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Series: Redefined

Scripture for the week:
Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?"

Luke 14:3

Series: Redefined

Scripture for the week:
Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

Luke 5:31-32

Series: Redefined

Scripture for the week:
Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

Luke 5:16

Series: Redefined

Scripture for the week:
All the people were amazed and said to each other, "What is this teaching? With authority and power he gives orders to evil spirits and they come out!" And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area.

Luke 4:36-37

Series: Redefined

Scripture for the week:
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.

Luke 4:18-19

Series: Redefined

Scripture for the week:
His mercy extends to those who fear Him...

Luke 1:50

Series: Breathe Deep

Scripture for the week:
...the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

Romans 8:26

Series: Breathe Deep

Scripture for the week:
He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.

Titus 3:5-7

Series: Breathe Deep

Scripture for the week:
The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:12

Series: Breathe Deep

Scripture for the week:
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Series: Breathe Deep

Scripture for the week:
…he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit."

John 20:22

Scripture for the week:
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk…

1 Peter 2:2

Series: Advent Conspiracy

Scripture for the week:
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6-7

Series: Advent Conspiracy

Scripture for the week:
And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God

Luke 1:76-78a

Series: Advent Conspiracy

Scripture for the week:
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

2 Corinthians 8:9

Series: Advent Conspiracy

Scripture for the week:
On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.

Matthew 2:11

Series: Rotten Tomatoes

Scripture for the week:
"I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment." Abraham replied, "They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them."

Luke 16:27-29

Series: Rotten Tomatoes

Scripture for the week:
There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Romans 3:23-24

Series: Rotten Tomatoes

Scripture for the week:
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:14

Series: Rotten Tomatoes

Scripture for the week:
Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

John 20:30-31

Series: Rotten Tomatoes

Scripture for the week:
...as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.

Acts 17:23

Series: The Story

Scripture for the week:
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Colossians 3:4

Series: The Story

Scripture for the week:
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:13-14

Series: The Story

Scripture for the week:
I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.

Genesis 12:2-3

Series: The Story

Scripture for the week:
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say…?"

Genesis 3:1a

Series: The Story

Scripture for the week:
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.

Genesis 1:31a

Series: The Story

Scripture for the week:
… he who has been forgiven little loves little.

Luke 7:47b

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.

Matthew 7:17-18

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 7:12

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Matthew 7:7

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Matthew 7:1-2

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matthew 6:34

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:21

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
This, then, is how you should pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Matthew 6:9-15

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
Be careful not to do your "acts of righteousness" before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Matthew 6:1

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:44

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
...Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Matthew 5:39

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
Simply let your "Yes" be "Yes," and your "No," "No"; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

Matthew 5:37

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
It has been said, "Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce." But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 5:31-32

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
You have heard that it was said, "Do not commit adultery." But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5:27-28

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, "Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment." But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment.

Matthew 5:21-22a

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
You are the light of the world.

Matthew 5:14a

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven.

Matthew 5:11-12a

Series: The Way of Jesus - Exploring the Sermon on the Mount

Scripture for the week:
Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Matthew 7:24

Series: Love Madison

Scripture for the week:
...seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you...

Jeremiah 29:7

Series: Resurrection Now

Scripture for the week:
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Series: Resurrection Now

Scripture for the week:
The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15:42b-44a

Series: Resurrection Now

Scripture for the week:
"Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.'"

Luke 24:5b-7

Scripture for the week:
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:18

The Games We Play: Revealing the Nature of Our Deceptive Hearts

Scripture for the week:
For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

James 3:16

The Games We Play: Revealing the Nature of Our Deceptive Hearts

Scripture for the week:
Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

Luke 12:15

The Games We Play: Revealing the Nature of Our Deceptive Hearts

Scripture for the week:
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?" Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

Matthew 18:21-22

The Games We Play: Revealing the Nature of Our Deceptive Hearts

Scripture for the week:
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

James 5:16

The Games We Play: Revealing the Nature of Our Deceptive Hearts

Scripture for the week:
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 17:9

Can You Hear Me Now? 8 Prayers from the Bible

Scripture for the week:
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.

Colossians 4:2

Can You Hear Me Now? 8 Prayers from the Bible

Scripture for the week:
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Ephesians 3:20-21

Can You Hear Me Now? 8 Prayers from the Bible

Scripture for the week:
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9

Can You Hear Me Now? 8 Prayers from the Bible

Scripture for the week:
I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things have I given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you.

1 Chronicles 29:17

Can You Hear Me Now? 8 Prayers from the Bible

Scripture for the week:
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

2 Corinthians 12:9

Can You Hear Me Now? 8 Prayers from the Bible

Scripture for the week:
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 139:23-24

Can You Hear Me Now? 8 Prayers from the Bible

Scripture for the week:
Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.

1 Kings 18:37

Can You Hear Me Now? 8 Prayers from the Bible

Scripture for the week:
Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.

Jeremiah 29:7

Scripture for the week:
...train yourself to be godly. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

1 Timothy 4:7b-8

Christmas Eve

Scripture for the week:
The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him "Immanuel" - which means, "God with us."

Matthew 1:23

Sermon Series: Advent Conspiracy

Scripture for the week:
The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.

Psalm 145:8

Sermon Series: Advent Conspiracy

Scripture for the week:
They will sing before the LORD, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth.

Psalm 96:13

Sermon Series: Advent Conspiracy

Scripture for the week:
You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.

2 Peter 3:11b-12a

Sermon Series: Advent Conspiracy

Scripture for the week:
For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:20a

Sermon Series: Holy Moses - A Fresh Look at Deuteronomy

Scripture for the week:
Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Deuteronomy 6:5

Sermon Series: Holy Moses - A Fresh Look at Deuteronomy

Scripture for the week:
And you and the Levites and the aliens among you shall rejoice in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.

Deuteronomy 26:11

Sermon Series: Holy Moses - A Fresh Look at Deuteronomy

Scripture for the week:
Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.

Deuteronomy 8:11

Sermon Series: Holy Moses - A Fresh Look at Deuteronomy

Scripture for the week:
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

Deuteronomy 7:6

Sermon Series: Holy Moses - A Fresh Look at Deuteronomy

Scripture for the week:
Observe (these laws) carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations.

Deuteronomy 4:6

Sermon Series: Holy Moses - A Fresh Look at Deuteronomy

Scripture for the week:
Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!

Deuteronomy 5:29

Sermon Series: Holy Moses - A Fresh Look at Deuteronomy

Scripture for the week:
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 4:24

Sermon Series: Holy Moses - A Fresh Look at Deuteronomy

Scripture for the week:
There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place. In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God, who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

Deuteronomy 1:31-33

Sermon Series: Grace Works

Scripture for the week:
"Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?" The expert in the law replied, "The one who had mercy on him." Jesus told him, "Go and do likewise."

Luke 10:36-37

Sermon Series: Grace Works

Scripture for the week:
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Ephesians 2:8-10

Sermon Series: Grace Works

Scripture for the week:
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Ephesians 2:8-10

Sermon Series: Grace Works

Scripture for the week:
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Ephesians 2:8-10

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Genesis 2:15

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will."

Matthew 26:39

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Matthew 22:37-40

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:12

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:28

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God...

Deuteronomy 5:13-14a

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.

Psalm 145:3

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

Luke 12:15

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

Ephesians 5:15-17

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery."

Matthew 19:8-9

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 6:5-7

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

Matthew 19:5-6

Sermon Series: Following Christ Without Exception

Scripture for the week:
...we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God...

Colossians 1:9-10

Scripture for the week:
I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old-what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.

Psalm 78:2-4

Sermon Series: Philippians

Scripture for the week:
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Philippians 4:8-9

Sermon Series: Philippians

Scripture for the week:
What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.

Philippians 3:8-9

Sermon Series: Philippians

Scripture for the week:
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

Philippians 2:12-30

Sermon Series: Philippians

Scripture for the week:
Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.

Philippians 1:27

Sermon Series: Philippians

Scripture for the week:
For to me, to live is Christ...

Philippians 1:21a

Sermon Series: Philippians

Scripture for the week:
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ - to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 1:9-11

Sermon Series: Philippians

Scripture for the week:
...I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Philippians 4:18b-20

Scripture for the week:
"The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel."

Luke 24:20-21a

Scripture for the week:
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.

Luke 23:42

Scripture for the week:
As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it.

Luke 19.41

Series: The B. Team

Scripture for the week:
The LORD answered, "I will be with you..."

Judges 6:16a

Series: The B. Team

Scripture for the week:
"...set apart to God from birth..."

Judges 13:5

Series: The B. Team

Scripture for the week:
And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: "If you give the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering." Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands. He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon. When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of tambourines! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, "Oh! My daughter! You have made me miserable and wretched, because I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break."

Judges 10:6-11:39

Series: The B. Team

Scripture for the week:
Then Deborah said to Barak, "Go! This is the day the LORD has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?" So Barak went down Mount Tabor, followed by ten thousand men.

Judges 4:14

Series: The B. Team

Scripture for the week:
...when they cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a deliverer...

Judges 3:9

Series: The B. Team

Scripture for the week:
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me."

Exodus 20:2-3

Series: Wealth in a World of Need

Scripture for the week:
"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it."

Malachi 3:10

Series: Wealth in a World of Need

Scripture for the week:
Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

Series: Wealth in a World of Need

Scripture for the week:
When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.

Deuteronomy 8:10-11

Scripture for the week:
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.

Colossians 3:15

Series: Advent

Scripture for the week:
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

Series: Advent

Scripture for the week:
...and the ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Isaiah 35:10

Series: Advent

Scripture for the week:
"You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."

Luke 12:40

Series: Advent

Scripture for the week:
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him — the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD - and he will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked. Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash around his waist.

Isaiah 11:1-5

Scripture for the week:
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Series: Myth Busters

Scripture for the week:
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Genesis 2:24-25

Series: Myth Busters

Scripture for the week:
Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.

Matthew 11:6

Scripture for the week:
All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.

1 Peter 5:5b-6

Scripture for the week:
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.

Isaiah 40:8

Series: Myth Busters

Scripture for the week:
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

Romans 13:1

Series: Myth Busters

Scripture for the week:
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:5-11

Series: Myth Busters

Scripture for the week:
I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs—how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife—and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord's affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband. I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:32-35

Series: Myth Busters

Scripture for the week:
"My son," the father said, "you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found."

Luke 15:31-32

Series: Myth Busters

Scripture for the week:
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men.

1 Timothy 2:5-6a

Series: Myth Busters

Scripture for the week:
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8

Series: Myth Busters

Scripture for the week:
As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."

Romans 3:10-12

Scripture for the week:
But while Joseph was there in the prison, the LORD was with him.

Genesis 39:20-21

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

Romans 12:16, 18

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 12:17, 21

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 12:20-21

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
Share with God's people who are in need.

Romans 12:13a

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
Be... faithful in prayer.

Romans 12:12b

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Romans 12:12

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Romans 12:12

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

Romans 12:9

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith. If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

Romans 12:4-8

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.

Romans 12:3

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
Be still, and know that I am God...

Psalm 46:10a

Series: Transformation

Scripture for the week:
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship.

Romans 12:1

Scripture for the week:
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:1

Scripture for the week:
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

Jeremiah 29:11-13

Scripture for the week:
Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the LORD.

2 Chronicles 34:27

So You Think You're a Christ Follower?

Scripture for the week:
If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

1 John 1:6-7

So You Think You're a Christ Follower?

Scripture for the week:
Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Galatians 5:25

Special Event

This seminar was held at Blackhawk on May 8, 2004, with speaker Dr. Ben Witherington, III, Professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary.

Dr. Witherington's latest book, "The Gospel Code," (published by InterVarsity Press) was written in response to "The Da Vinci Code."