1 Peter 2:9-10
Speaker: Eric Johnson
Text: 1 Peter 2:9-10 [show]1 Peter 2:9-10
[9]But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. [10]Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (ESV)
Date: August 29, 2010
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Genesis 2:24-25
Speaker: Pastor Brian Jones
Text: Genesis 2:24-25 [show]Genesis 2:24-25
[24]Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. [25]And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. (ESV)
Date: August 22, 2010
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Genesis 2:18-24
Speaker: Pastor Brian Jones
Title: Man’s Beautiful Life Made More Beautiful
Text: Genesis 2:18-24 [show]Genesis 2:18-24
[18]Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." [19]Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. [20]The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. [21]So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. [22]And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. [23]Then the man said,
"This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man."
[24]Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (ESV)
Date: August 15, 2010
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Genesis 2:4-17
Speaker: Pastor Brian Jones
Title: What God Expects from Man (the Covenant of Works)
Text: Genesis 2:4-17 [show]Genesis 2:4-17
[4]These are the generations
of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
[5]When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up--for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, [6]and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground-- [7]then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. [8]And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. [9]And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
[10]A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. [11]The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. [12]And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. [13]The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. [14]And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
[15]The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. [16]And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, [17]but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." (ESV)
Date: August 8, 2010
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Genesis 2:1-3
Speaker: Pastor Brian Jones
Text: Genesis 2:1-3 [show]Genesis 2:1-3
[2:1]Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. [2]And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. [3]So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. (ESV)
Date: August 1, 2010
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Genesis 1:26-27
Speaker: Pastor Brian Jones
Text: Genesis 1:26-27 [show]Genesis 1:26-27
[26]Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
[27]So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
Date: July 25, 2010
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Genesis 1:1-2:3
Speaker: Pastor Brian Jones
Text: Genesis 1:1-2 [show]Genesis 1:1-2
[1:1]In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. [2]The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (ESV):3
Date: July 18, 2010
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Genesis 1:1
Title: The Preamble to God’s Word
Speaker: Pastor Brian Jones
Text: Genesis 1:1 [show]Genesis 1:1
[1:1]In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. (ESV)
Date: July 11, 2010
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Why Should I Want to Live a Long Time on This Earth? (Part 4)
Title: Why Should I Want to Live a Long Time on Earth? (Part 4)
Speaker: Pastor Brian Jones
Text: 2 Corinthians 5 [show]2 Corinthians 5
[5:1]For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. [2]For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, [3]if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. [4]For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened--not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. [5]He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
[6]So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, [7]for we walk by faith, not by sight. [8]Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. [9]So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. [10]For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
[11]Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. [12]We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. [13]For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. [14]For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; [15]and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
[16]From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. [17]Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. [18]All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; [19]that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. [20]Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. [21]For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (ESV)
Date: July 4, 2010
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Why Should I Want to Live a Long Time on this Earth (Part 3)?
Title: Why Should I Want to Live a Long Time on Earth? (Part 3)
Speaker: Pastor Brian Jones
Text: 1 Timothy 6:17-19 [show]1 Timothy 6:17-19
[17]As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. [18]They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, [19]thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life. (ESV)
Date: June 27, 2010
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