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Pastor Bill Lindner - Celebration & Fusion Preacher CLICK HERE to see the sermon from the Celebration service.  The sermon starts at about 25:00 into the service.  Apologies for the slight synch problem between the audio and video tracks. Background Resources For "Three Ill Winds" I. "Prosperity Theology" Are You Equipped to Respond to the Prosperity Gospel? By Trevin Wax – CLICK HERE American Gospel: Christ Alone – Tired of reading?   CLICK HERE and rent this fascinating documentary on Amazon The Prosperity Gospel: A Critique of the Way the Bible is Used - CLICK HERE  -  A more in-depth review by the Lausanne Movement, most helpful in its biblical analysis and international perspective Believers Invest in the Gospel of Getting Rich by Laurie Goodstein in the August 15, 2009 NY Times – CLICK HERE  -  Yikes!  This is what the world sees about Prosperity Theology.  And for some commentary on this article by Al Mohler CLICK HERE . II. Moralistic Therapeutic D

Resources For Second Sunday in Advent From Each Harderwyk Preacher  Pastor Bill Lindner - Celebration & Fusion Preacher The Man Who Would Not Be King - George Washington is a fascinating historical person when it comes to leadership and authority.  It was hard to not spend more time looking at that today.  CLICK HERE for a fascinating look at the character of our first president.  CLICK HERE  for the full text of President Washington's Farewell Address. Pastor Aaron VanDerVeen - Watershed Preacher Daily Scripture Readings on the "King & Christmas" Theme - Come back to center each day on this last week of Christmas.  Click on the text reference and it will link you to the reading on BibleGateway.com. Sunday , 12/20 - Isaiah 9:2-7 Monday , 12/21 - Isaiah 11-12 Tuesday , 12/22 - Ezekiel 34 Wednesday , 12/23 - Zechariah 9:9-13 Thursday , 12/24 - Jeremiah 33:14-18

Resources For Second Sunday in Advent From Each Harderwyk Preacher Pastor JB Wurland - Fusion Preacher Abraham Heschel expands on the simple importance and lasting nature of words, the vessel that God used to reveal himself to his people. Some people may wonder: why was the light of God given in the form of language? How is it conceivable that the divine should be contained in such brittle vessels as consonants and vowels? This question betrays the sin of our age: to treat lightly the ether which carries the light-waves of the spirit. What else in the world is as capable of bringing man and man together over the distances in space and in time? Of all things on earth words alone never die. They have so little matter and so much meaning… God took these Hebrew words and breathed into them of His power, and the words became a live wire charged with His spirit. To this very day they are hyphens between heaven and earth. What other medium could have been employed to convey the divine?