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…)
5 Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” 6 And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over ahead of the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went ahead Read more…
These are the power point slides that were used in the Discipleship Journey. The main take away is that we are meant to be forgiven and to forgive. Too often, though, we struggle in with our thoughts, teetering on the balance of listening to the lies of Satan and the promises Read more…
I have been listening to this song, Do Something. It gives me chills of excitement as I recognize that I have been elected by God to be sent on a mission! Like, wow! Me? And God, keeps telling me ‘yea…you’. My mind is intoxicated with the wonder of ‘how Read more…
Today marks the first day that we will be posting our Discipleship Journey on line. This day also marks the first day that the Discipleship Journey will be studying our Pastor’s Sermon (May 4, 2014) so that we can learn more about the power of God’s Word Hope you are Read more…
Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ 1 Corinthians 11:1 New American Standard Bible The first time I heard this, it appeared that Paul was a bit arrogant. Well, it seemed like he was REALLY arrogant…full of himself. To tell someone to ‘follow me’ is suggesting Read more…