Sermons and Prophecy

“Dealing With Disaster” Summary:  Encouragement to stay faithful in adversity. Series:  When Life is the Pits  Scripture:  Genesis 37:12-36   Date:26, June 2016. Scripture Reading Take your Bibles and rise to your feet, turn with me now and   Read  Genesis 37: 12-36 12  Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem. 13  And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.” He answered, “Here I am.” 14  So he said to him, “Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock; and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the valley of Hebron. He came to Shechem,  15  and a man found him wandering in the fields; the man asked him, “What are you seeking?”  16  “I am seeking my brothers,” he said; “tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock.” 17  The man said, “They have gone...

Dealing with an Imperfect Family Summary:  Insights on how Joseph was faithful to God even in an imperfect family. Series:  When Life is the Pits  Scripture:  Genesis 37:1-11  Date: 19 June, 2016. Introduction: The term dysfunctional is used quite often today in regard to families. The word refers to the sense of disintegration produced in a family where there is a lot of hurt. From a Christian perspective it is a home that is not functioning as God intended. It could be the result of divorce, lack of communication, rivalry among the children, self consumed parents, addictions, child abuse, sexual abuse, spousal abuse, extramarital affairs, pornography and the list goes on and on.  One of the strange dynamics in family life is that when children grow up they often repeat the mistakes of their families. The truth is that what we know about marriage and parenting for good or bad we learned in our homes. The end result is that dysf...

SIMON THE SORCERER: BARGAINING WITH GOD Summary:   Part 6 of 6 of the series, Stories of little known people of the Bible. We skip ahead in time for this message into the period of the New Testament. And here in the book of Acts we discover a man who doesn't like losing control...   Series:  Stories of Little Known People of the Bible. Scripture:   Acts 8:4-25 Acts 17:22-28 Read at beginning of service: Acts 17:22-28 (NIV) 22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. 24 "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25 And he is not served ...