Flooding Creek (FCCC)

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…

Intro What is your natural tendancy when it comes to the Chrristian life? Grace, grace grace, to the exclusion of truth and law? (Antinomian) Work, work, work your way into God’s good books? (legalist) Knowledge, understanding and theology? Jesus is my invisible boyfriend? As we go into the new year…

Intro Comforting sights? The proper response to the incarnation of the messiah is praise & celebration Mary’s Song, Elizabeth’s exaltation Zechariahs Prophesy Angel’s song Magi’s gifts & worship Today: Simeon’s Song and The coming of the messiah was long anticipated, and in God’s plan he had kept a couple…

Intro We looked at Mary’s song, and now we’re looking at the Angel’s song. The angels, Mary, Zechariiah the preist, simeon and anna, they all show us that the proper response to the incarnation of God the Son is to praise and celebration. That’s why Christimas is endorsed, whether or not Jesus was born…

Intro Today’s passage starts, not in Luke 1 as we read but rather much, much earlier. To understand the context, we must go back, back, past the Prophet Malachi, past Isaiah, past king David and even past the budding nation of Israel to two people hanging out in a garden with God. As you well know, these…

Intro Where do you find comfort when the going gets tough? Or more to the point, how do you find comfort when it’s clear that God is directly causing your suffering? We’re entering into a section of Isaiah that does just that, speaking to a people who are going to suffer the punishment of God for their…

Intro 2700ish years ago Narratives about events in Judah (southern kingdom) Ch 40 gets back into the classic prophetic literature. Ch 36-39 are this story block in the middle of Isaiah that sets the backdrop for the whole book. These two little stories Sickness, Prayer & Deliverance Around the same time…

Intro Let me tell you a story. A Story that was prophesied. A Story of war and battle, of death and victory. Of danger and deliverance. This is the story of King Hezekiah and Jerusalem facing the Assyrian horde. Harried and oppressed they faced an army of vast proportions, a military threat that had…

Intro Isaiah, ancient book of prophecy 2700 years ago, 700 years before Jesus lived. I’ll explain why that’s important soon. The Desert Rejoices ! A breath of fresh air! Compare with the end of 34 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus; Recreation…

Exegetical Purpose: Jesus writes to encourage, chastise and warn his churches as representatives of the Church universal. Homiletic Purpose: To encourage, chastise and warn the church at Flooding Creek. Introduction Have you ever had an employee review? You know, maybe when your probation ends or some…