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Listen in as we continue our series, Did God Really Say? Notes/Quotes Philippians 4:13 “10 I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. 11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned, in whatever situation I am, to be content. 12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to a...

Listen along as we continue our series, Did God Really Say? Notes / Quotes Matthew 7:1-2 - Jami “It is a phrase that has been used countless times during contentious conversations or in defensive moments when someone is confronted about their behavior. “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.” These famous words from Jesus are recited by many but are profoundly misunderstood. One could easily arg...

Listen along as we continue our series, Did God Really Say? Notes/Quotes: Proverbs 22:6 - Anthony (a) the moral view
 The first view is that ‘his way’ refers to the path of morality, righteousness and wisdom. Usually, however, when the word ‘way’ is used in this manner it has a qualifier or adjective: i.e. the way of life (6:23), the way of understanding (9:6), the good way (2:20), the way of righ...

Listen along as we begin our new series, Did God Really Say. Notes/Quotes Reader: Genesis 3:1-5 - Linda B Title: Did God Really Say? “My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them.... In boundless love as a Chr...

2 Peter 3:14-18 - Jorgen/Larry “The proper perspective is to regard anything that looks to us like ‘delay’ as an indication not that we have to be patient with God, but that God is having to be patient with us….God’s patience is our opportunity” NT Wright “You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” - Anne Lamott -  Luke...

Notes - Quotes 2 Peter 3:8-13 - Faith 2 Peter 3:8-13  - The Lord's Delay Psalm 90:4  “God views the passing of time from a different perspective than we do. We are impatient, getting disturbed and upset by even a short delay; God is patient, willing to let centuries and even millennia go by as he works out his purposes. Peter is not telling his readers that they are wrong to believe that Christ’s...

Listen along as we continue through 2 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 2 Peter 3:1-7 - Larry/Jorgen Title: The Lord's Day “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”  (Micah 6:8) “When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cu...

Notes//Quotes: 2 Peter 2:4-22 puppet/homer - Pics attached The same early christians who tell us to be kind and gentle also tell us to be on our guard against being deceived. Jesus himself told us to be not only innocent as doves but also wise as serpents. It’s a difficult combination. But we won’t get very far in the right direction unless we work hard on both sides of our character….Peter is goi...

Listen along as we continue through 2 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 2 Peter 2:1-3 - Faith Title: Clever Stories “Christianity would then be evaporated of its essence and consist of little more than a vague reverence for “God.” Certain strands of the ecumenical movement err in just this direction. In the interests of Christian unity, they reduce the faith to its lowest possible common denominator.”  - Doug...

Listen along as we continue our journey through 2 Peter. Notes//Quotes:  2 Peter 1:16-21 I have seen the face of Jesus— Tell me not of aught beside; I have heard the voice of Jesus—All my soul is satisfied. In the radiance of the glory, First I saw His blessed face, And forever shall that glory Be my home, my dwelling-place. 2 Tim 3:16-17 The value of inspiration emerges, as twofold. It gives to t...

Listen along as we continue through 2 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 2 Peter 1:10-15 - Jorgen/Larry Title: Last Words “In this sense holiness refers to a state of being separate, set apart from the ordinary or mundane and dedicated to a particular purpose or use. The Hebrew adjective for "holy" (qadosh) literally means "separate," since it derives from a verb meaning "to cut off" or "to separate!" Together...

Listen along as we begin our series through 2 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 2 Peter 1:1-9  Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as he takes knowledge of you. Knowing about Him is a necessary precondition of trusting in Him, but the width of our knowledge about Him is no gauge of the depth of our knowledge of Him....

Listen along as Mike Gaston wraps up our series through 1 Peter. Notes//Quotes 1 Peter 5:6-14 - Mike G Teaching   Slide 1   Big Idea Our faith in God allows us to navigate challenging times now, as we await  better times ahead.   Slide 2   Challenging times now (vs 6-9) We are called to humility before God We have an adversary Suffering is part of life   Slide 3   “You contribute nothing to your s...

Listen along as we continue through 1 Peter. Notes//Quotes   1 Peter 5:1-5 - Faith 1 Peter 5:1-5 The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans - Eugene Peterson “By all our ministry activity to mistakenly be like God, we’ve actually made it hard for people to see or hear him.” John Calvin Matthew 20:25-28 “It is possible for ministry l...

Listen along as we continue through 1 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 1 Peter 4:12-19 John 16:33  Romans 5:1-5  James 1:2-4  Certainly there is unanimous teaching among the NT writers that there is no condemnation for those who believe in Christ and that they will be delivered from the destiny that is coming to those who disobey God by rejecting the redemption he provides in Jesus Christ. But there is ample...

Listen along as we continue our series through 1 Peter. Notes/Quotes: Jon reading Title: Lock In “We prefer a gospel in which God gives us healthy bodies and bulging wallets. And we too readily think that material blessing is the entitled reward of the gospel. To put it bluntly, the democratized West expects Jesus, comfort, ease, and acceptance from the world.” - David Helm “Indeed the only way in...

Listen along as we continue through 1 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 1 Peter 3:13-22 Title: The Pilgrim's Path “8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our bodies. 11 For we who live are always...

Listen along as we continue our time through 1 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 1 Peter 3:8-12 - Anthony reading  “This is the mission of God: to restore the creation and the life of humanity from the ravages of sin. The church’s function in this story is to participate in God’s mission; we are to be caught up in God’s own work of restoration and healing. This defines the identity and role of the church.” -...

Listen along as we continue our time in 1 Peter. Notes//Quotes: Faith: 1 Peter 3:1-7 Title: The Way Home “Submission is not something being taken from me, but is something I’m choosing to give. The truth that Jesus, being fully God, willingly entered into this world, becoming fully man and submitting His will to God the Father and giving His life to justify us as well as the Spirit’s role of illum...

Listen along as we continue through 1 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 1 Peter 2:13-25 - Jack 1 Peter 2:13-25 There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine! - Abraham Kuyper  Romans 13:1-2 “The cross is not a sign of the church's quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rather the church's revolutionary par...

Listen along as we continue our time in 1 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 1 Peter 2:9-12 - Faith Title: Earworm [Verse 1] Guilty running down the side of the egg I'm in love with the past, and the things that they said Guilty running down the side of my head I get by on the promise of future excess Guilty running, guilty running I put my back in waiting for something [Chorus] I keep waiting for the shoe to...

Listen along as we continue through 1 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 1 Peter 2:1-8 Psalm 19:7-11 Every other ethical system calls us to the costly effort of becoming what we are not. But in the full salvation already bequeathed to us in Christ, the new nature is already ours, waiting for expression, poised for growth, until its potential is triggered by our obedience to the word of God - Alec Motyer What G...

Listen along as we continue our time through 1 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 1 Peter 1:13-26 - Chris F Reading Title: Exilic Exercise “The tidings were mostly sad and ominous: of gathering darkness, the wars of Men, and the flight of the Elves…And I warn you that peril is now both before you and behind you, and upon either side…. ‘But where shall I find courage?’ asked Frodo. ‘That is what I chiefly need....

Listen along as we continue our series through 1 Peter. Notes//Quotes: 1 Peter 1:3-12 “Jesus matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the qua...

Listen along as we begin our series through 1 Peter.