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Pilgrim Songs #5: If It Had Not Been The Lord (Psalm 124)
Pilgrim Songs #4: Have Mercy Upon Us, O Lord! (Psalm 123)
Pilgrim Songs #3: Let Us Go to the House of The Lord (Psalm 122)
Pilgrim Songs #2: My Help Comes from The Lord (Psalm 121)
Pilgrim Songs #1: I Called to The Lord (Psalm 120)
Starting Point #5: The Church (Romans 12:1-21)
Starting Point #4: The Standards (Acts 15:1-35)
Starting Point: The Christian Life (Galatians 5:13-26)
Starting Point #2: The Bible (2 Timothy 3:14-17)
Starting Point #1: The Gospel
Starting Point is our class for those exploring membership with Back Creek Church. In this series, we take a deeper dive into that content as a helpful refresh for our me…
On the morning of the resurrection of Jesus, the women at the tomb (and through them, we) receive three invitations:
Come and see! Come and worship! Go and tell!
For Jesus to have been persecuted unto death must have looked and felt to everyone involved - both his followers and his enemies - that he had lost and his enemies had won. But persecution means the …
Those who persecuted Christ and those who persecute His Church do so because they are deceived by the evil one - we see this in the crowds who shouted "crucify him!"
Because they were deceived, the cr…
Jesus not only prepares us to endure persecution for His sake, He endured persecution for our sake. In Matthew 26:47-27:31, we see Jesus face persecution from cowards who had the opportunity to honor…
Jesus taught that those who were persecuted for his sake would be blessed. And Jesus himself endured persecution from the most revered and respected men in his community - the council of the Sanhedri…
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake - Jesus expects us to face persecution as we seek to live as citizens of His kingdom in the hostile kingdom of this world. And how does he…
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Our God is a peace-making God and He makes us agents and ambassadors of peace in the world. We pursue peacemaking through faith, fel…
Blessed are the pure in heart - those who seek God are blessed to see God, to ascend the hill of the Lord and stand in His holy place, not because we have clean hands and a pure heart, but because Ch…
Blessed are the merciful, who have received mercy from Christ and now look with the eyes of Christ at those in need of mercy, responding with compassion (heart) and action (hands) to the poor, the hu…
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness - those who look to Jesus for the righteousness we do not have and find that He has provided for us by satisfying the requirements of God's…