Jon Gruss

PRAYER A - Oh God of Abraham you are true and in you there is no error. When you speak it will be done. When you act no one can stand in your way. You are faithful to your people even when they are faithless. C - God we are so often faithless, we claim your name and yet often live in opposition to your…

New Year, Same Mission

New Year, Same Mission

Matthew 2:1-12

His Name is Jesus

Merry Christmas! Christ in Christmas may choose to not recognize Him but cant take him out… Christ mas… because of Christ Big Idea of the Text: Christmas isn’t an abstract holiday or idea; Jesus came to earth as a real human to reconcile us to God. Application Point: Christ’s willingness to show a “messy…

The Assyrian Empire and their Warfare Military might was a central part of this people of Nineveh All men had to serve in the military | 3 yr cycle | build/war/home repeat One of the first to use psychological warfare had tablets created illustrating their torture procedures skinned alive, blinding,…

The City

17 And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land. in the Smithsonian Institute…

Intro Illustration video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE2QClKir1E Seven Deadly Sins / 7-7 / Gluttony November is here!! = Thanksgiving / Fellowship Meal Today… 1 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, 2 and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.…

Jonah

Lust

Avarice (Greed)

Slothfulness

Anger

Envy

The Seven Deadly SIns

I Need This

7/10 Split