The God of Peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. Family Descipleship Pastor Joe Zinkgraf teaches on this passage that God has given us comfort in the already but not yet- that we have victory in Christ Jesus the Serpent Slayer who promises that Satan will soon be crushed under the feet of His people.

This Christmas Eve morning, Pastor Matt walks through the main story of the Bible: tracing the line of the serpent slayers birth. Jesus is born the new Son of God and declares with Himself a new covenant that is eternal, not like the previous temporary covenant. This is the basis of our faith.

Continuing in our Advent series, Pastor Matt speaks primarily on Revelation 5:5, that Jesus is the only one worthy to open the scroll because he conquered. He conquered Satan by being the only person who will ever live that resisted temptation. He is the true and better Adam and He crushes the head of the serpent, so we weep no more as we wait.

We continue in our Advent season following further the line of the seed of the woman and the line of the seed of the serpeant, coming to 1 Samuel 17 where David as the seed of the woman cuts off the head of Goliath, in scaled armor. We see through David to see Jesus as the better David, ultimately conquering and living a perfect life to prove that He is the fulfilled and better serpeant slayer.

We kick off our Advent season by asking the ultimately important question- who is Jesus? Our very first answer from the Word of God describes the seed of the woman who will come to crush the head of the serpent. We long await our serpent slayer king to return.

Pulled out of a hat this week was 1 Samuel chapter 15, the newly appointed king of Israel, Saul, is disobedient to the Lord. Adam was a disobedient guard of the garden, but Jesus was the Obedient King. The second is better than the first.

This morning Pastor Matt Bowles teaches on a short passage, but we see how Jesus hates that death is in the world, and we remember how He did something about it.

This week, Pastor Joe Mike Etter walks us through Hebrews chapter 12 reminding us that the suffering we can experience as believers is measured discipline for our good from the Lord. How do we wrap our minds around this? What do we do with this? We continue the race set before us knowing our God is good to His children.

We come to a close in the book of Jonah to see the imagery of the vine being used, as it has been throughout much of the Old Testament, not just as Israel, but Jesus fulfilling that image and being the true and better vine- the true and better Israel.

We continue this week studying this fascinating precursor to Jesus, occuring in Jonah 3-4 when Jonah asks God to kill him because he would rather die than see the people he hates get saved. This week, we see how Jesus looks at us and sees our need and wants to die because he understands our true need.