Courage Church

title: Christmas Eve Eve

teachers: Jacob & Dawn Bender

date: December 23, 2018

A Short tag-team message by Jacob, Dawn and Eloise Bender.

series: Ancient Cliff Notes

title: a child is born

date: December 16, 2018

scriptures: Isaiah 9:2-7, Isaiah 7:14, Judges 7, 2 Kings 20, Matthew 1:20, Exodus 5.

series: Ancient Cliff Notes

title: Jonah

teacher: Jacob Bender

date: December 9, 2018

scriptures: The book of Jonah, Jonah 1:2, Jonah 3:2, Jonah 4:1-11, Joshua 5, Matthew 12:38-41, Leviticus 16.

Jonah’s story is our story. It is the story of running from the call of God on your life. It is the story of hiding in the comforts that your life has allowed you, knowing that God has more for you than that. It is the story of how we treat people who have hurt us, and how God’s steadfast love stretches even farther than we could even imagine!

It is the only “sign” that Jesus said that we will be given, that shows us that He is the Messiah.

We did a 6 week series through the book of Jonah in 2016 over the election season. To learn more about the story of Jonah, we encourage you to go through the series.

series: Ancient Cliff Notes

title: Job

teacher: Jacob Bender

date: December 2, 2019

scriptures: the book of Job, particularly: Job 1:13-22, Job 1:21b, Job 10:3, Job 10:14, Job 10:15, Job 14:7, Job 14:15, Job 42:10, Job 42:17, 1 Peter 5:8, 1 Peter 5:9, 1 Peter 5:10, James 1, James 5:11, Ezekiel 14:14, 20, Ecclesiastes 7:2-3, Ecclesiastes 7:4, Proverbs 24:3, Isaiah 53:8. 

The question of “why” is the wrong question, yet it is the question that is asked over and over and over throughout the book of Job, yet goes unanswered all the way to the end.

This is a book about the wrong questions.

It’s also a book about pain. and loss. and doubt.

It’s a book about empathy. and compassion. and grace.

It’s a book about storms.

and chaos.

During his teaching on “The Bible” - Pastor Shane Willard explained one of the ways that people misread the book of Job, by not reading it in the genre it was writing in. Here is a CLIP from that message.

Watch the whole sermon “The Bible” by Pastor Shane Willard.

series: Ancient Cliff Notes

title: Jeremiah

teacher: Chris Hooten

date: November 26, 2018

series: Ancient Cliff Notes

title: David and Bathsheba

teacher: Austin Young

date: November 18, 2018

series: Ancient Cliff Notes

title: Daniel

date: November 11, 2018

teacher: Jacob Bender

scriptures: Jeremiah 29:4-11, the book of Daniel, particularly: Daniel 2:44, Daniel 5:2-6, Daniel 6:3-5, Daniel 6:25-28

series: mission

title: marketplace

teachers: Jacob and Dawn Bender

date: November 4, 2018

scriptures: Genesis 1:26-28, Psalm 104:29-30, Romans 14:17-19, Exodus 31:3, Exodus 31:6, Acts 2:1-4, 2 Chronicles 6:41-7:4, 2 Corinthians 6:16

series: mission

title: Detroit

teacher: Jacob Bender

date: October 28, 2018

scriptures: Galatians 6:9, Ephesians 2:10, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, Genesis 31, Matthew 5:23-24, Matthew 6:5-15, Luke 19:1-10, 1 Corinthians 11:26.

Reconciliation is the ministry that the church has been given. We exist to do that. And it is fascinating when you study the Bible, especially the words and stories of Jesus, how obvious it is that Jesus wants us to see how pointless our religion, our rituals, our sacraments, even our praise and our offerings and our sacrifices are, if we are not doing the job of reconciling with people.

NOTE: in this sermon, I referred to “the meal covenant” and I mis-spoke saying that “the Bible calls it a meal covenant” - when in fact, it is what is “known as a meal covenant” but the Bible does not specifically refer to it using that term.

series: mission

title: Indonesia

teacher: Scott

date: October 21, 2018