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As Israel walked out of Egypt, their past would soon hunt them down. Pharoah set out to recapture the Israelites. They were trapped between a river and their oppressors. They were trapped behind an uncrossable barrier and their past coming to reenslave them. 3,500 years later, we face the same predicament. When our future feels impossible and our past is running us down, who will deliver us? Join us for the last week of our series, “The Deliverer”, as we look to the only one who can save us.
In part 5 of our series, The Deliverer, we’ll see the pride and power of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the hardness of heart that led him to reject God. But it was through Pharoah’s rejection of God that God would reveal His power and His grace. What will it take for God to get your attention? What will it take for you to stop rejecting God and see His power and embrace His love? Will you harden your heart or believe?
Have you ever found yourself thinking, “God can’t use me?” Have your dreams been dashed by disappointments or personal failures? Have your ambitions died? Do you find yourself just seeking to do your job, pay your bills, and try to find some peace and quiet? In week 4 of our series “The Deliverer”, we’ll look at the call of Moses and the excuses he made for why God couldn’t use him. Can God still use you?
What do you do when life has not turned out how you had hoped, or according to your plans? Whether it is a broken relationship, a lost job, a personal failure, or a life altering change. When your future is uncertain and you feel lost, there is a lot we can learn from the life of Moses. In this sermon, we’ll explore Moses' first journey through the wilderness and what God may be teaching us in ours.
Have you ever seen someone with a good desire make a hasty decision? They want to fix what is broken, but instead, they make it worse? Have you ever longed to see someone change for the better, but in your impatience, you pushed them away? As we explore the life of Moses through the pages of Scripture, we’ll learn how to pursue our good desires with God’s timing and His wisdom instead of our own.
Has God forgotten us? Does He even exist? When life hurts, when it feels like nothing is going right, these are the questions that come to mind. We pray for God to rescue us, to change our circumstances, to take the pain away, to fix what is broken, to heal our hurts, but often it feels like God is doing nothing. As we begin week 1 of our series “The Deliverer”, we’ll learn about the birth of Moses, and glimpse what God may be doing, even when we don’t see it.
When we examine the course of history, the stories retold on the screen, in our classrooms, on our podcasts, in our books, and in our very own lives, recount loss, pain, hardship, war, destruction, and failure. Our world is marred and broken. Life is often defined by defeat. But history was redefined by one earth-shaking Sunday 2,000 years ago. As we wrap up this series “4-Days” we will look at the story of Jesus' victory over death on the Sunday after His crucifixion, what it meant for those who first followed Him then, and what it means for us today.
For 2,000 years Christians have remembered Jesus' death on Friday, and celebrated His resurrection on Sunday, but where was Jesus on Saturday? Where was Jesus in between death and the resurrection? As far as Jesus' disciples were concerned, Jesus was dead and in a tomb. But what were they missing? In week 3 of our series “4 Days” we will search the Scriptures for the answer, and why what happened on Saturday can change our lives today.
On one fateful Friday 2 millennia ago, a blue-collar worker from a small town in the corner of the Roman empire, went to his death. He was born in humble conditions and died as so many of his country men did at the hands of their oppressors. But unlike his countrymen, his death will be remembered. His death is the most famous death in the history of the world. Jesus died. But why does that matter? Why did Jesus' death change the world? And how might it change your world? That’s what we’ll explore in week 2 of our series, “4 Days.”
In week 1 of our series “4 Days” we will look at what happened on Thursday of the week Jesus was crucified. At Jesus' most crucial hour, his disciples all fell away. They all failed Jesus. As we look at the disciples' failure, we’ll consider our own. What hope is there for us when our failures have hurt the people we love the most?