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May 2021
Please Read John 5:1-18 Questions to consider about John 5:1-18: Why do you think Jesus chose this particular man to heal? Why did He leave the others “blind, lame and paralyzed” (vv.3-4)? What do we learn about the sick man’s faith in 5:7? Was Jesus breaking the law in 5:8? Which law? Were the “Jews” correct in their accusation against the man in 5:9-10? What does the description of those who were “blind, lame, and paralyzed” and waiting to be healed evoke within you? Think about the words: blind, lame, crippled. Remind......
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April 26, 2021
Getting Back to the Gospel of John
13:16-17 ”But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not...
April 12, 2021
The Journey, Part 6: Life in the Waterless Wilderness
2 Corinthians 8:1-5 8:1-5 We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, 2 for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy...
August 30, 2020
Mortality by Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
1. Although in most of you, beloved brethren, there is a resolute mind and a firm faith and a devout spirit, which is not disturbed at the numbers in the present mortality, but like a...
May 31, 2020
Noah’s Boat, Part 4: God’s Doves
Text Genesis 8:1-19 “But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided....
May 24, 2020
Noah’s Boat, Part 3: “God Remembered Noah”
Introduction & Text Genesis 7:11-8:1-2 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst...
May 17, 2020
Noah’s Boat, Part 2: The Earth was Corrupt and Filled with Violence
Introduction & Text Luke 17:26-30 “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank,...
May 03, 2020
The Stranger on the Road, Part 4: The In-Gathering
Introduction Last week we looked at two things that keep us from seeing Jesus clearly: walking by sight and impurity in our hearts. We also saw that at the core of both of these things...
April 26, 2020
The Stranger on the Road, Part 3: The Hands that Invite Us to Follow
Luke 24:13-28-35 13 Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened. 15 So...