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Published March 1, 2011

Hezekiah & Sennacherib

This is our third week in our series of Great Battles of the Bible. We started off with the Sunday school classic – Joshua and the battle of Jericho. Then we looked at the not so familiar story of Jonathan & his armor bearer taking on the Philistines. Now today we are looking at a story that again, isn’t one of the more popular Bible storybook battles, but I think it’s a story that give us some good insight as to who God is and how we are to respond to Him.

So if you want to follow along in your Bibles, we’ll be starting in 2 Kings chapter 18, but I’ll warn you right off the bat, it’s a pretty long story. Its about 74 verses in all – so I’m just going to be reading the key verses – perhaps you’ll want to read all the details later.

But for now, let’s start at 2 Kings, chapter 18, verse 5.

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Published February 17, 2011

Jonathan, His Armour-bearer, Six Hundred Men with Pitchforks…And God.

Last week we began a new sermon series – Great Battles of the Bible – because the Bible is just chucked-full of battle stories. We started off with a Sunday school favorite – Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. But this week, we’re going to get off the beaten trail a little bit and tackle a story that you’ve probably heard, but it’s not one of those Sunday School classics.

It all starts just a short while after King Saul is made the first king of Israel.

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Published February 9, 2011

Joshua & the Battle of Jericho

Over the next few weeks for our morning message time, I want to tell you some stories. Walter always says “Sit down and tell us a story – it doesn’t have to be true.” Well, these ones are true – although some of them are so fantastic, that you might think I’m just making them up. But they are true, because they are found in the Bible.

You see, the Bible is an amazing story. Its the story of the Almighty, everlasting God interacting with the people that He created. And in the Bible we find a huge variety of different kinds of stories. There is a genre for everyone.

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Published January 4, 2011

The Problem & Purpose of… Stuff

We’ve nearly made it. We started our Call of Duty series eight weeks ago with the purpose of discovering some of our responsibilities as Christians. And as we’ve looked at the book of First Timothy, we’ve found a wide variety of instructions that Paul had written to Timothy and that are now applicable to us.

For example, you’ll remember that we learned that we have a responsibility to pray for our community – and especially for those in places of authority.

We talked about our responsibilities as men and women – and about our responsibilities as elders and deacons in the church.

And last week we talked about our responsibilities to our families and to those in our community who have no family to care for them.

So there have been a lot of things to absorb over these past eight weeks, but I trust that you’ve been challenged as we’ve been reminded of some of our responsibilities and then further challenged as we try to live up to the responsibilities that God has given us.

So if you’re ready for one more challenge today as we conclude this series, let’s pray together before looking at the last chapter of First Timothy.

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Published January 4, 2011

Living in the Light of the Truth

When I was a kid in a Christian school, as part of the curriculum I had to memorize different Bible verses. And one of those verse was Ephesians 4:25 – which says (in the Old King James Version) “Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor:” And so this morning I want to start off by doing just that. I want everyone to turn to your neighbor who’s sitting beside you and I want you to “speak every man truth to your neighbor.” Tell them at least one thing about yourself that is 100% absolutely true.

Well, this morning we are going to be looking at a passage in 1 Timothy that talks about truth and how we are to live in light of that truth. We are in the bottom part of chapter 3 of first Timothy as we look at our responsibilities as Christians in this Call of Duty sermon series. So why don’t we pray together and then get started at verse 14.

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Published November 30, 2010

Taking Care of Our Family

This morning we’re tackling a fairly large portion of Scripture – 27 verses in all. On average, we’ve usually been looking at about 8 verses on any given Sunday. So why such a huge portion today? The reason I decided to preach on all 27 verses is because all of these verses revolve around a single theme, although at first glance, you may not think so. Our sermon title for today is “Taking Care of the Family” because that’s exactly what Paul is telling us to in this passage today. Over the past month or so, we’ve been looking in 1 Timothy at our responsibilities as Christians – our “Call of Duty” if you will. And in these 27 verses, Paul lays out for Timothy and us, exactly what our responsibilities are towards others in our family – both our physical family and our spiritual family.

Now since we’ve already heard the whole passage once as read by our different readers, I won’t go through the whole thing again now. But I’ll try to hit some key verses and dig out four main lessons and then I’ll leave you to work through the rest this week at home.

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