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  • Focus: Differences (January 15, 2017) | Judah Thomas

    [Philippians 3:13b] I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.

    The choices we make are either __________________ or __________________.
    [Esther 1:8, 10] By edict of the king, no limits were placed on the drinking, for the king had instructed all his palace officials to serve each man as much as he wanted. [10] On the seventh day of the feast, when King Xerxes was in high spirits because of the wine...
    Every __________________ deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
    [Esther 1:12] But when they conveyed the king’s order to Queen Vashti, she refused to come. This made the king furious, and he burned with anger.
    [Esther 3:5] When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or show him respect, he was filled with rage.
    [Esther 3:8-9 NIV] Then Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them. [9] If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.”
    Impulsive people __________________ stop to hear other side.
    [Esther 4:13-14] Mordecai sent this reply to Esther: “Don’t think for a moment that because you’re in the palace you will escape when all other Jews are killed. [14] If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become _____________ about things that matter” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
    [Esther 4:16] “Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.”
    [Esther 7:8b] The king exclaimed, “Will he even assault the queen right here in the palace, before my very eyes?”
    Notice how many impulsive choices you make rather than __________________.
    Impulsive decisions will get you into __________________.
    [James 1:5a] If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you.
    Cultivate __________________ about differentness.
    Make a commitment to walk __________________ differentness.
    Refuse to __________________ people.
    [Matthew 7:12a] “Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you.
    God cares about how much we love those that are ____________ from us.

    42 min
  • JACKED UP: Samson the Rebel | Judah Thomas

    Even in our ______________, God can still accomplish His purposes through us.


    [Judges 13:5] You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and his hair must never be cut. For he will be dedicated to God as a Nazirite from birth. He will begin to rescue Israel from the Philistines."


    Your ____________ do not define what God can do through you.


    [Judges 14:5-6] As Samson and his parents were going down to Timnah, a young lion suddenly attacked Samson near the vineyards of Timnah. [6] At that moment the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he ripped the lion's jaws apart with his bare hands. He did it as easily as if it were a young goat. But he didn't tell his father or mother about it.


    Samson’s strength came from _________ ___________, not his own abilities.


    [Judges 14:14-18] So he said: "Out of the one who eats came something to eat; out of the strong came something sweet." Three days later they were still trying to figure it out. [15] On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to explain the riddle for us, or we will burn down your father's house with you in it. Did you invite us to this party just to make us poor?" [16] So Samson's wife came to him in tears and said, "You don't love me; you hate me! You have given my people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer." "I haven't even given the answer to my father or mother," he replied. "Why should I tell you?" [17] So she cried whenever she was with him and kept it up for the rest of the celebration. At last, on the seventh day he told her the answer because she was tormenting him with her nagging. Then she explained the riddle to the young men. [18] So before sunset of the seventh day, the men of the town came to Samson with their answer: "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" Samson replied, "If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have solved my riddle!"


    Don't allow _____________ to take ______________ of your life.


    [Judges 16:15-17] Then Delilah pouted, "How can you tell me, 'I love you,' when you don't share your secrets with me? You've made fun of me three times now, and you still haven't told me what makes you so strong!" [16] She tormented him with her nagging day after day until he was sick to death of it. [17] Finally, Samson shared his secret with her. "My hair has never been cut," he confessed, "for I was dedicated to God as a Nazirite from birth. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as anyone else."


    The enemy always tries to ______________ our weaknesses.


    [Judges 16:20-21] Then she cried out, "Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!" When he woke up, he thought, "I will do as before and shake myself free." But he didn't realize the LORD had left him. [21] So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and forced to grind grain in the prison.


    God is still at ______________ even when we _____________ up.


    [Judges 16:22] But before long, his hair began to grow back.


    God loves to make ______________ people ______________.

    27 min
  • Focus: Finances (January 8, 2017) | Judah Thomas

    [Philippians 3:13b] I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.

    The Value of ________ ____________
    [Proverbs 22:7] Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the lender.
    If you don't ______________ your money it will control you.
    [Matthew 6:24] “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
    _______________ should serve us as we serve __________.
    If you ___________ have the money ___________ buy it.
    [Proverbs 25:28] A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.
    The Value of _________________
    [Hebrews 12:2] We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne
    We sacrifice something we ___________ for something more _________________.
    It's __________ to wander into debt, but _______________ to wander out of it.
    The Value of ______________
    [Malachi 3:10-11] Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test! [11] Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease. Your grapes will not fall from the vine before they are ripe,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
    Tithing is simply honoring God as _____________ in our life.
    I am willing to test God for 90 days by putting Him first in my finances? ___________

    38 min
  • JACKED UP: Rahab the Hooker | Judah Thomas

    Your past may be a _____________, but God can turn it into a ___________________.


    [Joshua 2:1] Then Joshua secretly sent out two spies from the Israelite camp at Acacia Grove. He instructed them, "Scout out the land on the other side of the Jordan River, especially around Jericho." So the two men set out and came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there that night.


    Your ___________ and actions _________ can define your future.


    [Joshua 2:8-15] Before the spies went to sleep that night, Rahab went up on the roof to talk with them. [9] "I know the LORD has given you this land," she told them. "We are all afraid of you. Everyone in the land is living in terror. [10] For we have heard how the LORD made a dry path for you through the Red Sea when you left Egypt. And we know what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River, whose people you completely destroyed. [11] No wonder our hearts have melted in fear! No one has the courage to fight after hearing such things. For the LORD your God is the supreme God of the heavens above and the earth below.


    Rahab chose to ___________________ with God's people rather than her own.


    [Joshua 6:22-24] Meanwhile, Joshua said to the two spies, "Keep your promise. Go to the prostitute's house and bring her out, along with all her family." [23] The men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all the other relatives who were with her. They moved her whole family to a safe place near the camp of Israel. [24] Then the Israelites burned the town and everything in it. Only the things made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron were kept for the treasury of the LORD's house.


    God loves to ________________ what was _________________.


    [Matthew 1:5-6] Salmon was the father of Boaz (whose mother was Rahab). Boaz was the father of Obed (whose mother was Ruth). Obed was the father of Jesse. [6] Jesse was the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon (whose mother was Bathsheba, the widow of Uriah).


    Our ________ does not dictate our potential in God’s __________.


    [James 2:25-26] Rahab the prostitute is another example. She was shown to be right with God by her actions when she hid those messengers and sent them safely away by a different road. [26] Just as the body is dead without breath, so also faith is dead without good works.


    Faith is demonstrated by your__________ not your ___________.


    [Hebrews 11:31-32] It was by faith that Rahab the prostitute was not destroyed with the people in her city who refused to obey God. For she had given a friendly welcome to the spies. [32] How much more do I need to say? It would take too long to recount the stories of the faith of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and all the prophets.


    God can ___________________ and use you for His purposes.

    30 min
  • Focus: God's Word (January 1, 2017) | Judah Thomas

    [Philippians 3:13b] I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.

    The Bible isn't a ____________. It's a ___________________ of 66 books by over 40 authors written over a 1,500 year span.
    Is God's word a __________________ in your life?
    [Psalm 119:61] Evil people try to drag me into sin, but I am firmly anchored to your law.
    We don't try to ____________ God's word with our ___________, we align our views with the Word of God.
    [Hebrews 5:12] You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food.
    God's Word Strengthens Your ____________
    [Romans 10:17] So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.
    God's Word ____________ Your Decisions
    [Psalm 119:105] Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.
    God speaks to us primarily through His ____________.
    God's Word Brings ____________
    [Joshua 1:8] Study this Book of the Law continually. Meditate on it day and night so you may be sure to obey all that is written in it. Only then will you succeed.
    God has a _______________ way of defining success than we do.
    [Proverbs 4:13] Take hold of my instructions; don’t let them go. Guard them, for they are the key to life.
    - _______________
    - _______________
    [Psalm 119:11] I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
    - _______________
    Meditation is moving God's Word from your ___________ to your _______________.
    - _______________
    [Psalm 119:9] How can a young person stay pure? By obeying your word.
    [Matthew 7:24-27] “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. [25] Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. [26] But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. [27] When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”
    It's not what you _______________ but what you _______________ that makes you a Christ-Follower.

    32 min
  • JACKED UP: Gideon the Coward | Judah Thomas

    [Judges 6:11-12] Then the angel of the LORD came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites. [12] The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said, "Mighty hero, the LORD is with you!"


    God sees __________________ when all we see are __________________.


    [Judges 6:13-14] "Sir," Gideon replied, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about? Didn't they say, 'The LORD brought us up out of Egypt'? But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites." [14] Then the LORD turned to him and said, "Go with the strength you have, and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I am sending you!"


    God doesn’t wait for us to be __________________ to call us.


    [Judges 6:27] So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had commanded. But he did it at night because he was afraid of the other members of his father's household and the people of the town.


    Courage isn’t the absence of __________________ but the willingness to __________________ despite it.


    [Judges 7:7] The LORD told Gideon, "With these 300 men I will rescue you and give you victory over the Midianites. Send all the others home."

    God’s strategies often __________________ human logic.


    Our __________________ are opportunities for God to show His strength.


    [Judges 8:27] Gideon made a sacred ephod from the gold and put it in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all the Israelites prostituted themselves by worshiping it, and it became a trap for Gideon and his family.


    [Hebrews 13:21] may he equip you with all you need for doing his will. May he produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, every good thing that is pleasing to him. All glory to him forever and ever! Amen.


    God specializes in __________________ the ____________.

    30 min
  • Carols: O Come, O Come Emmanuel (December 18, 2016) | Judah Thomas

    Emmanuel means God _____________ us.

    [Matthew 7:21-23] And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” [22] All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet: [23] “Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’”
    [John 1:1, 14] In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. [14] So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.
    Just because you don't _____________ God's presence doesn't mean He's not there.
    God _____________ with you
    It's often easier to see God in the _____________ than in the present.
    [Genesis 39:21] But the Lord was with Joseph in the prison and showed him his faithful love. And the Lord made Joseph a favorite with the prison warden.
    Joseph's ________ became his passage to the __________.
    God _____________ with you
    [Luke 1:28] Gabriel appeared to her and said, “Greetings, favored woman! The Lord is with you!”
    God _____________ _________ with you
    [Romans 8:35; 37-39] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? [37] No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [38] For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, [39] neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
    [Revelation 1:8] “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”
    The question that needs to be answered is: are __________ with God?

    31 min
  • JACKED UP: Jonah the Runaway | Judah Thomas

    [Jonah 1:1-2] The LORD gave this message to Jonah son of Amittai: [2] "Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are."

    We serve a God who _________________ to us.

    Everyone needs God's _________________.

    [Jonah 1:3-4] But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the LORD. He went down to the port of Joppa, where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He bought a ticket and went on board, hoping to escape from the LORD by sailing to Tarshish. [4] But the LORD hurled a powerful wind over the sea, causing a violent storm that threatened to break the ship apart.

    God’s plans are often outside our _________________ _________________.

    We can’t _________________ God.

    [Psalm 139:7-10] I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! [8] If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. [9] If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, [10] even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.

    When you run from God you may find yourself in the middle of a _________________.

    [Jonah 1:10] The sailors were terrified when they heard this, for he had already told them he was running away from the LORD. "Oh, why did you do it?" they groaned.

    Sometimes it takes hitting _________________ _________________ for us to turn to God.

    [Jonah 3:1-5] Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time: [2] "Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you." [3] This time Jonah obeyed the LORD's command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all. [4] On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: "Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!" [5] The people of Nineveh believed God's message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow.

    God _________________ the people you don't like.


    [Jonah 4:1-3] This change of plans greatly upset Jonah, and he became very angry. [2] So he complained to the LORD about it: "Didn't I say before I left home that you would do this, LORD? That is why I ran away to Tarshish! I knew that you are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. You are eager to turn back from destroying people. [3] Just kill me now, LORD! I'd rather be dead than alive if what I predicted will not happen."

    31 min
  • Carols: Away in a Manger (December 11, 2016) | Judah Thomas

    Jesus is ______________.

    [Luke 2:10-11 NET] But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid! Listen carefully, for I proclaim to you good news that brings great joy to all the people: [11] Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord*.
    *Lord (Greek: kyrios): supreme authority; ___________________; master; Lord.
    The ___________________ Surrendered Life
    [Luke 6:46] “So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you don’t do what I say?
    God doesn't want ______ service He wants _______ service.
    [Proverbs 3:5-6 PST] Trust in the Lord with some of your heart, and lean on your own understanding. In some of your ways, acknowledge Him, and you can make your own paths straight.
    Jesus is not a part-time ______________ & He doesn't want part-time ______________.
    What have I not surrendered to the Lord? _________________________________________________
    The ___________________ Surrendered Life.
    [Romans 14:7-8] For we don’t live for ourselves or die for ourselves. [8] If we live, it’s to honor the Lord. And if we die, it’s to honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
    [Ephesians 2:8] God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.
    Salvation costs you nothing, but it cost Jesus ____________.
    [Proverbs 3:5-6] Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. [6] Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
    The reason we won't surrender to Him is because we don't ___________________ Him.
    [Mark 12:30] And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’
    [Matthew 7:21-23] “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. [22] On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ [23] But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’

    33 min

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