Pastor Mike Cepela Includes a revisiting of rendering unto Caesar, a wisdom that silences, explaining the Sadducees/modern application, non-negotiable truths, believers caught up in the mortal, reciprocating God’s love and addressing Universalism. Matthew 22:17-40. 24018
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Pastor Mike Cepela The for us to not waste our ordained time. Includes common regrets of believers, life as a vapor, anger sourced from self-will, mourning/no value word, the potential for evil days, David’s idleness and how misusage of time opens to deception. 1 Corinthians 9:24; James 4:13-14; Psalm 139:16; Ephesians 5:1-8. 24009
Armand J. Azamar The triumphal entry into Jerusalem and the overturning of the moneychangers’ tables. Includes Jesus’ fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies, background on Palm Sunday, fickleness of people, hosanna defined, exploitation of Christian devotion and being a house of prayer. Matthew 21:1-17; Zechariah 9:9. 24008
Pastor Mike Cepela The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. Includes backtracking on Matthew 19:30, false equivalencies of success, Jim Elliott’s martyrdom success, the example of John the Baptist, the trap of accusing God, sharing in the suffering of Christ, ignorant requests in prayer, and the cost of the callings of God. Matthew 20:1-28. 24002
Pastor Mike Cepela Includes pride as necklace word, honor unto God expanded, pride as source of strength, God’s word as light, three pulses of the world, connection to Jesus transformation, insult of humble words/wisdom to pride and the Devil as author of pride. Proverbs 11:2; Proverbs 16:18; 1 John 2:15-17. 23095
Pastor Mike Cepela Includes contempt of familiarity, the promise of persecution, modern application of the false liberator Messiah, counting it all joy, issues of checking out, the carrot the Devil dangles and feeling lower than others. James 1:1-11. 23093
Pastor Mike Cepela How God protects out relationship with Him. Includes Solomon’s lack of wisdom application, the sifting of the Christian, the problem of the mouth, false balance explained, King Saul’s incomplete obedience, addressing the Israel-Hamas issue. Proverbs 10:29-32; Hebrews 12:25-27; Proverbs 11:1. 23081
Matt Skonicki The Transfiguration of Jesus and aftermath. Includes apologetic response to supposed contradiction, the transformation of the butterfly, the Law and the Prophets/Moses and Elijah, growth in suffering, interrupted by God/listening to Jesus and Elijah/John the Baptist comparison. Matthew 17:1-13. 23076
Matt Skonicki The Parable of the Sower. Includes Jesus’ groupies vs His true disciples, the expectation of the Jewish people, the kingdom of the heart, the shell shock of salvation, hardening of our hearts, Isaiah prophecy explained, and various reaction to salvation. Matthew 13:1-23; Proverbs 2:1-6; Jude 1:12-13; Hebrews 3:12-13; Isaiah 6:11-13. 23057
Armand J. Azamar Includes the rest found in Jesus, hidden nature of God, faith like a child, how the Son reveals the Father, the heavy-laden burden of sin and the yoke of following Christ. Matthew 11:25-30. 23048
Matt Skonicki Persecutions: a sign you are doing something right. Includes Christians as sheep/serpents/doves, attacks of three kinds of wolves, the package of the Gospel, tentmaking misplaced, testimony of silence, motivations revealed and heresy defined. Matthew 10:16-27, Acts 5:42. 23040
Pastor Mike Cepela How counselors effect us, good or bad. Includes a mouth of negativity, effect of media chatter, the ‘God showed me’ pass, Jesus as Wonderful Counselor, prophecy defined, trend of godless people speaking for God, spirit of Antichrist as parallel, false prophecy as glorified fortune-telling, vulnerabilities to bad counsel and bad counsel from Christians. Isaiah 9:6. 22068
Pastor Mike Cepela The items of the Holy Place. Includes Hanukkah background, New Testament relevance, leading of the Spirit vs. religious ambition, internal shift in the spirit, continual oil, showbread correlation, stoning of the blaspheming son, potential of sin and cursing the same of the Lord. Leviticus 24. 22067
Pastor Mike Cepela Includes stewardship in prayer requests, obedience/wisdom connection, witness of God’s nearness, tabernacle/God’s presence connection, danger of man-centeredness, results of the lack of God’s nearness, passing down God’s word, forgetting God’s miracles, God’s fire defined. Deuteronomy 4:6-14; Proverbs 4:23. 22065
Pastor Mike Cepela Using the allotted time given to you correctly. Includes illusions of more time vs sense of urgency, motorcycle testimony, understanding seasons, parable of the rich man, God’s rest vs. idleness and dismissing elder’s advice. Luke 12:16-31; Psalm 90:10-12; Psalm 136:16; Ephesians 15:15-17. 22040
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