Our world is all about exaltation. We celebrate those who have superior skills and can triumph with brilliant acts of wonder and awe. We elevate the strong, the wise, and the brilliant. But the God of all Creation, the all-powerful, all-wise God, uses His power differently. In His greatness, He stoops to meet the needy, the broken, and the hurting in their brokenness. With tenderness and kindness, He condescends to us and rescues us from hopelessness.

As we close our series in 1 Thessalonians, we come across today’s passage from the apostle, “may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.”

These words ring true in our ears at Bethel as we begin a new initiative this year to “make disciples”. Let’s take some time to look at where we’ve come and then prepare the path ahead.

The Gospel of Salvation impacts every area of our lives, including how we pursue a spouse through dating. As we continue to look at how the Gospel fuels our lives to be distinctly different, we see that God calls us to live lives that imitate our Father and declare His love. And this drastically changes how we date.

It has been said that the Old Testament is the “New Testament concealed” and the New Testament is the “Old Testament revealed.” In no place is this concept better illustrated than in the Old Testament images of the tabernacle and of the feasts. Through this study we will examine these object lessons as they give us new insights into the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The seven feasts that God gave Moses some 3500 years ago are both prophetic and instructive. Still celebrated today, these feasts commemorate important points in Jewish history, as well as agricultural events in the annual cycle, and they are also instructive for us today. As Paul says in Colossians 2:16-17, the feasts are a shadow of things to come. Not only do they point prophetically to events in the first and second comings of the Lord Jesus Christ, but they also teach us how to deepen our personal devotional lives.

Jesus Christ says that He did not come to abolish the law and the prophets (the Old Testament) but to fulfill them (Matthew 5:17). We will see how true His words are as we study Christ in the tabernacle and in the feasts.

It has been said that the Old Testament is the “New Testament concealed” and the New Testament is the “Old Testament revealed.” In no place is this concept better illustrated than in the Old Testament images of the tabernacle and of the feasts. Through this study we will examine these object lessons as they give us new insights into the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The seven feasts that God gave Moses some 3500 years ago are both prophetic and instructive. Still celebrated today, these feasts commemorate important points in Jewish history, as well as agricultural events in the annual cycle, and they are also instructive for us today. As Paul says in Colossians 2:16-17, the feasts are a shadow of things to come. Not only do they point prophetically to events in the first and second comings of the Lord Jesus Christ, but they also teach us how to deepen our personal devotional lives.

Jesus Christ says that He did not come to abolish the law and the prophets (the Old Testament) but to fulfill them (Matthew 5:17). We will see how true His words are as we study Christ in the tabernacle and in the feasts.

We serve a God who wants us to know Him and to know Him well. Paul's prayer for the church is that they would be enabled to do something that is, for all intents and purposes, impossible: to know a love that surpasses the mind's capacity to comprehend. In other words, Paul wants us to be blown away by the greatness of Christ.

No doubt, there is a lot of scandal around the role of prophecy in our day. The most common question being, "Has it passed or is prophecy still being done today?"

It has been said that the Old Testament is the “New Testament concealed” and the New Testament is the “Old Testament revealed.” In no place is this concept better illustrated than in the Old Testament images of the tabernacle and of the feasts. Through this study we will examine these object lessons as they give us new insights into the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The tabernacle, which is the forerunner of the temple, reveals deep truths about who God is and how we must approach Him. We will see His beauty and holiness depicted in this ancient structure, and we will also learn about worship. Every detail of the construction and the furnishings of the tabernacle illustrate something important about Christ and how we can “meet” with Him.

It has been said that the Old Testament is the “New Testament concealed” and the New Testament is the “Old Testament revealed.” In no place is this concept better illustrated than in the Old Testament images of the tabernacle and of the feasts. Through this study we will examine these object lessons as they give us new insights into the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The tabernacle, which is the forerunner of the temple, reveals deep truths about who God is and how we must approach Him. We will see His beauty and holiness depicted in this ancient structure, and we will also learn about worship. Every detail of the construction and the furnishings of the tabernacle illustrate something important about Christ and how we can “meet” with Him.

Life is difficult. Living for Christ in the midst of our culture and with the pressures of life can be hard but it is what the follower of Jesus Christ is called to do. How do we help each other through such times? This week we will address that question.