Galatians 3:15-29 (click to display NIV text)
Sept. 9, 2012
Pastor Dwight A. Nelson
“So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Read more
II Corinthians 8:1-15 (click to display NIV text)
Sept. 2, 2012
Pastor Dwight A. Nelson
“But since you excel in everything – in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you- see that you also excel in the grace of giving.”
The story of generosity in the Bible begins with the grumbling of Israel in the wilderness. These people who had just experienced the grace of God in their deliverance from slavery in Egypt, who had just seen God part the Red Sea, who had been redeemed by the powerful hand of God, now begin to grumble because they are hungry and wonder why God does not feed them as their slavemasters in Egypt had. The experience they had with the grace of God did not connect with faith in God’s provision. Read more
II Corinthians 4:1-18 (click to display NIV text)
August 26, 2012
Pastor Dwight A. Nelson
“For God, who said, ÔLet light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.” Read more
I Corinthians 13, John 13:1-17 (click to display NIV text)
August 19, 2012
Pastor Dwight A. Nelson
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.”
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” Read more
I Corinthians 11:17-34 (click to display NIV text)
July 29, 2012
Pastor Dwight A. Nelson
“For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ ” Read more