http://wowlife.us/blog Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:01:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Leave a Mark: Follow Me Jesus didn't call you to a life of comfort. You are called, rather, to repentance with an invitation to life... a life that leaves a mark. What does repentance look like? What will that life following Jesus be marked by? Pastor Dan Nold looks at Mark ... http://wowlife.us/blog/2010/02/09/additional-bible-teaching-3-called-26-7/ Leave a Mark: On Your Mark We sometimes mistakenly picture Jesus as a wimp, snuggling with bunnies and dancing through fields of daffodils. But bunny-snuggling doesn't get people killed. Dan Nold teaches us from Mark 1:1-13 that you can't wussify the wilderness, and we shouldn't wussify Jesus.  Click here to "listen ... http://wowlife.us/blog/2010/02/03/additional-bible-teaching-leave-a-mark-2/ Check out Additional Bible Teaching by Pastor Vic King via video that accompanies the main Scriptural text from the sermon. 1/23-24 ~ Leave a Mark: A Really Good Story. We just began a sermon series on the Gospel of Mark. But what is a gospel?  Etymologically, a gospel is simply good news ... http://wowlife.us/blog/2010/01/27/additional-bible-teaching/ S - John 7:37-39 Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who ... http://wowlife.us/blog/2009/12/20/check-your-thirst/ Scripture:  Matthew 9:9-13--As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector's booth.  "Follow me and be my disciple," Jesus said to him.  So Matthew got up and followed him.  Later, Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along ... http://wowlife.us/blog/2009/11/21/show-mercy-not-offer-sacrifices/ Scripture: Matthew 6:21 • "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (NIV) • "It's obvious, isn't it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being." (MSG) • "Your heart will always be where your treasure is." (CEV) Observation: The place where ... http://wowlife.us/blog/2009/11/20/hidden-treasure/ Scripture: Matthew 4:4 Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" Observation: Jesus, hungry form fasting for 40 days and 40 nights, is confronted by the devil in the wildnerness. Satan wants him to tell stones to become ... http://wowlife.us/blog/2009/11/19/beyond-natural-bread/ Scripture:  What is important is faith expressing itself in love...Galatians 5:6 Observed:  I love the way the scriptures are connected.  Today's passage from Job recounted how Job lived his life: expressing his faith in love and service of others, righteousness and purity.  Paul is writing to the Galatians to remind them ... http://wowlife.us/blog/2009/11/07/what-is-important/ Scripture--Galatians 3:23-25 (NLT) 23Before the way of faith in Christ was available to us, we were placed under guard by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until the way of faith was revealed. 24Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until ... http://wowlife.us/blog/2009/11/06/the-protection-of-the-law/ Scripture: Mark 14:3 - "While he was at Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head." Observation: ... http://wowlife.us/blog/2009/11/03/a-pleasing-fragrance/