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Sunday Nov 22, 2020
Sunday Nov 22, 2020
A miracle of timing.
Today Pastor Michael continues our study of Elisha and our theme for today is “The Lord takes what the enemy meant for evil and turns it to good”.
We find the Shunammite woman having just returned from seven years in exile, living with the Philistines during a time of famine in her home country. Having survived the famine she found her land and home had been taken over, so she was going to the king to appeal for her land and home back. In a miracle of timing, at the very moment Gehazi is talking to the king about Elisha’s miracles, in walks the very woman and her restored son!
How providentially perfect!
The king’s judgment was to return to the woman everything she owned including the land’s earnings during her absence.
Our enduring hope of such judgment upon evil can help us to persevere in difficult times.
Today’s bible verses are found in 2 Kings 8: 1-6.
Sunday Nov 15, 2020
Sunday Nov 15, 2020
I’m “NOT” Fine.
Today our theme is “It takes more courage to be real about your struggle than to pretend that everything is fine”. As Christians, we need to realize, God is okay with us being real with our struggles. And we need to be that one person that listens and cares and prays. The one person that can be there for a person that they don’t have to be ‘fine’ with. Let us be people that others can be real with.
Today’s bible verses are found in 2 Kings 4: 8-36.
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Don’t Be Salty.
Today Micheal gets back to the series on Elisha and Elijah. Elijah has gone on to be with the Lord and Elisha is in a city, likely Jericho, and dealing with a city with a bad water supply. Elisha put salt in the water and declared the water healed. This seems counterintuitive to making the water better but Elisha was doing the Lord’s will. This salt healed the water and allowed the city to have crops and sustenance again. It also showed the Lord’s healing and lifting of Joshua’s curse.
Contrast that with today’s meaning of ‘salty’ as someone angry, upset or agitated. This is in sharp contract to the Bible’s use of ‘salt-of-the-earth’ a biblical sign of Christians who obey God and do his will to serve as a preservative of the human race and the earth by slowing down the moral and spiritual decay of the world around them. The takeaway here is, be like salt of the earth….not salty!
Today’s bible verses are found in 2 Kings 2: 19-22 and 2 Corinthians 4: 6-7.
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
God and Caesar
Today Michael is comparing Jesus’ answers to the Pharisees and the Herodians and showing how much politics really hasn’t changed in 2,000 years. Politics is the mess that has seeped down into everything, even church. And along that line, change needs to start in our heart and we need to show Jesus’ love and not see people for their politics.
We serve a Savior that is bigger than politics!
Verses today are found in Matthew 22: 15-22 and 2 Chronicles 7: 14.
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
The End is the New Beginning.
In today’s message, Michael is examining endings. Endings can stop us from beginning and the ghosts of the past haunt our present. Do you think God has a plan for beginnings? Yes, look at Genesis, “In the beginning…”.
But does He have a plan for endings? Yes, look at Elijah in 2 Kings, when Elijah was called to Heaven. God sees a new beginning in endings.
Verses today are found in 2 Kings 2: 1-14.
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Humility is a path to honor.
In today’s message, Michael is talking about humility. Using King Ahaziah as an example, our lesson is about pride, which is unteachable and humility which grows and learns. King Ahaziah put his faith in Baal-zebub on his deathbed and refuses to listen to Elijah, who had a message from the Lord that he would die. Ahaziah died as a result of his misplaced faith and rejected the goodness of God.
The most interesting figure in this story was the third captain that showed humility and was thus spared. The two captains sent to retrieve Elijah from the mountain were killed along with their men, due to their pride and lack of humility.
What is humility? There are many definitions but Michael really pegged it with the following definition: “Humility is seeing ourselves as God sees us”.
Michael is in 2 Kings, Chapter 1, Verses 1 through 18, 1 Peter 5: 6 and 2 Chronicles 7: 14.
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Is it worth it?
In today’s message, Michael is digging into following Jesus and the commitment required. Therefore, we have to wonder, is it worth it? He is studying Elijah and Elisha and where Elisha follows Elijah, Elijah simply following him by understanding the gravity of the call and saying goodbye to the life he knew. Similar to us following Jesus, there are things we will have to say goodbye to things. There is a cost to following the ways of the Lord.
If we’re ready to quit on God as soon as things get difficult, is our faith really in Him or in the easy life we feel He owes us?
Michael preaches today from 1 Kings 19: 19-21.
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
New Life and Baptism.
In today’s message, Michael is examining the act of Baptism. It is our first significant decision after accepting Jesus and Michael discusses the seriousness of this act. It’s about understanding and belief and the example shown in Acts shows this clearly.
Michael preaches today from Acts 8: 26-40 as well as Isaiah Chapter 53.
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Seek God and His Righteousness
In today’s message, Billy Huneycutt dives into our lives we live today during the pandemic. Lives of isolation and of being afraid. Staying at home and worrying and being scared and desperate. We are not however, the first generation of worry or having doubts about what is happening around us. Billy uses past generations in the Word to show that others have been afraid and that if we seek the Lord and His Righteousness, He will deliver us from doubt, worry and being scared.
Billy preaches today from Numbers 13 and 14 as well as 2 Chronicles 7: 4-14.
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
I Get Down, He Lifts Me Up.
Today’s message continues our study of Elijah and he is now in a cave and the word of the Lord comes into his heart, saying, “What are you doing here?”. Thus begins Elijah’s journey to be in the presence of the Lord. Massive winds blast the cliffs but the Lord was not in the wind. An earthquake follows, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. Then a fire and, yet again, the Lord was not in the fire. But then came, a gentle whisper, that is when Elijah knew it was the Lord.
Elijah was down but the Lord lifted him up. Knowing the Lord doesn’t mean you’ll never get down but it does mean you won’t *stay* down!
Today’s bible verses are found in 1 Kings 19: 1-18.