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JUDGES | Set Apart Nazirites
Seth Bush // January 18, 2020 We see the prequel to Samson being born in Chapter 13. Our call is the same as the Nazirite call. To be set apart.
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JUDGES | Shibboleth
John Vermilya // January 11, 2020 The saga of Jephthah concludes in Judges 12 with a brutal civil war. Pride ruins relationships and is death for churches. The way of Christians is to be humble like Jesus, described in Philippians 2:1-8. Unity is only possible with humility, and that starts by identifying prideful shibboleths.
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JUDGES | Jepthah
John Vermilya // January 4, 2020 It is important to understand that we can trust God to love and bless us based on his nature and not our works. This was embodied in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
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The Biggest Story | Glimpses of the Garden
John Vermilya // December 28, 2019 “We live in the beginning of the end of the story we are still in the middle of.” Glimpses of the garden aren’t to be worshipped, but to serve as reminders and markers along our journey, so we can keep believing, hoping, and trusting the way back through the…
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The Biggest Story | The Greatest Gift
John Vermilya // December 24, 2019 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us…
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The Biggest Story | Prophets, Priests & Kings
John Vermilya // December 21, 2019 We cover the rest of the Old Testament from Mt. Sinai to Malachi. God continues to unfold His story, revealing how all of our methods to get back to the garden won’t work. Only God can bring us back tot he garden, and the Snake-Crusher is our only hope.…
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The Biggest Story | Promises, Promises
Seth Bush // December 14, 2019 After sin entered the world and we were sent away from the garden, all may have been lost if it were not for God. From the very beginning, God’s son Jesus was and is the plan of salvation for all humanity. The Snake-Crusher is coming. He is a promise…
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The Biggest Story | Paradise Lost
John Vermilya // December 7, 2019 The Biggest Story begins in a garden, with a family in paradise under the rule of God. It was a wonderful time to be God’s children in God’s wonderful world. It didn’t stay that way. Only God brings us back to the garden through the snake-crusher, Jesus.
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JUDGES | True Repentance
Ben Brown // November 30, 2019 The nation of Israel realizes they have sinned against God personally, and submits to the Lords authority and takes action. Like Israel, we drift back to our idols God has offered to rescue us from. True repentance is experienced when we batt’e against our sin as a community of…
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JUDGES | Civil War
John Vermilya // November 23, 2019 After Gideons death, the people forget him and God. Gideon’s son Abimilech emerges as an anti-Judge who grasps for power. The story shows blatant rebellion against God. The chapter illustrates what happens when individually and corporately we don’t live life on God’s terms. Living my life God’s way is…
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JUDGES | Gideon Loses Focus
John Vermilya // November 19, 2019 In chapter 8 we see the culmination of Gideon’s success in battle over the Midianites, resulting in a forty-year peace for Israel. However the price of Gideon’s success is that he forgets God’s grace and loses his focus. The lessons of Gideon’s sad ending are warnings for us. He…
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JUDGES | Gideon’s 300
John Vermilya // November 9, 2019 In part II of Gideon’s story, we see a great victory won by God through Gideon against impossible odds. We can be certain God speaks in ways we can understand, and saves us by grace as we walk in faith.
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