Sermons – Grace In the Desert

“Alpha to Omega & In Our Midst,” Concluded Revelation 12:5-12 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 5 And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a scepter of iron. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne, 6 and […]

“Alpha to Omega & In Our Midst,” pt 8   Revelation 3:17-22 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 17 For you say, ‘I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.' You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. 18 Therefore I advise you to buy from me gold […]

Alpha to Omega & In Our Midst, pt 7 Zechariah 3:1-5 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 3 Then he showed me the high priest Joshua standing before the angel of the Lord and the accuse  standing at his right hand to accuse him. 2 And the Lord said to the accuser, “The Lord rebuke you, O accuser! The Lord who has chosen […]

“Alpha to Omega & In Our Midst, pt 6” Isaiah 22:20-22 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 20 “On that day I will call my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah 21 and will clothe him with your robe and bind your sash on him. I will commit your authority to his hand, and he shall […]

“Alpha to Omega & In Our Midst,” pt 5 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ […]

“From Alpha to Omega & In Our Midst,” pt 4  1John 4:1-6 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: […]

An Easter Meditation & Study 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the testimony of God to you with superior speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 […]

Isaiah 49:8-13 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 8 Thus says the Lord: In a time of favor I have answered you; on a day of salvation I have helped you; I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages, 9 saying […]

“Alpha to Omega & In Our Midst,” pt 3 John 18:33-37 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 33 Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered, “Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?” 35 Pilate […]

“Alpha to Omega & In Our Midst,” pt 2 1 Corinthians 1:20-25 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, […]

“Alpha to Omega & In Our Midst,” pt 1 1 John 4:7-12 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 God's […]

“Alpha to Omega & In Our Midst, ” Intro to Revelation’s 7 Churches Revelation 4:1-8 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 4 After this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood open! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will […]

Elder Reggie Leach 1 John 2:25 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 25 And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.   Elder Leach is the Treasurer of the Arizona Conference of SDA. We welcome him today for a grace centered study on giving and stewardship.

Pastor John Schachinger John 15:15-16 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16 You did […]

Romans 3:21-26 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets, 22 the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction, 23 since all have […]

Hebrews 8:1-6 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 8 Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent that the […]

Hebrews 10:36-39 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 36 For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what was promised. 37 For yet “in a very little while, the one who is coming will come and will not delay, 38 but my righteous one will live […]

Matthew 18:1-5 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 18 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 2 He called a child, whom he put among them, 3 and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never […]

2 Corinthians 13:9-13 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 9 For we rejoice when we are weak but you are strong. This is what we pray for, that you may be restored. 10 So I write these things while I am away from you, so that when I come I may not have to be […]

John 5:12-18 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take it up and walk'?” 13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in[a] the crowd that was there. 14 Later Jesus found him in […]

Romans 7:18-8:1 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 18 For I know that the good does not dwell within me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do the good lies close at hand, but not the ability. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do […]

Some Vision Casting for the New Year –  Rom. 8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.* Rom. 8:15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba!t Father!”* Rom. 8:16 it […]

Pastor Zack Surovec Isaiah 53 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 53 Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth, Conclusion 1 Corinthians 3:5-9 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth, pt 21 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 19 For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might gain all the more. 20 To the Jews I became as […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power & the Ends of the Earth, pt 20 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 19 For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might gain all the more. 20 To the Jews I became as […]

Acts: God's Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth,” pt 19 Philippians 3:7-12 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 7 Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8 More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ […]

Sam MacLaughlin John 15:12-14 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Grady Burkett Matthew 24:4-13 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 4 Jesus answered them, “Beware that no one leads you astray. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah!' and they will lead many astray. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed, for this must take […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth, pt 18 Mark 1:9-15 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth, pt 17 Amos 9:11-15 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 11 On that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its[a] breaches and raise up its[b] ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old, 12 […]

God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth, pt 15 Colossians 4:2-6 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2 Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving. 3 At the same time, pray for us as well, that God will open to us a door for the word, that we may […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth, pt 14 Romans 11:13-18 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 Now I am speaking to you gentiles. Inasmuch as I am an apostle to the gentiles, I celebrate my ministry 14 in order to make my own people jealous and thus save some […]

Acts: Gods Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth, pt 13 Matthew 20:21-28 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 21 And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Declare that these two sons of mine will sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth, pt 12 John 3:4-12 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth, pt 11 Luke 7:1-10 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 7 After Jesus had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. 2 A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly and who was ill and close […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth, pt 9 Luke 10:21-29 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 21 At that very hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth, pt 8 2 Corinthians 3:1-6 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we? 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth,” pt 7 Ephesians 2:1-10 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2 You were dead through the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is […]

1 Corinthians 10:15-17 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 15 I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & to the Ends of the Earth, pt 6 John 12:20-26 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 20 Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish […]

“Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth,” pt 5 1 Peter 4:10-14 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 10 Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received. 11 Whoever speaks must do so as one speaking the very words […]

“Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth,” pt 4 Psalm 118:19-29 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness,     that I may enter through them     and give thanks to the Lord. 20 This is the gate of the Lord;     the righteous shall enter through it. 21 I thank you that […]

“Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth,” pt 3 Hebrews 2:5-13 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 5 Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. 6 But someone has testified somewhere, “What are humans that you are mindful of them or mortals that […]

Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth,” pt 2 Isaiah 57:15-19 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 15 For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place and also with those who are contrite and humble in […]

“Acts: God’s Friends, His Power, & the Ends of the Earth,” Introduction Isaiah 42 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. 2 He will not cry out […]

Luke 9:28-36 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 28 Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. 29 And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of […]

Deuteronomy 5:22-27 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 22 “These words the Lord spoke with a loud voice to your whole assembly at the mountain, out of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, and he added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me. 23 When you […]

“Daniel: From the Felts to the Zoo,” Conclusion Revelation 7:9-17 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 9 After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm […]

Daniel From the Felts to the Zoo, pt 14 John 15:18-27 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 18 “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the […]

Daniel: From the Felts to the Zoo, pt 13   John 19:1-7 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 19 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe. 3 They kept coming up […]