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Find Your Center

24 Sep 2020

FIND YOUR CENTER Deuteronomy 6 1 Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, 2 so that you and your children and your children’s children may...

Feels Like Home

17 Sep 2020

FEELS LIKE HOME Exodus 2: 11-16; 3:7-14 2:11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsfolk. 12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he killed the...

Contending with God

10 Sep 2020

CONTENDING WITH GOD Genesis 32: 22-31 22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24 Jacob was...

Surely the Lord is in This Place

03 Sep 2020

SURELY THE LORD IS IN THIS PLACE Genesis 28:10-17 10 Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran. 11 He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. 12...

Laughing in Dismay and Laughing with Joy

31 Aug 2020

LAUGHING IN DISMAY AND LAUGHING WITH JOY Genesis 18:9-15 “I will surely return to you in due season, and your wife Sarah shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah...

Safety and Sufficiency

19 Aug 2020

SAFETY AND SELF SUFFICIENCY Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect. Genesis 11:31-12:9 11:31-32 Terah took...

Pray Unceasingly

14 Aug 2020

PRAY UNCEASINGLY James 5:13-20 13 Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. 14 Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the...

Discovering What Really Matters

06 Aug 2020

DISCOVERING WHAT REALLY MATTERS James 4 Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? 2 You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so...

Choose to be Bridled

31 Jul 2020

CHOOSE TO BE BRIDLED James 3 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is perfect, able to keep the whole...

Live Like You’re Loved

24 Jul 2020

LIVE LIKE YOU’RE LOVED JAMES 2 My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ?2 For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in,...

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