August 1, 2024
by Eric Channing
This Sunday we'll be taking a break from our Ruth series as Doug O'Donnell comes to deliver the Word as our guest preacher. Doug is a longtime pastor, professor, and author who is currently the Executive Vice President of Bible Publishing at Crossway Books. More importantly, he is a devoted follower of Jesus, who loves God and His people. Doug will be preaching on the call...
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July 26, 2024
by Jared Cochrum
"I have found favor in your eyes."
What comes to mind for you when you see that phrase? It's not a very common one today, but you can probably still get the gist of it. Finding favor in someone's eyes means acceptance, relationship, perhaps even love.
It is an important phrase in the Old Testament that often speaks of unexpected grace. It shows up in many different place...
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July 19, 2024
by Jared Cochrum
Last week we began a new sermon series in the book of Ruth. It was a dark beginning to this book that follows a widowed Israelite, and her Moabite daughter-in-law as they leave the fields of Moab for Bethlehem in search of food and hope. We left Naomi walking back towards Bethlehem last week, having lost her husband, both her sons, and with no earthly prospect for any kind...
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July 12, 2024
by Jared Cochrum
When you think about the word sovereignty, what do you think about? I would expect that, for some of you, our recent Daniel series may cause you to think about God's hand directing the affairs of governments, the rise and fall of nations and kings, countries and presidents. God's sovereign hand is what guides all the governments of the world. But it's also God's sovereign ...
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July 5, 2024
by Eric Channing
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When was the last time you stopped to consider, "What is my purpose in life?" or, "What am I really living for?" Given the busyness of our lives, it is much easier to merely "get through the day" than to dwell on these essential questions.
Often it takes a tragedy, or a changing season of life, or the death of a loved one to bring such questions to the forefront. That's b...
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June 28, 2024
by Eric Channing
The future can be exciting and scary at the same time.
Jesus warned us to not be anxious about tomorrow because tomorrow will be anxious for itself (Matt. 6:34). That means there is nothing to be gained by worrying about what is to come. Friends, on this warm summer morning, take comfort in the fact that God perfectly plans and knows the future. This is true for individua...
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June 21, 2024
by Eric Channing
In last week's message in Daniel 10 we witnessed the reality of the spiritual battle in prayer. This week, we'll step away from Daniel for one week to welcome a guest preacher from College Church, Pastor Ben Panner, who will be preaching on 1 Peter 5:6-11.
There are many overlapping themes between Daniel 10 and 1 Peter 5. You'll remember that Daniel humbled himself before...
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June 14, 2024
by Eric Channing
We must not deny reality. We are in the midst of a spiritual battle. Every minute of every day. This battle rages on, whether we recognize it or not.
Sunday's preaching passage, Daniel chapter 10, gives a glimpse of the spiritual battle that ensues when we pray. We get a window into how prayer is, as Pastor John Piper puts it, "a war-time walkie-talkie." When we pray, we...
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June 7, 2024
by Jared Cochrum
One of the many remarkable aspects of the second half of Daniel, and of biblical apocalyptic literature in general, is that it gives us a small picture of God's perspective of the world. It's almost like peeking through a peephole into another world. However, as strange as these images and events may seem, they are interpretations of what will happen here on earth.
Sunday...
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May 31, 2024
by Eric Channing
Do you ever wonder if prayer is "worth it"? Or, to put it another way, if God is in complete control of this world, why should you pray?
There is a philosophy of life that is captured by the phrase "Que Sera Sera," which means "whatever will be, will be." It represents a type of fatalism about the future; specifically, that the future is going to happen (no matter what), ...
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