Week 2- TEACHING Take Heart – Amber Ross John 16:33: “I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world” (NLT). Often times, we may find ourselves shocked when we […]
Week 2- TEACHING: The “Go” of Relationship – Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest, 1935, “Sept. 25”) “And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.” – Matthew 5:41 The summing up of Our Lord’s teaching is that the relationship which He demands is an impossible one unless He has […]
Week 2 – TEACHING: Are You Thirsty? – Todd Thicksten I just saw the movie Silence, based on the book by Shusaku Endo. I read the book a long time ago and forgot a lot of the dialogue. Currently serving in Japan as a missionary, I knew this was an important movie to see, but […]
Week 1 – PRONOUNCEMENT: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say – Horatius Bonar (hymn; 1846) I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Come unto Me and rest; lay down, O weary one, lay down your head upon my breast.” I came to Jesus as I was, so weary worn and sad; I found […]
Week 1 – PRONOUNCEMENT: Matthew 20:18-19 – Sterling Hernandez “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified; […]
Week 1 – PRONOUNCEMENT: It is Finished – Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest, 1935, “Nov. 21”) The death of Jesus Christ is the performance in history of the very mind of God. There is no room for looking on Jesus Christ as a martyr; His death was not something that happened to […]
Week 1 – PRONOUNCEMENT: Jairus (Matt. 9 & Mk. 5) – Tim Levesque & Kimberly Jackson When we got there, the funeral was in progress, and that’s when he said, “Go Away!” We all looked ‘round like, “Did he just say that? At a funeral…Really?” It still makes me laugh. Had he not done what […]
Week 1 – PRONOUNCEMENT: For The Sake of Something Greater – Jeremy Hartshorn Darth Vader tossing the Emperor over the rail. Spock dying of radiation poisoning. The Terminator lowering himself into molten lava. When I think about my favorite movies, these scenes are the moments that stick with me the most. Their common theme […]
Week 1 – PRONOUNCEMENT Thou Art the Way, to Thee Alone – George W. Doane (hymn; 1824) “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” – John 14:6 (NIV, 1984) Thou art the Way: by thee alone from sin and […]
