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Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Your Whole Bible Is About Jesus - When Peter says, "The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified Jesus" in Acts 3:13, he is speaking about what Jesus showed his disciples in passages like Luke 24:27 & 44-45.  If we ever hope to properly handle the stories in the Bible, we must first grasp the story of the Bible.    CLICK HERE to read this full post from The Gospel Coalition. The Book of Acts Tells How The Multiethnic, International Church Grew - The Bible Project -  The Bible Project makes an interesting connection between the Temple of Jerusalem and God's New Temple, Christ's Church.  In Acts 3-5 we see the Church of Christ fulfilling all the functions of the Lord's Temple - worship and teaching but also healing and generosity to the poor.  The picture (from the bible project video / poster) shows how this is laid out in the text.  CL...

Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Keep In Mind: Biblical Truth About the Holy Spirit - Part 1 - CLICK HERE for a larger blog post by Pastor Bill on the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit intended for broader background for the entire series. "Part of the challenge of this passage is the question: have our churches today got enough energy, enough spirit-driven new life, to make onlookers pass any comment at all? Has anything happened which might make people think we were drunk? If not, is it because the spirit is simply at work in other ways, or because we have so successfully quenched the spirit that there is actually nothing happening at all?" - Wright, N.T. (2008). Acts for Everyone, Part 1: Chapters 1-12 (pp. 29–30).  Spiritual Formation Resources  - Because prayer is sooooooooo central to the Book of Acts, we will be working to equip the life of prayer and spiritual formation throughout the summer.  We are gatherin...

Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week  Spiritual Formation Resources - Because prayer is sooooooooo central to the Book of Acts, we will be working to equip the life of prayer and spiritual formation throughout the summer.  We are gathering resources for that and connecting them to our main Harderwyk.com landing page.   CLICK HERE for a first look at that page of resources.  Expect it to develop through the course of the summer. On the Kingdom/Kingdom of God Definition -  “Kingdom: The dynamic reign of God as sovereign over creation. Although the roots of the term lie in the OT, the Christian understanding arises more specifically from Jesus’ proclamation of the inbreaking of God’s rule. Hence the kingdom is God’s divine, kingly reign as proclaimed and inaugurated by Jesus’ life, ministry, death and resurrection, and the subsequent outpouring of the Spirit into the world. In this sense Christ is reigning now, an...

Resources For "He Is, I'm Not" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Timothy Keller “Encounters with Jesus” -  “Jesus gives Martha what we could call the ministry of truth.  That is what she needs most at the moment. He sort of grabs her by the shoulders with truth. ‘Listen to me! Don’t despair. I’m here. Resurrection. Life. That’s what I am.’ Because of his divine identity, he is high enough to point her to the stars. Then, when he gets to Mary, he gives her what we could call the ministry of tears. That is what she needs most at that moment. Because of his human identity, he is low enough to step into her sorrow - with complete sincerity and integrity - and just weep with her.” II. From The Commentaries NT Wright “John For Everyone” -  “Jesus’ reply to her, and the conversation they then have, show that the ‘back to the future’ idea isn’t entirely a moviemaker’s fantasy. Instead of looking at the past, and dreaming about what might have been (but now...