Sierra Community Church

One of the main themes throughout the book of Daniel is the faithfulness of God’s people when they face their worst, like being exiled from their homeland, or facing death because other people have it out for you. The story of Daniel is about hope!

As physical blindness is an inability to see what is in your physical world, spiritual blindness is an inability to see what is spiritually around us.  How do you become alive to spiritual realities? You have to understand the conditions of your blindness!

The last part of the 9th chapter of Daniel, God ties himself to a definitive timetable of events to pinpoint the exact moment in history when the Jewish Messiah would present himself to the Jewish people, some five-hundred and sixty years before Christ advent.

Have you ever struggled with prayer and being more authentic with God?  Daniel gives us a glimpse of how we can be authentic with God in prayer and the rest of our life.

Three reasons why Daniel gives this prophecy in chapter 8:

1. To prepare God’s people for persecution.

2. To warn them of the general trend of history.

3. To show that Antiochus Epiphanes will be defeated completely in the end.

Hold on tight! Daniel 7 is the end of the historical portion of the book and now focuses on prophesies. It's sure to be interesting and strange symbolism, but something that should also challenge the way we view others, this world, and God's Kingdom.

Daniel and the lion's den is a classic story, but put yourself in the shoes of Daniel’s audience. For the Israelites exiled in Babylon, there must have been some question about whether or not the living God really was able to save them or he wouldn't have let them be taken to Babylon in the first place... But they’re in exile because they abandoned God, not the other way around.

After 65 years in Babylon, Daniel, has an even bolder approach than when he was younger in addressing the King, yet one thing remains constant, he tells the truth.  Should Christians speak to our world in the same way as Daniel?  Or is there another way?

What is Pride? My own mighty power, means I love to think of myself as the cause of all my greatness, as the source of all achievement, and my majestic splendor, means the recipient of great praise!...Here’s why Pride is such a deceptive sin - It claims to be the author of what is really a gift.