Beacon Church Podcast

Nehemiah 1: 1- 11God takes broken things and He restores them. He renews them. This is the whole story of the Bible from Genesis 3, When we broke it to the very end, when the new city of Jerusalem comes down out of heaven from God and the restoration of all things happens. No more tears when we take our weapons and we beat them into plowshares.

Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world. 

Merry Christmas!

We are meant to know who we are by being known.

Psalms 50 : 3 - 4, 7

Beacon 20th Anniversary

Anxiety shows up at the intersection of importance and impotence. when things are important, we value them. We see them as being important, and yet we see ourselves as being impotent to protect those things from threats. That's where anxiety lives.

Being thankful because his loss became our life. And that's the Thanksgiving story that always going to be worth telling.

1. Be Angry 2. And do not sin 3. Ponder in your own head's and be silent

1. Expression 2. Examination 3. Re-Imagination Psalm 77:3

The philistines left the land of Israel because of the fuze that Jonathan and his armor bearer set.

I must become lesser. He must become greater. That's the essence of surrender.

Be a model in such a way. Live with kind of integrity and the kind of truth telling, with the kind of compassion and understanding be a grace filled voice in their life to bring them back into the presence of Jesus, and then give them a kick to get them out to do everything that Jesus has for them to do.

A cord of three strands is not easily broken, and we can accomplish so much more together as a church than we ever could alone. So the journey is not just about a building it's about what we're building , which is each other.

Jonathan's faith was rooted in a deep trust that God was going to show up in an impossible. situation.

Jesus is saying that when the world sees us in the center of that burning fellowship between the father and the son, it will come to believe that he is who he says he is. That's the invitation.

Solomon got to live in a palace and Jeremiah lived in a hole. God has his ways of working those things out. But what I do know is it has nothing to do with how valuable you are to him. Because the issue of our value was settled on a cross.

1. The Great Commandment - Love 2. The Great Compassion - Do 3. The Great Commission - Go 4. The Great Collaboration - Together

If you want to enjoy life and see many happy days, keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies.

We need to keep our eyes focused on God, build our faith and it will diminish or lower our fears.