Podcast: Download (5.0MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Freed to Love XIII.mp3 Stir it up! – PDF Key Texts: Deut. 30:6; II Thess. 3:5; Jer. 30:12-17; Job (various segments from the book of) Review: For weeks we have been discussing offenses towards our brother, the world and against (or towards) us. This week we dealt with offenses towards God! This is often a difficult topic, and many Christians tend to avoid facing it head on. I believe this is not due to fear of God, but rather to a false type of respect for Him or concern for loosing their faith in […]
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Sunday’s main service is NOT held on Sunday due to rigorously held dogma so much, but it IS in respect to the holiness of the Sabbath day as declared by God BEFORE mankind fell. Quite literally the Sabboth was declared holy FROM THE BEGINNING. We know that Sabboth was most likely our modern day “Saturday”, but our Lord was risen on what we call Sunday, so it seems appropriate.
In addition to this, we worship on “Sunday” out of convenience because we believe Jesus’ words which teach us, “Man was not made for the Sabbath but the Sabbath for man.” As such, Sunday is the day MOST OFTEN recognized as the day to worship within Christian circles so that is when we have our main service of the week.
We use this day as the day we press forward as a community of believers into Biblical teachings which our leaders believe God is immediately guiding us into for our maturity and Spiritual growth. We do not have Sunday night services in part due to the fact that we do not want time constraints to dictate our worship.
As a community of grace we are interested in ministering to others, outside our immediate assembly and encourage others to participate in our lessons and grow with us.
Sunday Main 10-14-12
Podcast: Download (41.9MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Freed to Love XII.mp3 Stir it up! – PDF Key Texts: Deut. 30:6; II Thess. 3:5; Rom. 14; I Cor. 8 Review: As Jesus said in Matthew 18:7 and Luke 17:1, it is impossible to avoid offenses, but woe to those through whom they come, “It would be better for them if a millstone were tied around their neck and they were drowned in the depth of the sea…”. These are words which are uncharacteristic of Jesus’ typical teaching, which should cause all who love Him and take His words with the gravity they […]
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Podcast: Download (40.2MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Freed to Love XI.mp3 Stir it up! – PDF Key Texts: Deut. 30:6; II Thess. 3:5; Matt. 18:21-35; Lk. 17:1-10 Review: This week as we journeyed through Jesus’ instructions on how to deal with an offending brother we did a side by side comparison of Matt. 18 & Luke 17. This comparison offered us a much broader lense through which to see this teaching as it really took place. Though Matthew naturally has more of the original discourse, Luke’s information gathered from the apostles is from a Greek perspective and so capitalizes on different […]
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Podcast: Download (44.2MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Freed to Love X.mp3 Stir it up! – PDF Key Texts: Deut. 30:6; II Thess. 3:5; Matt. 18:15-20 References: Matt. 5:23,24 We also spent some time qualifying why Matthew 5:23,24 was an appropriate New Covenant verse applying to all Christians – See Beatitudes Example. I Cor. 5:6-8 Gal. 5:7-13 II Thess. 3:13-16 Matt. 16:17-19 Review: This week continued looking at the second and third expressions of love in our list of ways in which we are “Freed to Love” – namely… Stop wallowing in self-oriented story and accept the story He had written for you […]
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Podcast: Download (41.8MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Freed to Love IX.mp3 Stir it up! – PDF Key Texts: Deut. 30:6; II Thess. 3:5 Review: This week we began with a brief review of our key passages in Deut. 30:6 & II Thess. 3:5. Then we began looking at the second and third expressions of love in our list of ways in which we are “Freed to Love” – namely… Stop wallowing in self-oriented story and accept the story He had written for you beginning with His agape’ love for you. Living for our brothers and sisters Forgiving To begin our study […]
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