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The marriage supper of the lamb is a biblical picture of the joy-filled fellowship which awaits God’s people. In Revelation 19:6–9, we get a vision of a rejoicing heavenly multitude and the four reasons they overflow with praise to God on that occasion. 1. The Almighty God reigns! He has conquered every enemy. (1 Corinthians 15:54–57) 2. The marriage of the lamb, a glorious groom, is finally here!...

Pure Delight! In heaven, our capacity to behold and receive God’s glory will be different. When we experience God’s glory, our own will pale in comparison. Self will seem microscopic and insignificant in light of God’s glory, not because people do not matter, but because we will see the God whose image we bear. Worship will be unfiltered as faith becomes sight, and our capacity to take in God’s gl...

In John 14:1–3 Jesus speaks of leaving his disciples to prepare the way for them, and they are troubled. He responds by calling them to believe in him and to believe in God. As he calls them to believe, he is also calling them to relationship with himself. He calls them to replace their troubled hearts with hearts of faith. He promises he is going to prepare a place for them. He will take them to...

Heaven is about God, his sovereignty over all things, and his being our God and we living as his people. In other words, we will be present with God!  In Revelation, God through John shows that the promises he made in Genesis, and throughout all of scripture, are coming true for his people! Most spectacularly, all the hurts that we have committed or have been committed against us will be redeemed,...

This week we asked this question about our destination: “Will heaven be our home? How do we get there? How can we know?” We began by going back to the Old Testament story of the bronze serpent being lifted up on a pole in order that whoever looked at the serpent would be cured. Jesus, like the bronze serpent, is our source of healing. He's the cure from the poison of sin and from the wrath of God....

Women's Ministry welcomes guest speaker Pastor Sam Crabtree to introduce our study on Heaven.

Lydia Sandquist and Nora Byers from Monday night MOMS share how God has steadfastly loved and kept them as they have trusted steadfastly in him.

Heidi Brazis gives us some patterns of daily living that help toward loving and respecting our husbands and living with humility.

Job's Confession & Restoration | Job 42 1—RESPONSE (Job 42:1–6)     A—RECOGNIZE God’s wonderful ways, power and purposes (v1–4)     B—RENEWED VISION (v5)     C—REPENTANCE (v6) 2—REBUKE and RECONCILIATION (Job 42:7–9) 3—RESTORATION (Job 42:10–17) And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, st...

“Tween Age” Pastor Ben shares about discipling late youth/early teens and how to connect well with them.

God SPEAKS! And God CREATED it all and CONTROLS it all, even Behemoth and Leviathan. 1-The world is more terrifying and terrible than we think (Ephesians 6:12) and utterly beyond our control. But God is infinitely more aware of the suffering/injustice/wickedness in the world than we are. We can trust HIM 2- God is so much greater than we realize. We can trust HIM 3-Submit to God’s wise plan/purpos...

As we reach Job 32, we come to a turning point. After three cycles of argumentation, Job’s three friends—Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar—have finally run out of words. Job himself has offered his final rebuttal and a searching reflection on wisdom. He has grieved the loss of his days of sweet fellowship with God and man and grieved the stark reversal of his life. And in chapter 31 he has searched his...

In Job’s last testimony, he longingly gazes at the past where he and those under his care flourished under the friendship of God. He bitterly glares at the present where he seems to be suffering the judgment of God, and he hopefully glimpses the future where he boldly approaches God like a prince, robed in righteousness and crowned with justice. In Jesus, we have a righteousness greater than Job’s...

In these chapters we see that the all-wise Creator God does not disclose all his ways to his creatures (Job 28:23). His wisdom is hidden from view, as a cloudy sky keeps us from seeing the stars. But the limits of our perspective do not limit God’s wisdom, justice, or goodness. And Job knows God, even though he doesn’t know why he suffers so.  And the apparent contradiction of Job’s life provides...

As we study Job's conversations and musings in this particular part of the book, we find him growing in hope and confidence that God will hear and vindicate him (23:6–7, 10); we discover a man who treasures God and his Words above great wealth and fine feasts (23:11–12); and we see a godly man grappling with his own inability to fully comprehend the transcendent God (26). But we also find a man wh...

In Round 2 (Job 15–21) of the speech dialogues, we saw highlights of hope and lowlights of despair, how these chapters point to Jesus, our Redeemer and the living hope HE offers. Because our Redeemer ever lives and intercedes for us, he will be that witness who stands up for us, pleading on our behalf, testifying that we have HIS righteousness when we are IN him. He is our advocate! Job longed for...

Job seeks God with his whole heart despite the many obstacles Satan plants in his path. Grief and pain obscure the way while slanderous friends darken it with poor counsel. But even in the storm of his deep trial, Job stumbles (as it might seem to our human perspective) on some deep truths about his big God—truths such as: God ordains suffering for the righteous, man needs an arbiter between him a...

Are worry and anxiety your frequent companions? Do you feel guilty about being anxious so often? Do you worry about how well you are raising your child? Do you get anxious about your child’s anxiety? After almost seven decades of battling anxiety, raising a couple of anxious kids, and 10 years of serving as a biblical counselor, Carol Shares what the Lord has taught her through her own and others’...

The lament that Job offers up in Job 3 can be divided into two sections by noting the parallelism in the Hebrew poetry. The first section is marked by the repetition of the word “let” throughout (verses 3-10), and the second section is marked by the repetition of the word “Why” (v.11-26). The “Let” section functions as a curse in retrospect that mourns Job’s birth; the “Why” section mourns that Go...

Like Job, we may never know the reasons for our suffering. When we don’t understand God’s ways, trust His sovereign wisdom, goodness, love and mercy.   Setting the Stage: Shattered by Suffering  (Job 1-2 overview) Character (1:1-5) Job’s circumstances, character, family, family, wealth Catastrophes (1:6-2:10) Test #1 (1:6-22) The LORD and Satan Disasters Job’s response Test #2 (2:1-10) The LORD an...

Keith and Lori Eveland help us to see the steadfastness of God when life — and marriage — are hard.

This episode begins with an introduction to our Women's Bible Study ministry at The North Church by Pam Larson. Then Dr. Cristian Rata joins us to present a very helpful introduction and overview of the Book of Job, giving us helpful insights which lay a good groundwork for our upcoming study.

Share the Feast: Teaching Your Children to Delight in God’s Word MOMS January 22, 2024 In Deuteronomy 6, God tells parents, "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. …" But how do we do this in 21st century America? Listen and learn...

Catherine Hoffman encourages our hearts to see and trust the goodness of Christ in the journey of motherhood!

Making Room for Her (Mother/Daughter-in-law Relationships) With the Bible as our foundation, we'll explore how the Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law relationship can thrive even in the midst of difficulty.