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For the last several years I have gotten up super early on Easter to think about how many people so easily awake to forget about Jesus and what He has done for us. Our society has not helped with this over the years. It is so easy to put things on our schedule on Sunday’s or just to sleep in on a Sunday…

12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be to him a father, and…

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…

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…

Introduction: Apostasy We live in an apostate generation The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier. John Stott 1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 2 And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were…

Exegetical Point: This story shows the desperate situation of worship and conquest in Israel without a Godly King. Homiletic Point: Sin Compounds to death unless a Godly King steps in to rescue us. Intro Do you know about compounding interest? You put your money in the bank and get a little in return.…

The Battle for Your Heart Remember, John the Baptist welcomed Jesus Christ with the message “Repent for the Kingdom of God is at Hand”. Jesus’ begins teaching about the Kingdom and explains the standards of this new Kingdom, a Holy Kingdom. He begins with The Beatitudes about how we should view ourselves…

Isaiah 65 Good evening church! One important announcement that I haven’t yet decided if I’ll announce on Sunday, or just let the Wednesday faithful know…next week is our last Wednesday night service for 10 weeks as we enter into our Growth Group Fall Kickoff. Since it is our last midweek service for…

INTRODUCTION Title of today’s less is Integrity in the Workplace Integrity defined for a secular/worldly point of view Consistently acting in accordance with one's values and beliefs and being accountable for one's actions. Integrity defined from a biblical point of view Adhering to moral and ethical…

In a poll a few years back, 70% of Americans said they were concerned about the decline in moral values in our society. It’s easy to see that there has been a decline in moral values. The LGBTQ agenda that’s being forced down everyone’s throats… pure crookedness in our political entities, and general…

I. THE LOSS OF INFLUENCE 7 And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel. 2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’…

The music band Skillet is a Christian Rock band, I used to listen to them a lot during my teen and college days. The lead singer of the band’s name is John Cooper, and he once said “I'm amazed that so many Christians want the benefits of the kingdom of God, but with the caveat that they themselves be…

Vezot ha’ Bracha This is the Blessing Introduction Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12 But will only cover from Verse 1 to 29 Last Torah portion we spoke about the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32 We spoke about GIVE AN EAR Give EAR Requirement of our repentance - its prophetic…

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…

What is right? Interesting question and for some here in person and those of you online you are already answering the question? Sometimes the answer is not always easy. Sometimes there is no “right” answer; as in do you want spaghetti sauce or alfredo sauce? Other times it is clear and unchanging: Jesus…

Make Jesus Lord! - Do not do what is right in your own eyes. Brief Overview of Judges Deborah and Barak 4-5 Gideon 6-8 Jephthah 10-12 Samson 13-16 Everyday life 17-20 1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 2 And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that…

Pastor Mike teaches the book of Judges focusing verse-by-verse on chapters 17-18: Micah and the Levite

Good morning! Can you imagine a world without Emotions? Just think about if you never heard or saw or experienced emotions... It would be pretty dull and boring… Without emotions, we would all be like the fictitious Mr. Spock on the television series, Star Trek . Apparently because he was from the planet…

The Squeezing of Dan In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. The area God gave to Dan was big enough And He has made from…

Levite For Hire Judg 17 7 Bethlehem is not a Levite city The remaining descendants of Kohath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. moved there from his city Moved again and settled with Micah / priest for hire he was not satisfied…

The Curse on Micah V 1 - 4 God has given us 3 institutions in society Home Government Worshiping Micah stole from his mother 1100 pieces of silver his mother pronounced a curse on the preson he was so superstitious he gave it back mother dedicated to God all the money but only used 200 Mother and son…

Welcome Back to School! Back to school! mix of emotions! School prepares you for your future. I hope some of the things I say tonight, will blow your mind! Turn your brains on, think about what I’m going to say. If you really listen and if you try to care about what I say - then what I say could help…

As people we compound our errors by making decisions from previous bad decisions.

A self-centred concern for oneself, without due regard to the needs of others. Scripture treats selfishness as an aspect of sin and urges believers to care for others as well as themselves.

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…