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Monday Nov 22, 2021
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Follow the Leader
1 Peter 5:1-5
Peter points us to the type of leadership we need. He teaches us those leaders lead by example, love their people, and live in humility.
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Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
How to Make a Difference
1 Peter 4:7-11
We are called to not just live different than the world, but to make a difference in the world around us through our prayer and our care.
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Monday Nov 08, 2021
Monday Nov 08, 2021
Be Different
1 Peter 4:1-6
Following Jesus means being different from the world in how we think, how we live and how we die.
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Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
How to See Good Days in a Stressful World
1 Peter 3:8-22
We must choose love over hate, faith over fear and trust Jesus over everything.
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Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Husbands and Wives
1 Peter 3:1-8
If you pursue happiness over holiness, you get neither. But if you pursue holiness more than happiness, you get both.
Truly beautiful wives have a hope in God and really insightful husbands have a healthy prayer life.
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Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
The Witness of Submission and Suffering
1 Peter 2:13-25
Though we are citizens of another Kingdom serving a higher King, we must during our time of exile, submit ourselves to the authority that God has placed us under, in order that we may fulfill God’s purposes and be a witness to the watching world.
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Our Christian Identity
1 Peter 2:4-12
Peter teaches us that we (believers) are a gospel community with a holy calling built on Christ our Cornerstone.
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Monday Oct 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
It’s Time to Grow Up
1 Peter 1:22-2:3
We need to grow up because God gave us a new life that is only satisfied by the goodness of God that comes from drinking deeply in the Word of God.
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Monday Sep 27, 2021
Monday Sep 27, 2021
How to live as an Exile?
1 Peter 1:13-21
A tourist, an immigrant, or an exile.
The battle for hope and holiness in a hostile world starts in the mind, reminding us of who we are in Christ. We are called to set our hope on the grace of God and set our lives apart for the holiness of God.
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Monday Sep 20, 2021
Monday Sep 20, 2021
I am a Stranger
1 Peter 1:1-12
If you are a Christian, you have a living hope and lasting inheritance in Jesus that enables us to live as a stranger and sufferer in a broken, hostile world.
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Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Go: From Naples to the Nations
Matthew 28:16-20
Matthew 28 is the resurrection story of Jesus that ends with the Risen Savior commissioning his disciples. Everything Jesus says here depends on the fact He is very much alive. A dead teacher cannot send his disciples. Jesus’ Resurrection is the proof he has all authority and therefore transforms all our priorities. If Jesus died and rose from the dead, then everything He tells us WE SHOULD DO and WE CAN DO! We must not let the distractions of life keep us from the convictions that sustain us for the mission that Jesus has called us to do.
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
“The Vision for the Church’s Mission”
Revelation 7:9-10
Dr. Paul Chitwood
Five Questions:
1. Who do we see in the vision?
2. Where are they?
3. How did they get there?
4. Why are they there?
5. So what?
Revelation 7:9-10 ESV
9After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Nahum: A minor prophet with a major message of Condemnation and Comfort.
Nah-who? (1:1) Oracle - Nineveh - Book - Nahum - Elkosh
Nahum’s prophecy presented a great dichotomy between Condemnation and Comfort.
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Cor. 1:18
1. The Condemned: Nothing can stand against the condemnation of God’s wrath (1:2-6)
“for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.” -Exodus 20:5-6
“Nineveh was going to receive the judgement that had been postponed at the time of Jonah....Past blessing does not guarantee present peace. The people of each generation must seek and serve God for themselves.” -Clive Anderson
Who can stand before his indignation? Indignation- anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy
2. The Comforted: God is good, our refuge, and we are not forgotten (1:7)
The Lord is good “I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I will declare Your greatness. They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, and shall sing of Your righteousness.” Psalm 145:5-7
A stronghold in the day of trouble “The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.” Prov. 18:10
He knows those who trust in Him “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” Matthew 10:29
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Prov. 3:5-6
Which Headline are you reading today? Is it one of Condemnation or Comfort?
“The wrath of God is here revealed from heaven against his enemies, his favour and mercy are here assured to his faithful loyal subjects, and his almighty power in both, making his wrath very terrible and his favour very desirable.” -Matthew Henry
Condemned -“Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts,” 2:13, 3:5a
Comforted - “Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.” 1:15
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” -Isaiah 52:7
“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:1
“For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.” Col 1:19-20
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.” 2 Cor. 1:3
What word comes to your mind when you think of the Goodness of God?Faithful, merciful, grace, salvation, provision, health, family, new pastor, blessings, children, steadfast, wife, husband, Bible, eternity, protection, refuge, love, plan, purpose, justice,
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Following God to the Promised Land
Exodus 23:20-32
Dr. Alan Brumback
God challenges and encourages us to follow Him by giving His presence to guide us and His promises to sustain us.
I. God’s Presence will guide us to the place He has prepared for us.
I send an angel before you to guard you on the way
To bring you to the place I have prepared
Tozer, A Cloud by Day and Fire by Night: If we are open to the Holy Spirit, He will lead us on the pathway; a destiny He has in mind for us. At this point, we may not fully know what that is. We may not know where we are going, but as long as we are following the Lord, we have nothing to fear. As we let go of our past, we can get a firm grip on the future God has for us.
II. God’s Promises will sustain us as we obey what He tells us.
Why was idolatry so alluring:
- It felt guaranteed
- It was convenient
- It was normal
- It was fun
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.” John 14:1-3
Exodus 23:20-32 ESV
20 “Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him. 22“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23 “When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, 24you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. 25You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you. 26None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. 27I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. 29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. 30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. 31And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.
John 14:1-3 ESV
1 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Sunday Aug 22, 2021
Sunday Aug 22, 2021
Series: Judges
Speaker: Dr. Jon Akin
If you want to end up like everyone else, don’t make Jesus your king
Judges 19:10-30; 21:25
Ruth 1:1-5; 4:13-17
Judges 19:10-30 ESV
10But the man would not spend the night. He rose up and departed and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him. 11When they were near Jebus, the day was nearly over, and the servant said to his master, “Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.” 12And his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to Gibeah.” 13And he said to his young man, “Come and let us draw near to one of these places and spend the night at Gibeah or at Ramah.” 14So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, 15and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night. 16And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. The men of the place were Benjaminites. 17And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city. And the old man said, “Where are you going? And where do you come from?” 18And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to the house of the Lord, but no one has taken me into his house. 19We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant and the young man with your servants. There is no lack of anything.” 20And the old man said, “Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants. Only, do not spend the night in the square.” 21So he brought him into his house and gave the donkeys feed. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank. 22As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.” 23And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing. 24Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.” 25But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go. 26And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her master was, until it was light. 27And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold. 28He said to her, “Get up, let us be going.” But there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey, and the man rose up and went away to his home. 29And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and taking hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel. 30And all who saw it said, “Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.”
Judges 21:25 ESV
25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Ruth 1:1-5 ESV
1In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. 2The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. 3But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. 4These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, 5and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
Ruth 4:13-17 ESV
13So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son. 14Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel! 15He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.” 16Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse. 17And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.