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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…

Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you, and as for you, you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall…

6 When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land. 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. 8 And Joshua…

Judges 13:1-24 The story of Samson in the Book of Judges serves as the culmination of Israel's shortcomings in fulfilling their divine mandate upon taking possession of the Promised Land. Similarly, Samson did not live up to his divine purpose. His life has many parallels to the history of Israel. Over…

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…

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…

Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan. It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before. These are the nations: the…

Central Idea: This sermon, "Are You Being Tested?" calls Christians to recognize their spiritual battles as tests of faith and encourages vigilance, equipping oneself with the armor of God and enduring commitment to God's commands as strategies to triumph in this ongoing spiritual warfare. Introduction:…

Introduction Today - now that our vacation is over, we continue our series in the book of Judges. This is message #4, but before we do, let’s do a quick review of what preceded this passage: The first message that we preached in this series was the first 18 verses of Chapter 1 and was titled ‘Transition’.…

Exegetical Point: Homiletic Point: Intro Where do you turn in times of trouble? Your first port of call is probably your highest allegiance. Do you turn to yourself? “I can only trust myself, I have to knuckle down and fix this” Do you turn to another human, like your spouse or friend, or even an adult…

Welcome Good morning everyone and welcome to church. Last week in our Gospel Story series we left off with Israel beginning to take over the promise land. Joshua is their new leader and after talking with the commander of the Lord’s Army and hearing God’s battle plan, the people are able to defeat the…

Mother’s Day is the hardest sermon in the year for me to prepare. It is my one chance to give a shot in the arm for mom’s everywhere that they get can get through another year. It is my one shot to urge them specifically to be godly. It is my one change to put my foot in my mouth and alienate over 50%…

1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall…

In 1979 a passenger jet carrying 257 people left New Zealand for a sightseeing flight to Antarctica and back. Unknown to the pilots, however, there was a minor 2 degree error in the flight coordinates. This placed the aircraft 28 miles to the east of where the pilots thought they were. As they approached…

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 does it mean to Arise? 1 “Arise, Jerusalem! Let your light shine for all to see. For the glory of the Lord rises to shine on you. 2 Darkness as black as night covers all the nations of the earth, but the glory of the Lord rises and appears over you. To arise means ++To be stirred up ++To be awake…

TRAINING ON TRAINING Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. The BIble is a book of instruction and really is a training manual for most everything in our lives. So we can see many things that are so applicable to our lives today. In the…

Major issues of life: domestic abuse, terrorism, war upon war, child abuse, moral decline, the collapse of society, how to treat those who believe differently, abuse of power, lack of leaders, a relative concept of truth, practical over principle. Oh you thought I was talking about 2021, didn’t you?…

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Confronting the Destruction of a Nation Judges 1-2 Intro : It does not take very long to discover that the book of Judges is not a very pleasant book. In fact, it one of the darkest books in the Bible. It describes a period in Israel’s history when they were without a strong, godly leader. Perhaps the…

When Judges Rule The first recorded question that God asked was "Adam, where are you?" God was not looking for his physical location. He is God and know's all things. So why ask the question? The question drew attention to the new condition of man. The man that God had created had sinned. Just as God…

God uses pain to motivate repentance and reliance upon deliverers.

Intro Getting to know you Getting to know the area These stories are important Love of History Difference between history and nostalgia Evangelical Historian John Fea talks about nostalgia as a longing for a past that never really was, a frozen past that we look at with rose tinted glasses, a mis-remembering…

This year I am preaching through the entire Bible. We went slowly through the book of Genesis, because it sets the stage for the rest of the Bible. As a matter of fact, the first five books of the Bible, written by Moses, called the Pentateuch are considered the foundation that the rest of the Bible…

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…