Open your Bibles or your scripture journals please to Judges 6. We are going to be studying verses 25-32. We are continuing the story of Gideon today. As I have said, this is one of the longer narratives in this book. The story of Gideon takes up three chapters and has several “acts”. Last week we looked at God calling Gideon. We saw how God uses w…

Judges 6:11-27 “A Mighty Man of Valor” Open your Bibles Please to Judges chapter 6. We are looking at the calling of Gideon this week. Last week we looked at How the Israelites cried out to God in their distress and His answer was to remind them who He is and what he had done for them. Now, I said that I believe that the majority of our disobedienc…

Open your Bibles please to Judges 6. We are going to be looking at verses 1-10 today. So far in this book we have seen Othniel, Shamgar, Ehud, and last week we finished up Deborah. This begins the story of the fourth Judge of Israel. He is a pretty well known judge. His name is Gideon. This is a fairly long and detailed story in this book, it compr…

Judges 3:7-31 “Unlikely Deliverers” If you will turn in your Bibles please to Judges 3, we are going to be looking at verses 7-31. now, you might be thinking, really, you are going to preach an easter message from the book of Judges? Yep. You may or may not know that it in every book of the Bible, there is a connection to Jesus, infant to preach a …

Judges 4:1-24 Deborah and Barak Open your Bibles please to Judges 4. We are continuing our series in this book as we are seeing God’s faithfulness in the midst of Israel’s unfaithfulness. Last week we saw the first three Judges of this book, and the patterns that we will see through the whole of this book. We saw that in the times of the Judges the…

So, we are going to get back to our study of the Book of Judges today. we are going to be reading Judges 1:1-2:4. This first chapter is really setting up the narrative for the rest of the book. In fact there are really two chapters of setup for this book. Chapter one gives the background of what happened from the time of Joshua’s death until the ju…

The Book of Judges: An introduction *note: I misspoke in this sermon when recounting the Israelites’ time in the wilderness. I said they had to wait in the wilderness because of the golden calf and Moses couldn’t enter the promised land because he broke the tablets. I conflated a few stories in my retelling. It was Mose’ anger and striking the rock…

So, today is our Fourth Sunday in our series on marriage. We have looked at the foundation of marriage, the purpose of marriage, and the roles in marriage. Today we are going to talk about the joy of marriage. Yes, we are going to talk about sex. Ok, so I know what you are wondering. The answer is no, this is not an “R” rated sermon. Some people ma…

Do you ever wonder if what you are doing in your life is “worth it”? Maybe you came here today wondering if what you’re doing in life is worth the trouble, worth the hassle, worth the pain it takes to get where you are. Have you ever been in a place in life where you worked so hard for something, and it never really panned out the way you had hoped…

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