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Week 1 of "The DNA of our Faith." DNA = Doctrines Necessary for Application. Acts 17 shows us a mission, a method and a message that all relate to God’s nature. Key Verse: Acts 17:22-24 (‘84 NIV); various others

Week 6 of "Fundamentals of Christian Discipleship." Unfortunately, evangelism is often a scary subject for Christians. You must be convinced your faith in Christ is genuine and that His love, sacrifice, and atonement are the true source of eternal salvation. Key Verse: Matthew 4:18-19; 2 Corinthians 5:14-15; Daniel 12:3; various

Week 5 of "Fundamentals of Christian Discipleship." What is true Christian fellowship and why is it important? Key Verse: Acts 2:42; Hebrews 10:24-25

Week 4 of "Fundamentals of Christian Discipleship." To all fruitful branches drawing their life from the vine, the Lord makes the incredible promise of answered prayer. Let’s look at prerequisites for answered prayers and His purpose for answered prayer. Key Verse: John 15:5-7; various

The American veteran was willing to give his life for you to have freedom on earth. God was willing to give the life of His only son, Jesus Christ, for you to have freedom from sin and life eternal with Him. Key Verse: John 3:16

Week 3 of "Fundamentals of Christian Discipleship." The Word of God is powerful and vital to our spiritual life. Open it! Consume it! Use it! Key Verse: 2 Timothy 3:16-17; Various

Week 2 of "Fundamentals of Christian Discipleship." Obedience is the key to every aspect of the Christian life. Nothing will more radically change your life than becoming an obedient Christian. Key Verse: John 14:21

Week 1 of "Fundamentals of Christian Discipleship." Our calling is not just to baptize, but to equip all believers to be fully devoted, self-feeding, reproducing Christ followers. Key Verse: Galatians 2:20

Week 2 of "Wine and Women." Culture has a massive moral deficit - Adultery. We will look at the peril, penalties and prevention of adultery. Key Verse: Proverbs 5, Proverbs 4, and other Scriptures.

Week 1 of "Wine and Women." All of our backgrounds color both our view of others and unfortunately of what the Bible actually says. Any intoxication, drunkenness, being out of control, is always sinful and strictly forbidden, not just in Proverbs but throughout Scripture. Let’s look at 7 Proverbial principles about wine and believers. Key Verse: Various

Week 4 of "Wisdom for Relationships." Key Verse:  Multiple (or various) Scriptures.

Week 2 of "Wisdom for Relationships." According to the book of Proverbs, the way in which we respond to those in authority says a lot about our relationship with God and determines how we are going to treat others.  Let’s look at 4 truths about authority and how God expects us to respond. Key Verse:   Multiple (or various) Scriptures.

“ Come” to the Church, to its teachings and foundation of where your spiritual life began. “Go” into the world: to save the lost, to serve, and to set a proper example. Our job is to bring people and God together. We need to fix our eyes on Jesus: be clear-minded, have a clear vision, and clear speech. Key Verse:  2 Corinthians chapter 5

Week 1 of "Wisdom for Relationships." A relationship with God always starts with a proper understanding of who He is, as He has revealed Himself to be. A look at God’s character and sovereign nature. Key Verse:   Multiple (or various) Scriptures.

Week 4 of "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Families."

Week 3 of "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Families." The image of grandparents has certainly changed over the years, but the importance of grand-parenting has not. Key Verse: Proverbs 16:31; Job 12:12; Proverbs 17:6

Week 2 of "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Families." No job on earth is more important than parenting. Parental success or failure impacts not only the eternity of a child, but generations. Parenting is hard! We will not be perfect! We will make mistakes and when we do...err on the side of love. Key Verse: Lots of Scripture; 1 Peter 4:8

Week 1 of "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Families." Proverbs mentions 4 blessings God wants for all married couples. Let’s identify these blessings and some of the specific things Proverbs says we can do to receive them. Key Verse: Proverbs 5

Week 4 of "Wisdom on Leadership." King Lemuel’s mother gives him three stern warnings about how all good leaders must live. How exactly do we heed these warnings? Key Verse: Proverbs 31:1-9; Deuteronomy 6:6-7

Week 3 of "Wisdom on Leadership." A vision is a compelling picture of what could be and the power of a shared vision is immeasurable. Key Verse: Proverbs 29:18

Week 2 of "Wisdom on Leadership." Thinking about the qualifications of elder people tend to go to 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1, but we need to understand…every quality listed in those two chapters applies to every Christian. Prerequisites for leaders in Proverbs…these truths apply to every husband, parent, pastor, teacher, coach, governor, general and manager. Key Verse: several

(Memorial Day) America is involved in a cultural war right now.  It’s a war between Biblical Christianity and secular humanism.  We need to be like the men of Issachar described in 1 Chronicles 12:32, “men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do--200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command;” Key Verse: Lamentations 5:21-22.

Week 1 of "Wisdom on Leadership." Every relationship and social group to which we might belong requires leadership. Every marriage and family, every community group, every church, school, business, and nation will rise or fall on its leadership. So we all need to understand how leaders and leadership work best. Today I will lay the foundation for our study with 4 general facts about leadershi...

Happy Mothers Day! Moms, the most important thing that you will ever do is to teach your children to “Love the Lord their God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength.” Let’s look at 3 priorities every Christian mother must both model and teach her children (actually these are 3 essential priorities for all of us). Key Verse: Matthew 7:7-8; 1 John 5:14-15; Hebrews 11:6; 1 John 5:3

Week 8 of "Wisdom’s Fight Card." God is the standard for justice. Justice is whatever is right or lawful in the sight of the eternal lawgiver. The truth is none of us truly wants God’s justice in our lives because we are all sinners. What we want is Justification--standing before God’s law ‘just as if we’d never sinned’. Through Jesus, His son, God offers His justification to all who will put thei...