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Apr 2017
Alive Again – Great! 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 #1. GREAT TRANSFORMATION vv.50-53 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 (NIV) #2. GREAT VICTORY vv.54-56 He will swallow up......
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Mar 2017
Alive Again – New Bodies! 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 #1. TWO QUESTIONS But someone may ask, “How will the dead be raised? What kind of bodies will they have? 1 Corinthians 16:35 (NLT) #2. THREE EXAMPLES Look DOWN I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 1 Corinthians 3:6-8 (KJV) Look _________________......
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Mar 2017
1 Corinthians 15: 12-22 #1. THERE IS ALWAYS A SEA OF IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO KNOW GOD. Acts 17 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. Ephesians 4:14-15 (NIV) #2. TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS The world without a resurrected Savior Meaningless PREACHING WORTHLESS Faith FALSE Witnesses Still......
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Mar 2017
1 Corinthians 15 #1. THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. Romans 1:16 (NIV) #2. THE WITNESSES The SCRIPTURES Cephas – PETER The APOSTLES 500 MEN AND WOMEN James – the BROTHER The Apostle PAUL #3. THE AMAZING UNITY OF THE TESTIMONY. Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. 1 Corinthians 15:11 (NIV)...
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Mar 2017
Moving Forward – Finishing Well Joshua 13, 14, and 23 #1. WHEN GOD SAYS YOU’RE OLD, YOU’RE OLD, BUT YOUR’E NOT DONE. When Joshua had grown old, the Lord said to him, “You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over. Joshua 13:1 #2. CONFIDENCE TO MOVE FORWARD REMEMBER past victories. Remember the CONVICTIONS of your youth Claim the PROMISES of God. Adjust your ATTITUDE: You are as old as you feel DEDICATE yourself to God and His glory Never stop Moving Forward to take the next......
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Feb 2017
Moving Forward Joshua 7 #1. THE CLEAR COMMAND. But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. Joshua 6:18 #2. THE HIDDEN DANGER OF VICTORY. But the Israelites were unfaithful in regard to the devoted things; Achan son of Karmi, the son of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of them. So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel. Joshua 7:1 #3. THE COST OF COMPROMISE. So......
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Feb 2017
Moving Forward Joshua 6 #1. THE OBSTACLE . Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. Joshua 6:1 #2. THE PLAN. 2 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3 March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. 4 Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven......
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