Good Morning, trust that you all had blessed Christmas and that we trust that come upon a New year 2019 that God is going to bring many blessing into our lives and to our Richvale Church Family What I love about a New Year… Is that it represents New Possibilities… and Potentials... A New year is like…

The Golden Lamp-stand Have you ever been in the dark? – We all have, but I mean really dark. I remember going to the caves in Cheddar gorge. It was off season and we were the only ones – so they showed us a lighting display in the last cavern that they don’t normally show because of it takes too much…

THE TABERNACLE A TYPE OF THE CHURCH Introduction: “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.” (Heb. 10:1) From this passage we learn that God,…

True and Proper Worship 1. The mission is a statement of what the church is supposed to be doing, while the vision is a snapshot or picture of it. 2. The mission is used for planning where the church is going; the vision is used for communicating where the church is going. 3. A mission statement must…

The Three Elements in the Battle of the Mind If you have your Bibles let’s go ahead and turn to Acts 14:1-7 ; 1 In Iconium they entered the synagogue of the Jews together, and spoke in such a manner that a large number of people believed, both of Jews and of Greeks. 2 But the Jews who disbelieved stirred…

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…

Intro: Welcome and talk about picnic Many of the messages Jesus gave i the Bible were in response to questions people posed to him. One of the Questions that you asked was How do I hear God’s voice? It assumes God is speaking. Some today don’t believe that… some believe God stopped speaking with the…

The Table of Shewbread My little sister had this book; it was her favourite. Long before she went to school she could reel it off, we thought she could read, she just knew it off by heart: “Come over to my house” [read]. It’s easy for kids – they want to be friends they invite you over to their house…

Lets start out this morning by turning in the Bible to Acts 2:40 , for the last couple of weeks we have been looking closer at the beginning of the church and last week we discussed how the day of Pentecost brought forth the birth of the church. Through that birth a mass amount of new coverts began to…

Everything can change in a moment

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…

Memorial Day “Never Forget” This weekend we observe Memorial Day. We don’t celebrate it, we observe it. People died for our freedom. We don’t celebrate their death, we observe that day and remember their sacrifice for us. A sacrifice is not something to celebrate as much as it is something to appreciate.…

Endure Hardships You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. In writing to Timothy, the apostle Paul makes an astounding claim “endure hardships” At first glance one might think in terms of persecution Kako pa thao The translators have inserted the word hardship to complete…

Tabernacle 3. Introduction: what is the book of exodus about? Can you tell me what happens in it? The story of the Exodus – birth of Moses and his call (4 chapters – out of 40), the plagues, dealings with pharaoh, Passover (another 9 chapters), then on the journey, crossing the Red Sea and in the wilderness…

Close your eyes and imagine the following: God the Father - nice old man with a beard? God the Son - Pic of Jesus or Jesus on the cross Holy Spirit - The bible gives us some descriptions. John 3 says he is like the wind. We can picture what the wind does, but we really can’t se it. To most of us, the…

Announcements: So as we’ve made our way through this gospel of John... no matter what the story, no matter what the situation... what we’ve consistently seen throughout - is Jesus Christ... SAYING things and DOING things - that would point to Him being the Messiah... And this week is no different. Today…

John Macarthur and further back the SBC have made Women’s roles in the life of the church a front and center issue. The SBC had knuckle heads making statements like… a women in my pulpit… never . Then a couple of weeks ago, John MacArthur made the satement about Beth Moore… stay home. Unfortunately today…

This vision dates to the period of Israel's history known as the Babylonian Exile . In 597 BC, the armies of Babylon overtook Jerusalem/Judah deported the Judean king and many Judean leaders to Babylon During Jehoiachin’s reign, the officers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up against Jerusalem…

Tabernacle 4. [P] Who plays with lego? Its worth having children just so you have the excuse! House that Hannah built. Well, we did it together. But we can’t claim the credit, we didn’t design it. The person who thought it all is the clever one – there is a plan – I pick out the pieces that it says are…