Posts with the tag “evangelism”
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The Parable of the Dragnet
March 9th, 2025
Matthew 13:47-50In this series about the kingdom parables, we learned some important perspectives about what the kingdom of God is like. We’ve learned that it’s in a small phase but is growing gradual... Read More
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The Parable of the Leaven
February 16th, 2025
Matthew 13:33; Luke 13:20-21Last week, we learned some valuable perspective from one of Christ’s kingdom parables, a relatively brief parable about a small mustard that grew into a large tree over tim... Read More
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Discovering Jude
January 19th, 2025
Background InformationJude wrote this letter from an undisclosed location.The author of this letter identifies himself as Jude, further describing himself as both a servant of Jesus Christ and a broth... Read More
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The Public Approval of God
November 24th, 2024
IntroductionThe bystander effect refers to the phenomenon that an individual's likelihood of helping decreases when passive bystanders are present in a critical situation. Many sad real-life examples ... Read More
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The Two Witnesses
June 23rd, 2024
Revelation 11:1-14John gives another prophetic intermission.As he did in Rev 7:1-8:1, John gives us another prophetic intermission in Rev 10:1-11:14 between the sixth and seventh trumpet judgments. Th... Read More
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Believers in the Tribulation
May 12th, 2024
Revelation 7:1-17What about the people of God?Thematic music plays at the end of a movie as end credits scroll across the screen. While most of us don’t read more than the first few names, if even tha... Read More
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Praying for Helpers
March 3rd, 2024
Matthew 9:35-38 / Luke 10:1-2 (also John 4:34-38)As we make our way through this preaching series, learning what we can about prayer from the life and teaching of Christ during his earthly ministry, w... Read More
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Authority in Prayer
February 11th, 2024
John 14:12-14, 15:7-8,16Reminder of our series theme: Prayer is talking deliberately to God.While our primary text is in John 14 and 15 as previously read, there are a couple related texts which see... Read More
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Hold the Fort or Boldy Advance?
October 29th, 2023
Little Round Top! (see Philippians 2:11-16)God is at work, building His church! This He has promised - Matthew 16:18God is at work, transforming His people! This is His doing. Ephesians 2:8-10God is a... Read More
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Fearless and United
July 9th, 2023
Philippians 1:27-30Are you brand loyal? My father’s father, Grandpa Overmiller, was a brand-loyal kid of guy. He always purchases Mercury cars, ate dried rice cakes from Quaker Oats, and wore white Ma... Read More
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Why Things Happen
May 28th, 2023
Philippians 1:12-14Members of the armed forces, whether soldiers or veterans, understand a concept called “military (or tactical) advantage.” When applied, this concept enables soldiers to assess the ... Read More
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Sent by the Resurrected Christ
April 16th, 2023
You know the feeling. For one reason or another, you are speaking in public tomorrow and you’re afraid.Maybe you have a class presentation at your school or you have some lines to recite in the school... Read More
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Let Go and Go Tell
April 9th, 2023
It’s hard to let go of those you love. Yet doing this is a regular experience of life. We let go of our family, friends, neighbors, classmates, cultures, homes, and familiar surroundings when we move ... Read More
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Stepping Out for Jesus
April 7th, 2023
The Christian life is a journey of many steps, a process of personal change that begins when you are born into a new relationship with God. This new relationship with God begins the moment you believe... Read More
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