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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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JUDGES | Gideon’s Call
John Vermilya // November 2, 2019 One man who was called, who repented, worshipped, obeyed, and was used mightily by God. The message focuses on 3 Gospel phrases that saturate the Bible from Genesis to Jesus. And it reminds us that God is calling each of us to be that one.
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JUDGES | Power in Weakness
John Vermilya // October 26, 2019 This story is a powerful example of God’s power being perfected in weakness. This story contains powerful truths about God and about how he works in us as we fight our battles.
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JUDGES | Spiritual Forgetfulness
Ben Brown // October 19, 2019 When we settle we’ll always find distractions ore excuses, but when we hold the promises of God before us and make our hearts available to him, God will always use what we have.
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JUDGES | Idolatry
John Vermilya // October 12, 2019 God will not compete with our idols, and idols can never compete with God. Our only hope is to forsake our idols for the one true God, by worshiping and serving Jesus, the one true hero.
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JUDGES | Half-hearted Faith
John Vermilya // October 5, 2019 This weekend we are reminded that the faith that God blesses is whole-hearted and courageous. God fights for us, will we fight for God?
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JUDGES | God Fights for You
John Vermilya // September 28, 2019 This story illustrates how God repays sin, evil and wickedness. Our 21st century sensibilities are shocked at what’s done to the Canaanite King, but surprisingly Adoni-Bezek is not. The evil King understands that God has repaid his sin and that he deserves the judgment. This tension between God always…
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TAB DNA | Dominos
John Vermilya // September 21, 2019 In the series text (1 Corinthians 15:1-11) there is a reference to the domino process by which we see people come to Christ. We see God using multiple people to draw the lost to Jesus. It is vital to the mission of the church and to our personal discipleship…
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TAB DNA | Cracked Pots
John Vermilya // September 14, 2019 The Tabernacle is a grace church. We love to say that we are “cracked potsâ€Â, because we hold the treasure of God’s grace in jars of clay (2 Corinthians 4:7). Scripture reminds us that our imperfection actually accentuates God’s perfection, and the free gift of grace has dramatic implications…
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TAB DNA | Big Rocks
John Vermilya // September 7, 2019 Our church focuses on the Big Rocks of the faith that unite, and not the minor points of doctrine that divide. These so-called Big Rocks are clearly outlined in Scripture which is our guide. Scripture also tells us that Jesus is of “first importance”. Jesus is the biggest rock,…
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FOOLS | Sandcastles
Ben Brown // August 31, 2019 Fools has been all about looking at the things in our lives that we use for building: beliefs, sexual desires, demeanor, our mouths, and emotions. We close by looking at the words Jesus uses to close his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew and how they are the call…
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