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Jeremiah 6-8 Good evening church! I know we have taken a long break in our study of the Book of Jeremiah. So by way of quick reminder, Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet, as his heart was broken for the Lord’s people. It was his calling and his passion to prophecy to them, to call and urge them…

The future is… How would you finish the statement/sentence? We want certainty and security. Nothing wrong with this and I believe it is one of the primary needs we have as humans. This is why the future can be so scary and we want to look backwards, for the past we already know. This is what the Lord…

Torah Portion: Leviticus 26:3-27:34 Haftarah: Jeremiah 16:19- 17:14 Road Map Review Shemini (8) mikvah Tzaraat lashon hara The Great Day - HaGadol Picture of Torah Readings Summary of the Passover Torah Readings The term Chol HaMo’ed Picture of the two prophecies. dry bones and Ingathering A Holy People…

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people complete marathons. The official distance of the marathon is 26.2 miles. Some of the runners are elite competitors, but many are simply trying to run the distance no matter how long it takes. Here’s a picture of my friend Brent with his wife Karin after he…

In our text this morning we are continuing to look at the Woe oracles of the prophet Amos. Amos’ uses of the word “Woe” is very significant and it has set the tone for this series of messages. “Woe”- a grievous an threatening cry by the prophets. A warning of danger and death. This is what Amos is doing…

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…

I. The Purchase of Gomer, 3:1-3. The LORD told Hosea to seek out in love the woman whom he formerly loved. This is Gomer, who was to be loved even though she was an unfaithful wife, committing adultery with other men. Hosea’s action was to be similar to the actions of the LORD Himself, who loved the…

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…

Good Morning, I am so glad that you are here with us today and we prepare for a week not only to remember and reflect on the Cross, but also to celebrate next weekend our risen Savior. Today we continue in our series of the Lord’s Parables. Would you turn with me to Matthew chapter 21. The title of our…

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…

Introduction We are continuing in our series through the book of Jeremiah. For those of you who are linear in your thinking, this sermon may frustrate you. The first and second sermons were on Chapter 1 & 2 and now we move to Chapter 7. As I stated in the introduction of the sermon series, we are not…

Verses 1-8 The Vineyard is a picture of Israel (God’s people) many times in the OT, Deuteronomy 32 , Psalm 80 , Jeremiah 2 , and the most widely acknowledged passage from Isaiah 5 … 1 Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 2…

Context: Where does this fit in the overall story of God’s Grace? Refresh OT Outline Prob 608 BC, likely as the people abandoned Josiah’s attempts at reform This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord : “Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord and there call out this word: ‘Hear the word…

5 Reasons Why Obedience is Key to making the Bride ready! There was a father who called his 5 small children together. As they sat together in a circle on the floor the dad placed a toy in the middle. He explained to them that he won this toy as a door prize and he wanted to give it to one of them. He…

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…

Who are humans? A foundational question of life. The answer we give will reveal much about how we treat others, ourselves, and the purpose of humanity. Who/What has authority? Tied to our first question but yet distinctly different is the one of authority. Mark asks, “Who is Jesus?” This is one of the…

Why the change Jeremiah 8:5 , 14 , 19 , 22 Jeremiah was a prophet of God who ministered in difficult times. He began his ministry prior to the Babylonian captivity, and continued to preach a message of repentance even after the Jews were led away into bondage. Jeremiah preached for forty years, but the…

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…

Introduction I began to name this the ‘Bible Person Study’, but chose to go with the ‘Bible Character Study’. I hesitated to name it that, as I don’t want to diminish the fact that these are real people we’ll be examining. But the reason that it’s named the Bible Character Study is because we’ll be focusing…

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…

Revelation 21:22 . 22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. Jeremiah prophesied this in Jeremiah 3:16-17 . 16 And when you have multiplied and been fruitful in the land, in those days, declares the Lord , they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant…

There is a constant conflict within our hearts, it is the conflict of comfort with what we know verses the need to embrace that which is new. People like what they know, they like being with people like them and in essence people don’t like change. Who remembers the movie Happy Feet? There was this constant…

We continue studying Habakkuk's interaction with God this week with an investingation into Habakkuk's Description of How the Babylonians Treat Other Nations (1:14–17)

In Jeremiah 7:26- 27 it reads… “Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers. “You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. My prayer as we look…