Like a Tree Planted By the Water + Holding On

Cody and Roger shared lessons today with both lessons on how to sustain and maintain life. Cody gave the first lesson on “Like a Tree Planted By the Water” and spoke of the importance of the water and how a tree lives in difficult situations. Roger followed with lesson two...

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Letting God Lead

Roger pulled together scriptures, songs, and prepared thoughts for two lessons today as we had yet another 5th Sunday. Today the theme was “Letting God Lead”. Too often we ask God for help, or to intervene, but we don’t follow the path of most of the men and women of...

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Lessons From Luke

We often take the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for granted and sometimes even skip over them as we try to grow as or mature as Christians. However, as I grow older, the more I see the need to slow down and pull out a magnifying glass to...

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The Pattern

On June 24th, Roger was asked to speak at the congregation where he grew-up in north Dayton. It has been several years since he was able to visit, and he gave a lesson on “The Pattern”. As is his standard, Roger used some imagery for his lessons, but this time...

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Bitter and Sweet

Roger’s lessons for toady were titled “Bitter and Sweet”. The lessons begin with an act of God as the children of Israel are leaving Egypt and complain about a lack of water. The method God chooses to have Moses make the bitter water sweet segues into the lessons. The first...

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Understanding History

In the adult class tonight, the study focused on Joseph. There was a good bit of discussion regarding what scripture says (or does not say) about what Joseph was privy to regarding all that God was doing in his life (the bad and good). While we see Joseph’s life over...

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