This is the study guide for the fifth week of the Elijah Series.  You can read it below, or download a pdf version to review or print.  Click here to download or listen to the sermon for Part 5.

We seek the glory of this Christian life but shun the pain,

We bask in the sunshine and despise the rain.

On the peaks of Carmel is where we would stay,

But the canyons of Kerith reveal God’s way.”

The chariots of fire we seek to ride,

Follow the deserts in which we hide.

Rough stones are we devoid of shape and form,

‘Til the lightening blast strikes and we emerge from the storm,

Rough and ready and fit to serve,

Our best for Christ is what He deserves.Read More »Study Guide V – The Cutting Place

I value independence, especially my own. I like my comfort as well. The problem with both of these valued ideals is that they often interfere with my ability to hear God. But I’m learning, and the most important thing I’m learning is that the sweetness of God’s Living Word is infinitely more valuable than both of these things.Read More »Study Guide IV – The Living Word

Like many in these days of spiritual drought, I began my Christian life with a vibrant sense of God’s presence, but that presence waned as I succumbed to the present day evangelical view of the Bible as a guidebook providing us with life application insights. In recent years, I have rediscovered the living presence and voice of God.  Through this study, I hope to help you reconnect with the Living Word.Read More »Study Guide III Signs of the Times

This is the study guide for the second week of the Elijah Series.  You can read it below, or download a pdf version to review or print.  Click here to download or listen to the sermon for Part 2.

Nobodies Like Elijah

Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.  Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops. (James 5:17-18, NIV)

“Georgie, don’t you ever get tired of just reading about things?” Violet’s question to George Baily in the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, could be asked of many in today’s church.  Always learning, but never growing in the intimate knowledge of Christ in whom truth is more than a library of knowledge, but a living reality in the hearts of God’s people. This is why Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is not marked by intellectual knowledge, but rather by the likeness of the teacher found in the disciple. (Luke 6:40) He warned the Scribes and Pharisees that their discipleship methods resulted in those who became twice the sons of hell that they were. (Matthew 23:15) Jesus also warned these misguided religious leaders saying, “You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.  These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” (John 5:39-40, NIV)Read More »Study Guide II – Nobodies Like Elijah

This is the first week of our new sermon series, Where is the God of Elijah?  Throughout this series we will be exploring the life of Elijah and his battle with spiritual drought, along with how we ourselves can hear God during our times of spiritual dryness.

I’ll be posting a study guide here every week for the duration of the series.  You can read it below, or download a pdf version to review or print.  Click here to download or listen to the sermon for Part 1.Read More »Study Guide I – Where is the God of Elijah?