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Resources For "Enough" From Each Harderwyk Preacher  I. New For This Week BibleProject Overview of Colossians  -  CLICK HERE  for their helpful online video. All Four Rooms: Reading Colossians Through Paul's Eyes - CLICK HERE for a blog post by Pastor Bill about Paul's nuanced view of reality and how it affects our own ability to read Colossians with understanding. Celebration Sermon Outline - CLICK HERE for this Sunday's Sermon Outline. II. From  NT Wright in his commentary Colossians and Philemon: An Introduction and Commentary on Colossians 1:15-23 Jesus and God Paul, then, does not in this poem abandon the Jewish doctrines of monotheism and election. He redefines them. But what, in that case, is he asserting about Jesus, in particular when he calls him ‘the image of God’ (v. 15)? There has been considerable debate about this from the first Christian centuries up to the present, and the answer offered below is an attempt to hold together the strong points ...

Resources For "Enough" From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week BibleProject Overview of Colossians - CLICK HERE for their helpful online video. An Early Copy of the Book of Colossians - CLICK HERE to learn some about "P46" - a papyrus copy of Paul's epistles from about one century after Paul would have first written it.  Note: No dating can be exact, and there is often debate about just when a book of the Bible was written, and then again over the age of any given manuscript that we possess, so none of this can be exact.   CLICK HERE for some actual photographs of P46 and the page where Colossians actually begins!  Also of note: Half of P46 is housed at the University of Michigan library.  Unfortunately for this sermon series, Colossians is in the half housed at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland.  Celebration Sermon Outline - CLICK HERE for this Sunday's Sermon Outline. II. From The Commentaries On This Passage From The Gospel ...

Resources For Easter From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Everything must be fullfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms - Jesus in Luke 24:44  - Jesus is the "True and Better" fulfillment of everything that the Old Testament characters, events and narratives point to.  CLICK HERE for a two-minute YouTube flyover of the Old Testament from Tim Keller  Ukraine’s Holy Week Like No Other - I (Pastor Bill of Celebration Community) have struggled to be informed and praying during the Russian war on Ukraine as Christ follower.  CLICK HERE for a blog post by Archbishop Borys Gudziak an American Archbishop of the  Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which I found insightful and helpful in my own prayers From Greg Gilbert in the Gospel Transformation Bible  on Ezekiel 37:11-14:  "Beginning in verse 11, God explains the vision of the dry bones. It is not simply that God gives physical life; it is that he...

Resources For "Enough" From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week "Numbers" in the BibleProject's Torah Series -  Israel leaves Mount Sinai only to rebel against God again. But God responds with short-term severity and long-term generosity.   CLICK HERE for the video. Praying During The War In Ukraine - On Good Friday, April 15 you are invited to join us in prayer for the conflict in Ukraine by signing up for a 20 minute prayer time slot.  You can pray right where you are, or you may stop in to the sanctuary (open from 8am-6pm) to pray.  CLICK HERE to sign up for a time slot.  CLICK HERE for a blog post of several prayer resources on this issue. Celebration Sermon Outline - CLICK HERE for this Sunday's Sermon Outline. II. From The Commentaries On This Passage From Roy E. Gane in his commentary "The NIV Application Commentary: Leviticus, Numbers": "Epidemics of attitude. Just a short time before the scouts return to the main camp a...

Resources For "Enough" From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Character of God Word Study by Bible Project: This study we will dive into Exodus 34: 6-7.  Bibleproject did a 6 video word study on verse 6.  They are well done and insightful.  Again they also put together a study guide worth exploring.  For the ambitious you can also find 14 podcast episodes on the same verses.  God speed! Character of God Video Link : CLICK HERE to Watch: Visual Commentary of Exodus 34:6-7: The Character of God Video | BibleProject™  Character of God Study Guide: CLICK HERE for downloadable pdf document  Celebration Sermon Outline - CLICK HERE for this Sunday's Sermon Outline. II. From The Commentaries On This Passage From John Goldingay in “Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone”: “Exodus 34 gives us one clue why that it so. The Israelites have imperiled their relationship with God, with potentially fatal results. That is symbolized by Moses’ breaking the tab...

Resources For "Enough" From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week "Three Uses of The Law" - So what use are the Ten Commandments - as well as ALL that law in the Old Testament! - in light of the Gospel of God's Grace?  CLICK HERE for a brief summary of John Calvin's classic summary of reasons from the Reformation Study Bible footnotes. Heldeberg  Catechism - On Obedience and the Ten Commandments: Q & A 114 Q. But can those converted to God obey these commandments perfectly? A. No.  In this life even the holiest have only a small beginning of this obedience.1 Nevertheless, with all seriousness of purpose, they do begin to live according to all, not only some, of God’s commandments.2 1 Eccles. 7:20; Rom. 7:14-15; 1 Cor. 13:9; 1 John 1:8-10 2 Ps. 1:1-2; Rom. 7:22-25; Phil. 3:12-16 Q & A 115 Q. Since no one in this life can obey the Ten Commandments perfectly, why does God want them preached so pointedly? A. First, so that the longer we live the...

Resources For "Enough" From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Holy Uncertainity - At Fusion we will talk some about the struggle of uncertainty.  Pastor John Mark Comer wrote an excellent ebook toward the beginning of the pandemic on this topic titled, “We Don’t know What’s Going to Happen and That’s Okay: Living in Holy Uncertainty.” (September 2020) Here is a helpful quote on this idea of holy uncertainty. "Holy Uncertainty Holy uncertainty is the capacity to live with a very loose grip – or no grip at all – on our plans and, more important, on the outcomes of our plans, because our security is rooted in a relational connection to God, not in a false sense of control.  Apprentices of Jesus who develop his capacity for holy uncertainty still make plans, but they are free – at an emotional level – from the need for those plans to come to pass. They don’t need to know what will happen, or not happen, or how long it will all take, because they are happy in God....