Tag Archives: Expository Teaching

Spiritual Nuggets 2/27/2024

My Momma Done Tol’ Me I went through a phase when I was obsessed with the blues. Something about the soul was at work in the music—a genre created late at night while reflecting on hard times. The music was … Continue reading

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Faith Is the Victory – 4

Scripture Reference: Genesis 14 3. Abraham the Worshiper Please read Genesis 14:17-24 for the background to this section. A new battle. Sometimes you face your greatest dangers after you have won a battle. It was after the capture of Jericho … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 2/26/2024

Lives of Spiritual Opulence The Pharisees upheld a faulty religious system. They were supposed to be the Jews’ spiritual leaders, but they were more interested in making themselves the religious elite. They loved “greetings in the marketplace and the best … Continue reading

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Faith Is the Victory – 3

Scripture Reference: Genesis 14 2. Abraham the Warrior – Continued Please read Genesis 14:13-16 for the background to this section. His army – continued. (3) They were trained (verse 14). No matter how good their equipment is, if the soldiers … Continue reading

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Faith Is the Victory – 2

Scripture Reference: Genesis 14 2. Abraham the Warrior Please read Genesis 14:13-16 for the background to this section. His attitude. Abraham didn’t get involved in the war until he heard that Lot had been captured, and it was then he … Continue reading

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Faith From The Beginning 2/24/2024

Needs But Little – Continued MOSES was indeed, the salt of the earth in those days. When finally God did come to judge Israel, it was because the salt had lost its power and there was found no intercessor. In … Continue reading

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Faith Is the Victory – 1

Scripture Reference: Genesis 14 When you enroll in the “school of faith,” you never know what may happen next. Visit Abraham one day and you’ll find him settling a boundary dispute. Visit him another day and you’ll see him gearing … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 2/23/2024

Riddle Me This Jesus’ enemies regularly attempted to make Him look foolish or to disprove His authority. The absurd questions they concocted to discredit Him are rather amusing. The Sadducees posed one of the most preposterous questions about the resurrection … Continue reading

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I Have Called You Friends – 3

Scripture Reference: John 15:12-25 From Last Lesson: Jesus did have to die for us. He died to reveal the Father’s compassion, not to appease the Father’s love. That may be the first thing we need to make perfectly clear. Christian … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 2/22/2024

Who Is Trustworthy? We might get sidetracked when reading the Parable of the Ten Minas. Businessmen aren’t sympathetic characters in our modern world. In movies and sometimes in life, they’re often flat, miserly characters who take advantage of naïve individuals … Continue reading

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I Have Called You Friends – 2

Scripture Reference: John 15:12-25 The arms race today, and the once called “cold-war” is like that. It is the cut that exposes the grain. The grain is national chauvinism, the assumption of moral superiority inherent in our kind of people … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 2/21/2024

God the Innovator Innovators often say they learn more from their failures than their successes. The successes come as a result of repeated failures, whether in business or in life. We must learn from our mistakes if we are to … Continue reading

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I Have Called You Friends – 1

Scripture Reference: John 15:12-25 The man who is speaking the words in our reference scriptures will be dead and buried approximately twenty-four hours later. He is preparing a small circle of His followers to be ready to live without Him. … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 2/20/2024

Complaints Complaining can be automatic. We complain about the weather, our children, our jobs. And we might do it for any number of reasons—even something as trivial as to keep a conversation going. Although we might complain lightly, we still … Continue reading

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The Anointing of a Praying Church – 4

Scripture Reference: Acts 4:23-31 5. There Is Grace Abounding in the Lives of God’s People Luke told us that “great grace was upon them all” (Acts 4:33). The word grace here could be exchanged for the word Christlikeness. These people … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 2/19/2024

Transitions Life is marked by seasons—times of great difficulty and times of great joy. Usually we focus on making the transition from pain to relief as quickly as possible, but in the process, we may forget the significance of the … Continue reading

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The Anointing of a Praying Church – 3

Scripture Reference: Acts 4:23-31 3. There Is a Desire to Evangelize Acts 4:29 is probably the most challenging verse in this Scripture. “Now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with … Continue reading

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The Anointing of a Praying Church – 2

Scripture Reference: Acts 4:23-31 1. There Is a Continuous Desire to Pray A praying church recognizes the supreme importance of prayer, and always desires to pray. This is illustrated in the lives of the leaders of the Jerusalem church. Peter … Continue reading

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Faith From The Beginning 2/17/2024

Needs But Little IT does not take a great deal of salt to flavor and to preserve, usually only a pinch. So, too, a few believers, yes, one believer, has more power with God than a world full of diplomats … Continue reading

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The Anointing of a Praying Church – 1

Scripture Reference: Acts 4:23-31 Acts 4 is an account of a church at prayer. What wonderful things happened! An earthquake shook the building. Christians were filled with the Holy Spirit. Boldly they began to witness. There was unity in the … Continue reading

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