The Hand of the Lord: 1. is mighty. 2. is dangerous and deadly against His enemies. 3. empowers His servants. 4. can be heavy to discipline His people. 5. will help His people. 6. will always be with His people today.

Time with Abba - Bible Reading Schedule Jan l Feb l Mar l Apr l May l Jun l Jul l Aug l Sep l Oct l Nov l Dec Date Psalms OT NT Proverbs 1/1 Ps 1:1-6 Gen 1:1-2:25 Matt 1:1-2:12 Prov 1:1-6 1/2 Ps 2:1-6 Gen 3:1 - 4:26 Matt 2:13-3:6 Prov 1:7-9 1/3 Ps 2:7-12 Gen 5:1 - 7:24 Matt 3:7-4:11 Prov 1:10-19 1/4…

Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage one another all the more, since you see that the Day of the Lord is coming nearer. Why is Fellowship so Important? 1. Fellowship is Important Because I BELONG in God’s Family with Other Believers Therefore,…

Text: Colossians 3:12-15 Title: New Life in Christ (Part 2) “The Christians Clothing” Theme of the book of Colossians: Jesus Christ: The preeminent and all-sufficient Savior Theme of Text: Eliminating sin is not enough; sin must be replaced with Christ like qualities. Proposition: Clothe yourself in…

PREPARING FOR MARRIAGE GOD’S WAYSESSION 1 GOD’S BLUEPRINT FOR MARRIAGE INTRODUCTION: *Some time ago--Ann Landers (the “answer lady”)--wrote a column --entitled “Answer Lady Has No Answers” --acknowledged that after 36 yrs. of marriage, were divorcing --expressed her astonishment that it could happen…

The Purpose-Driven Life #2: You Were Formed for God’s Family Thesis: To note the blessings of and the requirements for fellowship/family. Introduction: (1) In the beginning, God realized that it was not good for man to be alone. (2) The church (i.e., God’s family) was created to help remedy this problem.…

Isaiah 2:1-4 Life in the Millennium “The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations…

The Dilemma of Belief. Have you ever had those moments when you wondered, “Is this really true?” Maybe life has gotten difficult. Maybe you have come to the Derailment of your hopes and dreams like Joseph, Mary’s husband, when he found out that his betrothed bride was pregnant after all his time and…

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…

This morning we are looking at God’s purpose for family life. Our own little family studies course this morning: No better place to start than at the very beginning. Turn to Genesis- which means beginnings. Here we discover not only our origins but the origins of family life. 1. God created family.*…

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…

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Introduction Matthew’s Gospel breaks the long silence which followed the ministry of Malachi, the last of the Old Testament prophets. The silence extended for four hundred years, and during that time God was withdrawn from Israel. Throughout this period there were no angelic manifestations,…

Last Spring, we studied through the Sermon on the Mount. One of the great themes of Matthew is the coming kingdom. The Book of Revelation speaks of the time when that new kingdom is fully realized. I shared with our Elders a week ago an observation that I gleaned about songs describing Heaven. Historically…

graphic: sermon title Being Father's Day today, I recognise that I'm a little biased about this field of knowledge. Then again, who knows better the joys and sorrows of being a man and a father then a man and a father? Whether I'm a good representation of either or not is beside the point, but let me…

Do this in remembrance of Me... Tonight we are gathered - a group of believers - a local body of Christ - to reflect on and again remember the incredible sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for each one of us. Jesus Himself told the disciples with Him the night before to remember… do this in remembrance…

-Introduction Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power…

Time with Abba - Bible Reading Schedule Jan l Feb l Mar l Apr l May l Jun l Jul l Aug l Sep l Oct l Nov l Dec Date Psalms OT NT Proverbs 1/1 Ps 1:1-6 Gen 1:1-2:25 Matt 1:1-2:12 Prov 1:1-6 1/2 Ps 2:1-6 Gen 3:1 - 4:26 Matt 2:13-3:6 Prov 1:7-9 1/3 Ps 2:7-12 Gen 5:1 - 7:24 Matt 3:7-4:11 Prov 1:10-19 1/4…

oremus bible hymnal almanac liturgy Common Worship Almanacs for desktop calendars and PDAs Almanac files for iCal, Outlook, Palm and other calendar software Calendar for 2009 | Sun 30 Nov 2008 | CW* Advent 1 | First Sunday of Advent Principal Service Isaiah 64.1-9 Psalm 80.1-8, 18-20* 1 Corinthians 1.3-9…

Last week, January 28th, President Trump announced his long anticipated deal of the century, or perhaps 2 centuries his plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. I believe this initiative, even if it never gets to the place of full implementation, is quite significant in terms of biblical prophecy.…

Putting the concerns and interests of others before one’s own. Jesus Christ was the supreme example of this and believers should follow his example, denying themselves in order to serve others.

Sermon: The Fruit of the Spirit Feb .24, 2008 Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. (RVR) Mas el fruto del Espíritu es amor, gozo, paz, paciencia, benignidad,…

How do we respond when we've lost the battle against Satan?

The Book of Common Prayer, Formatted as the original This document was created from a text file into WordPerfect for Windows 6.1 and then converted to RTF format. When you convert it to your word processor=s native format it is almost inevitable that these conversions will not be perfect and that some…

This is the last part of our series on REAL peace. Overcome... Does it sound like we are out to win the conflict? Not exactly. Let's just quickly review what we have seen so far. We all want peace. But what we want, and what we get are two different things. We have conflict. Everything from mild irritations,…

Lesson 2: The Creation of the Heavens and the Earth (Genesis 1:1‑2:3) Introduction I want to be especially careful as we approach this first chapter of the book of Genesis. This past week I read an account of a man who attempted to quote Scripture from our passage as a proof text for smoking pot. Here…