Numbers 25; The scene from Numbers 22-24 shifts from Balaam speaking to king Balak of Moab, to the Israelite camp where a serious sin issue has arisen. Balaam slyly advised Balak to use the temple prositutes at the shrine on Peor to entice Israel’s men to both sexual and spiritual adultery. The Lord’s righteous anger […]
Numbers 24:15-25; The Balaam saga concludes with several oracles from Yahweh-God concerning future events for Israel and surrounding nations. King Balak is informed that a future leader of Israel would crush his nation, along with the Edomites and Amalekites. Also, an revelation concerning the rise of the Assyrian kingdom and a long view of the […]
Numbers 23:27-24:14; Returning to our ongoing Light and Darkness series with the third round of sacrifices by pagan King Balak of Moab to try and rid his region of Israel. Balaam the seer is attempting to walk the thin line of appeasing an earthly king while obeying the far superior instruction of Almighty God. The […]
Luke 8:26-39; Following the concluding message from Ephesians 6 on the armor of God, we are examining an example of Jesus confronting the powers of evil. Demon possession is a daunting topic in a world that either denies or ignores malevolent spiritual beings, but Scripture reports thier existence as a reality. Not only can possessed […]
Ephesians 6:10-20; Paul concludes his letter to the Church in Ephesus by instructing them on the intense nature of spiritual warfare. He makes it very clear that our battle is “not against flesh and blood”, so it is absolutely necessary for believers in Christ to “put on the full armor of God”. Repeatedly Paul urges […]
Ephesians 6:5-9; After addressing individual Christian conduct, Paul shifted to relationships in the church by introducing the term “submit”. From there he expanded to the home, where proper husband-wife and parent-children interactions were clearly established. The final area of Christian conduct was master-servant relationships, how we treat one another as image bearers of God in […]
Ephesians 5:28-6:4; This message is as a continuation (or part II) of the previous sermon on biblical instruction for husband-wife relationships in the home. Paul challenges the wife to submit to her husband, then coaches the husband to love his wife “just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her“. The passage […]
Ephesians 5:21-27; Paul transitions from instruction on personal christian conduct to the church and home. Repeatedly Paul emphasizes the powerful term “submit” to describe how believers and family members must yield to the God-given authority above them.
Select gospel passages: Mother’s Day is a commemoration of the sacrifice and care our mothers selflessly invested to raise us as Christ following adults. Our focus today is an overview of the bibilical references of Mary, the special lady that God chose to bear His Son.
Ephesians 5:1-14; Paul begins his third set of directives on appropriate Christian living with an exhortation to “Follow God’s example….and walk in the way of love”. The Apostle abruptly shifts tone by addressing sexual immorality, impurity, greed, obscenity, foolish talk and coarse joking as behaviors which are completely unbecoming of a believer in Christ. These […]