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Shoftim Introduction Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9 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 about…

Incorrect Judgments Judging by the Flesh Often in my life, I have wrongly looked upon people from a fleshly perspective. Meaning, I have thought in my own mind and heart that I understand what should be right and wrong. When I do this, I have placed myself as the ultimate judge over the life of another.…

A Superbowl Sermon…a week early. Yes, I know Superbowl is next week but this message is in preparation for next week and I’m going to go ahead and get a stir started this morning… Chiefs or Eagles??? Now, I am an odd ball man - I do not care for professional football. Love high school and college football…

Bearing Fruit 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.…

Matthew 18:21-35 We have been working through the topic of the Truth of Forgiveness. a couple of weeks ago, before Easter, we talked about some practical truths about forgiving someone, but there is more that I want to talk about before we end this series. For instance, What should we say when a person…

Show video “Labels We Carry” How many of us have ever felt labeled? How did it make you feel? Now, How many of us have ever labeled someone? Tonight I want to think about, “ How often have you got in the way of the gospel message because you judged people to not be worthy of the gospel message. ” Because…

Jesus calls His followers to be different. Jesus' desire for each of us is to experience an abundant life, but in order to live that life, we need to change our thinking. How far would you be willing to go to discover the life you were made to live?

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…

Love is the root of all we do. 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.…

Bearing Fruit 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.…

The Light of the World SET TIMER Introduce yourself, Kingdom Series, Bible App, Prayer. I don’t know if everyone knows this or not, but one of the things I’m doing is taking classes online to get my Master of Divinity. I just finished up for the semester last week. And one of the classes I took this…

The speaker provides an overview of the Sermon on the Mount and different interpretational approaches to the Sermon. He demonstrates that the Sermon is Jesus' blueprint for His Kingdom of Transformed Hearts

The Bible has a lot to say about Judging one another. Sometimes it might seem contradictory in what it's telling us. today we discover what it means to judge, who gets to judge, and what a believer's role is in judging.

What happens when we — when Christians — begin talking about “sin” in our world? — People get angry, right? — They begin to yell about how judgmental the church is… about how even Jesus — the one we say is God — told us not to… What verse do they always quote? 1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.…

Imagine a child facing two choices. In the first choice his mom tells him that he must clean his room. It must be spotless. he will probably have to put hours into his efforts. Anything less than perfection is not acceptable. Whether he likes it or not, that room must be cleaner than it has ever been…

2 Corinthians 2 Good morning church! I want to welcome you here this morning. There is so much going on around the world, and we have a short chapter this morning so I was tempted to take some time and update you on some projects going on in Ukraine, operation Exodus that is being conducted through Calvary…

Intro: I remember being a young man and looking at the people around me. I was thinking man me and God must be in good with each other because all I see in this school are drukin’ teenagers all looking to have fun and care nothing about going to hell. Sure do feel sorry for them, sure am glad I am going…

A Kingdom Divided It was nearly 30 years ago watching on my television as the verdict came down the city exploded. Angry crowds burst into the streets. Windows were smashed at the malls. Fires were set and could be seen from the balcony of our apartment. Gun fire could be heard. Looting was rampant.…

Welcome to Literature of the Bible 1. Pastors, parents, police officers, Justice of the peace, teachers, etc will not be able to judge anyone’s actions because they have faults or are not perfect. 2. How will Christians share the good news of God if they cannot expose the sin and sinfulness of those…

We are picking up our study of Handling Disputes Properly today. We see in 1 Corinthians 6 , that the Corinthian believers were not handling disputes, or conflict, properly. They were actually taking these conflicts before the public courts, and trying to make themselves look good, while tearing down…

Sincerity over Speculation Sincerity over Speculation We all long for sincerity but even sincerity can be sincerely wrong. The basis of our sincerity is what matters. Are my convictions built on truth or a lie. I can sincerely believe that I can fly and go outside jump into the air and find that one…

Celebrate Our Heritage Our passage that I’ve chosen for today displays a contrast that I believe speaks to us as we celebrate our nations heritage and also our commitment as Christians in the world today. Our passage is Galatians 6:1-10 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are…

If you had to name what the single most detrimental activity to the testimony of the Church is, what would you say? (hypocrisy…) But… What is hypocrisy rooted in? (Judgment) Is there anyone in this world who is not guilty of judgment? — and by “judgment” I mean passing judgment - being critical of others?…

Pharisees (Φαρισαῖος, Pharisaios ). Members of a Jewish party that exercised strict piety according to Mosaic law. The Pharisees were a sect within early Judaism, becoming active around 150 bc and enduring as a distinct party until being subsumed into the Rabbinic movement around ad 135. Introduction…

Matthew 7:1-6 Introduction: In 1996, the year that I graduated from high school, Tupac Shakur released a song titled, “Only God Can Judge Me.” The sentiment expressed in the lyrics was that everyone else should get out of his business. OF course, though he acknowledged that only God could judge him,…