After Sermon Notes

Ezekiel 37 serves as a message of hope and restoration, symbolically through God bringing life and unity out of death and desolation.  The prophet is given a vision where he is placed into a valley filled with dry bones and is asked by God if the dry bones can live.  While today we would probably…

If you haven’t heard the message that Pastor Aaron Velázquez and his wife (interpreting) gave on Sunday, do yourself a favor and go back and watch the recording. It was a phenomenal sermon and they delivered so well. The key point that I took away is “just because we don’t hear God, doesn’t mean he…

This week, as a continuation of the series entitled “Between Two Mountains.” Pastor Lawrence reviewed the period of 900 to 700 B.C., and the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Most of this week’s scripture on the slides was from 2 Kings. God’s chosen people were falling into a familiar pattern of despondency after a deliverance.…

An idol is anything put before God (see Exodus 20:3).  Solomon allowed his many wives to turn his heart away from God and to idols (see 1 Kings 11:3-4).  The idol worship of Solomon, then the same by the dysfunctional kings in the divided kingdom resulted in dire circumstances. What are some of today’s idols…

There are an abundance of answers that come from the question, “What is your first thought when you think of David’s life?”   The Hebrew word for heart is leb or lebab.  The Greek word is kardia.  In both Hebrew and Greek, heart is used in the literal and the figurative sense.  The predominant usage is…

BETWEEN TWO MOUNTAINS: A HEART THAT LISTENS TO GOD El libro de los Jueces termina con una frase inquietante: “En aquellos días no había rey en Israel, y cada uno hacía lo que bien le parecía” (Jueces 21:25). Esta declaración resume el caos espiritual y moral del pueblo. Sin dirección, sin liderazgo, sin propósito. Pero…

God has had a plan for each and every person throughout the history of the world, whether the person willingly stepped forward in faith to accomplish His will or unwittingly played a role to accomplish it.  It didn’t matter if it was the least likely shepherd boy or the king of a nation.  It is…

Each one of us started out as broken.  We were much like the axe head illustrated in Pastor Lawrence’s sermon through 2 Kings 6 this past Sunday, headed for the bottom of the river and lost forever.  But like the axe head in the passage, there is a cure for our brokenness.  But the freedom…

Pastor Harry pointed out how God cares for us while also highlighting several admonitions contained in 1 Peter 5 this past Sunday, one of which was from verse 5 (ESV), Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Here are some tips…

Spiritual growth can be stunted by living in a busy, worldly comfort zone.  In Pastor Lauren’s sermon this past Sunday, we were shown through Scripture how God had done great things through His servant Elijah.  But after all of the hullaballoo, Jezebel threatened to kill Elijah so he ran to the wilderness, hiding under a…