Matt Kennedy

John 17:6-11

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Matt Kennedy
John 17:1-5

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This the 8th class of a new series exploring the controversies and debates of the early church. Sometimes Christians think of the 1st Century as the golden age of the Church, the time when all was well and the church victorious. In some ways this is true, the Apostles still lived and taught in person and the church spread rapidly throughout the Mediterranean. But the Apostolic era was rent with controversy and division just as we often are. How did the Apostles deal with errant ideas, bad behavior, power-seeking, ethnic prejudice, and divisiveness? The answer to that question will give us a model for navigating our present challenges and difficulties.

This Tuesday morning we continued our study of the minor prophets in the book of Hosea, moving from chapter 2 to chapter 3.

Hosea ch. 2-3

Though Hosea’s wife has proven unfaithful in numerous adulteries, God commands Hosea to take her back and make her his wife again. Though Israel has, countless times, betrayed the covenant God made with her at Sinai through Moses and deserves to be cursed, yet there is another covenant, the Promise he made to Abraham, a promise that does not depend on the faithfulness of Israel but on the faithfulness of God alone. Through Abraham’s Offspring, God will bless Israel and through Israel, all the nations of the world. The internet signal dropped, so there are two videos.

This Thursday evening, having finished Ruth we started a new study in the book of Ecclesiastes.

Written by a man who had everything he could ever ask for and achieved all that he set out to achieve and yet remained empty, Ecclesiastes is, I think, a great book for a time when we might feel impoverished in the world and isolated. Where is the good in life? What is the best way to live under the sun? You can watch here, or in the window below.