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These Podcasts are recordings of pastor Mark's weekly sermon messages.
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For Sunday, we will walk through Hebrews 10-12. Highlighting the foundation, nature, and expressions of faith in God. If you could read these three verses and follow the flow of teaching. make note of the movements, how the writer moves from here to there and builds on the understanding of faith. After reading and following the flow of teaching there, what would you say is FAITH?
Does Jesus have authority over our lives? The Old and New Testament are filled with instruction, wisdom, guidance on what it looks like for Jesus to have authority over our lives. Are we cooperative with God in this work of transformation and renewal of God making all things new for our thoughts, attitudes, desires, words, and actions?
Do you believe in the resurrection? It's an astounding belief. Easy to doubt and be skeptical, for we know that 'dead means dead.' And to believe in the resurrection is to believe that there has only been one exception to the truth, 'dead means dead.' The claims of Jesus.
Texts for Sunday: Job 9:33 and John 3:1-26 Hermetic principles. Been looking into this. Much information available from quick searches that tie this notion to 'mentalism' or eastern religions. Yet, there are deep themes around it that resonate with a Biblical Worldview. After all, 'creation sings, around me rings, the music of the spheres'. After all, everything was created by God, by God's design, and so, we human beings are always observing God's world leading us to create theories about God's world, sometimes accurate, sometimes not so much. Again, God's design for us, in His image, to engage such things.
As we continue to understand the love of God for us through what the Bible reveals as justification, atonement, redemption, and reconciliation, and the like, we further understand the purpose of our lives.
This Sunday we celebrate communion, have our fellowship meal post potluck, and welcome Pastor Dave Beelen, friend, mentor, and colleague of Mark and Deone, who will bring the message this Sunday. As we continue in our discipleship message series, the message will focus on our identity in Baptism!
Atonement: Do you ever wonder about all the animal sacrifices in the Old Testament? Why all the shedding of blood? What is the purpose of all the priestly roles of the Levites for God's people? Many have difficulty seeing the forest through the trees with these things... Let's come together Sunday, seek God together, ask for an epiphany.
The new year has come and looking forward to our intentional return to our discipleship journey as we transition from 'things are not the way they are supposed to be' to the 'now of Christ but not fully yet.'
God demonstrates his love for the world by sending his (willing) Son to bring salvation to humanity - more than that, to the ends of the earth! It began with God's Son taking on humanity (fully human and fully God), becoming incarnate in the flesh. Why would God do this, become this?
God's salvation in CHRIST is COSMIC and it looks alot like JOY. I've been thinking about this; a big thing in a small package. Jesus' coming was unbelievably small and by all indications insignificant - a small town called Bethlehem, born out back away from the inn, placed in a manger... yet, this was God's plan. The Son of God came to us incarnate, born as a vulnerable little baby. And babies are small packages. Yet, this was a big 'happening' with a cosmic effect.
Sunday is Advent week two, a focus on Peace. In Isaiah 52, the prophet Isaiah speaks of a coming Savior, who will bring salvation, and this salvation will go out to the ends of the earth. What does this mean?
Sunday is the 1st Sunday of Advent 2025, a great day to turn the page! For in the fullness of time, God stepped into time, at just the right time, to redeem ALL time! As Galatians 4:4 says, "When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under the law, so that we might be adopted as God's children."
Let's meditate on the foolishness of sin this Sunday. Simply do a search of the book of Proverbs and you will have all the wisdom needed to wrap your head and heart around the foolishness of sin.
Diving in, to sin - it's understanding, reality, and scope. Sunday we wrap our heads around the doctrine of TOTAL DEPRAVITY. Now lest you roll your eyes, you need to try it on for size. My renewed look into this doctrine of the church provides a firm Biblical foundation for another doctrine, one called GRACE.
Diving in to sin... last week, we saw in Scripture the understanding of sin as the breaking of God's SHALOM. God's command of love (of God and our neighbor) is broken everyday in multiple ways. This week, we dive deeper into sin by exploring sin as missing the mark.
We are turning a page, a rather significant one. We move from Genesis 1-2 to Genesis 3. And so many things change. God nor his love changes, we change. As sin enters the world, we begin to realize that 'things aren't the way they are supposed to be.' We begin to struggle in so many ways as sin affects (infects) every aspect of human existence.
What's so special about the 7th day of the week (Sunday)? Or is it the 1st day of the week (Sunday?) How do you see it? In Scripture, God sees the 7th day as an unbelievable day of joy, rest, play, and beauty! The Sabbath Day is closely associated with another Hebrew work 'SHALOM.'
Everyone has a worldview. What is yours? I'm keen on the Biblical worldview because it speaks so much truth into our reality. Both the good and the bad of this life are contained in it. The best expression of our present reality is found in the Biblical worldview.
Following Jesus... What do we need to know? What is it we believe? How are we to live? Questions... I'm so thankful for the revelation of God in both the universe/creation/physical world and in Scripture.
What does it mean to follow Jesus? How does it look?
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