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Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Why Does The Resurrection Matter? - In Acts 25:19, Roman governor Festus summarizes  Paul's message as being about "a dead man named Jesus who Paul said was alive."  The truth of the Gospel stands or falls on the resurrection of Jesus (I Cor 15:1-32)  This brief YouTube by British scholar NT Wright is a marvelous explanation for our time of exactly WHY the resurrection matters.  CLICK HERE for the video. Deconstructing Our Culture's Catechism - And while we are on YouTube, CLICK HERE for the video by Tim Keller of that name.  In Celebration, we took a moment to compare and contrast one statement of our "Culture's Catechism"  with Heidelberg Catechism #1 as an example of what Dr Keller is speaking about. II. Ongoing Resources 1) Spiritual Formation Resources Page - CLICK HERE - This is still a work in progress, but be a part as we look to build 2) Scotty Smith’s...

Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher We're back! I. New For This Week Meditate on These: “Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.”  — John C. Maxwell “People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.”  — Michael Josephson Harderwyk on YouTube - All Harderwyk Worship livestream and recorded Worship Services from all three campuses are now available on the YouTube platform.  CLICK HERE for information and links. III. Ongoing Resources 1) Spiritual Formation Resources Page - CLICK HERE - This is still a work in progress, but be a part as we look to build 2) Scotty Smith’s Heavenward Daily Prayers - CLICK HERE to see the daily prayer blog of Scotty Smith.  You will see an option to have them delive...

Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week As we think about the “good news of God’s grace” this week, may these couple of resources encourage you in that very message. LORD’S DAY 1, HEIDELBERG CATECHISM  Q: What is your only comfort in life and in death? A: That I am not my own, but belong—body and soul, in life and in death— to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.  What is your only comfort in life and in death?  He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven; in fact, all things must work together for my salvation.  Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.  Q: What must you know to live and die in the joy of this comfort?  A: Three ...

Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week From Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller “What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.” (Keller, p. xix) “A counterfeit god is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living.  An idol has such a controlling position in your heart that you can spend most of your passion and energy, your emotional and financial resources, on it without a second thought.  Ist can be family and children, or career and making money, or achievement and critical acclaim, or saving ‘face’ and social standing. It can be a romantic relationship, peer approval, competence and skill, secure and comfortable circumstances, your beauty or your brains, a great political or social cause, your morality and virtue, or even success in t...

Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Early Manuscript Collection at University of Michigan - Were you aware that one of the best collections of early manuscripts of both the Old and New Testament in the United States is housed at our own University of Michigan?  The fragment referred to ast "Papyrus38" contains Acts 18:27-19:6, is part of our text for today and is only about 240 years after Acts would have been written.  (In terms of text archaelogy, this is a VERY short time span.)   CLICK HERE to see a photo and get a bit of background.  Even more impressive is the "Chester Beatty Papyri Collection." It contains "Papyrus46" which is a century OLDER (that is closer to the original writing)  and includes the entire text of Hebrews, Ephesians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, nearly all of the 4 gospels and significant portions of nearly every other New Testament book  - CLICK HERE for some backgro...

Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week "Bridges Out From The Heart" - This phrase was used in both Celebration and Fusion this week to point to ways in which God made the heart of all to "go looking" for things that can only be found by God in the Gospel.  CLICK HERE for The Secular Longing by Jeremy Treat on TheGospelCoalition.org site Eternity In Their Hearts by Don Richardson - CLICK HERE for an Amazon link to the book with the story of Epimenides and many more historical examples of Bridges of God Into The Heart of people groups.  The 1972 movie Peace Child - the story of Don and Carol Richardson discovering a Bridge of God as they ministered among the Sawi people - is available online by CLICKING HERE .  Note: Be prepared for  '70's era low-budget production as well as various states of native dress and un-dress.  Perhaps more interesting is this 15-minute 50th anniversary followup film by Pioneer...

Resources For "Devoted" Series From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week 1) In Fusion this Sunday we will be addressing how the Kingdom of God comes up against the Kingdoms of this World.  It is easy to become focused on the Competing Kingdoms and the changes we want to see in this world that we can forget about the centrality and foundation of the Gospel.  Without this Gospel Good News found in Jesus Christ - that Kingdom work will either fail, will be distorted and manipulated or will be at best incomplete.  It starts with the Gospel of Jesus Christ - led by the HS - all for the glory of God and the furthering of His Kingdom. NT Wrights helps remind us of this fact as he talks about Paul's reply to the jailer in verse 31, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved - you and your household." “Having made that clear, the confident appeal of Paul and Silas, that the jailer should ‘believe in the Lord Jesus’ so that he and his household may be saved...