I thought it would be interesting to hear what you heard preached this week.
I know there are denominations where they preach out of a common subject but wouldn’t it be interesting to see what commonalities occurred outside of that?
So…. What did you hear preached this week?
The Baptism of Jesus.
Why, since He was without sin and no need for repentance?To identify with sinners, fulfill all righteousness.
Our’s was about how to overcome doubt while waiting on God.
Zechariah 7, about the difference between memorials just because of tradition and actually MEANING it.
Love hearing about others sermons.
We started a series last week called “The Greatness of God”, talking about His attributes. Last week was God’s Independence and today’s was about God being Unchangeable.
2Corinthians 10, Ephesians 6, and Matthew 5. The sermon was about how our battle is not against flesh and blood and the position do we need to be in to use the full armor of God.
Incredibly-- our church has been studying the book of Revelation. Most churches shy away.
Sept 15 2024
Matt 4: 1-11
Luke 4:1-13
Heb 2:18
Every Christian needs a good, working knowledge of the Bible to handle temptation
Fasting and prayer work to defeat temptation, shame, and guilt. Shopping, entertainment, sports do not.
Jesus prayed and fasted. His knowledge of scriptures rebuked and defeated Satans efforts to cause Him to sin.
Why give in to Satans deceit when we get all through God’s promises?
We must fight Satan and flesh.
Our minister preached about the importance of being careful with what we say.
Bible Verses:
James 3:1-13, Isaiah 29:13, Psalm 32:9, Matthew 12:34-37, Proverbs 16:27, 1 Peter 3:10
The series “Beyond Measure - The Greatness of God” continued focusing on the fact that God is infinite. We have a hard time fathoming this because we live in time and space.
Our church started a new series called Zechariah: Prepare to Meet Your God. We read Zechariah 1:1-17 and talked about the meaning of his prophetic dream. Ultimately, our pastor connected it to how we can have peace in knowing God is full of justice and mercy. As we’ve grown desensitized to the suffering happening in the world, he called us to the responsibility of praying for those in broken situations and trusting God with things outside of our control. The ultimate calling is to be ambassadors of His mercy, even to people we disagree with and especially in such a tumultuous political time.
9/15/2024
Our sermon was titled “Do we Care Enough to C.A.R.E?”
Compassionately
Actively
Relationally
Engage
It was based off of the parable of the good Samaritan (Luke 10).
The importance of the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer being “Our Father”
Sept 22nd
The God of hope Rom. 25:13.
What or who is your source of hope?
Christians are hopeful people
Biblical hope is not the trivial kind
Expectations of God’s promises fulfilled are powerful
Benedictions are powerful community prayers -blessings on the children of God.
Let’s hear it! What was the meaning of his dream?
Dreams are my fav.
Our’s was comparing the blind man that Jesus healed compared to the blindness of the people in the book of Jeremiah.
Mark 8:22 :: Jeremiah 37:1-21
You’ve never heard this as referred to as the Shema? Jews recite it twice a day.
The Shema is a central Jewish prayer and declaration of faith that is recited twice a day, in the morning and evening.
The first verse of the Shema, from the sixth chapter of Deuteronomy, is among the best-known in all of Jewish liturgy. It is recited at the climactic moment of the final prayer of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year, and traditionally as the last words before death. Traditionally, it is recited with the hand placed over the eyes.
She-ma yisrael, adonai eloheinu, adonai echad
Hear O’ Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One
Baruch shem kavod malchuto l’olam va-ed
Blessed is the name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever
Then the rest of it comes from three other passages in Deuteronomy and Numbers…
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. Impress them upon your children. Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up. Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead, inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Yes, I have heard of this referred to as the Shema. I’m very familiar with this passage of Scripture especially in the context of the Jews.
What I was expressing my unfamiliarity with was, in theology, the doctrine of God’s simplicity. In summary, the Simplicity of God teaches that God is utterly one and indivisible in His being. He does not have composite parts, and all His attributes are unified in His essence. It helps preserve the understanding of God as self-existent, immutable, and perfect.
A quick example of this truth is that when we say “God is love”, we aren’t saying that God has love or is the perfect example of love, but that his very essence is love, unified with all of his other divine attributes. It’s eternal, unchanging, perfect, and inseparable from His whole nature.
The Jews insist that this passage is proof negative of the Trinity doctrine.
