Resurrection Sunday Points of Interest from the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Story: • There are at least 12 different appearances of Christ in the resurrection accounts, beginning with Mary and ending with Paul. They were physical, tangible experiences with Christ eating, speaking and allowing himself to be touched. • Jesus’ resurrected body was different from…
Peace 5:1,2 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. John 20:19-222 19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with…
Col 1:9-12 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[a] 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit…
On August 16, 1987 A northwest Airline flight 225 crashed just off the Detroit airport. There was only 1 survivor among 156 people aboard. A four year old girl named Cecilia. Cecila survived because as the plane was falling, her mother unbuckled her own sat belt, got down on her knees in front of her…
courage (n.) c.1300, from Old French corage (12c., Modern French courage) “heart, innermost feelings; temper,” from Vulgar Latin *coraticum (source of Italian coraggio, Spanish coraje), from Latin cor “heart” (see heart) which remains a common metaphor for inner strength. To be encouraged means to have courage poured into us, have our hearts strengthened, so we can keep going to eventually receive what we have been…
What Does Love Have to Do With Faith and Hope? Two weeks ago, we talked about how having faith allows us to say, as in 2 Timothy 1:12 – I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day. Our faith…
Hope is eager expectation of something good. 1) Hope is inseparable from faith. Hebrews 11:1 (KJ21) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2) Our hope is never in a situation, a person or even in ourselves. It is always in God Himself, His character, His qualities, His…
What Does Walking By Faith Look Like? 2 Cor 4: 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,…
Rom 14:7-12 7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 Christ died and came to life for this:that He…
Pastor Joe Dover shares about God’s purposes and the distractions that keep us from them.