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We are continuing our survey of the Old Testament this morning, as we look at the overview of what took place after God revealed Himself to the people of Israel at Mt. Sinai. Each week, we have been asking two main questions. What do we learn about God? What do we learn about mankind, or ourselves? Over…

There’s power in prayer WE as a church community have some big things going on… as a denomination we are being asked to make some pretty big decisions… locally, as a community we are beginning to ask again if we might be better together as one church on one mission in one community… or is it better to…

I began with reading this story this morning to remind us of a few things: God hears our cries! God provides people to help us carry the load! At this time the Israelites had been led out of captivity and Egypt and were wondering around in the wilderness. They were obviously hungry and started complaining.…

6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Great initial spiritual blessings are no guarantee of continuing…

Numbers 7-11 Last week in our marathon introduction to the book of Numbers, we left off in a significant spot at the end of chapter 6, so lets look at that again, chapter 6:24... 24 “The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; 26 The Lord lift up…

Me: Grumbling and complaining undermine the grace of God and poison the heart. The movie Grumpy Old Men - I wanted at a clip but they where all way to inappropriate for a sermon Another favorite is the two old codgers from the muppet show. My coworker at Vienna says that us. We love to laugh at this…

“No!” “You can’t!” “It won’t work!” “There is no way.” “We took a vote.” How do you hear it? Do these words give you a sense of victory, or do they give you a sense of defeat? It may depend on whether you’re the one hearing them or the one saying them. Either way the source of these words can often be…

We’ve been moving through CASKET EMPTY, and I don’t want us to lose sight of why we’re doing that. The whole idea of Casket Empty is to recognize God’s redemptive story throughout the Old Testament. Many have wondered did God create the world and then just leave it to run itself, and what we see throughout…

If we’re honest we’re always somewhere on the scale between belief and unbelief. I’ve shared with you many times the Father’s exclamation from Mark 9 when he brings his son to Jesus and asks him to heal him, “if he can.” Jesus responds: And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can’! All things are possible for…

Wednesday night we launch REACH! Yes!!!! This church is one of the most valuable things we do as a church. REACH for us is the first touch with families in our area. We bus in approximately 80-100 students under the age of 18. We will feed dinner to 200 people and about 140 will be under the age of 18.…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

Introduction This Torah Portion goes from Numbers 8:1-12:16 In our previous Torah Portion we spoke about Numbers 8:1-4 in the context of the rapture This week, we will talk about the Torah Portion, regarding The Set Up of the Lamps in the Lampstand: Menorah And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak…

Psalm 128 Let’s take a poll real quick, raise your hand if you want to be happy. Everyone wants to be happy, these verses tell us that the man who obeys its words will be blessed. The word translated blessed is a Hebrew word that means a person’s state of bliss. It is also translated in other verses…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

Camping at Word of Life all next week. Tim Strait from Harmony Baptist in Middletown will be preaching for me the next Sunday the 8th and the following Sunday the 15th. I will be back on the 15th though…just not preaching. So, I’ll see you then. Intro Have you ever felt like God was distant or maybe…

The word “test” doesn’t have the most positive associations in the English language, even though it is technically neutral. It can refer to a formal exam given by an instructor or a task from someone genuinely seeking to discover some truth—a test of strength or testing a hypothesis. It can also refer…

Obedience, Meekness Submission (according to google) 1. the action or fact of accepting or yielding to a superior force or to the will or authority of another person Being submissive helps us to be less self-centered and allows us to consider the desires of others. BIBLICALLY, SUBMISSION IS OBEDIENCE!…

This morning’s Scripture lesson comes from 1 Cor 5:1-13 : It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed…

Intro: One of the interesting phrases we see reported to all 7 churches is, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” My prayer for our church today and for our entire journey is that we would hear and obey what has been given to us here in Revelation. One of the most important…

Prayer Introduction & Summary We spent our time together last week establishing that the Holy Spirit is a person. He’s not it or a what; he’s not an essence, a power, or a mystical force; he’s a person – the third person of the Trinity. Today it seems that there’s an erroneous belief that the Spirit’s…

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace…

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