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God of Angel Armies instrumental Version God of Angel Armies - Accapella from South Fork Church of Christ Resources Resources from David Young, Minister, North Boulevard C of C. <--- Just Added!  Neil Anderson, The Bondage Breaker  • Neil Anderson, Winning Spiritual Warfare  • Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Field Guide for Battle  • Michael S. Heiser, Supernatural: What the Bible Teaches about the Unseen World and Why It Matters • Michael S. Heiser, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible  • Ian Hutchinson, Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?  • Chip Ingram, The Invisible War: What Every Believer Needs to Know about Satan, Demons, and Spiritual Warfare  • David Jeremiah, The Spiritual Warfare Answer Book  • Craig S. Keener, Miracles Today: The Supernatural Work of God in the Modern World •  J.P. Moreland, The Soul: How We Know It’s Real and Why It Matters  • Ed Murphy, The Handbook for Spi...

  Check out this cool mini-cartoon of the Book of Jonah .   Slide Presentation The story of Jonah and the Whale, one of the oddest accounts in the Bible, opens with God speaking to Jonah , son of Amittai, commanding him to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh. Jonah rebels, gets swallowed by a great fish, repents, and, at last, fulfills his mission. While many dismiss the story as a work of fiction, Jesus referred to Jonah as a historical person in Matthew 12:39–41 . Themes The primary theme of the story of Jonah and the Whale is that God’s love , grace, and compassion extend to everyone, even outsiders and oppressors. God loves all people. A secondary message is that you can't run from God. Jonah tried to run, but God stuck with him and gave Jonah a second chance. God’s sovereign control is showcased throughout the story. God commands everything in his Creation, from the weather to a whale, to carry out his plan. God is in control. Scripture References Jonah's stor...

  Slide All text from NIV Bible. THEMES 1. Loyalty 2. Commitment 3. Love 4. Trust  5. Father 6. Bravery 7. Jesus lineage  RESOURCES A good new commentary on the story of Ruth and other women of the Bible is Shannon Bream's, "The Women of the Bible."

Power Point to follow along I first heard a sermon about David and Goliath when I was still in high school. It was by Charles Swindoll. He wrote a beautiful book about it as well. I preached this sermon over 20 times during my wife, including in Bay City and El Campo. Each time, I would put my suit jacket on a young child to illustrate how crazy it is to use the normal tools of the trade (Saul's armor for a shepherd boy). Research Charles Swindoll's version preached during Covid. Sermon

  Efforts to restore an earlier, purer form of Christianity are frequently a response to  denominationalism . As  Rubel Shelly  put it, "the motive behind all restoration movements is to tear down the walls of separation by a return to the practice of the original, essential and universal features of the Christian religion." [1] Slideshow Further Reading United Churches of Christ - Today they still promote the 5 principles. Wikipedia article Christian Church Association - interesting read - lots of history. Who are the churches of Christ - Thomas  Olbricht (Pepperdine University) Abner Jones Barton Stone Last Will and Testament and Declaration and Address  - published in 1960, these two documents have been kept for historical reference. Both major in the restoration process. Thomas Campbell

Powerpoint May 12   Images of the Bishops Bible   As we begin to look at Christianity going to America, let's wrap up the Reformation in Europe with an emphasis on what happened in England. England was a power house. There were breakaway groups from the Catholic church and Lutheranism was gaining popularity in the mid to late 1500s.  By 1600 it was on equal ground in some European communities as Roman Catholism. It is important to note how the Bible went from only the priest being able to read it to every home having a copy. List translations here. The English Bible John Wycliff  William Tyndale Miles Coverdale - 1535 Matthew’s Bible - 1537 (a reprint of Tyndale) Great Bible - 1539 Geneva NT- first to have verses. Bishop's Bible King James Revised American Revised More info https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/how-we-got-our-bible-timeline https://baptistnews.com/article/crash-course-in-bible-history-how-the-bible-came-to-be/?gad_source=1&gc...