Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner

The Ascension of Jesus is the culmination of promises, pictures, prophecies, and patterns laid out in the Old Testament. What God promised, He is now completing. Matthew 28 gives us three statements showing how Jesus inaugurates and culminates the Kingdom of God. Our primary passage is Matthew 28. In the command to make disciples, the church is engaged in the campaign for world conquest. Our desire is to see how what we are and do as a local church is tied to the past and pushing us into the future.

Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner

Jesus is the dawning of the new day. Jesus fulfills Isaiah’s Prophecy (Matt. 4:12-17; Isaiah 9:1, 2); He is the Light in Darkness (Matt. 4:15, 16); and He brings joy to the Nations (Isa. 9:3). What Jesus inaugurates, He consummates. Jesus is the fulfillment of the Isaiah prophecy.

Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner

Jesus is infinite embodiment of the promise of God to be with us. As we gather on this Christmas Eve to celebrate the One on whom all hopes and fears hung in the balance, may our hearts be encouraged by the promise of God’s presence in the birth of Jesus.

Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths

The Prophet Isaiah spoke of a day that was still future to him of ONE who was to come. The coming of this ONE would usher in a new heaven and new earth, enable a new people, and eliminate all shadow. This ONE would reunite the heavens and the earth into the Garden in Eden for the joy of His people (vv. 6, 7 [comp. Gen. 1 w/ Rev. 21]).

Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner

The Bible we hold in our hands is a single, unified Story with Jesus as its center. As such, we should read Scripture through the lens of Jesus and learn to interpret the Old Testament in light of the New Testament. What the Old Testament promised and prophesied the New Testament explains. What was anticipated in the writings of Moses, the Psalms, and the Prophets is fulfilled in Jesus from the perspective of the New Testament writers. Salvation is for everyone who believes.

Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths

Jesus is the one who fulfills all Old Testament promises, prophecies, patterns, and pictures. You will either confess Him as such or perish under His rule.

Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths

In Christ, believers are freed from sin and death thus causing them to live differently in this world. Jesus, as substance, is the Great Emancipator spoken of by Isaiah the Prophet and foreshadowed in the SABBATH YEAR and the YEAR OF JUBILEE.

Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths

Jesus is FOR THE NATIONS and IS THE FULFILLMENT OF ISAIAH’S PROPHECIES. There are six passages with seven quotations of Isaiah 53 in the NT: Matthew 8:14-17; John 12:37-41; Luke 22:35-38; 1 Peter 2:19-25; Acts 8:26-35; Romans 10:11-21. Today we will consider the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8 and Isaiah 53.

Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths

God calls His people to trust Him when confronted by the threats and brokenness of this life. Praying to the God of Promise is a privilege His People have and should exercise.

Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths

No matter where we are in the story, it will always end the same. Of the tens of thousands of choices, you make in an hour, day, week, month, and year, there is only once decision that overrides all decisions and that is whether you will choose God or choose self.