October 4, 2009 AM
Get Smart - A Study in Proverbs #4
Dave MarttunenAudio / Notes / Questions / LeadersWhoever wrote “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me,” lived in denial. Words devastate. Words heal. The choice is ours. Today, Pastor Dave Marttunen is teaching from Proverbs in our fall morning series entitled, “Get Smart”. Today’s message is entitled, “Straight Talk,” and it is all about the words we choose. The great insight from Proverbs is that we can be better and we can do better. Wounds can be healed, the tongue can be tamed, and our words can be like apples of gold in baskets of silver.
We can Get Smart.
September 27, 2009 PM
Salvation's History #3
David DawsonAudio God's deliverance of his people from slavery in Egypt is the most significant event in Old Testament history. This one event is celebrated and remembered because it more than anything else, defines God's relationship with his people. In the Exodus, God shows that he is powerful and gracious. He is a God who works to bring deliverance to his people. The sad part of the Exodus story is the response of his people. Delivered from slavery, they grumble and complain as they travel through the wilderness. The story of Exodus and the wilderness has some significant parallels with our relationship with God through Christ. As we learn from them, we can avoid the mistakes they made and celebrate God's powerful grace.
September 27, 2009
Get Smart - A Study in Proverbs #3
Dave MarttunenAudio / Notes / Questions / LeadersHave you noticed that work in an area of passion or enjoyment doesn‟t count as work. We most often refer to work as something that we are required to do, not what we enjoy doing, but most of the enjoyment we receive in life comes in the form of return on investment. Hobbies, sports, and causes all require huge investments of energy, time, commitment, planning, and even money (made in the places we work!), but we don‟t usually think of them in terms of work. But… work is just that; work. So what makes it good? What makes it great? How does God view our work? In Proverbs, work is another hot topic. Today, we explore it in our teaching session.
September 20, 2009 AM
Get Smart - A Study in Proverbs #2
Dave MarttunenAudio / Notes / Questions / LeadersWhen the proverbs were being first written, money wasn‟t invented. In ancient days, people bartered and traded goods. But even way back then, without coins or bills or beads of wealth, everyone understood treasure, or surplus and wealth. Proverbs has a lot to say to us today about our wealth, our issues of poverty and what God thinks is the smart thing for us to do with money. God sees the big picture and he sees us working out what to do with money in this big picture. Dollars and Sense, today‟s topic, will focus our hearts way beyond accounting and touch the deeper issues that affect our culture and our own lives. Proverbs speaks to us about issues like responding to poverty, choosing opportunity and how dollars impact justice and use strong words like values to gain our attention.
September 13, 2009 PM
Salvation's History #1
David DawsonAudio For the first stop in our tour of the Old Testament, we begin where it all began. We will reflect on humanity as created in the image of God yet fallen. We will see that these first chapters of the Bible define salvation blessing and show us how that blessing was lost. We will also explore how Christ is the second Adam the representative for humanity that Adam failed to be.
September 13, 2009 AM
Get Smart - A Study in Proverbs #1
Dave MarttunenAudio / Notes / Questions / LeadersOne of my favourite Berra sayings is this one, "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." In life we want more than humour; we want solution. We want to know when we come to a fork which one will lead us where we want to go. Can we gain this kind of knowledge? The Bible says yes! Proverbs is one of the books of Wisdom in the Bible. It is written as a life coach manual to help us find our way through the maze of choices and destinations that present themselves throughout our lives. Proverbs is better than a life GPS and it is superior to a map or directory of options. Proverbs presents us with the way to become wise, and wisdom is the ability to navigate every life circumstance.
September 6, 2009 PMDavid DawsonTonight, we will conclude the book of Acts as we see Paul arrive in Rome. While the book of Acts comes to a conclusion, the acts of the Spirit are never really completed. Even today, the primary themes of this book live on. God's people, by the power of his Spirit, testify to the gospel of Grace and the church grows.Audio
September 6, 2009 AMDave MarttunenSome things in families aren’t explained because there is no explanation. The preference for Ketchup with roast beef, or keeping the veggies out of the gravy; Uncle Pete does it, so does Dad, and one of the brothers too. It’s just the way things are. Can’t explain it, but everyone in the family understands it. Blue eyes are from blue-eyed parents, no choice, just the way things are. Today, Paul tells us that some of the things that puzzle us spiritually, frustrate us, maybe even defeat us—like our inclination to move away from God, or our inclination to define God in our own terms; to idolize him in ways that make him more like us, or tamer, more manageable, more for us and tragically less Himself; all of this comes from a single origin. The Bible tells us way back when, someone named Adam, (the first), made a choice that started a movement, created a shift, and ever since, its been that way. Until a new person named Jesus, the God man did something radical that didn’t shift us back, but opened a door to a new regime that is even better. Today, in the last of this series on Romans 1-5 (Part 10) Pastor Dave concludes the series with a message entitled, ―Governing Grace.Audio
