Our study of the book of I Peter continues this Wednesday night, January 17th. We will be taking a close look at 1:22-2:3, Peter’s calling to love one another through devotion to the Word of God. Peter makes the assertion that love for each other in the Body of Christ is not only a command...
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Melissa Kulynych: II Chronicles 20: “When God Moves in Unexpected Ways”
When God moves in unexpected ways, we are faced with the option to become anxious, fearful or worried or we can choose to believe that His heart is trustworthy and see that He desires for us to grow in these places when things don’t go exactly as we have planned. Whether it’s through pain, grief,...
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Bible Study: Philippians 2:19-30 “Sending and Receiving”
The first command of the book of Philippians was found in 1:27 “Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ”. From that point until tonight’s text Paul explained thoroughly what that looks like. Living worthy of the gospel is to live like Christ and for Christ with each other as the body...
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John 2:13-22 “Turning the Tables of Our Worship”
Today’s text presents some questions that we must deal with from the beginning so that we are on sure footing as we walk through it. All four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, present us with an account of Jesus cleansing the temple but they do not present us with the same account. Matthew, Mark...
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John 2:1-11 “The Significance of the Insignificant”
So far in the book of John we have been introduced to Jesus, the Son of God, completely divine and yet somehow completely human. We have been painted a picture of the Messiah as the Creator of the world, the Word who was with God and was God, who was not only before all things...
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Philippians 2:14-18 “Complaining and Disputing”
Paul’s first command in the letter to the Philippians was in 1:27 “Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ . . .” Every command after that first one points back to it, everything that Paul tells them to do and not do is a step in living worthy of the gospel...
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Advent Series: The Word, The Light & The Lamb: John 1:29-36 “Behold the Lamb of God”
Over the last few weeks we have begun our study of the book of John by seeing how John introduces us to Jesus. John doesn’t start with Jesus’ genealogy or birth like Matthew and Luke, he doesn’t begin with John the Baptist as Mark does, John begins with Jesus’ eternal nature. It’s important to John...
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Christmas Eve: “The Word Became Flesh”
In his commentary on the book of John, Rodney Whitacre wrote “He who brought the universe into existence now is born within the universe as a human being. This thought is so familiar in Christianity we may no longer be staggered by it.” John began his gospel introducing us to Jesus by saying “In the...