God Parted the Red Sea (Exodus 13-15) Moses led God's people out of Egypt, and God made the way to freedom across the Red Sea. Moses was a great leader, but the Bible says Jesus is greater. God gives us freedom from sin through His Son, Jesus. Big Picture Question Does God keep His promises? Yes, God always keeps His promises because He is faithful. Key Passage ...

In the weeks leading up to the Christmas season, my heart began to swell with child-like joy. I could feel it rising. I began to question, Is this ok? Am I just having an emotional high? In Hidden Christmas, Tim Keller writes that "even when you seem to be enjoying something else, God is the actual source of your joy. The thing you love is from him and is lovely because i...

God Delivered His People (Exodus 5-12) God kept the Israelites safe from punishment when they put the blood of a lamb over their doors. Jesus is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. Jesus was punished for sin when He died on the cross, and everyone who trusts in Jesus is kept safe from the punishment for sin. Big Picture Question Does God keep His...

2 Samuel 24:10-25 But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly." And when David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, "Go and say to ...

God Called Moses (Exodus 1-4) God saved Moses' life and called him to rescue God's people from slavery. The calling of Moses points to a greater calling and rescuethe call of Jesus to come to earth to save God's people. Jesus gave up His life to save us from slavery to sin Big Picture Question Does God keep His promises? Yes, God always keeps His promises because ...

Psalm 130 A Song of Ascents.Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!O Lord, hear my voice!Let your ears be attentiveto the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,O Lord, who could stand?But with you there is forgiveness,that you may be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,and in his word I hope;my soul waits for the Lordmore than wa...

Ephesians 4:11-16 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longe...

Sermon Passage: Ephesians 5:22-32 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave him...

Sermon Passage: Matthew 16:13-20 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" And they said, "Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son o...

God Controls Everything (Job) Job learned that God is all-powerful, sovereign, and good. When we facesuffering, we can hope in God. God sent Jesus, the only truly innocent One, tosuffer and die so that everyone who trusts in Him can. Big Picture Question Who is in control of everything? God is in control of everything in heaven and on earth. Nothing is outside of ...

God Had a Plan for Joseph (Genesis 35-50) God had a plan for Joseph's life. He allowed Joseph to suffer in order to rescuea whole nation. God planned for Jesus to suffer so that manypeople from allnationswould be saved. Big Picture Question Who is in control of everything? God is in control of everything in heaven and on earth. Nothing is outside of God's good pla...