This Sunday we looked back again at John 7 and we see again the people’s doubt of who Jesus is. They question him about being the messiah and Jesus says that they know him but that they don’t know the One who sent him. They seek to arrest him, but Jesus’ time has still not […]

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This Sunday we finished the 2nd chapter and began the 3rd chapter of Judges. Things are pretty chaotic in this book and we see this Sunday how God is angry with his people. For some reason most people think that God is just angry towards sin and not towards sinners but Judges shows us the […]

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This Sunday we finish chapter 2 of Judges. We looked at the complete downward spiral of God’s people being unfaithful to God. This chapter sets us up to see how God uses others to judge Israel and how he raises up judges to deliver Israel. Of course, none of these deliverers can ever fix the […]

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This Sunday we look at chapter 2 of Judges and begin to see a major theme in the book: disobedience. The people of God had failed to drive out the enemies of God. Although God has promised never to break the covenant he has made with his people, his people have broken the covenant and […]

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This Sunday we looked again at the scene of Jesus being at the Feast of Booths. We see more rejection from the people as Jesus goes into the temple to teach. He reasons with the religious leaders about their anger against him for healing a man on the Sabbath while they would circumcise a boy […]

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We started a new section of teaching in John 7 as we talk about a new Jewish festival, the Feast of Tabernacles, that Jesus teaches at. In these verses we see the rejection of Jesus both by his family and by the people of Judea. What is surprising about this passage is that the very […]

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This Sunday we finish the first chapter of Judges. It is surprising and telling that as we end with the first chapter we already see the them of the book: unfaithfulness. God’s people have failed to drive out the people God had commanded. Now becuase of their unfaithfulness, God’s people will reap the consequences of […]

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This Sunday we continued in the first chapter of Judges and looked at more of how Judah began to conquer the land God had promised to them. Despite the fact that the people they were fighting were giants, they continued to trust God and to take the land. We see multiple people living out their […]

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We finish up chapter 6 and Jesus collection of teaching contained therein. It is so interesting how when people hear of Jesus’ teaching that many end up leaving him. That is what happened with many disciples who were following Jesus and he asks the Twelve if they wanted to leave also. We pray that our […]

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This Sunday we continue to follow the section of John 6 where Jesus talks about him being the bread of life. The Jews do not like Jesus doing this, but Jesus is trying to show them something important about himself and what he has come to do. They know that Jesus saying he is the […]

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