Biblically Based, Christ Centered, Caring Community in Annapolis, MD
This series is a short look at God’s blessing in our lives – God’s promise to bless, God’s purpose for the blessing, the corporate nature of the blessing, and the multi-generational design of the blessing.
God commands a blessing upon those who are in Christ and walk in unity with their fellow believers.
Psalm 133
God calls His people to live with a multi-generational perspective, focusing on how the faith will be passed on to the generations to come.
Psalm 78:1-8
God calls leaders to bless those under their care, and He promises to respond to those blessings with His covenant Presence and provision.
Numbers 6:23-27
God calls His people to be conduits of His blessing so that the whole earth might know and praise God.
Psalm 67
This lengthy series was taught to give an overview of the biblical picture of history, from the creation to the new heavens and the new earth. It looks at God’s overarching purpose in history and helps Christians see everything through the lens of creation, fall, redemption, and final consummation.
God calls us to live a life of love and service toward Him and others.
Matthew 22:34-40
Our entire lives matter to God and are to be lived in service to Him and with a view toward eternity
1 Corinthians 10:31; Colossians 3:23-24
Christians are called to build their lives and ministries in such a manner that they will survive the coming judgment and bring eternal rewards.
1 Corinthians 3:10-15
All humans will stand before God’s judgment throne, and only those who trust in Christ will enter the new heavens and earth.
Revelation 20:11-15
In the new heavens and earth, God’s purposes for creation will be fulfilled, and our deepest longings and desires will be satisfied.
Revelation 21:1-4
We must come to an understanding of the depth of Christ’s love for us and then we must show that love to the body of Christ, the Church.
Ephesians 3:14-21
The new heavens and new earth will exhibit both continuity and discontinuity with the present heavens and earth.
2 Peter 3:10; Matthew 19:28
The new heavens and the new earth are our eternal home, and those who love and serve God will experience the removal of the curse and the consummation of God’s original purposes for mankind.
Revelation 21:1-8
I thank God for your faith and your love for each other, and I pray that you know the hope of your calling, the riches of God’s inheritance for you, and the surpassing power of His greatness towards you.
Ephesians 1:15-23
Between the day of our redemption and the day we die, we live with one foot in the physical world stained by sin and the other foot in the Heavenly Kingdom that shines with an ever-increasing glory.
1 John 3:1-3
At the resurrection, our present bodies will be raised and transformed to be like Christ’s resurrected and glorified body, exhibiting both continuity and discontinuity with our present body.
1 Corinthians 15:35-44
The people of God have always believed in a resurrection of the body, and Christ is the guarantee of this hope.
John 5:28-29
When people die, their soul continues in conscious existence while awaiting the resurrection of the body on the last day.
Luke 23:38-43
Believers have been given the Holy Spirit. Who gives us a first taste of the coming age and is a guarantee that all the blessings God has promised will be given to us.
Ephesians 1:14-15
The key to New Testament eschatology is understanding the difference between this age and the age to come, the now and the not yet.
1 John 3:1-3
Christ’s redemptive work affects not only the human spirit, but all of our human nature, and all of creation as well.
Colossians 1:15-20
As the Second Adam, Christ has worked redemption and is restoring God’s original purposes for mankind.
1 Corinthians 15:20-22, 45-47; Romans 5:14
Since we could not save ourselves, God the Son became human to work redemption for us.
Galatians 4:4-6
We should praise God for the Power of Redemption He has shown toward us.
Ephesians 1:3-14