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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you...

This Q&A conversation is based on the sermon "Not Home Yet" from 1 Peter 1:1-12 on Aug 20th 2023

To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to...

This Q&A conversation is based on the sermon titled Disruptive Grace from Numbers 26 and 27 on Aug 6th 2023. 

The Lord said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel. When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was, because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation quarreled, failing to uphold me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meri...

This Q&A Conversation is based on the sermon "Repeat Offenders" on July 30th 2023 from Numbers 25.

After the plague, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest, “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all in Israel who are able to go to war.” … Reuben, the firstborn of Israel… This was the list of the people of Israel, 601,730. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Among these the land s...

This Q&A conversation is based on the sermon titled "Curses and Blessings" from July 23rd 2023 - based on Numbers 22 and 23

While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab. These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. And the Lord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the Lord, that the...

When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the border formed by the Arnon, at the extremity of the border...And in the morning Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw a fraction of the people.  And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.” Balak did as Ba...

This Q&A conversation is based on the July 16th sermon titled "Non-Negotiable" from Numbers chapter 22. 

Then the people of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.  And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many… So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time, sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the pe...

This Q&A conversation is based on the sermon "Muddy Waters" preached on July 9th 2023 based on Numbers 20:2-13

Now there was no water for the congregation. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.  3 And the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord!  4 Why have you brought the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle? 5 And why have you made us come up out of...

This sermon Q&A was based on the July 2nd Sermon titled "Rebel Yell" from Numbers 14

Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night. 2 And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it no...

This Q&A podcast is based on the sermon titled Land Lovers from June 25th 2023 based on Numbers 13.

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.”  17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country, 18 and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it ar...

This Q&A conversation is based on the sermon "Stories we Tell Ourselves" From June 18th 2023.  

Numbers 12 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. 2 And they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. 3 Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth. 4 And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron...

This sermon Q&A comes from "Graves of Craving" based on Numbers 11 from June 4th 2023.

This  Q&A is based on the sermon "Lead" based on Numbers 9 and 10, from May 28th, 2023. 

1 And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp. 2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down. 3 So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned amon...

This Q&A comes from the May 21st Sermon "Blessed" based on Numbers 6:22 - 27 with Matt Cabot and Bob Crossland. 

Q&A from the May 14th, 2023 sermon, "Counted" with Matt Cabot and Bob Crossland