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WTF: Where’s The Faith? Faith is important to God.  6 And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. HEBREWS 11:6 God is ALWAYS clear about what’s important to Him. 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not...

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, ROMANS 1:16 “Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the be...

Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before. 5 John baptized with[b] water, but in just a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” ACTS 1:4-5 1 CORINTHIANS 2:10-16  Essential: of the utmost importance: basic, indispensable, necessary. Indispensable: absolutely necessary THE HOLY SPIR...

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, ROMANS 1:16 SIT DOWN. BE HUMBLE. This reveals Paul’s heart. In a sophisticated city like Rome, some might be embarrassed by a gospel centered on a crucified Jewish Savior and embraced by the lowest classes of people – but Paul is not ashamed. - GUZIK SIMPLE IS POWERFUL. 1 This letter is from Paul...

What is our Purpose? Purpose Over Popularity SLIDE #4::  24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 25 He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward...

2 CORINTHIANS 5:16-21 THE BEST SQUAD IS AN AVAILABLE SQUAD.  18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him . WORLDLY CULTURE: YOUR ROLE IS TIED TO ABILITY GOD’S NOT LOOKING FOR ABILITY. HE’S LOOKING FOR AVAILABILITY. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him . So we are Christ’s am...

The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray. DREAM TEAM. YOU DON’T GO AS FAR AS YOUR DREAM. YOU GO AS FAR AS YOUR TEAM. YOU ARE CALLED TO WIN.  “I DON’T JUST NEED FRIENDS TO HANG WITH, I NEED A SQUAD TO BUILD WITH.” The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray. PROVERBS 12:26 THE BOOK OF GALATIANS MAIN GOAL...

LUKE 19:1-10  I’LL GO FIRST.   Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble. PROVERBS 13:20  MYTH #1: FRIENDS ARE MEANT TO MEET MY NEEDS. 18 At the moment I have all I need—and more! I am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with Epaphroditus. They are a sweet-smelling sacrifice that is acceptable and pleasing to God. 19 And this same God who takes care of...

Hall of Fame: A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or animals, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their fame in their field. 13 All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth. 14 O...

12 For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. HEBREWS 4:12 “TALK TO YOURSELF” Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil. 2 For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry. (I feel you,...

LUKE 8:4-8  “GUARDING SOIL LUKE 8:9-10 Assumptions block connection.  If you don’t understand the key to the parable, you don’t understand it at all. We can imagine what different people in Jesus’ audience might have thought when He taught this parable with no explanation. The farmer thought, “He’s telling me that I have to be more careful in the way I cast my seed. I guess I have wasted an awful...

“The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, ‘ Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?’” GENESIS 3:1 Apologetics: reasoned arguments or writings in justification of something, typically a theory or religious doctrine YOU HAVE AN ENEMY.  “IT’S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE IS AND WHY YOU CAN R...

27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: JOHN 10:27  “IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO FOLLOW JESUS WITHOUT HIS WORD.” JOHN 6:53-69 BECOMING STUDENTS OF THE WORD. Student: any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully  60 Many of his disciples said, “This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?” 61 Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining, so he s...

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness 2 TIMOTHY 3:16 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. ISAIAH 40:8 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning...

Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. Mark 6:5 he could do no mighty work there Mark 6 : 4 And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without here it is honor , except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”  #1 Honor First Proverbs 3:6 In everything you do, put God first , and he wil...

we seek to put the person of God in everything we do.  As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed. 3 So Moses thought, “I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn’t the bush burning up?” 4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered. 5 “Do not come closer,” he said. “Remove...

YOUR DAD IS NOT LIKE DADDY GOD Matthew 7:7–11 ESV 7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you th...

GENESIS 22:1-14 (CSB)   PROVISION IS SEEING A NEED AND MEETING A NEED.  And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. PHILLIPIANS 4:19 GOD PROVIDES… PERIOD. So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told...

22 Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face .” 23 But the Lord said to him, “Peace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die.” 24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace . To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites. JUDGES 6:22...

“We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God… If we were able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, ‘What comes to mind when you think about God?’ We might predict with certainty the spiritual future of that man.”  EXODUS 34:4-7  “Your name was your identity, your destiny, the truth hidden in the marrow of your bones. It was a one-word moniker fo...

But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it. ” 19 “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?” 21 But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own bo...