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Sunday Recap for 11.25.18 Introduction to the Book of Romans

Sunday Recap for 11.25.18 Introduction to the Book of Romans

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Introduction to the Book of Romans James Montgomery Boice: “We cling to man-centered, need-oriented teaching. And our churches show it! They are successful in worldly terms – big buildings, big budgets, big everything – but they suffer a poverty of the soul. All this means, in my judgment at least, that it is time to get back to the basic, life-transforming doctrines of Christianity – which is to say that is time to rediscover Romans.” 10th Pres Massive Church Swiss…

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Evident Grace Sunday Recap for 07.22.18 Big Idea: God Blesses Those Who Read His Word

Evident Grace Sunday Recap for 07.22.18 Big Idea: God Blesses Those Who Read His Word

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Sunday, July 22, 2018, Evident Grace looked at Psalm 1: Psalm 1: Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf…

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Sunday Recap 07.15.18 Big Picture Question: What are Your Options When You are Bitter?

Sunday Recap 07.15.18 Big Picture Question: What are Your Options When You are Bitter?

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Sunday, July 15th, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 22: 1 Samuel 22:1 David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. 2 And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men….

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Sunday Recap 07.08.18 Big Idea: Our heroes are just like us.  We all need a Savior.

Sunday Recap 07.08.18 Big Idea: Our heroes are just like us.  We all need a Savior.

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Sunday, July 8th, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 21: 1 Samuel 21:1 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?” 2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I…

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Evident Grace Fellowship Relaunches Its Men’s Ministry on 07.14.18

Evident Grace Fellowship Relaunches Its Men’s Ministry on 07.14.18

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What is missing from most men’s ministries?  To sum it up, I would say “intentionalism”. In literary theory, intentionalism is when you judge a piece of literature by the intent the author had for it.  For example, when reading Shakespeare, you would ask, “What did Shakespeare intend for us to take away from this play?”  The opposite of this approach is functionalism.  Functionalism is when you take away whatever meaning you want from a play.  Both have their place in…

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Sunday Recap for 06.17.18 Big Idea: All Who Desire Live a Godly Live in Christ Jesus Will Be Persecuted

Sunday Recap for 06.17.18 Big Idea: All Who Desire Live a Godly Live in Christ Jesus Will Be Persecuted

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Sunday, June 17, 2018, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 18:17-30: 1 Samuel 18: 17 Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.” 18 And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and who are my relatives,…

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Sunday Recap for 06.10.18 Big Picture Question: How does your relationship with God radically affect every other relationship?

Sunday Recap for 06.10.18 Big Picture Question: How does your relationship with God radically affect every other relationship?

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Sunday, June 10, 2018, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 18:1-16: 1 Samuel 18:1 As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 2 And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house. 3 Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 And Jonathan stripped…

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Evident Grace Sunday Recap for 06.03.18 – What Opposes the Glory of God?

Evident Grace Sunday Recap for 06.03.18 – What Opposes the Glory of God?

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Sunday, June 3, 2018, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 17:28-58: 1 Samuel 17:28 Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.” 29 And David said, “What have I…

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Evident Grace Sunday Recap from 05/13/18 Big Picture Question: How Does God See Differently Than We Do?

Evident Grace Sunday Recap from 05/13/18 Big Picture Question: How Does God See Differently Than We Do?

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Sunday, May 13, 2018, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 16:1-13: 1 Samuel 16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.” 2 And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And…

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Evident Grace Sunday Recap 5.06.18 Sunday Recap Why is Repentance So Powerful?

Evident Grace Sunday Recap 5.06.18 Sunday Recap Why is Repentance So Powerful?

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Sunday, May 6th, 2018, Evident Grace Fellowship looked at 1 Samuel 15:24-35: 1 Samuel 15:24 Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may bow before the Lord.” 26 And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of…

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