- Jun 28, 2020Hard Knocks: When Life Hands You Adversity (Part 3 – Justice)Hard Knocks: When Life Hands You Adversity (Part 3 – Justice)Part 3 – JusticeAnd he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary’. For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming’” (Luke 18:1-5).
- Jun 21, 2020Hard Knocks: When Life Hands You Adversity (Part 2 – Silence is Not Stillness)Hard Knocks: When Life Hands You Adversity (Part 2 – Silence is Not Stillness)Part 2 – Silence is Not Stillness
The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master. His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to succeed in his hands. So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had (Genesis 39:2-4).
- Jun 14, 2020Hard Knocks: When Life Hands You Adversity (Part 1 – Sources)Hard Knocks: When Life Hands You Adversity (Part 1 – Sources)Part 1 – Sources
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him" (John 9:1-3, emphasis added).
- Jun 7, 2020Do I Have Your Attention Now?Do I Have Your Attention Now?Do I Have Your Attention Now?For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works (Titus 2:11-14).
- May 24, 2020The Five: The Great Commission (Pastors Forum)The Five: The Great Commission (Pastors Forum)The Five: The Great CommissionPastors Forum
- May 17, 2020The Five: The Great Commission (Part 5 – The Strategy)The Five: The Great Commission (Part 5 – The Strategy)Part 5 – The Strategy“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth" (Acts 1:8).
- May 10, 2020The Five: The Great Commission (Part 4 – The Calling)The Five: The Great Commission (Part 4 – The Calling)Part 4 – The Calling
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you" (John 20:21).
