This is our third sermon on this creed, and today we looked at this: Jesus as Savior. You will find some challenging comments/questions in the slide presentation. During the very last slide, I challenged our group to spend 15 minutes with God in the morning simply listening to Him, while Read more…
Today, we started a new topic on understanding the relevancy of the Apostle’s and Nicene Creeds. The main concern that I had for our group to grasp was to live out what we believe, and so we began to look at each portion of the Creeds, while asking thought provoking questions along Read more…
Yesterday, for the 16th year -I believe- Faith Fest has graced the Commons at Newport, NH.
The music was awesome, the kids seemed to enjoy themselves, and some folks stopped into the prayer tent. All yeah’s!
But, as I was strolling around the Commons, interacting with others, I came across one man who reflected upon a Faith Fest from a while back: It doesn’t seem like we are getting the crowds of people that we once had. I thought about that and replied (more…)
[slideshow_deploy id=’684′] Today we discussed FRUIT BEARING, and dared to entertain this question: if we are NOT producing good works, are we REALLY Christians? While this brings to the floor the controversy among Evangelicals between the Once- Saved-Always-Saved and the You-can-loose-your-salvation camps, I remember a very wise Seminary Professor, Dr. Ralph Read more…
[slideshow_deploy id=’660′] While I realize that the stereotypical image of a group of men is visualized with them grunting and scratching themselves is alive and well, I want to report that we shattered that image on our second annual men’s cookout. Sure there was a little grunting , but there was Read more…
Today we dived into the thorny topic (pun intended) of how the age old story of Israel’s lack of total conquest for the very land God promised them mirrors our misfortunes today…because of a lack of obedience. The power point presentation is straight forward, I think, as it displays some Read more…
This week we tackled Joshua 8, which Pastor Mike preached on the previous week. Here are the slides along with comments. [slideshow_deploy id=’612′] Reading about Joshua leading Israel is not for the faint of heart! Sure we know that ‘good guys’ win in the end, but there Read more…
Church Discipline 
is a dicey subject, but we jumped into it in our Discipleship Journey by way of looking at Joshua 7:off (which was the basis for the sermon on June 22. 2014), discussing how the sin of one man was viewed by God, Himself, as the sin of the Community: (more…)
We discussed Pastor Mike’s sermon from June15. I decided to put it here as a slide show, with captions. Let me know what you think. Blessings on your journey -Michael [slideshow_deploy id=’575′]
Again, we are plowing into God’s Word by way of talking about the Sermon from the previous week. I have found that this is allowing the congregation to better wrestle with the precepts of God in order to help them (all of us) in our discipleship journey.
Today, we looked over Joshua 5:1-9. (more…)