Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 timothy 2:15

Sermon Series Study Resources

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Advent
How Far Would You Travel?

Historical facts around the birth of Jesus, the Messiah, include Matthew’s recounting of the wise men from the East who followed the Star of Bethlehem to worship the new King of the Jews. Would you travel almost 1,000 miles on a camel with no other directions? How far would you go to worship the Messiah?

THE GRID OF TRUTH
HOW TO THINK BIBLICALLY
IN A DECEPTIVE WORLD

Introduction

Dr. Vickie Isaac shares a bit of her personal story and how it became the basis for writing her book, The Grid of Truth - How to Think Biblically in a Deceptive World. (Available here: amzn.to/3xk3MKs) She rarely shares parts of her story because they are painful memories, but it is an important story to tell because others deal with painful memories and brokenness in their pasts. The good news is that God healed, protected, and graciously made a way for her. She shares the process God taught her that made a way to move forward past pain and brokenness.

NOW I KNOW

Introduction

Dr. Stephen Isaac presents a teaching series from the story and study of Abraham, the man that the Bible calls “the father of faith.” We are going to consider the defining moments of Abraham’s faith in God. We will answer the questions surrounding his faithfulness to God in those defining moments, and how he learned to righteously fear and trust God - culminating in his final test in what historic Hebraic tradition calls the "The Aqedah or, The Binding."

IN STEP...
A BIBLICAL PATH TO LIVING LIFE IN STEP WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

If you are a Christian, the Holy Spirit dwells in you. His Presence equips you to live a godly life and be used in His Kingdom to accomplish His purposes. This Sunday, Pastor Steve Isaac will be teaching about how to walk in step with the Holy Spirit, in tune with His instructions, and empowered by His Presence.

A RIGHTEOUS REVOLUTION
AMOS FIVE | JOEL 2

Amos and Joel are ancient prophets whose voice and message is for our times. Their writing is relative and should resonate within the lives of followers of Christ, and believers everywhere. Nothing in the past 2,500 years has made their messages obsolete. Amos and Joel represent a movement, a righteous revolution

Introduction

Not even the present-day practice of re-defining and re-writing Biblical context and Scriptural narrative can change the eternal truth of these two ancient voices. Both can be interpreted into present-day reality seamlessly, without ignoring original context or disrupting the intended meaning. Yes, Amos and Joel can and must still be heard and their un-compromised message of right and righteous covenant relationship with God, the urgent call of fidelity to the order and authority of His eternal and sovereign Word, and the intense appeal to establish and maintain a genuine habitation for the presence of Holy Spirit in us.

Easter 2023

Living to Die - Dying to Live

Resurrection Sunday

Living to Die - Dying to Live. On Resurrection or Easter Sunday the talk of death or dying is not considered good form - I get that! Interestingly enough, Jesus, in whom this whole Resurrection celebration consists and has meaning, rarely talked about the possibilities of life, without including the realities of death - and He rarely talked about the realities of dying without talking about the hope and possibilities of life. But let’s not just take my word for it - listen to the words of Jesus.

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HE GOES BEFORE US

The Who as – God our Provider and Protector, Christ our Savior and Good Shepherd, Holy Spirit our Comfort and Courage The What as – The Faith to Follow and Go Forward The Where as – The Place of Promise and Purpose The When as – Always Before Us He Goes Before Us

Introduction

He Goes Before Us is the phrase we can embrace and use as we rise and respond to God’s call to widen our nets, expand our tents, and multiply the gifts and graces we have been given. In the next couple of weeks, we will unpack and seek wisdom from two Old Testament passages, rich with New Testament fulfillment and present-day relevance and implications to help us find our connection and context with He Goes Before Us. Download the sermon series notes.

2023 for the Reunion Church

There is a Global Move of God That the Reunion Church is called to rise and respond to

Introduction

There is a global movement towards Biblical teaching, apostolic traditions, discipleship training; and the call of God to Christian leaders from nation to nation to rise and respond to the Holy Spirit’s pull and engagement of people everywhere. This Spirit-led movement is gaining momentum day by day, and does not need the devices and strategies of men to reach it’s purposed outcome. This movement is not detoured or diminished by cultural, governmental, or systemic opposition. God is at work - the visible signs are everywhere.

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Hey Jude

Warnings, Deceptions, and the End Times Certainties from the Book of Jude

Introduction

The series Hey Jude might well be a defining work and word for this humbled, seasoned, and watchful caretaker of human souls. Certainly, more than I imagined, and far more than I could have ever hoped for, this teaching from the tiny Book of Jude is as spiritually rich and relevant today as any text we have in the Bible... Download the sermon series notes.

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Biblical Remedy for Mankind's Malady

Introduction

As we wake up today we bemoan the fact that in many ways we are living in a collapsing world (context please). Many believe, but will not say out loud we are headed for an unprecedented global apocalyptic event or events. Ironically, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Joel the great ancient Hebrew prophets received Messianic and end-times revelations and warnings 2,500 to 3,000 years ago. These words and commands are not obsolete. Certainly their context and conditions have changed - but not their foundational content. It is now and forever unchangeable. In fact, we will see that it is God's remedy for man's malady. Download the online sermon series notes.

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The Only One Who Can

Meet Jesus. He is the resurrected Son of God, and He is that person. He is your person, and He is only one who can.

Resurrection Sunday 2022

Celebrate Easter at our Bible teaching church! Have you ever wondered what it would be like if someone could go back in time and wipe away the pain from the worst moments of your life? Or, suppose there was someone who could lift from your conscience the regrets and sorrows of your worst failures and choices? Download the Easter Week Devotional.

Eternal

The Faith Once Delivered

Eternal - The Faith Once Delivered

Though the original writers of the Bible did so through the elements of human experience and comprehension in the normal circumstances of life, it is fundamentally God’s word to His people - we are His people. God’s Word (the Bible) has “eternal relevance eternally...” Our Bible teaching church is committed to faithfully delivering God's Word. Download the online sermon notes.

Love Beyond Love

What does the term “love beyond love” mean?

Love Beyond Love

Simply this: “We open our heart, mind, spirit, and soul to a person. Removing all distance and hostility that keeps us from connecting in the places and moments of life that Jesus Christ has intended for us.”

Things as They Are

and as they Need to Be

Things As They Are

Across the entire globe - nearly 7 billion people are being kept in the dark or purposefully being lied to about a variety of powerful and polarizing issues such as illness, disease, justice, liberty, human equality, and the future outcomes for our planet. A planet by the way that mankind did not create and is not capable of saving or destroying, because you see, before there was a Mother earth there was “The” Father God. Download the series notes.

It's Just Time

It's Just Time

Urgency is not the same as panic. We know what panic is - we have all witnessed it first-hand on the world stage these past two months. urgency is something different. The words we have just read from Jesus were urgent. In those words, to Herod and the Pharisees, He remind us that he is the Master of Time - not just our earthly time, but all of time and timelessness. Jesus came into time from timelessness to give us the hope of what is timeless - eternity. Download the sermon series notes.

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More Than

More Than

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Download the series notes.

Woke Yoked Broke

Woke Yoked Broke

Ok, how does this connect with the essential themes for Lent? Reflection, repentance, preparation and don’t forget some form of fasting or abstaining from stuff you like – right? As I prayed through the words “woke, yoked and broke” the Holy Spirit revealed the connections that I kind of suspected were there all along. Here is the “reveal” that turned on the lights for me with this whole thing...

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God of the Paradox

If God is transcendent how is He also immanent?

God of the Paradox

If God is transcendent how is He also immanent? If His love is unconditional how can it have conditions? Jesus said He is the Way. How is the Way into His Kingdom also the Way out of this world? Can one be in the world at the same time not of the world? If Christ is the beginning, how is it possible for Him to be the ending, or to be the first and also the last? Download the sermon notes.

E34

E34

And they shall know that I am the Lord their God with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Lord God. And you are my sheep, human sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, declares the Lord God.” - Ezekiel 34

Sanctified

Set Apart for No One But Him

Sanctified

The generic meaning of sanctification or to be sanctified is “the state of proper functioning.” I like that definition - it is a personal aspiration. But then I thought if I use that one, I might not ever be considered as sanctified. So, I decided to dig deeper - thank God. Download the sermon notes.

Redemption

There is redemption - we are living it.

Redemption

There is redemption - we are living it. In fact, you and I were made for this. As God’s word says, we are truly His masterpiece and His priority. His love for us goes beyond reason and human understanding and yet He has revealed His deepest secrets and desires for us through our relationship with Jesus Christ. His love surely came and found us and we are never going to be the same.

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The Life of Job

The Life of Job

An open and honest look at the tragedy of human suffering, the reality of living life through its most difficult and uncertain moments. In this in-depth study we will learn how to maintain and find faith in who God is and where God is during those times and seasons when life's unexplained circumstances leave us doubting all that we have believed in.

Karma

Karma

With karma there is a circle or cycle of life - or you could just say, a recycle bin of life. In western pop-culture, there has evolved a shallow sense of putting off good karma and bad karma. It's very social, very neutral, very cool. Based on the shape of things we might be in some real trouble in our next life. Whoa!

Sanctified

Set Apart for No One But Him

Sanctified

The generic meaning of sanctification or to be sanctified is “the state of proper functioning.” I like that definition - it is a personal aspiration. But then I thought if I use that one, I might not ever be considered as sanctified. So, I decided to dig deeper - thank God. Download the sermon notes.

Karat

A cut covenant with God

Karat

As a general definition, covenant is a written agreement or promise usually under seal between two or more parties especially for the performance of some action or exchange of shared expectations. A world without covenants would be anarchy. A world with covenants constantly broken and violated is as we have discovered just as bad if not worse.

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Saving the Saved

Saving the Saved

One of our founding leaders once said, "a large part of our ministry is saving the saved.” Twenty years later, I am fully understanding the depth and width of what turns out to be a very prophetic observation. Who are these ‘lost sheep’? They are the believers who know the way but have somehow lost their will and love for living that way. Believing in Jesus, but no longer following Jesus, is pretty much the saved who need to be saved. Are they lost and know they are lost? Seeking somehow to rekindle and reignite the fire of their faith? Download the sermon notes.

Work Life Balance

Work Life Balance

Work, life, and balance! By now, you and I have discovered the constant tension existing between the three. If it is too loose - things fall apart, if it is too tight - things are torn apart. Finding the healthy and positive tension is the key. The key to that tension is found within our passions, our preferences, and our responsibilities.

Reality & Wisdom

Reality & Wisdom in the Midst of the Unrealistic and Foolish

The mysteries of fallen human existence are self-admitted and well documented, and because of our appetite for social media, who we are and what we are capable of (both good and bad) is just simply, as they say, "out there." But once we have exhausted our vain dabbling into secular existence, when we have finished filtering all of life and people through our lens of negativity and pessimism, and when we are finally worn out and sick to death of wallowing in our self-loathing and self-pitied pride the ancient truths of Ecclesiastes will tell us there is something different and there is something more!

Isaiah

Isaiah

We live in an age that, because of the general abandonment of the biblical worldview, has made status, position, power and identity politics the absolute good. A major function of education has become not the acquisition of knowledge but the enhancement and influence of unrealistic self-centric thinking. I call it passive-aggressive narcissism. The irony in all of this, as we processed earlier, is that in the non-biblical worldview, humanity has no significance whatsoever.

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Hosea

Hosea

No prophet preached a more painful "reality sermon" than Hosea. He was instructed to marry a prostitute named Gomer who subsequently bore him three children, and he wasn't even sure the last two children were fathered by him. Then Gomer left him for another man, and Hosea had the humiliating responsibility of buying back his own wife. What was this all about? It was a vivid picture of what the people of Israel had done to their God by prostituting themselves to idols and committing "spiritual adultery." Download the sermon notes.

Joel

Joel

Introducing the Book of Joel is simple yet impossible - paradoxical. The book is simple in that Joel 1:1 tells us all we really know—this is a collection of the words God gave to an otherwise unknown man named Joel, whose father was an otherwise unknown person named Pethuel. The book of Joel is impossible in that many get lost in sorting through the imagery of the author and the mixed signals of authenticity. It's been said about the book Joel - Simple in its hope, impossible in its horror. We are not going to get lost there. By faith we will accept the book of Joel as the authoritative and inspired word of God. From there we will accept by faith that Joel's prophetic voice although not completely about us, is indeed one hundred percent for us.

Jonah

Jonah

... all of these books like Jonah remind us of God's "ongoing story" of mercy, forgiveness, and His love that continues on and on throughout history until it finally includes you and me today. Though the Bible is comprised of sixty-six different books, it always tells only one story; and God keeps communicating that message to us, even though we don't always take the time listen to it.

521

521

What are we doing with what we have been given? Are we giving life to others, or are we squeezing that life out of them? Are we maximizing and multiplying our time, talent, and treasure? What is our plan for using what God has given to us for leading growth, equipping believers, and enriching the lives of others?

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Time, Talent & Treasure

Time Talent Treasure

Biblical Principles of Time - Talent - Treasure
Jesus taught the radical and revolutionary Galileans alongside the Sea of Galilee about how the old law would finally be made complete through a new covenant with God. He speaks to a people who are ready for a new message of a new kingdom - and they got it. That, of course, was two thousand years ago, and Jesus gave that message in person. Today, Jesus speaks directly to us... Download the online sermon notes from our Bible teaching church.

James

James

The question is my friends… can we handle it? Can we handle a truth that personally challenges what we think say and do? Can we handle such an honest look inside? The purpose of this potent and penetrating epistle of James the Apostle is simply this. “Hey brothers and sisters – we’ve got a problem – here’s the solution. Now do something about it.”

Family - God's Fortress for Spiritual Truth

Family - God's Fortress for Spiritual Truth

God’s plan for the family is strategic. The family has always been a sacred union designed for the good of God’s creation. He has determined to use that divine union for housing and expressing His truth. History has shown that His truth when rightly heard, acknowledged, and honored can bless and flourish the family, becoming a fortress that protects and projects truth. Within the family God has an impenetrable plan of defense and a precise victorious offensive strategy! At our Bible teaching church, we know that the family is God’s ultimate plan for us – it is a perfect strategy for leading imperfect people. That truth is the wisdom, and order needed for families to thrive, to grow, to recover, to heal, to hope, to overcome, and to live by faith in God.