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Sunday Recap from 1/28 Big Picture Question: How do trials make us greater worshipers?

Sunday Recap from 1/28 Big Picture Question: How do trials make us greater worshipers?

Sunday, January 28, 2018, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 13:1-7: 1 Saul was . . . years old when he began to reign, and he reigned . . . and two years over Israel. 2 Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent….

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Sunday Recap for 1/21: Big Picture Question: How does God show His great pleasure to His children?

Sunday Recap for 1/21: Big Picture Question: How does God show His great pleasure to His children?

Our Scripture for today is 1 Samuel 12:19-25: 1 Samuel 12: 19 And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.” 20 And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with…

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Sunday Recap for 1/14: Big Picture Question: How does God redeem our painful and sinful circumstances?

Sunday Recap for 1/14: Big Picture Question: How does God redeem our painful and sinful circumstances?

Sunday, January 14, 2018, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 12:6-18. 1 Samuel 12:6 And Samuel said to the people, “The Lord is witness,  who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. 7 Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous deeds of the Lord that he performed for you and for your fathers. 8 When Jacob went into Egypt, and the…

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Sermon Recap from 1/07 service Big Picture Question: How is obedience communal?

Sermon Recap from 1/07 service Big Picture Question: How is obedience communal?

Sunday, January 7, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 12:1-5: 12:1 And Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have obeyed your voice in all that you have said to me and have made a king over you. 2 And now, behold, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day. 3 Here I am; testify against me before…

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Sunday Recap for 12/31 Big Picture Question: How should a Christian plan for the future?

Sunday Recap for 12/31 Big Picture Question: How should a Christian plan for the future?

On Sunday, December 31, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at Psalm 90: 1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. 3 You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!” 4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. 5 You…

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Sunday Recap for 12/24 – Big Picture Question: “Who is the king of God’s people?”

Sunday Recap for 12/24 – Big Picture Question: “Who is the king of God’s people?”

Sunday, December 24, 2017, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at Luke 2:1-7: 1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was…

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Sunday Recap from 12/17 Big Picture Question: Who is the King of God’s people?

Sunday Recap from 12/17 Big Picture Question: Who is the King of God’s people?

Sunday, December 17, Evident Grace looked at Matthew 1:18-25: (You can find the video stream of the sermon here.  You can stream the audio here.) Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce…

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Sunday Recap for 12/10 Big Picture Question: Who is the King of God’s people?

Sunday Recap for 12/10 Big Picture Question: Who is the King of God’s people?

Sunday, December 10, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at Luke 2:8-13. Luke 2:8  And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for…

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Sunday Recap 12/03: Who is the King of God’s people?

Sunday Recap 12/03: Who is the King of God’s people?

Sunday, December 3, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at Isaiah 9:1-7 as a part of our “Seeking a Better (King)dom” series. 1 But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. 2 The people who walked in darkness…

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Sunday Recap for 11/26 Big Picture Question: How does God renew His people?

Sunday Recap for 11/26 Big Picture Question: How does God renew His people?

Sunday, November 26, 2017, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 11:12-15 12 Then the people said to Samuel, “Who is it that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring the men, that we may put them to death.” 13 But Saul said, “Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel.” 14 Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom.” 15 So all the…

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