Flooding Creek (FCCC)

Intro This letter, Written by John the Apostle (johannes) Probably written from Ephesus is modern day Turkyie Probably written later in his life to the church to encourage them in their faith. We’ll shortly see how he encouraged them. John wrote a Gospel and the Reveleation of Jesus Christ. Concerning…

Introduction Exegetical Point: Through providence Paul was protected and enabled to keep working for Jesus. Homiletic Point: Be ready to work in uncomfortable circumstances for Jesus. Where we’ve been: What happened before Paul was imprisoned? We’re jumping into Acts this morning. It’s always a little…

Intro Closing out Hebrews Jesus is greater than the greatest things of Old Jesus fulfils the OT temple system, he’s our new High Priest We have been warned to remain faithful - 3 times We have been called to endurance under trial, to follow the example of the past Saints - the heroes of the faith. Despite…

Introduction We are coming to the end of Hebrews. Next week is our last Sermon! It’s taken us a couple years to get here. In this later part of this New testament letter we have been making our way through the “Hall of Faith” then dwelling on the way that Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,…

Intro As we have been praying, we see the trials and diffucylties that you face. We have also seen the sinful ways people treat the body of Christ, and so I felt that before God i had a responsibility to speak to these issues. As a pastor, a shepherd, I have to shepherd you toward righteousness. Toward…

Intro Two options. Two ways to live. Two Mountains For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. Recipients of a spiritual kingdom For…

Intro Trees grown without wind are weak. Trees without wind collapse under their own weight, Wind causes thicker trunks, core strength, deeper roots and grow talkler. Everything about trees that make them better is caused by the stress of the wind. So if you ahte your tree, keep it out of the wind. It…

Intro End of the Hall of Faith Faith is active - these people lived it out and acted on the basis of God’s Word. But their faith was pointing somewhere - to a Hope that bouyed them along even when they suffered greatly. Have Faith in the midst of Suffering Women received back their dead by resurrection.…

Introduction Let me tell you a story. This is a story that has been pieced together by reading letters from two Russian teenagers in 1960s Soviet Russia. Their names are Maria and Varia The two Russian teenagers had once been schoolmates in a Communist boarding school. Varia, a member of the Communist…

Intro A reminder about the nature of our Christian faith: But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation.…

Intro What kind of faith are we talking about? There are a few figures who tower over the OT, namely Moses & David. We’ve talked about Moses in past weeks, but today we’re looking at David. Confusingly, it’s David before Samuel. As God likes to do, he subverts expectations by working in a through David,…

Intro Hall of Faith - Faith is for the preservation of our souls Faith is assurance - because it is based on the word of God Faith leads to God’s commendation! We have been making our way through many examples of believers expressing faith down through salvation history. Many of these examples are not…

Intro Death is inescapable Most of us start learning this as children. - pets, relatives, etc. Once the dog dies, they never come back. But then as we age it becomes more and more confronting - we notice our parents are staring to look a bit whethered, they’re not as active as they used to be. We start…

Intro We have many heroes of the faith, and many of them are deeply flawed characters, with awful backstories. Time and again the Bible gives us examples of outsiders and exiles and the lowly who are rescued by the Lord and brought into his people. Humanly speaking they’re the kind of people that we…

Intro We’re in the hall of faith - taking note of people from across the Bible who show us what it looks like to live by faith. Today we’re looking at the life of Moses - plus a little extra. Moses life gets a lot of airtime, because he led the peopl of Israel through one of their most important national…

Story of Joseph Jacob desired to marry Rachel, but he was tricked into marrying Rachel’s sister Leah first. As consolation to Leah (being basically an unwanted bride), God gave her a bunch of children before Rachel. There was also a bunch of shinanigans with surrogate mothers that i’m not going to get…

Intro We live in a community of all kinds of different people. And we need all kinds of different people. It starts with the distiction between the sexes - male/female but we extend from there. Our communities need differences - We need farmers, farmers for meats and for plants. We need trademen - carepenters,…

Intro We act on promises for the future: If I do these courses I will receive my certification If I work for you, you will pay me If I marry you, you’ll remain faithful Now sometimes these promises are upheld, but sometimes they are not. Sometimes the school moves the goalposts on you or goes belly up,…

Intro We are not those who shrink back from God and are destroyed, but those who have faith and preserve our souls. So what is faith? What does it look like? Well it’s not blind hope, i can tell you that much straight up. This si not the soppy “just gotta have faith” of a poorly written movie. This is…

Intro Every so often we run into passages that seem to be at odds with something that we read in another part of the Bible. This is one of those passages. The careful reader will have come across several places where we are very clearly told that God’s people, his chosen people, his special people, will…

Intro We have started to make our way through the hall of faith. There’s good stuff in there. But! We missed a bit from where we left off in Hebrews 10 last year. Lets go back! I knew that these two passages required some time and attention, so I put it off till I could do a halfway-decent job of teaching…