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ScriptureStream episodes

  • Responsibility With God's Blessings, Part 2

    • Money

    • I Timothy 6:9-10 - Money can be dangerous, but it can also accomplish good things!

    • We must learn to be content.

    • Matthew 22:19-22 - We are responsible for paying our taxes, even when those taxes are used for things we don’t support.

    • Mark 12:41-44 - the widow’s offering

    • II Corinthians 8:1-8 - Money used to support the saints.

    • I Timothy 6:17-18 - There is good to be done with money.

    • The gospel

    • I Corinthians 4:2 - We must be good stewards of the gospel of Christ.

    • I Corinthians 9:16-18

    • Matthew 13:44

    • Philippians 2:14-16

    • Genesis 6:11-14 - Noah tried to spread God’s message while he built the ark.

      30 min
    • A Christian's Relationship With the World

      • What kind of relationship should we have with the world?

      • Recognize the conflict

      • The conflict is with ungodliness among the majority of the world. Galatians 6:14

      • James 4:4

      • Ephesians 2:1-3

      • Have a positive influence on it

      • Directly

      • Matthew 5:13-16 - Someone can see us and end up glorifying God because of our good influence and example.

      • John 17:14-18 - Jesus prayed that His disciples would be safe from the evil one even though He was sending them out into the world.

      • Philippians 2:14-16 - We should be lights in the world. We must stand strong and be a positive influence.

      • Indirectly

      • I Peter 2:12 - Behave excellently in the world.

      • I Peter 3:1 - the influence a godly wife can have on her husband

      • Avoid and rise above its sin

      • II Peter 2:20-22 - Do not allow yourself to be drawn back into sin!

      • John 15:18-19 - The world may hate us because we are not of the world.

      • James 1:27

      • We are to be sancitified by truth. John 17:17

      • We arm ourselves with faith.

      • We decide to do right.

        30 min
      • Lot, Part 1

        • Genesis 11:27-31 - How Lot got to Canaan.

        • Genesis 13:6-12 - Abram and Lot separate. Abram chooses Canaan and Lot chose Sodom.

        • Lot’s choice

        • He gets caught up in a way. Genesis 14:1-3

        • He simply has to live among evil people. Genesis 19:4-11

        • He loses all of his material wealth. Genesis 19:24-25

        • He loses his wife. Genesis 19:26

          30 min
        • Gideon, Part 3

          • The battle and aftermath

          • Judges 8:24-27 - Gideon makes a gold ephod and it becomes a snare to the Israelites.

          • Judges 8:28-35 - Gideon dies and Israel goes right back to their old idolatrous ways.

            30 min
          • Christians Have the Right
            • To be sons of God - John 1:11-12
            • To eat the Lord’s Supper - Matthew 26:26-29
            • Of prayer - I Peter 3:12
            • To expect our brother to be our keeper - Galatians 6:1
            • To be our brother’s keeper
            • To be a worker together with God - II Corinthians 6:1
            • To assemble with other Christians to worship God and edify one another - Hebrews 10:24-25
            • To sound forth the Word of life - I Thessalonians 1:8
            • To heaven - Matthew 25:23
            • Summed up: we have the right to every spiritual blessing available in Christ.
              • 30 min
            • The Icons of Evolution

              • Modern textbooks are filled with confessions of faith in evolution.

              • Miller-Urey experiment

              • Amino acids produced from a soup of hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and water vapor.

              • No oxygen was used in the experiment. If oxygen had been used, the amino acids produced would have quickly decayed. Thus, this reaction can’t happen in an oxygen atmosphere.

              • Peppered moths

              • Peppered moths in the UK during the Industrial Revolution naturally selected a darker color to blend in with the change in color of the tree bark.

              • In reality, moths don’t hide on tree bark! They hide higher up in trees underneath branches for camouflage. Also, moths only fly at night!

              • Ape to human

              • Darwin didn’t believe that the ape was our ancestor, merely our contemporary “cousin”. The picture is a lie to begin with.

              • “The fossil record is one of increasing diversity.” - Stephen Jay Gould

              • Haeckel’s embryos

              • The embryos chosen look very similar because they were purposely chosen. Other species have embryos that look completely different from each other.

              • Darwin’s finches

              • Darwin claimed that the dimensions of finches’ beaks change depending on what types of food they have to eat.

              • Finches don’t evolve - they just adapt back and forth between beak types depending on what type of food is available.

              • Conclusion:

              • None of the icons of evolution have stood the test of time, yet they are still taught in modern textbooks!

                30 min
              • The History of Evolution

                • History of evolution: Charles Darwin, Jean Baptiste Lamark, Sir Julian Huxley

                • Genesis 1:1

                • History of recent discoveries: Robert Hooke, Antonie van Leewenhoek, Robert Brown, Matthias Scheiden, Theodor Schwan

                • The complexity of cells: prokaryotes and eukaryotes

                • Irreducible complexity

                • Cascading complexity - the blood clotting system and the immune system

                  30 min
                • Gideon, Part 2

                  • Signs of confirmation

                  • Judges 6:33-40 - Gideon asks God for signs of confirmation.

                  • Matthew 12:38-40 - Jesus refuses to give a sign to the scribes and Pharisees.

                  • Luke 23:8-9 - Jesus would not perform a sign for Herod.

                  • John 20:24-29 - Thomas investigates the proof of Jesus’ crucifixion.

                  • Exodus 4:1-5 - God gives signs to Moses.

                  • Choosing the 300 (Judges 7:1-8

                  • God reduced the size of Gideon’s army to prevent pride.

                  • The battle and aftermath (Judges 7:9-8:23

                    30 min

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                  Just the gospel, plainly spoken. ScriptureStream compiles lessons presented at the Benchley church of Christ, located just north of Bryan, TX. Visit ScriptureStream.com for full notes on each lesson…