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General – “A called out Assembly​ Specifically – “A called out assembly of saved, baptized believers, organized to glorify God” I. Biblical uses of word “church” a. General assembly – Acts 7:38 b. Entire Body of Christ Matthew 16:18 , Ephesians 5:25 , c. Specific local assembly or body of believers Galatians…

The Purpose Fascination - Discovery - Identity - Authenticity One day, Napoleon was speaking of the Divinity of Christ; when General Bertrand said:— “I can not conceive, sire, how a great man like you can believe that the Supreme Being ever exhibited himself to men under a human form, with a body, a…

Introduction There are many in the Christian world who are involved in what is called an ‘ecumenical’ movement. ecumenical (def) general / universal. In other words - if it has the label ‘Christian’ then you are included in the group, and lock arms and ‘work together’ for the ‘greater good’. There’s…

Matthew 16-17 Saving Private Ryan is probably not the first thing that would rise to the top of anyone’s mind while reading through the book of Matthew. It sure wasn’t for me. Extra-violent war film and all that. But one of the characters from that movie is, I think, of some relevance to the portion…

If we remember back to last week, Jesus has been asked to perform miracles so that the Pharisees and Sadducees could bring charges against Him. His response was for them to beware of the leavening - the sin that had crept into the temple THROUGH the leaders. While the disciples were thinking of the bread…

Again, we find Jesus withdrawing to be with His disciples. He knew the end would be coming - very soon. But there was still SO much to teach and to tell them. It was time for them to learn that He was building a church —an assembly of people who would be confessing Him to be the Messiah. The present…

Tonight we will see where the Pharisees and Sadducees are going to ramp up their demands of Christ. They have gone from questioning the motives of Jesus, accusing him of being of the devil, asking the disciples why He went against tradition, to now… demanding they show them signs. One quick question,…

WWJD (What Would Jesus Do)?

Have you ever wanted to write a book? Me neither. Writing books is really hard. Reading books takes a while, I imagine writing one takes a little longer. Now, what’s funny is we’re a church of about 100 people, and we have several authors in our midst! Gene Poppino has helped write a book. Hannah Russell…

Introduction This Torah Portion goes from Numbers 25:10-30:1 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he…

Are You Apart of the Community of Christ?

Introduction Good morning on this 9th week of “Stay at Home and Worship Via Facebook” I pray that all of you are doing well this Sunday morning. I’m looking forward to our being able to return to gathering together for worship. In this weeks newsletter, I shared some of the things we’ll be doing to safely…

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…

We have been going through Johns gospel as you all know and we have looked initially in the first chapter at how John expresses in clear language who Jesus is. we saw Jesus as God, the incarnate one, the one from the beginning, the one who created all things and the one who all things are created for.…

32 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.” 33 And the disciples said to him, “Where are we to get enough bread in such…

Introduction Why I am doing this and not doing Matthew… Fully Man Virgin Birth Salvation must come from God. Virgin Birth made this possible by uniting full diety and full humanity in one person Virgin Birth makes possible Christ’s true humanity without inherited sin Human Weakness and Limitations Jesus…

Introduction: Suffering is a normal part of life as a Christian in this world. Jesus modeled the suffering that would come by obeying God. Many people will rise up against those who seek to follow God, and some will even think that they are doing God’s will when they persecute others. Think about some…

The Hypostatic Union In a previous week we addressed the topic of Jesus as the Son of God, and Jesus as the Son of man. We even covered “why it was necessary for the redeemer to be God?” And why it was necessary for the redeemer to be man?’ Today will involve the next logical question from that - How…

Jesus would look at His young ambitious disciple, full of passion and zeal… not that long ago this disciple would declare in Matthew 16 when Jesus asked… “ who do you say I am? ” … it would be this disciple that declared boldly without hesitation!!! … “ You are the Christ (Messiah). the Son of the Living…

Sermon Series: Eternal Destinies: Understanding Heaven and Hell Good morning, church family and guests. Today, we continue our journey through the afterlife series. Today we are in part two, focusing on the New Heaven and New Earth as described in Revelation 21 Last week, we explored the realities of…

Introduction: Fasting for a blood test Intermittent fasting Fasting for prayer Donald Whitney wrote this in his book Spiritual Disciples for the Christian Life : Quick. What do people who fast look like? What kinds of people come to your mind? Do they appear a bit strange? Are they John the Baptist types?…

Intro; Last week as we begin to look at what is called “The Olivet Discourse” we heard two questions from Jesus’ disciples concerning His Second Coming. When will these things happen? What will be the sign of Your Coming? The discussion centered around Jesus saying the magnificent temple of God would…

Knowing what it is we here at Hickory Corners Bible Church believe and how it is we operate is important. HCBC Basics is a condensed class to look at our statement of faith, and how it is we apply what we believe to our church life. This session will focus on what God requires within His local church.

25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth…