Faith Assembly of God

CONVERSATION with kofi - some day you will leave your church (either in a Uhaul or a hearse) and you need to train your church how to have a pastor, what to look for in a pastor. Many times early on - “the next pastor” came up in board meetings. Tom Ascol's “Pastor's Wife” from book “Dear Timothy Chapter…

Preamble : Have this way of thinking in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although existing in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a slave, by being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as…

Pastor Jeff continues his series in Philippians. Philippians 1:21-26

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Text : Zechariah 14:10-21 All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and inhabit its site from Benjamin's Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's wine presses. And people…

Preamble : Text : Zechariah 14:1-9 Behold, a day is coming for Yahweh when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. Indeed, I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished, and half of the city will go forth…

Preamble : “In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity. “And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “ that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will…

Preamble - Titled: Promised Salvation - but this is not promised salvation for everyone. First, our text is clearly about the promised salvation of Israel, all who are true Israel, those who are in Christ. build on that more later The oracle of the word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Thus declares Yahweh…

Text : Zechariah 11:15-17 Then Yahweh said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd. “For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who face annihilation, seek the young, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will consume…

Preamble : Text : Zechariah 11:1-14 Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may consume your cedars. Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the mighty trees have been destroyed; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the impenetrable forest has come down. There is a sound of the shepherds' wail, For…

Preamble : Text : Zechariah 10:6-12 “I will make the house of Judah mighty, And I will save the house of Joseph, And I will cause them to return, Because I have had compassion on them; And they will be as though I had not rejected them, For I am Yahweh their God, and I will answer them. “And Ephraim…

Preamble : Text : Zechariah 10:1-5 Ask rain from Yahweh at the time of the late rain— Yahweh who makes the storm clouds; And He will give them showers of rain, the plant in the field to each man. For the teraphim speak wickedness, And the diviners behold false visions And speak worthless dreams; They…

The King's Commitment Preamble : Text : Zechariah 9:9-17 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Make a loud shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is righteous and endowed with salvation, Lowly and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a pack animal. I will cut…

A Time of Judgment and Grace Preamble : Text Zechariah 9:1-8 The oracle of the word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, with Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward Yahweh), And Hamath also, which borders on it; And Tyre and Sidon,…

Preamble : Text : Zechariah 8:18-23 Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying, “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth months will become joy, gladness, and merry appointed feasts for the house of Judah;…

Strength in His Promises Preamble : Text : Zechariah 8:9-17 “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘Let your hands be strong, you who are listening in these days to these words from the mouth of the prophets, those who spoke in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of hosts was laid, to the end that…

A Holy Habitation Preamble : Text : Zechariah 8:1-8 Then the word of Yahweh of hosts came, saying, “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘I am jealous with great jealousy for Zion, and with great wrath I am jealous for her.' “Thus says Yahweh, ‘I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then…

The Risk of Ritual Preamble : Now it happened that in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. And the town of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to entreat the favor of Yahweh, speaking to the priests,…

A Vision of Rest Preamble : Text : Zechariah 6 Then I lifted up my eyes again and saw, and behold, four chariots were coming forth from between the two mountains; and the mountains were bronze mountains. With the first chariot were red horses, with the second chariot black horses, with the third chariot…

A Vision of Wickedness Preamble : Text : Zechariah 5:5-11 Then the angel who was speaking with me went out and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes and see what this is going forth.” So I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the ephah going forth.” Again he said, “This is their appearance in all the…

A Vision of Removal Preamble : Text Thesis : God's judgment is an act of grace. Intro : His Judgement's Standard Then I lifted up my eyes again and saw, and behold, a flying scroll. And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits and its width ten…

A Vision of Restoration Preamble : Text: Zechariah 4 Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and roused me, as a man who is roused from his sleep. And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps…