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1 Timothy 1:3-11 View this week’s worship guide The church has been promised to face threats of all kinds, and our text plunges us into a scene already in progress. False teachers, driven by faulty motives, preaching a false gospel are already having an impact on the church at Ephesus. Paul urges Timothy to remain

1 Timothy 1:1-2 View this week’s worship guide While we don’t find everything about the church in 1 Timothy we do find some of the essential aspects of it. So welcome to 1 Timothy. We need this book because God speaks to us through his word, and we gladly submit. We need it because the

Galatians 2:1-14 View this week’s worship guide Though as a church we have moved to a different location our mission and our message has not changed. We see that message here in Galatians 2:1-14. Paul explains that there is only one gospel, and those who believe it should care for the poor and fellowship with

2 Kings 23:31-25:30 View this week’s worship guide

2 Kings 23:31-25:30 View this week’s worship guide As we finish our study, I would like to consider these final chapters, while trying to also reflect on the book of Kings as a whole. I have tried to magnify one dominant theme in the study: We need a better king! Even the best of kings

2 Kings 21:1-23:30 View this week’s worship guide Following the noble reign of Hezekiah, we read of the faithless reign of Manasseh. In the last chapter, we noted how Hezekiah led a reformation, despite having a wicked father (just as Josiah will do). Here we read how Manasseh led the nation into idolatry, despite having

2 Kings 17-20 View this week’s worship guide The good news of the gospel is that you do not have to turn out like your father. If you find this hard to believe, then consider Hezekiah. God raised up this Judean King, while a dark cloud was hanging over the nation, to lead them to

2 Kings 11-16 View this week’s worship guide In the midst of the disobedience and decline of chapters 11-16, there are whispers of this hope. We will focus our attention upon these whispers, while not ignoring the tragic cries of the darkness. We will confine our attention to the reigns of two particular kings: Joash

2 Kings 9-10 View this week’s worship guide This is a really easy section to outline, but a hard section to read for some to read because it is bloody. It is divided into three parts: (1) The Anointing (9:1-13); (2) The Avenging (9:14-10:27); (3) The Assessment (10:28-36). If you scan these sections you can

2 Kings 6:8-8:15 View this week’s worship guide In the following section of Kings, we find some fascinating, tragic, and somewhat comedic stories. You were probably not told about these stories in Sunday School! Many of the stories in Scripture are difficult to understand and stomach, but that does not mean we need to avoid

2 Kings 5-6:7 View this week’s worship guide The glorious message today is that God can overcome the effects of the Fall (whether it’s Skin disease, frustrated Work, or sin) and deliver us from slavery to curse by bringing us through the waters of the Jordan safely into the Promised Land! So Unbeliever here is

2 Kings 3-4 View this week’s worship guide We just finished the biography of Elijah in 2 Kings 2. The larger than life prophet died – well, sort of. He was taken up into heaven in a blaze of glory, and he reappears in the New Testament. Nevertheless he is gone, but his ministry is

2 Kings 1-2 View this week’s worship guide We see the main point in this text are the questions, Is there a God in Israel? Who will they seek? In this passage we will see that the King, and mocking boys look elsewhere besides Yahweh. The answer is that there is one true God we

1 Kings 20 & 22 View this week’s worship guide We live in a world of competing voices, and in one sense since the Garden onward human beings have been given a choice, hear and heed the Word of the Creator or heed the voice of our own desires or the voice of Satan. Ahab

1 Kings 21:1-29 View this week’s worship guide There are four characters in this story: Naboth, Ahab, Jezebel, and Elijah. We read of Ahab’s coveting and sulking, and of Jezebel’s manipulation and destruction. We meet Naboth, the faithful Israelite who models obedience to us. Here is Naboth living just outside the palace of this evil

1 Kings 19:1-21 View this week’s worship guide We have read of Elijah’s mountain top experience at Mount Carmel, but now we see Elijah down in the valley under a broom tree. Before he was ministering to others, but now he is focused upon himself. Elijah confronted Ahab and the false prophets courageously, but here

1 Kings 18:1-46 View this week’s worship guide The main point for us to glean from this passage is to see and know that the Lord is God and that we are to follow Him as our Eternal King. He is the true, perfect, and powerful Sovereign who loves and leads his people with mercy

1 Kings 17:1-24 View this week’s worship guide If you are like me, you will admit that you could and should be spending more time in prayer. What most of us need is not this reminder, but inspiration. That is what we have in Elijah. Elijah’s example inspires me in the exercises of faith and

1 Kings 14:21-16:34 View this week’s worship guide Occasionally you hear truth in strange places. In an episode of The Simpson’s, Homer said of the Bible, “All these people are a mess …. except this one guy.” This reminds us that God can save and use anyone. This also reminds us to not put our

1 Kings 12:1-14:20 View this week’s worship guide Solomon has died and his son is to become King in his place, but as we will see this is the beginning of the split of the nation. Jeroboam is initially seen as a new Moses, however, quickly he goes from being the Moses figure to being

1 Kings 9:10-11:43 View this week’s worship guide Solomon serves as both example and warning. Like Solomon, we must learn how to responsibly steward God’s gifts. We have a sinful tendency to take good things, and use them wrongly. Sex, money, food, and influence are wonderful blessings when used according for God’s glory, but they

1 Kings 6:1-9:9 View this week’s worship guide In these chapters, the uniqueness of God, the faithfulness of God, and holiness of God, the grace of God, the mission of God, the warnings of God, a marvelous prayer, and much more soul-strengthening truths about God’s greatness are set before us. Everyone will worship something or

1 Kings 3:1-5:18 Download the sermon notes View this week’s worship guide In the opening chapters of Kings, we saw how Solomon’s reign was established. The right king was appointed to the throne, even though some questionable actions were taken. In chapter 3, we see more about the leadership of Solomon, some positive and negative

1 Kings 1-2:46 View this week’s worship guide The story of Kings in a word is this: decline. Seeds of decline appear in the beginning part of the story, then that decline takes on different appearances throughout the book. The book opens like many books actually end, with the leading figure dying. This is fitting

Acts 2:41-47 View this week’s worship guide In Acts 1 you have a picture of a rising Kingdom,and just verses before the ones we are studying the Spirit has come in power and what we will see now is a rising kingdom, a kingdom that will advance through little outposts called the church. It is