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Old Testament

An Encouraging Word for Discouraging Times

In light of a positive COVID test of a member in our church and the desire for us to be wise and protective, this Lord’s Day service will be live streamed only. We also will take a one week departure from our 1 Thessalonian study to be in one of the most encouraging chapters in the Bible when times are most discouraging – Isaiah 40.

What Is The Ruling Virtue In Our Lives?

DEUTERONOMY 8:3 – And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. THEME OF THE DAY. WHAT IS THE RULING…

When God Turns Up The Heat In Our Lives

ISAIAH 48:10-11 – Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another. THEME OF THE DAY. WHEN GOD TURNS UP THE HEAT IN OUR LIVES. If we…

How Would We React?

JOB 1:20-22 – Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” In all this Job did not sin or charge God…

Overcoming Life’s Many Fears

PSALM 56:3-4 – When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? THEME OF THE DAY. OVERCOMING LIFE’S MANY FEARS. Do we recall the first time the Bible records a human being experiencing the terror of being afraid? It was…

Yes, God Hurts His Children

HOSEA 6:1-3 – “Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. Let us know; let us press on to know…