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Philippians 2:5-11 View this week’s worship guide In Philippians 2, Paul exhorts the Philippians to adopt Jesus’ death as their central outlook, their central mindset, for life. Instead of living to get and get and get – more women, more praise, more money, etc. – the Christian is called to imitate Christ, who came to

Philippians 1:27-2:4 View this week’s worship guide The text is all about unity, unity against external pressures and unity against internal ones. What we see is that the Gospel unifies us to make us courageous against external foes and humbles us so that we can be unified against internal struggles like division and rivalry!

Philippians 1:19-26 View this week’s worship guide Writing from a Roman prison, a chained man tells us about the meaning of life, and the glory of death. The apostle Paul tells us about a life worth living, and a death worth dying. Verse 21 summarizes it,” For to me to live is Christ, and to

Philippians 1:12-18 View this week’s worship guide Try to put yourself in the shoes of our brothers and sisters in Philippi. The man who planted your church has now been arrested and will face Caesar. It is no shock that they are scared and shaken. Paul here will let them know, you are shaken, you

Philippians 1:9-11

Philippians 1:3-8 View this week’s worship guide In Philippians 1:3-8, Paul displays his vibrant communion with Christ, and his personal love for the Philippian community, which results in his “alien like joy.” Though Paul doesn’t mention “joy” in each of the following verses, the tone is one of joy. The phrase in verse 4 “with

Philippians 1:1-2; Acts 16 View this week’s worship guide Just how relevant is this letter? Let me ask you some questions, “Where are you going to find meaning and purpose in life?” Welcome to Philippians. Paul says, “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21, ESV). Do you need

Luke 24 View this week’s worship guide This is our last week of our mini-study in Luke. We have been looking at Jesus’ ministry to people; how he befriended tax collectors, prostitutes, etc; and how we tells us to practice hospitality to outsiders. Luke 24 is about the resurrection. Jesus eats with his disciples after he

Luke 19:1-9 View this week’s worship guide This passage today is about the God’s saving purposes in Christ Jesus. Full disclosure, ultimately Jesus wants to seek and save the lost. That’s what Jesus’ mission is about. God’s glory is the goal, and seeking and saving of the lost is getting at that goal. God put a

Luke 14:12-24 View this week’s worship guide What are some of your favorite meals of all time? I don’t just mean the food, but the occasion. The experience? Deep within us, we all long for good food and drink with family and friends, in which there’s conversation, joy and love. When someone passes, it’s what

Luke 7:34-8:3 View this week’s worship guide To do hospitality you don’t need a big house, or a big bank account, or a big personality; you need a big heart. You need a heart set free by grace. You need a heart set free to love others the way Jesus has loved you. This passage

Luke 5:27-32 View this week’s worship guide What is the main idea in this text? Jesus seeks out the despised as objects of God’s Grace, and we as His people, the church, are to go and do likewise! So this is the simple message today: follow Jesus giving Him all you have and invite others

Matthew 6:19-34 View this week’s worship guide

Ruth 4:1-22 View this week’s worship guide

Ruth 3:1-18 View this week’s worship guide Here in chapter 3 God demonstrates his amazing Loving-Kindness by providentially providing for and protecting His people who cling to Him by faith through a Redeemer! What is striking in this book is that this providential care of Yahweh over Israel isn’t done through signs or magnificent miracles

Ruth 2:1-23

Ruth 1:1-22 View this week’s worship guide Here in Ruth, two unlikely people get together Boaz, a Bethlehemite, and Ruth, the Moabite widow. Boaz is the gentleman, who looks a lot like Jesus. He extends kindness and justice to her, and Ruth becomes one of the mothers of Jesus, appearing in the genealogy of Matthew.

1 Timothy 6:11-21 View this week’s worship guide We have Paul’s finals words in this letter to his young friend, but as we know these words are not just for Timothy. They are for us so that we will know how we ought to behave in the household of God! Thus, Paul now concludes with this

1 Timothy 6:3-10 View this week’s worship guide The two main points we see in this passage is that we are to avoid false teaching by pursuing sound teaching and to avoid greed by being satisfied in Christ. We must realize that only Christ alone with satisfy our hearts, not more stuff. We must be

1 Timothy 5:1-6:2 View this week’s worship guide How should we treat widows (v. 3), in regard to elders (17), in regard to employers (6:1), and while not used in 1-2, it is implied in the way we treat older people, and sisters? So the question is how do we treat people in the household

1 Timothy 4:1-16 View this week’s worship guide One of my favorite phrases is: “Theology leads to biography.” “Your beliefs drive your behavior.” In this passage, we see two competing sets of beliefs, two sets of teachers, and consequently, two different ways to live. Paul concluded chapter 3 saying that the truth is “the pillar

1 Timothy 3:14-16 View this week’s worship guide The text today address a topic that has been minimized or neglected in American Christianity, that being the importance of the church. So if you are new to this whole thing you should check out what the Bible says (not culture or tradition) about the Church, and

1 Timothy 2:8-3:13 View this week’s worship guide What we see in the text of 1 Timothy 2:8-3:13 is Paul telling Timothy what is needed in the household of God from the people of God. As a local church we need Godly men and women,faithful overseers & deacons, and ministering members. The good news is

1 Timothy 2:1-7 View this week’s worship guide As we enter in to the text today I really only have one point. Pray for and proclaim the gospel to all people because there is only one way to peace with God. Another way to see it is that a gospel-centered Christian living as an exile

1 Timothy 1:12-20 View this week’s worship guide In this section of 1 Timothy, Paul gets personally caught up in the controversy, which he has been addressing. He speaks of the false teachers, and contrasts their substitute message with the “gospel of the glory of the blessed God” (1:11). This leaves him in wonder at