Posts by Scott Roberts (Page 23)

God will Deliver His People POHFW

Preparing our Hearts to Worship   In an effort to help you prepare for the May 27, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the God’s Story of Salvation through the Scriptures. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “God will deliver his people” The main Scriptures for the day are Esther 1-10. The other passages…

Discipleship in the first century

From The Epistle of Barnabas chap. xix.—the way of light. The way of light, then, is as follows. If any one desires to travel to the appointed place, he must be zealous in his works. The knowledge, therefore, which is given to us for the purpose of walking in this way, is the following. Thou shalt love Him that created thee: thou shalt glorify Him that redeemed thee from death. Thou shalt be simple in heart, and rich in spirit.…

18 Daniel – Faithful in times of exile and persecution POHFW

Preparing our Hearts to Worship   In an effort to help you prepare for the May 13, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the God’s Story of Salvation through the Scriptures. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “Being Faithful in times of exile & persecution” The main Scriptures for the day are Daniel 1-7.…

Only God can bring LIFE to the Dead POHFW

Preparing our Hearts to Worship   In an effort to help you prepare for the May 6, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the God’s Story of Salvation through the Scriptures. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “Only God can bring LIFE to the Dead” The main Scriptures for the day are Ezekiel 37:1-14.…

Hezekiah – Keep Looking to God POHFW

Preparing our Hearts to Worship   In an effort to help you prepare for the April 29, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the God’s Story of Salvation through the Scriptures. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “Hezekiah: Keep Looking to God” The main Scriptures for the day are 2King 18-19, 2Chronicles 29-32. The…

Amos & Civic Justice POHFW

Preparing our Hearts to Worship   In an effort to help you prepare for the April 22, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the God’s Story of Salvation through the Scriptures. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “Amos and Civic Justice” The main Scriptures for the day are Amos 1-9. The other passages are…

God is Faithful to His Word POHFW

Preparing our Hearts to Worship   In an effort to help you prepare for the April 15, 2018, Sunday morning corporate worship gathering and to aid you in your own reflections on the God’s Story of Salvation through the Scriptures. I wanted to pose a few questions and provide a few resources to prayerfully consider over the coming days. Our sermon is entitled, “God is Faithful to His Word” The main Scriptures for the day are 1Kings 11-16. The other…

A Description of Christians in the First Century

I was reading in the an early church writing entitled “The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus” when I ran across this quotation in Chapter 5-6, where Christians are described.  It is quite a compelling description that I wanted to share with our church to consider and reflect up: “But, [Christians] inhabiting Greek as well as barbarian cities, according as the lot of each of them has determined, and following the customs of the natives in respect to clothing, food, and the…