Providence North Community Church

God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble! Live for His kingdom, and stop trying to build your own.

The Lord has kept the seed of the woman all throughout history, just like He promised in Genesis 3. Even though the seed of the serpent remained, the lineage of the One who would crush the serpent was preserved according to the Lord's plan!

Families can be the most beautiful and simultaneously painful things in our lives. We are all broken, so our families are broken as well. In today's passage, we see even Noah sinning and the effects of it on his kids. Praise the Lord for our our Heavenly Father.

We were made in the image of God to glorify God

Will Walker, from Providence Church in Austin, joins us for a Sunday and teaches us God's design for community all the way back in Genesis 2 & 3.

Noah had a sin nature - his problem was innate. But God promised to deal with it not by flooding the earth again, but by sending His own Son to stand in our place. Our problem is the same as Noah's! Praise God we can take hold of the work of the cross of Christ.

After all the waiting, the Lord let Noah off the ark to a new beginning, a new creation. In our own lives, we can trust Him in the waiting because we know He is making all things new. We've seen it in our lives when we take hold of Jesus' work on the cross!

God is just and merciful. He pours out wrath on sin yet provides an ark to rescue Noah. And Jesus is the ark for all of us! He took the wrath against sin for us and safely hides us in His righteousness.

The Sanders give us an update and a word of encouragement about how the Lord is moving across the world.

Corruption abounds in a fallen world. We see it everywhere we look today, and all throughout scripture, especially Genesis 6. We are hopeless apart from a Savior outside of this world. Praise God that Jesus is that Savior.

The God of fellowship made us for fellowship: fellowship with God (v. 1-2,5-6), fellowship within God (3-4, 7), and fellowship with one another (7-10).

Jesus is the promised Lord of Psalm 110. He is the sovereign king (v. 1-3), the ultimate priest (v. 4), and the eternal God (v. 5-7).

Longing and joy come together when our hearts long for our King, anticipated as the shield and anointed one in this psalm. Around us we see evil and darkness. We have been given this psalm to equip us to deal with dark times.

Psalm 22 reminds us that the baby born on Christmas is the Lamb of God - our final sacrifice for sin.

Psalm 2 is one of the most quoted Psalms in the New Testament and is used as a means of comfort in the prophetic fulfillment of Jesus as the superior, victorious, resurrected king.

Jesus - fully God and fully man - fully saves!

Jesus addresses pride in his disciples and encourages and instructs them to serve in his kingdom

Does your allegiance belong fully to Jesus? Being His disciple means forsaking all other allegiances this world offers! It is costly, but it is worth it!

The Gospel Of Luke

In this text, we see Jesus show his longing for justice to be brought against sin, as He says that He came to cast fire on the earth. It is a hard saying! But He immediately follows it up by saying that He has a baptism that He himself must undergo, referring to the cross! Although judgement is a necessary thing against sin, Jesus immediately points to the mercy we have at the cross where He dies in our place. Those who take hold of that free gift of salvation are protected from the fire of judgement because Jesus took it upon himself. And that is the offer He gives to the crowds the rest of the passage! He says to read the signs of the Kingdom right in front of them, they are walking with their Maker, their Messiah! But they are walking to eternal death if they don't turn to Him and repent of their sin. Our time on this earth is short, and we should not presume upon the grace of God for another day - we aren't guaranteed tomorrow. Turn to Jesus, receive mercy - because one day we will all die, and then it will be too late. Today is the day of salvation!

In these verses, Jesus teaches the crowds, his disciples, and us to live in such a way that we are ready for his return. Jesus explains what this readiness looks like using the image/parable of faithful/ready servants, and unfaithful/unprepared servants. The faithful servants (v. 35-40) are dressed for action, have their lamps burning, and are awake at every watch throughout the night - looking for the return of the master. In a shocking reversal Jesus promises that, rather than those faithful servants attending to him, when he returns he will serve them!

In this passage Jesus addresses one of the most common idols in the lives of both Christians and non-Christians - money and possessions. An idol is anything that promises us hope, safety, life, or fulfillment, and requires that we sacrifice our time, thoughts, or affections to pursue it. Money and possessions make those kinds of promises to us, and Jesus knows how much they can have a hold of our hearts rather than the true and certain promises made to us in the gospel. Jesus encourages all of us, whether rich or poor, to find our treasure in him alone. And then, for the way we view and use our money and possessions to be radically transformed because of that.

In these verses Jesus offers his disciples freedom from fear, by being more deeply rooted in a proper fear of God. Jesus addresses three powerful and common fears - exposure, suffering, and rejection. The answer to these fears is not stirring up courage, but rightly fearing God in his holiness, and finding freedom from fear through the gospel. We are transformed in our fears when we BOTH fear God, AND fear not, because of the forgiveness and righteousness that are ours through our union with Christ.

The focus of the gospel message is on what is done for us, not what we should do. Only when Jesus has covered and wiped away our sin, and given us his own righteousness, can we pursue holy living - fueled by the work of Jesus on our behalf, rather than our own works.

Jesus says, “If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.” What darkness are we allowing to fill us that we need to cut out?