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Baptized Into Christ (Worship Service, April 9, 2017)

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Title: Baptized Into Christ

Passage: Exodus 6: 1-4

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: April 9th, 2017

In Romans 6:1-4 Paul is not teaching about baptism per se. It certainly contains teaching about baptism, but that’s not the point. The point is the impossibility of those united to Christ to live in sin. Yet Paul drew from a shared understanding of baptism to make certain points about the Christian life. Consequently, this passage is a helpful and clarifying glimpse at biblical baptism. Our text teaches about baptism, and, from baptism rightly understood, it teaches about the Christian life. The point this morning is: those baptized in Christ will live differently from those who are not.

From Bad to Worse (Worship Service, April 2nd, 2017)

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Title: From Bad to Worse

Passage: Exodus 5: 5-21

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: April 2nd, 2017

As we consider ch 5 in light of the whole book of Exodus, we are taught not to be deceived by our circumstances, but to look up and hope in God. As we look around us at the world, it seems to be spinning out of control. The darkness around us gets blacker and blacker. We too, like the Israelites, may be tempted to lose hope in our trials. But we must not. Amidst a very dark age, we must keep the flickering candle of our hope in Christ aflame. In light of this, I want you to get this central message from this sermon: believers hope in God, no matter how black the world’s darkness becomes.

A Conservative Christian Declaration: Article 14 (Sunday School, March 26th, 2017)

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Topic: A Conservative Christian Declaration

Works Cited: New Testament

Segment #: 09

Speaker: Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday School

Date: March 26th, 2017

Let My People Go (Worship Service, March 26th, 2017)

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Title: Let My People Go

Passage: Exodus 4:27 – 5:4

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: March 26th, 2017

I have organized this morning’s message around the two responses to Moses that we see in this passage. The first is the response of the Israelites in 4:31: And the people believed. The second response is that of Pharaoh in 5:2, Who is the LORD? Here we have illustrated the two ways to live. As we look at our text this morning, I want you to ask yourself, how do I respond to God? Does my life bear the marks of a response of faith, or of unbelief?

The Pleasures and Perils of Serving Yahweh (Worship Service, March 19th, 2017)

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Title: The Pleasures and Perils of Serving Yahweh

Passage: Exodus 4:18-26

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: March 19th, 2017

The return to Egypt is now before us. The ESV breaks the text into three paragraphs, and in each of them we see how God prepares Moses for his great return to Egypt. These lessons are instructive for us, for they both unfold important parts of the Exodus narrative and illustrate timeless principles for God works with his servants. This morning, I want you to see that God graciously fits his servants for the work he wants them to do. We already know that God will be with Moses. As Moses returns to Egypt, we see something of what that looks like. 

Send Someone Else (Worship Service, March 12th, 2017)

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Title: Send Someone Else

Passage: Exodus 4:1-17

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: March 12th, 2017

Moses’s three questions in chapter 4 expose Moses’s fear and unbelief. Yet for each of Moses’s three objections, God patiently brings himself back into Moses’s thoughts. Moses was very hesitant to obey God’s call. All of us can be the same way. The point is this, we must submit to God’s will. In big things, in little things, in hard things, and in difficult things, we must lovingly submit to the will of God. In this passage, there are three reasons why we should submit to God. 

He Does Whatever He Pleases (Worship Service, March 5th, 2017)

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Title: He Does Whatever He Pleases

Passage: Exodus 3:16-22

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: March 5th, 2017

The LORD has sovereign power and authority over all things. Yahweh is in control over everything that happens in the book of Exodus. That is because the Lord is over everything that happens, period. This passage is not only about what is about to happen, it is also about a Sovereign God who foretells what will certainly happen because he decreed those events. In light of this truth, the point of this morning’s message is we should trust our sovereign God who does whatever he decrees. Why should we trust God? 

A Conservative Christian Declaration: Articles 9 & 13 (Sunday School, February 26th, 2017)

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Topic: A Conservative Christian Declaration

Works Cited: New Testament

Segment #: 06

Speaker: Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday School

Date: February 26th, 2017

Biblical Lessons from The Sacred Name (Worship Service, February 26th, 2017)

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Title: Biblical Lessons from The Sacred Name

Passage: Exodus 3:10-15

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: February 26th, 2017

Today we consider the theological and practical implications that our God is the I AM WHO I AM or Yahweh. If this is the name by which God is to be remembered throughout all generations, then it is fitting to spend time considering more carefully the meaning of Yahweh, and what it means for us.

A Conservative Christian Declaration: Article 7 (Sunday School, February 19th, 2017)

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Topic: A Conservative Christian Declaration

Works Cited: New Testament

Segment #: 05

Speaker: Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday School

Date: February 19th, 2017