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Ps 119:9-11 How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word. 10 With all my heart I have sought You; Do not let me wander from Your commandments. 11 Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not sin against You. 12 Blessed are You, O Lord; Teach me Your statutes. 13 With my lips I have told of All the ordinances of Your mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of Y...

Phil 2:12-13: So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. 1 Timothy 4:7: But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpos...

Matthew 7:21-23: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Make it Count Noah, Noah (Bill Rotar) by Steve Rhodes

This Will Be a Sign Unto You…the Ordinary Shepherds Meet the Extraordinary Angels (Luke 2:8-14)

This was a meditation on the Gospel following the children's program

Jesus Gives Us Peace Joy and Love by Steve Rhodes

Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:1-6

Isa 7:14: Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Matt 1:23: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).

Numbers 24:17: God speaks through a pagan prophet

Hosea 11:1 Matthew 2:15

Give thanks (Bill Rotar) by Steve Rhodes

Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” Gal 4:4: 4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, Matt 1:23: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which...

2 Chron. 26

2 Kings 5:15-27

2 Kings 5:1-14

1 Chron 4:9-10: Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.” 10 Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm that it may not pain me!” And God granted him what he requested.

The Kingdom Divides(1 Kings12)

Absalom, the Son Who Led the Insurrection (2 Samuel 13-18)

Abigail 1 Sam 25

A sermon on Saul from 1 Samuel 15 https://pastorsteverhodes.com/2019/09/08/saul-did-not-seek-the-lord-1-samuel-15/

1 Samuel 3

Joshua 7:

Gen 25:19-34: Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham became the father of Isaac; 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. 21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord answered him and Rebekah his wife co...

Genesis 12:1-5: Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you; 2 And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; 3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the eart...