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Mark | Love & Treachery | Ty Gaston by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

We've considered the 2nd half of Gen 47 in light of the contrasts of 2 nations: Egyptat the time of this exile through the period of Exodus Vs. Israel as established under Moses and evidentin Jacob's family at this time. We have noted thus far a contrast of provision, a contrast of priesthood, acontrast in politics, and today we note finally, a con…

Mark | Kingdom to Come | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Central to my thesis on this text is the difference in fortunes between the citizens of Egypt and the covenant family under the administration of Joseph (v:20-21 & 27). The taxation policies and the slavery of the people under famine conditions is the experience of the native citizens, while the Hebrews enjoy liberty and favor at this time. The acc…

Provcast | Elder Candidate Interview | David Lopez by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Main Text: Mark 13:1-23Autor: Providence Community Church

Psalm 120 introduces the 'Psalms of Ascent' section of the Psalter. Chapters 120-134 share this title which can be translated 'degrees', 'steps', or an upward direction or trajectory. Many have taken this collection as a hymnal to accompany the pilgrimage of the faithful unto temple worship in Jerusalem. The structural layout of this set of songs a…

Main Text: Mark 12:28-44Autor: Providence Community Church

There was a piece of paper clasped in the hands of Stanley Clark when he was buried several years ago. The piece of paper reads: “Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and…

Main sermon text: Mark 12:18-27Autor: Providence Community Church

Autor: Gene Engisch

Mark | Owners & Stewards | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Mark | Who Knows? | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

An explicit contrast is drawn in Genesis 47 between the inhabitants of Egypt and the sojourning Hebrews in verse 27. This is a surprising detail given the context and draws attention to the distinctions that God will sovereignly maintain and establish between His covenant people and their international counterparts. I submit that this verse provide…

Today concludes 22 months of preaching once a month through Ps 119. Each stanza of 8 verses corresponding to the Hebrew alphabet comprises the greatest of all acrostic psalms and perhaps the most extraordinary hymn in all of history. Even the most gifted of church fathers have found its scope and depth intimidating. Augustine said of this song: “As…

Today completes our Jude mini series comparing & contrasting descriptions of the ungodly vs. admonitions to the holy in verses 16-23. In the interest of equipping the church to triumph over all her enemies, Jude and his fellow laborers wrote to the early believers exhorting and encouraging them to stand against anything or anyone who would seek to …

Mark | The Triumphal Entry | Erik Ripley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Mark | Costly Discipleship Pt. 2 | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

The time has come to approach the courts of Pharaoh. Naturally speaking, it is hard to imagine a more intimidating set of circumstances for Jacob and his sons save one detail. Facing immanent starvation, this tribe is desperate for provisions and has travelled great lengths to seek refuge in Egypt. “This strategy has not worked our so well in the p…

The 2nd to last Hebrew letter in the alphabet opening each eight verses of our text in its original language signal the 21st and 2nd to last stanza in the great acrostic song of all literature. The Psalmist, according to the structure of a life journey motif, summarizes the priorities of the spiritually mature and well tempered heart. This is the t…

Mark | Costly Discipleship Pt. 1 | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Autor: Gene Engisch

Mark | Marriage & Divorce | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

The context of Jude's admonitions summarized in key words taken for the title of this sermon are clarifying truths to reinforce the faith of the believer. There is amazing and eternal grace in Christ for the saints, albeit this mercy is weighty indeed. It is salvation from the fiery judgements stored up in the furnace of God's just wrath awaiting f…

Mark | Humility & Tribalism | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Matthew 13:31-32 records a brief yet descriptive parable of the nature of the kingdom of God: “...the kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and make n…

Mark | The Power is Christ's | Ty Gaston by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Mark | Seeing in Full | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

The first mention of Beersheba in the scriptures involves Abraham and a covenant established with a neighboring king. Abraham commemorates this event by planting a tamarisk tree as a memorial presumably for future generations, who will appreciate all the more its shade and thereby be reminded of God's faithfulness marked at this location. We might …

Each of the original Hebrew verses of stanza 20 begin with the letter 'resh' as the testimony of the sufficiency of God's Word marks yet another chapter in the journey of the believing author even through the darkest of trials. While stanza 19's theme rested upon the great summary commandment: (Deut 6:5) “You shall love the Lord your God with all y…

Mark | Seeing In Part | Ty Gaston by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Mark | Signs & Sin | Erik Ripley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Jude's admonitions to the church continue toward his goal of equipping true believers to identify and oppose any who would seek to diminish or deny the glory, majesty, dominion, and authority of Jesus Christ our Lord. This equipping involves discernment sharpening, and faith building. Jude supplements his brief letter with references and allusions …

Men who once sold their brother into slavery motivated by resentment, now offer one of their own as a servant to liberate their father's remaining favored son from bondage. A dramatic stress-tested example of repentance indeed. In the case of Joseph, he was abused by his brothers in spite of his innocence. In this case, Benjamin is accused of a cri…

Mark | All Things Well | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Central themes of the Joseph narrative are prominently featured in this text. Now at age 39, Joseph is able to clearly see the precise & sovereign handiwork ordering his life circumstances for the higher good and the glory of God. Suspense has been building in the account toward this moment of resolution, redemption, and reconciliation. The messian…

Mark | The Heart of God | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Each verse of the original Hebrew beginning with the letter 'qoph' serves to emphasize the sufficiency of God's Word as the compelling interest of our souls in the 19th stanza of the great acrostic hymn, Psalm 119. The theme of this stanza rests upon the vow of the author to uphold the summary commandment: “You shall love the Lord your God with all…

Mark | The Heart of Man | Cory Elder by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

These days discernment may be the least popular yet most needed of all spiritual disciplines to stay true to the faith once and for all delivered to us in the Holy Scriptures. Jude's exhortations to his believing readers anticipate the challenges we face in our day which require Biblical understanding, wisdom, and vigilance in contending for the fa…

In the second half of Romans 3, Paul transitions to the Gospel, and thehope we have in Christ. He declares that justification is by faith alone in JesusChrist, to all who believe. We cannot be saved by our works, but solely by faith inJesus Christ, which is given to us freely by God's grace.Autor: Gene Engisch

Mark | Misused Authority | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Men who once sold their brother into slavery motivated by resentment, now offer one of their own as a servant to liberate their father's remaining favored son from bondage. A dramatic stress-tested example of repentance indeed. In the case of Joseph, he was abused by his brothers in spite of his innocence. In this case, Benjamin is accused of a cri…

Mark | Authority to Send | Erik Ripley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

The righteousness of Yahweh is a six time repeated theme in the 18th stanza of Ps 119 – the great acrostic celebration of covenant revelation. Here each original verse beginning with the Hebrew letter 'tsadhe' extols the sufficiency of the Word of God in spite of the social standing of the author – 'small & despised', and the trials he faces fraugh…

Mark | Easter | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Good Friday | The Table | Brendan Tanamachi by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

Verses 1-11 of Acts chapter 3 mark the occasion and context of Peter's 2nd sermon in the record of the early church. Elicott writes in his commentary regarding the setting: “The approaches of the temple, like those of modern mosques, were commonly thronged with the blind, lame, and other mendicants (beggars). The practice was common at Constantinop…

Mark | Authority Over Sickness | Kort Marley by Providence Community ChurchAutor: Providence Community Church

In the interest of providing the church with means to discern and oppose anyone or any idea that would deny or diminish the glory, majesty, dominion, and authority of Jesus Christ, Jude's epistle highlights distinctions between the holy and the ungodly, the disruptive and the sincere... enemies and allies within the visible church's scope of operat…