Sunday, December 26, 2010
Word 247: God With Us Forever
Friday, December 24, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Word 242: Impacting Your Spheres of Influence
Passage: Matthew 9:9-13 & Acts 16:11-15
Stewardship Sermon Series: Releasing God's Generosity
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Academy of Faith 008: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering
The Book of Job
Blessings through Pressure and Pain
Lesson #8
· The Book of Job – Overview and Final Insights
· Structure of the Book of Job
· Final Insights
· Job himself as a study
· The Happy ending
· The Divine rebuke of Job’s three friends
· Concerning Biblical Inspiration
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Word 241: The Ten Day Test
Passage: Daniel 1:1-21
Stewardship Sermon Series: Releasing God's Generosity
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Academy of Faith 007: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering
The Book of Job
Blessings through Pressure and Pain
Lesson #7
· The Epilogue (42:7-17)
· Consideration from God
· Spiritual restoration (42:7–9)
· Job – his proven integrity (7)
· Friends – their rebuked perversity (8-9)
· Material restoration (42:10–17)
· Job – his ended captivity (10)
· Family – their restored society (11)
· Job – his final prosperity (12-17)
· Applications and Uses
1. Job’s saving relationship with God
2. Job’s wisdom
3. Job’s need for a sacrifice
4. The defeat of Satan
5. The coming Kingdom of God
6. The believer’s relationship to the Master
7. Job’s intercession for his friends
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Word 240: What Keeps You From Giving What God Has Given You?
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Academy of Faith 006: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering
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The Book of Job
Blessings through Pressure and Pain
Lesson #6
· The Dialogue
· Confrontation with God (38:1– 42:6)
· God’s questions for Job (38:1–40:2)
· Job’s response (40:3–5)
· Applications and Uses
1). We should not think more highly of ourselves than we ought.
2). We need to repent
3). We must learn to fear God
· More questions for Job (40:6–41:34)
· Job’s response (42:1–6)
A. Applications and Uses
1. God is powerful
2. God is great
3. God is pure
4. God is gracious
Jehovah versus Job
The infinite creative and controlling power of Jehovah versus the littleness, ignorance and impotence of Job
· IN REALTION TO THE EARTH (38 1-18)
Its creation v. 4-7
The oceans v. 8-11
The Morning v. 12-15
Hid sources v. 16-18
· IN RELATION TO HT HEAVENS (38:19-38)
Light and dark v. 19-21
The elements v. 22-30
Stars and Zodiac v. 31-32
Laws of nature v. 33-38
· IN REALTION TO LIVING BEINGS (38:39 – 39)
Beast and bird of prey v. 39-41
Beats preyed upon v. 39:1-12
Bird and beast of beauty v. 13-25
Two more fierce vultures v. 26-30
· IN RELATION TO SPECIAL CASES (40 – 42:6)
Proud wicked-doers v. 6-14
Behemoth (hippopotamus) v. 15-24
Leviathan (crocodile) c. 41
Job himself in reply c. 42:1-6
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Word 239: Why the Church Must be Re-Formed
Passage: John 17:1-26
Sermon Series: Living Out God's Unchanging Word to Serve and Ever Changing World
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Academy of Faith 005: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering
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The Book of Job
Blessings through Pressure and Pain
Lesson #5
· The Dialogue
· Conversation with Elihu (32-37)
· Elihu denounces Job and his friends (32–33)
· Applications/Uses
· Counseling from an angry heart can be dangerous
· Be a good listener
· Don’t try to be the answer man
· Elihu refutes Job’s complaints (34–35)
· Elihu defends God (36–37)
· Applications/Uses
· Suffering can reveal our true character
· Suffering can teach us about the character of God
· Suffering can teach us about the nature of faith
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Word 238: When the Church is Like the Turnpike
Passage: Acts 2:24-27
Sermon Series: Living Out the Unchanging Word to Serve an Ever-Changing World
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Academy of Faith 004: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering
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The Book of Job
Blessings through Pressure and Pain
Lesson #4
· The Dialogue
· Conversation with Friends – Cycle #3 (22-32)
· Eliphaz speaks (22)
· Job’s response (23–24)
· Bildad speaks (25)
· Job’s response (26–31)
· Applications and Uses
· By design, all of creation is a mystery to us
· God is self sustaining, but the world is not
· The concern for the Kingdom of God should be paramount
· Cursing God’s enemies (imprecations) should never be for personal revenge
· Cursing God’s enemies must be for the conversion of our enemies
· We have a basis for understanding what will happen to the unrepentant.
· Fearing God is based upon knowing God and being in awe of His ways
· We should intentionally and continuously remember God’s blessings of His care for us, His friendship with us, His provision for us, and His presence with us.
· Positive growing in growing is impossible without negative handling of sin.
· We must deal with our sin
· We must guard the heart and mind
· We must take practical steps
· We must live in the light of God’s presence
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Word 237: The Maturity Matrix
Passage: Acts 7:54-8:4
Sermon Series: Living Out the Unchanging Word to Serve an Ever Changing World
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Academy of Faith 003: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering
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The Book of Job
Blessings through Pressure and Pain
Lesson #3
· The Dialogue
· Conversation with Friends – Cycle #2 (15-21)
· Eliphaz speaks (15)
· Job’s response (16–17)
· Bildad speaks (18)
· Job’s response (19)
· Zophar speaks (20)
· Job’s response (21)
· Applications and Uses
· To be confused by how God deals with us is normal
· To be troubled by how God deals with us is not sinful
· A time of trouble is a time of great temptation
· A time of trouble need not defeat us entirely
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Word 236: Our Shared Convictions
Passage: II Timothy 3:10-4:8
Sermon Series: Living Out God's Unchanging Word to Serve an Ever Changing World
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Academy of Faith 002: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering
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The Book of Job
Blessings through Pressure and Pain
Lesson #2
· The Dialogue
· Conversation with Friends – Cycle #1 (3–14)
· Job’s lament (3)
· His cry of grief (3:1-10)
· His cursing turns into questioning (3:11-26)
· Applications and Uses
1). When suffering, people need sympathy not cold diagnosis
2). Asking too many questions of God is not healthy or productive
3). Questions about health and loss of loved ones challenge our faith the most
4). Christianity has always been and will always be the way of the cross
5). Suffering should prompt us to pray
· Eliphaz speaks (4–5) – The Religious Moralist
· Based upon experience
· Based upon private revelation
· Based on orthodox theology
· Job’s response (6–7)
· Anger, bitterness and complaints
· His loss of dignity
· His view of life as futile
· His being unfairly treated
· Bildad speaks (8) – The Religious Legalist
· Based on Tradition
· Based upon appearances
· Based upon cause and effect
· Job’s response (9–10)
· Has lost sense of God’s loving kindness
· Knows it is futile to argue with God because He is sovereign
1). God is incomprehensible
2). God is invisible
3). God is unaccountable
4). God is unrestrainable
6. Zophar speaks (11) – The Religious Dogmatist
· Based on Assumption
· Based on Job’s secret sin
· Based on Job’s serious sin
· Job’s response (12–14)
· God is sovereign
· He wants to talk to God not his friends
· The Three Friends compared and Contrasted
· Eliphaz is the religious moralist
· Bildad is the religious legalist
· Zophar is the religious dogmatist
· Eliphaz is the apologist – the voice of philosophy -
· Bildad is the lecturer – the voice of history
· Zophar is the bigot – the voice of orthodoxy
· Applications and Uses
· They had the view that calamity is always the direct outcome of sin
· They had a far too narrow and rigid view of Providence
· They wanted to prove that goodness and wickedness are always rewarded or punished in this present life
· They did not give a convincing answer to Job
· They all condemn Job
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Organ and Brass Concert
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Word 235: MPC's Missional Mandate
Passage: Matthew 28:16-20 / John 20:19-23 / Acts 1:1-11
Sermon Series: Living out God's Unchanging Word to Serve and Ever Changing World
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Academy of Faith 001: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering
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The Book of Job
Blessings through Pressure and Pain
Lesson #1
· Character of Job and Criticism of Satan
· Job – His piety (1:1-5)
1. Blameless -
2. Upright –
3. Feared God –
4. Turned away from sin (shunned evil) –
· Job – His prosperity
1. Wealth –
2. Family-
· Satan – his lie and accusation (1:6-12)
1. Sons of God (angels) -
a. Fallen Angels –
b. Faithful Angels-
c. Different Ranks of Angels -
d. Different Kinds of Angels –
e. Angels appear at different points in history
f. Angels are agents in the conflict between good and evil
· Job – his piety in adversity (1:13-22)
1. Did not sin
2. Did not charge God with wrongdoing
· Satan – his lie and accusation (2:1-6)
· Job – his piety in extremity (2:7-13)
1. Patience - (James 5:11)
2. Integrity –
· Did not sin in what he said -
· Applications and Uses
· Regarding Satan –
1. Satan is accountable to God
2. Satan’s mind is known to God
3. Satan is behind the evils that curse the earth
4. Satan is neither omnipresent nor omniscient
5. Satan can do nothing without Divine permission
6. Every permission has a definite limitation
7. God’s eyes are on His own especially in times of trial
· Regarding affliction
1. The need for perseverance affirms that the world is not our home
2. Perseverance is a recognition that everything we have belongs to God and not to us.
3. Perseverance is a determination to worship God regardless of what happens
4. Worship involves submission to God’s sovereignty
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Word 234: The Kingdom Meets The Jersey Shore
Passage: Acts 17:16-34
Sermon Series: Living Out God's Unchanging Word To Serve An Ever Changing World
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Word 233: For a Time and Place Such as This
Passage: Esther 4:1-17 / Acts 8:26-40
Sermon Series: Living out God's Unchanging Word to Serve and Ever Changing World
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Word 232: Being What We Were Made to Be
Passage: Romans 12:1-8
Sermon Series: Living Out God's Unchanging Word to Serve and Ever Changing World
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Word 229: The Confidence To Do Great Things
Passage: Habakkuk 3:16-19
Sermon Series: An Honest Conversation with God
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Word 228: The Awesome Works of God
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Word 227: A Prayer of Awe
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Word 226: Part of the Plan
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Word 224: When God's Answer is Not What You Hoped For
Passage: Habakkuk 1:5-11
Sermon Series: A Honest Conversation with God
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Word 223: When Life Seems Unfair
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Word 220: The Outward Disciplines
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Word 219: The Discipline of Prayer
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Come To The Table
Passage: Mark 14:1-26
Sermon Series: The Gospel of Mark
Music by: Johann Sebastian Bach
Conducted by: Mr. James Lueers
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Word 206: The Undercover Boss
Passage: Mark 10:35-45
Sermon Series: The Gospel of Mark
Click to listen to the Waynesburg Lamplighter Touring Choir:
- Locus Iste 2:13
- Keep On Making a Way 3:33
- Beautiful Savior 2:08
- Order My Steps 2:44
- Praise His Holy Name 2:50