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Audio File Reasons to Pray 1 Samuel 1; Remsen Bible Fellowship; 09/06/2020 Introduction Is your prayer life what you want it to be? Time? Quality? One of the best ways to deepen your prayer life is through Scripture (listening to the One whom we speak to in prayer) This can be formative (the Lord’s Prayer, the Psalms) We can also gather reasons to pray (as we will today) We are beginning a series in 1 Samuel The plan is for this to carry us (with a few short breaks) into May That will require taking things at a pretty good pace Three major lenses: Historical (transition from Judges to Kings), theological (establishment of Davidic line, God’s covenant faithfulness to unfaithful Israel), practical (what do we learn about human beings and God that informs how we live today) Each sermon will have a slightly different taste, aiming to be informed by the text itself as to which of these three to lean on What do we know for background? 1 & 2 Samuel were originally one book; divided during...

 

  Audio Link Loving Jesus John 21:15-25, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 08-09-2020 Introduction  Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. John 12:24 Do you want to live a fruitful life? Do you want your life to count for something, to have not been a waste? Jesus says there is a path to a fruitful and meaningful life, but it’s not the path we’d choose: the path to eternal fruit is the path of death.  The German pastor Deitrich Bonhoeffer famously wrote that, “when Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” Is this how you conceive of Christianity? Is this what it means for you to trust in Jesus, to follow him? If not, then to be frank you may need to reconsider whether you have met the Jesus of this book. Such bold calls are laced throughout the gospel narratives.  Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than m...

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