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Issue of Identity Did you know that we’re soon set to reach a world population of 8 billion people? When I checked the world population clock this morning, we were at 7 billion, 970 million, 555 thousand, and counting. That’s getting pretty close to 8 billion! Imagine if you had that amount of money…

There were two siblings, a brother and a sister, who desired to please their father. Every morning, the brother would wake up and immediately get to work. Cleaning his room, cutting the grass, repairing the roof to the shed, organizing the garage, running errands all around town. He served in community…

Jesus Prays (Pt. 1) 1 Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. 3 This is eternal life: that they…

Goal: To comfort hearers with the promise that in trials and temptations God will make us strong, firm, and steadfast. Pericopal Series: Living in the Hope of Our Inheritance 1. Living Our Unchangeable Inheritance (1 Peter 1:3–9) 2. Living in Reverent Fear (1 Peter 1:17–21) 3. Living through Unjust Suffering…

Time? Probably around midnight... Location? The have left the interior of the House at the end of chapter 13, but Chapter 18 tells us jesus went forth, over the Kidron ravine to the garden on the other side across the valley from the temple complex in Jerusalem. Therefore, The most likely location would…

If you were trying to invent a religion, would you sit down and think up the Trinity and say, “Okay. There’s one God, but three gods in one God. Well, not three gods … three persons in one God. God is not more one than he is three, and he’s not more three than he is one in the doctrine of the Trinity.…

Exegetical Point: Homiletic Point: Jesus will Glorify the Father by making his name known. Intro Jesus has been teaching his disciples, but this intensive is about to come to an end. This discipleship intensive started back in Chapter 13, right after Judas the Betrayer left. It’s all taken place over…

Nitzavim Introduction Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Deuteronomy 29:10-30:20 In our previous Torah portion we talked about Re’eh (beholding: a blessing, and a curse) We talked about having two choices related to obedience / disobedience = blessing / cursing Obedience to blessing We talked…

6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. 8 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and…

The Three-Pointed Prayer Seven Petitions Point 1: Jesus and His Mission First Petition: Let’s Shine Together 1 Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, Jesus’ cause and God’s cause entwined in honor and praise.…

What is revealed about the heart and mission of Jesus in His high priestly prayer? What does this show us about the powerful savior of sinners? We ponder and answer these questions about where we see the heart of Jesus revealed.

Welcome Good morning everyone and welcome once again to church. Today we are looking at the second part of Jesus’ prayer in John 17 . Last week we saw how Jesus prayed that he would glorify God the father and that God the father would glorify him. We looked at what glory means, how God has glory, his…

Welcome Good morning everyone. Today we are going back to the Gospel of John. We are going to be going to be going through John 17 over the next three weeks. This chapter is entirely made up of one of Jesus’ prayers on his last night and it divides up into three sections. So today we are starting with…

The great prayer: Focuses: The glorification of Christ The spiritual safety of the Apostles The witness of the Apostles The sanctification of the apostles The Unity of the church Todays focus: The first four Big idea: In the moments approaching his greatest trial, Jesus concerns himself with his followers.…

Unity...Why the enemy is trying to destroy it. Jesus prayed, "that they will all be one, just as you and I are one— as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me." How do you live out the saying, "in essentials unity, in non-essentials freedom and in all thing love in our offendable world?

Mark 3:13-19 William Barclay gives a very informative introduction to the choosing of the 12 apostles and I want to share it with you. He says, “JESUS had come to a very important moment in his life and work. He had emerged with his message; he had chosen his method; he had gone throughout Galilee preaching…

Intro We have a prayer sheet that goes into the bulletin each week. It’s a list of ways that you can be praying for each other. Sharing prayer requests is something many of us are familiar with. Some of us keep our own list of things that we pray for — things that we ask God for. One of the things we’ve…

John 17 has been called “the Lord’s high-priestly prayer. He knows that He will soon be taken from the disciples. He has been teaching them in preparation for this, and now he prays – for Himself, for those with Him in the upper room, and for all believers. Jesus prayed for Himself Scripture John 17:1-5…

Today we will be studying John 17 together. Often we refer to the Lord teaching the disciples to pray in Matthew 6:9-13 , and Luke 11:2-4 as the Lord’s Prayer. Certainly, Jesus did pray those words, and they are the Lord’s prayer. John 17 is another of his prayers. However, this prayer is not his instruction…

Southwest Airlines workers find thousands of lost items a year left by hurried passengers. But a ramp agent in Little Rock knew that a Buzz Lightyear toy with the name Hagen scrawled on the right boot especially needed to find its way home. In Dallas, the parents of 2-year-old Hagen Davis didn’t realize…

John 17:4–26 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine…

INTRODUCTION: Welcome - Correction from weeks ago about protests... Book recommendation - Urban Legends Pray Open to John 17 ... We’re in the midst of a break from 1 & 2 Samuel Next week Nate Palmer, Youth Pastor from Faith Free in Sparta will be preaching Followed the next two weeks by Jared, one of…

INTRODUCTION: Welcome - Correction from weeks ago about protests... Book recommendation - Urban Legends Pray Open to John 17 ... We’re in the midst of a break from 1 & 2 Samuel Next week Nate Palmer, Youth Pastor from Faith Free in Sparta will be preaching Followed the next two weeks by Jared, one of…

Belief: An opinion of judgment in which a person is fully persuaded. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.…

We in this country aren’t likely to be burned at the stake or thrown to the lions or beheaded for being Christians. And that makes it tougher than we’d like to admit, I’m afraid, to get our heads around our text this morning. Yet Peter begins, 12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it…