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Resources For "Surprise! You Belong!" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher  Pastor Aaron VanderVeen - WaterShed Preacher Luke For Everyone - NT Wright -  "The story thus opens up in a practical way some of what the sermon of the previous chapter had highlighted. There was no need for Jesus’ fellow-Jews to protect themselves from a Gentile like this, by drawing tighter and tighter circles of holiness around themselves. For all his lack of appropriate religious background, he had grasped the very center of the Jewish faith: that the one true God, the God of Israel, was the sovereign one, the Lord of heaven and earth. And he had grasped it in its shocking new form: this one true God was personally present and active in Jesus of Nazareth. Luke presents this Gentile as a model for all those who will come in by faith from outside God’s ancient people, to share the blessings of healing and salvation." Luke: NIV Application Commentary - Darrell Bock -   "These remarks a...

Resources For "Surprise! You Belong!" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher  Pastor Bill Lindner - Celebration & Fusion Preacher As preparation for our prayer time in Celebration this morning, I mentioned two events that are associated with this particular Sunday each January: Sanctity of Life Sunday and the Martin Luther King holiday. Sanctity of Life Sunday - I am thankful for the "Beginning-to-Ending" all-of-life commitment that Harderwyk Ministries lives out in our life together.  We could do a "Sanctity of Life Month"!  For more information on organizations I could only mention in passing, CLICK HERE to learn more about Lakeshore Pregnancy Services and CLICK HERE for Young Lives, CLICK HERE for Kid's Hope and CLICK HERE for Harderwyk GriefShare. Martin Luther King Holiday - CLICK HERE for my personal blog post "Marching With Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." which includes all ten commitments from the Commitment Card signed by every pers...

Resources For "Surprise! You Belong!" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher  Pastor Bill Lindner - Celebration & Fusion Preacher Our City Is Dying - Youtube - CLICK HERE OK - so the city in this video is Seattle.  As I said though, I suspect it could be produced from any significant urban American city.  And my point was not so much the situation, as the visual of the sufferer in the text, as well as those in the video. A Prayer of Lament, Repentance, and Hope by Scotty Smith - CLICK HERE This is Scotty's prayer from Thursday, January 7 that I used in the Celebration Service this morning.  Note the "Subscribe to Scotty's Blog" box on the right of the page,  This lets you receive his daily prayer email which I highly recommend.  CLICK HERE for instructions for this process and for adding the PrayerMate app for your smartphone or tablet. Pastor Aaron VanDerVeen - Watershed Preacher From NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible: 5:13 into the lake . Mark does n...

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 ....

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? ...

Resources For Daniel 10-12 From Each Harderwyk Preacher Pastor Bill Lindner - Celebration Preacher Daniel 11 and the Historic Events which are Depicted in the Prophecy - CLICK HERE As I mentioned this morning, this 3-chapter vision is filled with very detailed statements that are presented as "history before it is written" - Chapter 11 in particular.  The link above will connect you with a "spreadsheet summary" of statements from Daniel 11 connected with historical events.  This is itself a summary of the work n the ESV Study Bible Notes if you would like to dig deeper still. Giving Thanks Like The Pilgrims - CLICK HERE This one is not about Daniel, but in light of the holiday, I thought I'd pass it along.  History matters and I am glad to help keep the lessons from our own national history and the Pilgrims familiar.  And don't miss our Thanksgiving Day Online Worship Service this week either.