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The Covenants
A guest speaker, Dave Lueloff, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Roseville, Michigan, condenses a Sunday school series into one message on the covenants of the Bible, beginning in Romans 11:1 and working through the rainbow covenant in Genesis 9, the unconditional and everlasting land covenant with Abraham in Genesis 15 and 17, the conditional Mosaic covenant in Exodus 19 through 24, and the new covenant promised to Israel in Jeremiah 31 and Hebrews 8. He explains the difference between conditional and unconditional blood covenants, touches on the seventieth week of Daniel, the 144,000, the Antichrist, and Israel being grafted in again, then closes with the new covenant in Christ's blood and what it means that a testament takes effect when the testator dies. Pastor Pierucki follows with remarks on why replacement theology is wrong and how God's everlasting covenant with Israel pictures the security of the believer.
Wake Up
Micah Reaves preaches from Romans 13:11-12 on the urgency of waking out of spiritual sleep, using an alarm clock and the snooze button to picture how believers put off the work God has given them. He points to 1 Thessalonians 5, 1 Corinthians 15:34, and 1 Corinthians 11 to show that Christians are children of the day who ought to be watching, sober, and examining themselves rather than assuming someone else will do their job. He closes by reminding hearers that the lost are dying every second, that God is not willing that any should perish, and that every believer has a work to do until Christ returns.
2 Kings
Pastor Pierucki continues his overview of 2 Kings, beginning with Elijah's departure in a whirlwind and Elisha's request for a double portion, then moving quickly through the healing of the waters, Naaman the leper, Gehazi's greed, the floating axe head, the four lepers at the Syrian camp, and the repeated pattern of kings who did evil as their fathers had done. Along the way he turns to Romans 8 on the security of the believer, 2 Chronicles 32 on Hezekiah and pride, and Galatians 5 on walking in the Spirit. He urges hearers to pray for laborers, to stop trying to fix their own lives, marriages, and prodigals apart from God, and to be faithful examples to their children and grandchildren.
Habakkuk 3: Part 2
Dale Moore continues his study of Habakkuk 3, picking up in verse 8 and working through verse 12. He covers God's boundaries for the seas, the chariots and horses of the Lord, the bow and spear as pictures of the Word of God, the oath God swore to Abraham and the tribes, and the signs surrounding the second advent, drawing in Job 26, Joel 2, Isaiah 63, Zechariah 1 and 6, Psalms 148, Matthew 24, and Revelation 6. He closes by urging believers to keep their eyes open to the things of God, to be ready and prayed up, and to stand without surrender on salvation by grace and the finished work of Christ.
Forgiveness Chapter 2
Mark Palmer continues his two-part study on how to forgive, working from Matthew 5:44 and its call to love enemies, bless those who curse, do good to those who hate, and pray for those who persecute. He brings in Romans 12, Proverbs 24, Luke 6:31, and Isaiah 43:18 to show that love must be genuine rather than a false front, that vengeance belongs to God, and that returning good for evil disarms people who expect hatred back. He shares stories from his years in retail and manufacturing about handling angry customers, false accusations, and coworkers, and encourages believers to do simple kindnesses now that open the door to witness later.
Lying Vanities
Jonathan Pennington preaches from Jonah 2:8, working through three questions: what a lying vanity is, what it means to observe one, and what it means to forsake your own mercy. Using 1 Samuel 12, Psalms 115, and the account of Jonah fleeing to Tarshish, he shows that a lying vanity is an empty thing that promises what only God can give, whether money, reputation, or trust in self, and that holding onto it costs more than it ever offered. He closes by asking what each of us runs to when we are running from God's will, and reminds us that God's mercies are new every morning and that no prayer for another person is wasted.
Colossians
Pastor Pierucki works through the book of Colossians, covering three major themes: what we are in Christ, what God's will is for the believer, and who Jesus Christ is. He walks through the epistle chapter by chapter, touching on being made saints, being complete and forgiven in Christ, the warning against philosophy and traditions of men, the instruction to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly, and the mystery of Christ in you, the hope of glory. He urges believers to test teachers by their fruit and pride, to hold God to His promises in faith, and to remember that no matter how far a Christian wanders, the Father is waiting for him to come back.
Habakkuk 3
Dale Moore continues his study through Habakkuk, working verse by verse through the opening of chapter 3, covering the prophet's prayer for revival and mercy, God's brightness described as light, the horns of power in His hand, and the shaking of the nations and mountains before Him. He draws in Exodus, Psalms 18, Isaiah 40, and Zechariah 14 to show God's power over darkness and judgment, and reminds believers that as kings and priests we are given a book that tells us how to rule and how to stay clean. He closes with practical encouragement to keep praying, keep going to church even when you do not feel like it, and keep handing out gospel tracts, since we never know who God will save through them.
Benefits of Being Part of a Local Church
Preaching from Matthew 18:20, Pastor Pierucki lays out why God places His people in a local assembly, covering church discipline, the pictures of sheep and shepherd, the body with Christ as the head, and the church's authority over baptism and the Lord's Supper. He warns from experience that believers who pull away from a local church end up exposed to Satan's work in their lives, and he answers the idea of an invisible universal church as convenient cover for those unwilling to submit. He closes by pointing to Ephesians 4 and Acts 13, urging Christians to get into a church, work together under God's authority, and let Him use them rather than serving Him their own way.
Water Part 2
In this second message on water, Nathan Grossman traces the theme of water through Scripture, from the mist that watered the earth in Genesis 2, to the flood that destroyed it in Genesis 6, to Isaiah 55 where water pictures the word of God going out and covering the earth. He warns that a gospel mixed with anything else is contaminated, points to a spiritual famine of hearing God's word, and answers the claim that water baptism saves by working through 1 Peter 3. He closes with Abraham and David, two men who gave water to the Lord, and calls for gratitude rather than the pride and fullness that sear the conscience.
Gospel of John
Pastor Pierucki gives an overview of the Gospel of John, moving through all twenty-one chapters and showing how the book presents Jesus Christ as God and Savior to the whole world. He answers groups that deny the deity of Christ, gathers up the many promises of everlasting life found throughout the book, and shows that assurance rests on what God has written rather than on feelings or experiences. He closes by calling believers to die to self, to remember they are sent by God, and to speak to the lost while there is still time.
Characteristics of Our Father
Mark Palmer works through a list of character traits of God the Father, showing from passage after passage that He loves, cares for, forgives, understands, accepts, satisfies, pursues, pardons, heals, redeems, and renews His children. Beginning at John 3:16 and moving through Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the Gospels, he stresses taking ownership of sin, letting God reason with us and walk us out of it, and waiting on the Lord for renewed strength. His practical counsel throughout is simple: read your Bible and pray a lot, and brag on God rather than on yourself.
Job and his Redeemer
Preaching from Job 19, John Brewer looks at the character of Job, a mature, upright man who feared God and turned from evil, and at the suffering God allowed to come into his life. He shows that even before Exodus and Ruth were written, Job by faith could see the redemption, the resurrection, and the return of Christ, and knew he would one day stand before his Redeemer in a resurrected body. The message calls believers to walk with God so closely that He gives them the kind of insight and relationship Job had.
Popcorn Preaching
In this popcorn preaching service, Nathan Grossman, Jonathan Pennington, and Micah Reaves each bring a short message. Nathan compares the physical benefits of water to the spiritual benefits of the word of God, showing from Genesis 1 and John 3 and 4 that the new birth comes through the water of the word and the Spirit. Jonathan gives practical help for personal Bible study, explaining words and grammar in the King James Bible and how the books of scripture are arranged, and Micah preaches on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, showing that true life, freedom, and joy are found only through Jesus Christ.
Jonah
Pastor Pierucki walks through the book of Jonah verse by verse, showing that no one can flee from the presence of the Lord and that disobedience always carries a cost. He draws out the picture of Christ in Jonah's three days in the fish, warns against false religion and work salvation, and calls believers to obey the Spirit in witnessing and to keep a right heart even while serving God. The message closes on the mercy of a God who knows everything about us and still saves us.
Philemon
Preaching through the short epistle of Philemon, Pastor Pierucki highlights the close, loving relationships shared among believers in the early churches. He points out how Paul called himself a prisoner of Christ out of love, and how the story of Onesimus teaches us to do the right thing, forgive, and receive one another as beloved brethren. The message closes with a call to be doers of the Word and to keep a right spirit toward God and others.
Popcorn Preaching
This service features three short messages from different speakers. Joseph Guevara, working from the account of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch, urges believers to preach Jesus alone rather than themselves, works, or any other person or religion, because only Christ can save. Mark Palmer's second message from Revelation 3 encourages the church that God has set before it an open door and asks only for a little strength, and then Dale Moore's third message from Psalm 81 calls hearers to forsake idols, open their mouths wide, and let God fill them.
Jude
Pastor Pierucki preaches a verse by verse study through the entire book of Jude, highlighting key phrases along the way. He emphasizes being servants of Christ, the security of salvation through the preserving work of God, and the call to earnestly contend for the one true faith. The message warns against ungodly men who creep into churches, defends the King James Bible, and contends strongly against Calvinism and Lordship salvation while presenting salvation as a free gift of God.
Why We Use the King James Bible
This message makes the case for using the King James Bible exclusively, instead of modern versions like the New King James, NIV, ESV, NASB, RSV, CSB, and NLT. He walks through specific verses where these modern versions reverse the meaning of the original text, introduce contradictions not present in the KJV, reject salvation by grace through faith, attack the eternal sonship of Christ, and grossly pervert God's law in terrible ways. He closes in Revelation 22, warning that anyone who adds to or takes away from God's words invites serious judgment, and presents corrupted modern Bible versions as part of Satan's ongoing effort to make people doubt God's word.
Kings Continued
Pastor Pierucki continues his walk through 2 Kings, beginning in Hebrews 11 and 1 John 3 on faith and on being the sons of God, then reviewing the fire from heaven in chapter 1, Elisha's double portion, the widow's vessels of oil, Naaman's cleansing, Gehazi's greed, and the recovered axe head. He centers the message on 2 Kings 6, where Elisha's servant has his eyes opened to see the horses and chariots of fire, and he ties it to Psalms 91 and personal accounts of God's protection in his own life. He closes with the four lepers of chapter 7 who said they did not well to keep good news to themselves, urging hearers to seek God first, get their lives in order, and take the gospel to a lost world.
Habakkuk 3
Dale Moore begins a study of Habakkuk 3, opening with the prophet's prayer and his fear at hearing from God, then his plea for God to revive His work. He works through prayers in Psalms 7, 86, and 90, the fear of God's word seen in Pharaoh's servants in Exodus 9, Josiah's tender heart in 2 Kings 22 and 2 Chronicles 34, and Jehoiakim burning the scroll in Jeremiah 36, urging hearers to let the Bible convict them rather than close it. He then turns to verse 3 and the second advent, showing from Acts 1, Deuteronomy 33, Judges 5, and Numbers 20 that the Lord's return begins at Sinai and follows the king's highway.
Halfway through the year - Last Days
Halfway through the year, Pastor Pierucki steps out of his book by book preaching to explain why the church does what it does, starting in Philippians 3 with Paul's desire to know Christ and pressing toward the mark. He warns from Matthew 15, Acts 20, and 2 Corinthians 11 about false teachers, sheep stealers, and the traditions and commandments of men, then answers baptismal regeneration, the teaching that a believer can lose his salvation, the five points of Calvinism, and replacement theology from the Scriptures. He closes with the kindness of God toward the unthankful and the evil, the warnings of Proverbs 1 about refusing God's reproof, and a call to spend the time God has given being used by Him.
1 Kings: Hearing God
Pastor Pierucki finishes his overview of 1 Kings, working through Elijah at the brook Cherith, the widow of Zarephath and the principle of taking care of God's servants, the contest with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, and Elijah's depression under the juniper tree. He turns aside to 1 Corinthians 9 and 1 Timothy 5 on supporting pastors and missionaries, tells how the church's prophet's chamber and mission giving have grown, and warns against the empty show of false religion. He closes on the still small voice, sharing personal accounts of God speaking to him at his salvation, in his call to Romania, and on a sledding hill with his son, and asks whether hearers truly know God.
Fruit
Mark Palmer teaches on the difference between good fruit and bad fruit, starting in Matthew 7 where the Lord says a tree is known by what it produces. He works through corrupt fruit, shallow roots, shame and death, withering, and disobedience, then turns to the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5, being rooted in Christ in Colossians 2, and the flourishing tree of Psalms 1 and Psalms 92, urging believers to read their Bible and pray a lot so their roots go deep. Pastor Pierucki follows with remarks on salvation as a gift received by surrender rather than works, and on staying surrendered to God's will even after being hurt by people.