Our New Family Identity I. Using LANGUAGE to communicate family IDENTITY. (1:13-2:10)A. Get ready and “GIRD up your LOINS.” (1:13; Ex. 12:11)B. Be the HOLY PEOPLE of God. (1:15-16; Lev. 11:44)C. Through your PASSOVER LAMB. (1:17-21; Ex. 12-15)D...
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New Identity…New Hope – 1 Peter, Part 1 | 1 Peter 1:1-12
Starting with some Fundamentals I. SETTING the CONTEXT of these letters.A. SITUATION: Think about the READERS. (v.1)B. SOURCE: Think about the WRITER. (5:12) Peter writes two letters from Rome to the scattered believers throughout modern day...
Read moreFirst Sunday of Advent 2020 | Jeremiah 1:1-19
Honesty Makes Way for HOPE I. The CALL of a PROPHET (v.1-16)A. Real PEOPLE, real PLACES, DIFFICULT times. (v.1-3) B. Jeremiah’s FEELINGS of INADEQUACY. (v.4-6) C. Clinging to SOVEREIGNTY, WORD, and PRESENCE. (v.6-10) D. LOOKING, LISTENING, and...
Read moreI Thessalonians: A Letter of Hope- Part I | I Thessalonians 1 & 2
The Three That Remain… I. The CONTEXT for I ThessaloniansActs 17 II. Paul’s Prayer of THANKSGIVINGI Thes. 1:3 A. WORK of FaithI Thes. 1:4-101 1. Ergon- both CAUSE and EFFECT 2. Gospel...
Read moreAdvent 2019 – Zechariah’s Dreaming Of… ~ Part 1 | Zechariah 1:1-17; 6:1-8
We Wait in Hope I. Zechariah – MINOR prophet with a MAJOR message. (1:1-6)A. The CONTEXT of this BOOK. (Jer. 25:11, 33:11-14; Ez, 5:1-2)B. The STRUCTURE of the DREAMS. (Zech. 1-6) Welcome to Advent, the season of the Christian Year...
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First Sunday of Advent Season of Advent 2017 HOPE: God has remembered… Luke 1:5-25; 57-80 December 3rd, 2017 I. There is ALWAYS a STORY… (v.5-7)A. 400 YEARS of SILENCE. (Mal. 4:5-6)B. ANOTHER unlikely COUPLE. (v.7,39)C. Names: God REMEMBERS, God...
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Ezekiel: Repentance and Hope – Lent 2017, Part 2 Horrible Judgment, Beautiful Hope Ezekiel 8-11 March 12th, 2017 I. A LONG text in short SECTIONS…(Chap. 8-11)A. Chapter 8 – Four PICTURES of IDOLATRY. (8:1-18)B. Chapter 9 – JUDGMENT and...
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Ezekiel: Repentance and Hope – Lent 2017, Part 1 When God Shows Up… Ezekiel 1:1-3:15 March 5th, 2017 PRELUDE to a VISION. (II Kings 24:8-17; Ezek. 1)A. The BEGINNINGS of EXILE. (1:1)B. SEEING the One ABOVE all… (1:4-28)C. …and His GLORY is...
Read moreWaiting on the World to Change… First Sunday of Advent
Waiting on the World to Change… The Light of Hope in a Dark World Ps. 142 and Lamentations 3:1-32 November 27th, 2016 I. WHAT is a LAMENT? (Ps. 142) A. An expression of SUFFERING or COMPLAINT. (Ps. 142:2)B. A PRAYER for HELP. (Ps...
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