When do you take down your Christmas decorations? This might just convince you to never take them down again.

Jesus' sacrifice replaced the entire Old Testament system and fulfilled are their imageries. When we take in his body and blood we are intimately connected to Him and proclaim His love. Communion Conversations: Bread, Wine, Body and/or Blood?

This week we'll be studying Numbers 21:4-9, under the theme of "The Bronze Snake." Almost 40 years into Israel's wilderness wandering, they're still struggling with the issue of grumbling. As a result, God allows a uniquely appropriate consequences, an experience that does physically what the Israelites have been doing spiritually in their grumbling. He also offers a unique and foreshadowing solution - looking to a snake lifted up on a pole.

Choose the better part by unplugging from the world and plugging in to Jesus. Luke 10:38 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Y4QaGtrM4&t=638s)-42.

What is in a name? Names help identify who we are. Over time they carry weight of what people think of us and our reputation. In Numbers 6:22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYQ4wraxVmI&t=382s)-27, God commands His priests to give a blessing to the people at the end of worship. In these words, God Describes who He is and how He puts His presence on us. In this message we learn what a blessing is, how we receive it through Jesus, and how it changes our life forever. Numbers 6: 22-27.

Jesus did not come to bring world peace but rather to bring peace between the world and God. Luke 12:49 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIwIYMZCbyo&t=769s)-53.

What in the world was God doing? He was giving Naomi a longing for heaven, giving the world a model of faith based love and was positioning his people to give the world a Savior. Ruth 1:1-20.

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The core of any church should be the means of grace because that is how God connects to His people. Acts 2:37 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOoXKp__MRo&t=157s)-47.

Jesus does more than show the way. He is the Way.