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Intro: Theme/Topic (What’s the problem, the question, etc.) In 1928, scientist Alexander Fleming entered his laboratory to discover that mold had contaminated one of his petri dishes. But before he could throw it away he noticed that the bacteria surrounding the mold was all dead! This seemingly bad…

Judges 13:25-14:20 Last week we were introduced to a man, Manoah, and his wife. They were told they were going to have a son, a son that was going to be great! He will begin to deliver Isael out of the hand of the Philistines. Because of the cycle of sin that Israel was stuck on, once the last judge…

INTRO ILLUSTRATION : Have you ever played tug o war? At the camp I grew up going to, it was a staple each week. One of the nights, there would be a rough and tough night with some rough and tough games. One of those games was tug-o-war. They would pull out a 50 or 60 foot rope and we would have cabins…

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…

John 14:15-18 We have begun a new series in which I have entitled “The Great Life.” The Great Life is the life that is yielded to the Holy Spirit. We studied last week the three types of Men: The Natural Man, the Carnal Man and the Spiritual Man. The Spiritual Man is the one who will be able to experience…

Hook? Previously on the feats of Samson Miraculous birth Nazirite - Set apart to Serve God God was using Samson to defeat the Philistines who had been oppressing Israel 40 years. God did this by filling him with his spirit, and giving him super-human strength. The first Superman! Instead of being set…

We consecrate different objects for special jobs Tooth brush - consecrated for cleaning my mouth! Toilet bruch, set apart fot cleaning the toilet. Both are brushes, but they are exclusively reserved for one job, and you can’t mix them up! If i use my toothbrush on something other than my mouth, i would…

- Chag Sameach = joyous festival -particular appropriate for Sukkot We have been teaching on the Fall Feasts Today we will make a combination of the Feast of Sukkot, which is Seven Day We will speak in addition to the Torah Portion “This is the Blessing” about the 8th Day This is the last day after the…

Introduction Frightening driver’s ed stories. If you ever break down at night, don’t shine your light at approaching cars. It’s true…our bodies follow our eyes. Which makes it important for us to pay attention to where our eyes look. This is what we learn from Samson - to pay attention to what we are…

TEXT: JAMES 4:7-10 | HUMILITY DEMONSTRATED INTRO ILLUSTRATION : Growing up, I had an immense fear of the dark. So to help me sleep, my mom would turn on a lamp, and she would put a cassette tape in for me to listen to. It had a bunch of Christian kids songs and a few skits. But I remember one of the…

We are wrapping up our series this morning Season of Thanks. Being grateful everyday. During the time of Thanksgiving, a lot of people will do a gratitude challenge. This three-week series examines Scripture to see what gratitude might look like if it was practiced every day, and if we found reasons…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 9, Session 4 © 2018 LifeWay Christian Resources, Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A. June, 2022. Summary and Goal In the previous sessions, we saw how God uses unexpected people and circumstances…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 9, Session 4 © 2018 LifeWay Christian Resources, Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A. June, 2022. Summary and Goal In the previous sessions, we saw how God uses unexpected people and circumstances…

Samson seems like a super-hero. With his super-strength he is almost invulnerable, and single-handedly kills thousands. And yet his story is one of constant frustration and failure. Samson's strength is not his own, for he was called to a purpose: ridding Israel of the Philistines. So even when he ignores this purpose, God works through him to achieve this end. How can we avoid being like Samson--striving for (and failing at) our own purposes serving greater ends despite ourselves? Are we, too, doomed to Samson's restless misery, or is there a better way?

Lesson 2: Introduction Part 2 Last week we mainly gave a scope of what we are going to be covering in this study – the books that are involved and explained how the make of Israel went from one kingdom to a the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel. This week we are going to look at the subject & precursors…

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped…

To be in but not of Judges (Reflections: Samson and Culture Wars, Then and Now) The people of God have always been tempted to reflect culture instead of transforming it, but perhaps the temptation is greater in North America today than at any other time or place in the history of God’s people Jerry McCann…

Intro John Maxwell Running with the Giants… Learning from the Giants… Wisdom from the Women of the Bible... We can learn a lot from the Heroes of the faith. You can read about a lot of these in Hebrews 11 . After writing about all of these heroes of the faith, in chapter 12, he says… 1 Therefore, since…

Big Idea: God’s Gospel is applied by the power of the Holy Spirit This morning we are going to continue in our series that we started back in the fall. We had originally planned to finish this series in the new year, but Covid Regulations made it difficult to complete the program will the follow up material.…

Tonight I want to talk about Getting Strong in your Spirit. 10 A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 16 I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Let me ask you, Do you really want to be stronger? The reason I…

Pastor Mike looks at the beginnings of the life of Samson, reading verse-by-verse through Chapter 13

Toxic poison or poisonous Masculinity To be Masculine is to be manly or to be like a man, strong and robust as opposed to being soft and delicate Toxic Masculinity Being a real man is wrong and poisonous The term is straight out of hell God never intended a man to be feminine and He never intended a…

Gods Plan For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. For Samson to be separated unto God a deliverer he was to begin to defeat the…

Judges: A Few Good Men…And Women Introduction: What is the first word that comes to your mind when you hear the word “judge”? Turn to the person next to you and share what came into your mind first. Remember, no swearing in church. Some people think of something like this: (Flip Wilson of “Here Comes…

Intro; When we started this study on faith we began in Hebrews 11 asking “What Is Faith?” Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith - Trust, belief, walking with Jesus, etc.. but is goes beyond that. Faith is substance [ trust ] that is connected to hope […