John 15:9-14 | Transcription: John fifteen, verse nine as the father has loved me, so I love you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his fr

Matthew 18:10-14 | Transcription: This is the Word of God. Matthew chapter eighteen, verse ten. See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven the angels always see the face of my father who is in heaven. What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, doesn't he leave the ninety nine up on the mountains to go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it truly, I say to you, he rejoices over

1 Chronicles 1:4-26 | Transcription: One of the oldest and most common debates in politics. And this is not just American, but going back to the the Greco-Roman world is what is the purpose of government. Generally, a more compassionate or liberal approach is that the purpose of government is to right wrongs and make the world a better place. Generally, a more conservative or right leaning approach is that the purpose of government is to do less, to stay out of the way, and

Psalm 119:145-152 | Transcript: This morning, though. Psalm one hundred and nineteen. I'm going to read it for us. The stanza, which is verses one forty five to one fifty two. Those letters, by the way, it's all the ESV, says the Psalm. Each stanza of the psalm is a different Hebrew letter, and not every Hebrew letter lines up with an English letter. So they just give you the Hebrew letter. But it's cough. It's more or less the English cue, I guess, would be the what it's goi

1 Chronicles 1:1-3 | Transcription: As I mentioned this morning, it's not often you hear study through first Chronicles, and perhaps that's because if you've tried to read First Chronicles, you run into a problem immediately that you don't know how to pronounce a lot of the names. And there are a lot of names and there are people you don't know. And so it becomes almost like reading somebody else's family Bible, like the the page, the dedication page, and family Bibles that h

Matthew 18:7-9 | Transcription: Matthew chapter eighteen. Let me read our texts verses seven through nine. This is the Word of God. Jesus says, woe to the world for temptations to sin. For it's necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes. And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It's better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet, to be thrown into the eternal fire. If yo

Psalm 134:1-3 | Transcription: So if you just read Psalm one thirty four, you noticed one thing right away. It's short. The Greeks were known for memorizing massive, massive poems, the Aeneid, which is ten thousand lines of poetry. It was almost a rite of passage for any Greek gentleman, although they did not use the word gentleman, but for any Greek man of dignity to have memorized most, if not all, of the Aeneid. Ten thousand lines. It was typical for both Greeks and Romans

Psalm 110:1-7 | Transcription: Some one hundred and ten. Yahweh says to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. Yahweh sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies. Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power in holy garments from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours. Yahweh has sworn and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizede

Psalm 118 | Transcription: This morning. In our worship, we are looking at Psalm one hundred and eighteen. It is a very long text, but an incredible psalm. And so I think we would cheat ourselves if we didn't read the whole thing. So indeed, I'm going to read the entirety of Psalm one hundred and eighteen. Let me invite you to look at Psalm one hundred and eighteen and follow with me as I read from God's Word beginning in verse one, the Word of God says this. O give thanks to

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Psalm 132:1-8 | Transcription: We're starting an advent series called songs for Weary Shepherds. And the idea behind this is behind this series that we'll go now through Christmas Eve is that there are. The shepherds came to Jesus's birth and sang songs when when he was born. And so we don't know what songs they sang, but we know that they had many of the psalms memorized. And so it is likely that the song sung by those shepherds on that first Christmas morning would have bee

Zechariah 14:9 | Transcription: So this tonight concludes our study over the last several months through the Nicene Creed. So you are all now creedal Christians in that sense. You have been exposed to the Creed, and I hope you understand the Creed, uh, a little bit better. At the very beginning, we talked about how the creed came to be, that it was Emperor Constantine, once the capital of the empire was moved from Rome to Constantinople, summoned, which he humbly named after

2 Corinthians 8:1-5

Ephesians 4:5 | Transcription: Chapter four. We are studying. If you're just joining us on our evening services, we are studying the Nicene Creed together. And as we've been going through it, we're near the end. The Nicene Creed, if you recall, is broken up into couplets and about really over three quarters of those couplets, three quarters of the Creed is about God. But then the end, you have a couple little lines tacked on, and that's where we find ourselves, um, the last,

Matthew 18:1-6 | Transcription: This morning, though Matthew eighteen, verse one. At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? Calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one such child in my name recei

Ephesians 4:4 | Transcription: Ephesians four, verse four. I'll read verses four and five or four, five and six together. We'll be looking at verses four tonight and verse five next week. The Word of God says, there is one body and one spirit, just as you were called to one hope that belongs to your call. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. This is the Word of God. We're studying on Sunday nights through the

Matthew 17:24-27 | Transcription: Matthew seventeen, verse twenty four. When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two drachma tax went up to Peter and said, does your teacher not pay the tax? And Peter said, yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, what do you think, Simon? From who do kings of the earth take toll or tax from their sons or from others? And when he said from others, Jesus said to him, then the sons are free. However, not

Psalm 65:1-13

2 Peter 1:21