Christ Community Church
Lindenwold, NJ
It was been my pleasure to worship God and study scripture with you. This page is based upon the Sunday morning sermons. It contains activities for reflection for those interested in working on these items further.
| Date | Topic of Sermon and Related Activity |
| Hezekiah Bonus Disc is based on king Hezekiah according to the book of Chronicles. The scriptures offer multiple accounts of king Hezekiah (2 Kgs 18-21, Isa 36-39). Even with these the Chronicler offers another greatly expanded version of Hezekiah (2 Chron 29-32). This short sermon series will reflect on the “something more” the Chronicler includes in his version of king Hezekiah. To get an idea of when Hezekiah ruled click here. | |
| 1/16/11 | Hezekiah Bonus Disc: Even better, even worse (2 Chron 29:1-36) click here for activity D |
| 1/9/11 | Hezekiah Bonus Disc: Invitation to return (2 Chron 30:1-27) click here for activity B and C |
| 1/2/11 | Hezekiah Bonus Disc: First (2 Chron 29:1-36) click here for activity A |
| 12/19/10 | The Eighth Day [Take the Christmas Quiz challenge] |
| 12/12/10 [chap 11] 12/5/10 [chap 10] 11/21/10 [chap 9] 11/14/10 [chap 8] 11/7/10 [chap 7] 10/31/10 [chaps 5 & 6] 10/3/10 [chap 4] 9/26/10 [chap 3] 9/19/10 [chap 2] 9/12/10 [preface & chap 1] | What life is all about Reading Questions for Stott's Basic Christianity New NIV (March 2011) --
the conversion from “sinful nature” back to “flesh” (mentioned in sermon on
11/14) Facebook’s Edited Reality (mentioned in sermon on 9/26) |
| 9/5/10 | The Danger of Succeeding |
| 8/29/10 | New Math (Luke 18:18-23 and 19:1-10) |
| 8/22/10 | What a family (Luke 3:21-38) |
| 7/11/10 |
Take it personally (Luke 13:1-9)
(activity on John 9 mentioned in sermon) Book referred to in sermon: Paul Maier's Pontius Pilate |
| 6/27/10 | Play It Again:
Like Sheep for Slaughter (Ps 44; Rom 8) Some things are so important they are said more than once. When one scripture quotes or alludes to another we as readers have opportunity to reflect upon it in multiple contexts, each with its own challenges. In this series we will examine teachings that appear in multiple contexts in the scriptures, reflecting on the growing significance across the subsequent contexts. |
| 6/20/10 | Play It Again: Like a Father (Deut 8; Prov 3; Heb 12) |
| 6/13/10 | Introducing Scriptural Use of Scripture Play It Again: God and King (2 Sam 7; Ps 2; Mark 1) |
| 6/6/10 | Play It Again: Cosmos and Humankind and Messiah (Gen 1; Ps 8; Matt 21) |
| 5/30/10 | Conflicting Interpretations (Jer 44) |
| 5/23/10 | Stop Praying (Jer 15) Also see activity on king Manasseh |
| 5/16/10 | When to speak peace (Jer selected passages) (see esp. letter I) |
| 5/9/10 | Rachel as mother (selected) |
| 5/2/10 | Put it in writing, again (Jer36) |
| 4/25/10 | Deceptive Words (Jer 7) |
| 4/18/10 | Blame the Preacher (Jer 26) |
| 4/11/10 | Telling Again and Again (Jeremiah 25) |
| 4/4/10 | Just as He Said |
| 3/28/10 | Three Ways to Prepare for Death (Matthew 26:1-16) |
| 3/21/10 | On the Way to Messiah's Destiny (Matthew 20:17-34) |
| 3/14/10 | Activity: Where Did We Put Our Hearts? (Matthew 6:19-34) Book referred to in sermon: The Narcissism Epidemic |
| 3/7/10 | Finding the Way |
| 2/28/10 | On Things Worth Doing (Matthew 6:1-18) |
| 2/21/10 | Preparing to Worship (Matthew 5:21-26) |
| 2/14/10 | To Be Graced (Matthew 5:1-12) |
| 1/31/10 | Red-letter Gospel (Matthew 28) |
| 1/17/10 | Human Intentions and God’s Will (1 Chronicles 28) |
| 1/10/10 | To Repent (2 Samuel 24) |
| 1/3/10 | Bad Friend (Psalm 51) |
| 12/27/09 | Good Enemy (2 Samuel 1) |
| 11/29/09 | Like the Others (1 Samuel 8) |
If you are interested in studying the scriptures further, I invite you to consider getting a copy of my book The Torah Story. This text is accessible and designed to gu
ide interested readers to learn from
the first five books of the Bible. The main idea is that Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy present the beginning of the gospel. The
more one learns about the grace of God in the Hebrew Bible, the better chance
one has to apprehend the New Testament.
Also, I invite you to take advantage of the several free resources at my website—ScriptureWorkshop.com.