Warren Schacher - December 7, 2025 - Blessed Hope

Unyime Akpan - November 30, 2025 - Crown Jesus Christ Lord of All

In the Age of “Influencers, AI, TikTok, Experts and SuperHeros”

Colossians

Colossians

Written So Believers Can Understand God’s Mystery

Jesus Christ

One of the Most Christ Focused Books in the NT

95 verses, Mentioned Christ About 80 times

Written for Believers to Understand:

Person of Christ

Richness and Significant of Christ’s Death, Burial and Resurrection

Futility of Human Thinking and Ways

Supremacy of Christ

Sufficiency of Christ

How to Live as Believers

Colossians 1 - Supremacy and Sufficiency of Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ is the Savior

Jesus Christ is Supreme Over All

Jesus Christ is God

Jesus Christ is the Creator of All

Jesus Christ is the Owner of All

Jesus Christ is the Sustainer of All

Jesus Christ is Supreme Over all who rise from death

Colossians 1(NLT) 12 

What is the relationship between Jesus Christ and God? - Colossians 1(NLT) 15 

What is the relation between Jesus Christ and Creation? - Colossians 1(NLT) 15 

Jesus Christ existed before creation

Jesus Christ created everything

Who Holds Creation Together? - Colossians 1(NLT) 17 

What is the relationship between Jesus Christ, the Church and the Resurrection? - Colossians 1(NLT) 18 

What is the relationship between Jesus Christ and God? - Colossians 1(NLT) 19 

How is Peace Established between God, Man and Creation? Colossians 1(NLT) 20 

What About Believers? - Colossians 1(NLT) 21 and 22

Doesn't that Mean Believers Can Live Anyway they Like? - Colossians 1(NLT) 23 

What Secret is Being Revealed to Believers in the Letter? Colossians 1(NLT) 26 

Colossians 2

Jesus Christ Has All Wisdom and Knowledge

Jesus Christ is Truly Man and Truly God

The Cross of Jesus Christ is the Only Means of Victory Over Sin, Death and Satan

Believers are Complete in Jesus Christ

Let No One Condemn, Deceive or Take You Captive

Live the Way you Received Christ –By Faith

Why should this Letter be read? - Colossians 2(NLT) 2 

What do believers need to understand about Jesus Christ? - Colossians 2(NLT) 3 

Why should believers know Jesus Christ has ALL the Treasures of Wisdom and of Knowledge - Colossians 2(NLT) 4 

How should a Believer Live? - Colossians 2(NLT) 6 

What are Believers Warned About? - Colossians 2(NLT) 8 

What does this mean to the Believer? Colossians 2(NLT) 10 

How are Believers Complete in Christ? - Colossians 2(NLT) 11 

Things that happened when you believed in Jesus Christ

How are Believers Complete in Christ? - Colossians 2(NLT) 12 

Things that happened when you believed in Jesus Christ

How are Believers Complete in Christ? - Colossians 2(NLT) 13 

Things that happened when you believed in Jesus Christ

How are Believers Complete in Christ? - Colossians 2(NLT) 14 

Things that happened when you believed in Jesus Christ

How are Believers Complete in Christ? - Colossians 2(NLT)  15 

Things that happened when you believed in Jesus Christ

Why should believers know this? - Colossians 2(NLT) 16 

Why should believers know this? - Colossians 2(NLT) 18 & 19

What can believers do with this knowledge? Colossians 2(NLT) 6 &  Colossians 3(NLT) 16

John Wells - November 23, 2025 - Trusting God in Trials

Deuteronomy 8:2 - Remember God led you forty years in the wilderness to humble you, to test you to know what was in your heart …

Why are there Trials ?

God uses trials to do His work in us (shape us) – Romans 8:28

God shows His Sovereignty and His Glory through our trials – 1 Peter 1:6

God prepares us for His service through trials – Job 23:10

God sanctifies us (purges us) through trials – John 15:2

God increases our faith through trials – James 1:2

God teaches us spiritual warfare through trials – Ephesians 6:12

God disciplines us through trials – Hebrews 12:6

What are the desired outcomes of trials in our life ?

Not Moved - Psalm 62:6

When my heart is overwhelmed (faint) …LEAD me to the Rock that is higher than I

You have been my strong tower against the enemy, You are my shelter – refuge

You only , you alone are my Rock , my Defence …

Your loving kindness (Steadfast Love) is better than life ….my lips will praise you …Psalm 63:3

Not Shaken –Luke 6:48

Whoever comes to Me and HEARS my words AND DOES THEM…He is like a man who built a house

DUG DEEP , LAID A FOUNDATION on a ROCK -

Storms came – the FLOOD ROSE, WIND BLEW – BEAT VEHEMENTLY ON THE HOUSE

IT COULD NOT BE SHAKEN ….FOR IT WAS WELL BUILT

Not Ashamed – 2 Timothy 1:12

Paul the Apostle in his last days waiting execution – no family, no wealth, forsaken by many churches

He has committed all he did (his life’s work ) to GOD to judge – LOOKING FORWARD TO RESURRECTION

Many that once ran with him have forsaken him – Demas,, Crescens, - NOTWITHSTANDING LORD STOOD BY ME and STRENGTHENED ME.

I am NOT ASHAMED …for I know Who I have believed and I am persuaded He is ABLE to keep

Not Forsaken 2 Corinthians 4:7-11

Troubled on every side, (afflicted) but not crushed, perplexed, persecuted, …BUT NOT FORSAKEN

Luke Dejager - November 16, 2025 - Reaching The Unreached

Matthew 28:18-20

Jesus commanded His followers to make disciples from every nation meaning every ethnic people

How Many People Groups Are There? = 17400

How Many People Are Considered Unreached? - 7400 42% Few if any Christ Followers

3.2 Billion Souls live in one of these unreached People Groups

Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

I have a short window here in this job. Really, we all have short windows in the big scheme of things. There will come a day when I won’t be in leadership here anymore. And not long after, I will become nothing more than a footnote in history. 

It won’t take that long for people to completely forget

my name. And a generation or two from now, not even my own family will have much, if any, real memory of me.

So let’s pour ourselves out for the glory of Jesus with the time we have. That’s all that matters. That’s all that lasts”

Only one life, yes only one, Soon will its fleeting hours be done;

Then, in ‘that day’ my Lord to meet, And stand before His Judgment seat;

Only one life,’ twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Isaiah 61:1-2 ​

Romans 10:14

Mark Palmer - November 9th, 2025 - The Attitude of Jesus

Philippians 2:5-11

Lordwin Jeyakumar - November 2nd 2025 - Divine Intelligence Over Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Isaiah 40:28

How many of you use technology every day ?

Artificial intelligence (AI), is a term coined in 1955 by John McCarthy, Stanford’s first faculty member in AI, who defined it as

“the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.”

Alan Turing (1912-1954)

Allen Newell (1927-1992)

Herbert A Simon (1916-2001)

John McCarthy (1927-2011)

Marvin Minsky (1927-2016)

Dartmouth Conference (1956):

The Birth of AI as a Formal Discipline

Rule or Knowledge-Based Systems

Context-Based and Retention Systems

Narrow Domain or Expert AI Systems

Reasoning AI Systems

Self-Aware Systems

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)

Transcendent AI

Cosmic AI

Godlike AI

2 Peter 1:21

Romans 5:5

John 1:1-3

Genesis 1:27

Isaiah 55:8-9

Psalms 24:1 

The wonders of God's creation

Galaxy

DNA

Blood Vessels

Psalm 139:13-14

Psalm 104:24

How should we, as Christians, respond to the rise of artificial intelligence?

Romans 12:2

Revelation 13: 14-18

Genesis 11:4

David Hansen - October 26th, 2025 - Recognition, Repentance, Redemption

1. Recognition

ROMANS 1 20 -22

Human DNA: about 3.2 billion base pairs within helical ladder, in a specific order.

Presuppose ladder rails mounted on abundance of 4 nucleotide rung pairs:

Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine.

“A” goes with “T”, “G” goes with “C”, both pairing via weak H+ bonds. Start Stacking!

Stir for billions of years, add energy, isolate as needed, warm/cool as needed.

BINGO! DNA!

DNA is not alive but is the key to life, the cell in which it exists is a wonder of symbiosis:

The cell membrane itself is a wonder:

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Psalm 14:1 - The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works…..

Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

RECOGNIZE ACCOUNTABILITY - Cognitive - I am created. (In fact, God is my Creator.) Moral I have sinned. (In fact, I am in a condition of sin. Yet God must be glorious and holy.)

2. Repentance - Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

PSALM 139 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret …

3. Redemption ! - Mark 2 14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye and believe the gospel.

Hebrews 9:27 … and as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment…

Hebrews 11:6But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

1 Timothy 2 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth, 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

Unyime Akpan - October 19th, 2025 - Jesus Before Pilate –A Gentile

Questioned, Crowned with Thorns, Mocked, Flogged and Condemned

The ‘Final Days’ of Jesus –No 6

Matthew 20:17-19

Mark 14:62

Jesus’ Predictions:

Delivered to the Chief Priest and Scribes (Jews)

Condemned to Die

Delivered to The Gentiles (Non-Jews)

Questioned, Mocked, Flogged and Condemned to be Crucified

Crucifixion and Death

Resurrection

Luke 4:5

Why Was Jesus Born ?

and

Why Did Jesus Come Into the World?

John 18:37

John 18:36

How Did Jesus Testify To the Truth?

John 1:14

John 4:23-24

John 8:31-32

John 8:39-47

John 14:6

John 14:16-17

John 17:17

John 5:26-29

John 10:14

John 17:1-17

John 18:28

John 18-39-40

John 19-1-2

John 19: 4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” 5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!””

John 19-1 - 13

Pilate and the Truth

Convenient, what is best for me

Not Guilty but he condemned Jesus to die

The Jewish Leaders and the Truth

Hypocrisy

Brought Jesus not for trial because they had already condemned Jesus to die

Pilate was to rubberstamp their decision

Outright lies about Jesus

What About You and Me?

Do You Belong to the Truth –Jesus Christ?

How Do You Handle the Truth?

John 18:37

David MacDonald - October 12th, 2025 - Believe!

John 20:30-31 ESV

John 20:30 – Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book

Disciples witnessed His signs

Signs = “distinguishing marks” – tied to miracles or wonders

Signs - indicated that He is the Son of God, the One sent from God

1 John 1:1-3

Why John Wrote… John 20:31

First – that you may believe –

Not to just information for your head, but truth for your heart

Believe what?

Jesus is the Christ

Jesus is the Son of God

Secondly – that by believing, you may have life

Not physical life

Eternal life, abundant life

Believe – Have Life!

John 3:16-18, Acts 16:30-31

Stephen Michels - October 5, 2025 - The Battle for the Mind

Deut 6:1

Mark 12:29-30, Prov 23:7

John 16:13

Rom 8:6-7, John 16:13

Col 1:21, 2 Corin 10:2-5

Eph 11:3, Eph 5:18

1 Tim 4:1. Phil 4:1