This past month, we’ve been studying some of what God’s Word has to say about Practicing the Way of Peace. Today we will be jumping ahead to the teachings of Jesus on the topic of conflict resolution. He addresses the issue of conflict and reconciliation on several occasions throughout the four gospels. Most of our…
Last week, we looked at the early life of David and his interaction with a foolish man named Nabal. At this early point in his life, David did not display a high level of maturity when he responded to Nabal’s disrespectful remarks. Much has happened in David’s life since that encounter—way too much to even…
We are in the second week of a new sermon series called: “Practicing the Way of Peace.” The focus of this series is the biblical approach for resolving conflict. In every situation we find ourselves in each day, the potential for conflict exists! In our discussion last time, we asserted that what we say always…
We are starting a new sermon series this morning—“Practicing the Way of Peace.” This five-week series will be focused on the biblical principles concerning conflict resolution. As we live our lives, conflicts are bound to happen—there’s really no way to avoid them. The question, then, is not how can we avoid them but how should…
We have hope, in this life and the next, because of the redeeming work of Christ on the cross. This past month in Kids Time, our children were learning the meaning to the lyrics of the hymn, “Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery.” The first verse speaks of how Jesus “condescended” from heaven to earth to…
We are excited to welcome back Derrick and Michelle Bremer to Temple Rogers! Derrick spent several years as a member of our youth group when he was teenager. After Derrick and Michelle married, they reconnected with the church through a young-adult Christmas gathering. Through a series of inductive Bible studies with this young-adult group, Michelle…
In Acts 13:22, the Bible describes David as a man after God’s own heart—a man who was obedient to God’s will. Think about that for a minute… What do we know about King David and how he lived his life? There are many positive attributes and exploits that we could list here, but for just…
For the past two months, we’ve been focusing our time each Sunday morning on the prayers of the Bible. As we’ve studied these various prayers and the teachings in Scripture about prayer, we have learned several characteristics of effective prayers, such as the urgency and desperation that we need to have when we pray and…
The prayer that is recorded in Colossians 1:9-14 is a beautiful prayer that is chock-full of rich content for us to model our prayers after. This is the prayer that I asked our supporters to pray for us when we were serving as cross-cultural missionaries in Asia, and it is the same prayer that I…
When we talk about the prayer of forbearance, we are talking about prayer that is characterized by patience, endurance, and long-suffering (or another way to think about it is would be “suffering long”). In your community groups this past week, you talked about some of the reasons why God does not answer prayer as quickly…