Nickname “The Weeping Prophet” Date of Writing: 561 BC Audience: The people of Judah Theme: Judgment on God’s people. Submit to foreign domination as being disciplined. Chapters: 52 Interesting Fact: It is the…

The Dilemma of Belief. Have you ever had those moments when you wondered, “Is this really true?” Maybe life has gotten difficult. Maybe you have come to the Derailment of your hopes and dreams like Joseph, Mary’s husband, when he found out that his betrothed bride was pregnant after all his time and…

Prayer: For the past several months I’ve been contemplating where we would head after Easter. It wasn’t really clear to me where we were going to head until this past Monday. Up until this point in time, as AFBC, we’ve only gone through an OLD TESTAMENT survey for a particular sermon series regarding…