This Week's Note
True Confessions: The Blessed Confession
March 24, 2024

Luke 15:11-24 – 11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. 13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there s …

True Confessions: The Double-Minded Man
March 17, 2024

True Confessions: The Double-minded Man  Numbers 22:18-35 – 18 But Balaam answered them, “Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the  Lord  my God.  19 Now spend the night here so that I can find out what else t …

True Confessions: The Hardened Sinner
March 10, 2024

Exodus 9:23-35 – 23 When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt; 24 hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it h …

True Confessions: The Art of Owning Up to Mistakes
March 3, 2024

1 John 1:9 – If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.   Proverbs 28:13 – Whoever conceals their sins  does not prosper, but the one who confesses  and renounces them finds mercy. Psalms 32:1-7 – Blessed is the one whose …

Get (IT) Out: Why Not Us?
February 25, 2024

Genesis 37:3-11   3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.  5 Joseph …

Get (IT) Out: Not A “Know It All”
February 18, 2024

GET (IT) OUT: Learning from internally locked up things Genesis 3:1, 3, 4, 6, 8-11, 16, 17, 23  – 1 Now the serpent  was more crafty than any of the wild animals the  Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to th …

GET (IT) OUT: The Reason BEHIND the Reason
February 11, 2024

Get (IT) Out: Learning from internally locked up things Judges 16:4-21 – 4 Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. 5 The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and …

GET (IT) OUT: Frankly Fraudulent
February 4, 2024

GET (IT) OUT: Learning from internally locked up things Acts 4:32-37 – All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all 34 that there were no needy pers …

GET (IT) OUT: Preferential Treatment
January 28, 2024

GET (IT) OUT: Preferential Treatment… Genesis 27:1-10 1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”  “Here I am,” he answered. 2 Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death. 3 Now then, …

GET (IT) OUT: Saul – Seriously Shaky
January 21, 2024

What is the greatest lesson you’ve ever learned? 1 Samuel 18 – After David had finished talking with Saul…  2 [He] kept David with him and did not let him return home to his family.  5 Whatever mission Saul sent him on, David was so successful that Saul gave him a high rank in the army. This pleased …