Christ Community Church Lindenwold, NJ It is 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. Our upcoming sermon series beginning in September will be based on John Stott’s Basic Christianity. Please get a copy of this classic book and make plans to read one chapter each week in preparation for the sermons. More details coming ...   about John Stott   click here for Basic Christianity Date Topic of Sermon and Related Activity 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) Chronological orientation to the prophets Josiah and the Last Kings of Judah Jeremiah as a book Chronological materials in Jeremiah 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 guide 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.