What is your DREAM? A friend asked me this question and I wasn’t sure how to respond. I thought to myself… Having a beautiful wife, kids, serving God at church and in my community… going to seminary, great job… those are all part of my dream. But she wanted more. What about traveling the world, [...]
Resurrection Bible Study. EASTER Sunday April 4, 2010 The central holiday for the Christian religion and the central point of Christianity is this day where we celebrate the Lord’s death and resurrection. Paul says in 1 Cor. 2:2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. Luke [...]
Sunday School, March 28, 2010 As we approach EASTER, we celebrate one of the more famous Jewish holidays. It is called Passover. Exodus 12:1-30 Every Jewish boy and girl knew this story because God commanded the Jewish people to celebrate the Passover feast every year. They were told to eat unleavened bread, lamb, and put [...]
Biblical Friendship: What is friendship? Define: A trustworthy peer who we mutually choose to lovingly live with by seeking unique access and service for God’s glory and our mutual good. Someone we trust, someone who has good counsel and we can talk to. Peer – same level, spiritually, stage of life… single/married/ parent/child, teacher/student, It [...]
Wisdom – How can I be a wise man? Proverbs 1:20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares; 21 at the head of the noisy streets [c] she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech: 22 “How long will you simple ones [d] [...]
We are nearing the end of MC. This week we looked at the end product. If Christianity is true, then it must necessarily work. Some people lump all Christians together and all non-Christians together and then does some sort of comparison of a random Christian and a random non-Christian. But Lewis points out that is [...]
We had a quick test covering the four circles with a followup on the sermon. We looked at what Lewis considered the Great Sin. It is in the heart that we see the great sin. We hate it in others, but often times we are blind to it in ourselves. It is Pride. It is [...]
We looked at how God is not only interested in our outward expression of our faith, but he is working on us from the inside out. We looked at four cardinal virtues that C.S. Lewis describes: Prudence – common sense, wisdom, discernment Temperance – self-control, Justice – fairness, equal, Fortitude – courage, long-suffering As Christians, [...]
This was Thanksgiving weekend, we started off with sermon response on “abounding in thanksgiving” We reviewed previous lessons leading up to Book III: 1. Law of human nature – All men know it and all men fall short of it 2. Who is behind the law? The law points to some personal being 3. We [...]
We first looked at evil in this world. If God created man, why is man so corrupt? Why is he so “imperfect”? We examined the argument of free will and how God created man with the freedom to choose good or evil. And in man’s freedom, man has chosen that which is opposite God. We [...]