Intro A reminder about the nature of our Christian faith: But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation.…

Intro What kind of faith are we talking about? There are a few figures who tower over the OT, namely Moses & David. We’ve talked about Moses in past weeks, but today we’re looking at David. Confusingly, it’s David before Samuel. As God likes to do, he subverts expectations by working in a through David,…

Intro Hall of Faith - Faith is for the preservation of our souls Faith is assurance - because it is based on the word of God Faith leads to God’s commendation! We have been making our way through many examples of believers expressing faith down through salvation history. Many of these examples are not…

Intro Death is inescapable Most of us start learning this as children. - pets, relatives, etc. Once the dog dies, they never come back. But then as we age it becomes more and more confronting - we notice our parents are staring to look a bit whethered, they’re not as active as they used to be. We start…

Intro We have many heroes of the faith, and many of them are deeply flawed characters, with awful backstories. Time and again the Bible gives us examples of outsiders and exiles and the lowly who are rescued by the Lord and brought into his people. Humanly speaking they’re the kind of people that we…

Intro We’re in the hall of faith - taking note of people from across the Bible who show us what it looks like to live by faith. Today we’re looking at the life of Moses - plus a little extra. Moses life gets a lot of airtime, because he led the peopl of Israel through one of their most important national…

Story of Joseph Jacob desired to marry Rachel, but he was tricked into marrying Rachel’s sister Leah first. As consolation to Leah (being basically an unwanted bride), God gave her a bunch of children before Rachel. There was also a bunch of shinanigans with surrogate mothers that i’m not going to get…

Intro We live in a community of all kinds of different people. And we need all kinds of different people. It starts with the distiction between the sexes - male/female but we extend from there. Our communities need differences - We need farmers, farmers for meats and for plants. We need trademen - carepenters,…

Intro We act on promises for the future: If I do these courses I will receive my certification If I work for you, you will pay me If I marry you, you’ll remain faithful Now sometimes these promises are upheld, but sometimes they are not. Sometimes the school moves the goalposts on you or goes belly up,…

Intro We are not those who shrink back from God and are destroyed, but those who have faith and preserve our souls. So what is faith? What does it look like? Well it’s not blind hope, i can tell you that much straight up. This si not the soppy “just gotta have faith” of a poorly written movie. This is…