March 18 – 22, 2024
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March 18 – 22, 2024

Click for a PDF version   Monday Read John 13:1-17     On December 9, 1917, General Sir Edmund Allenby, commander of British forces—after capturing the city of Jerusalem during World War I—rode his horse to the Jaffa Gate to enter Jerusalem to accept the surrender of the city from the Ottoman mayor of the...

March 11 – 15, 2024
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March 11 – 15, 2024

Click for PDF version   Monday Read Genesis 3:1-19; Romans 5:12; 8:19-23     Skeptics’ leading criticisms of Christian beliefs include the challenge, “If God is good, loving, all-powerful and sovereign, why is there so much evil and suffering in the world?” Interestingly, this is a great place to meet unbelievers where they are. Most...

March 4 – 8, 2024
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March 4 – 8, 2024

Click for a PDF version   Monday Read 1 John 4:7-12; John 13:34-35    Appreciating God’s Amazing Love In his first letter to an unspecified Christian community, John makes several profound statements about the nature of God’s love: love (biblically, “unconditionally wanting nothing but the best for another”) comes from God (1 John 4:7); God...

February 26 – March 1, 2024
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February 26 – March 1, 2024

Click for PDF version Monday Read 1 Peter 2:21    An Example in Obedience “For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in His steps.”  (1 Peter 2:21 ESV) One of the most haunting aspects of the Passion Week is when...

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February 19 – 23, 2024
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February 19 – 23, 2024

Click for a PDF version   Monday Read Galatians 2:19-21; Colossians 2:20-23; Luke 11:37-44   “For through the law I died to the law … [and] if righteousness [was attainable] through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.” (Galatians 2: 19-21) The penman, the Apostle Paul, knew much about the legalism—“emphasizing … rules and...

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February 12 – 16, 2024
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February 12 – 16, 2024

Click for PDF version   Monday Read Luke 4:1-13; Romans 3:23-25; Titus 2:13-14  Lent commences this Wednesday, February 14, and concludes on Maundy (“Commandment”) Thursday, three days before Easter Sunday. Glenkirk Church’s associated preaching and devotionals series will consider the primary views of Christ’s atonement, both this week and over the several following weeks. But...

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February 5 – 9, 2024
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February 5 – 9, 2024

Click for PDF version   Monday Read Revelation 22:12-13 Jesus is the beginning, the middle, and the end of our story, and God’s story. His promise to come again is sure and certain, even if the timing is unknown. We can be confident that He will have the final word when He returns to reverse...

January 29 – February 2, 2024
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January 29 – February 2, 2024

Click for PDF version   Monday Read Revelation 21:1-5  Life After Life After Death Our sermon passage this week (Revelation 21:22-27) is found in the wider context of the vision of “a new heaven and a new earth” (v. 1). This image reminds us of God’s promises in the Old Testament to make all things...

January 22 – 26, 2024
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January 22 – 26, 2024

Click for PDF version   Monday Read Revelation 19:6–9  That Thunderous Exclamation! Can you hear it? I can, even now, after so many years. I was a young child seated next to my grandmother in a vast sanctuary when the soaring strains of Handel’s “HAL-LE-LU-JAH Chorus” literally swept us to our feet. No one had...

January 15 – 19, 2024
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January 15 – 19, 2024

Click for PDF version   Monday Read Revelation 12:1-12  This week’s topic is spiritual warfare and Satan’s defeat by the Cross of Christ. Revelation 12:1-6 opens with Satan seeking to destroy the Christ child and God’s protection over the child and His mother. Revelation 12:7-12 describes Satan and his evil angels being cast out of...