Episodes

5 days ago
5 days ago
Genesis 3:8-13
Having disobeyed the LORD God, the man and the woman must inevitably face their Creator. What then?

Sunday Jun 29, 2025
Genesis 3:1-7 - A Closer Look at The Woman's & Man's Temptation & Sin
Sunday Jun 29, 2025
Sunday Jun 29, 2025
Genesis 3:1-7
For the most part everyone *knows* the story of temptation & sin in Genesis chapter three. But in many cases, I think there has been quite a lot of unwarranted speculation as to what was happening. For better or worse, this is my take on the details...

Sunday Jun 22, 2025
Genesis 2:24-25 - Biblical Marriage
Sunday Jun 22, 2025
Sunday Jun 22, 2025
Genesis 2:24-25
Having created the man, and then the woman, the LORD God uses that very first relationship as His design & pattern (model) for for marriage -- i.e., "Therefore..."

Sunday Jun 15, 2025
Genesis 2:18-15 - God's Divine Intention: The Man, The Woman
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
Sunday Jun 15, 2025
Genesis 2:18-25
God's designed intention was to create the man, followed by the woman as the man's complimentary partner & helper. These verses which are so often divisive are meant to a beautiful celebration of marriage before sin.

Sunday Jun 08, 2025
Genesis 2:17-18 - Man's Conscience (?) and Man's Compliment
Sunday Jun 08, 2025
Sunday Jun 08, 2025
The first few minutes were not recorded, but it was basically review and setting the context for today's teaching. We took a closer look at God's prohibition concerning "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" and the declared consequence, "death". After that we surveyed the next section, verses 18-25 -- noting that verse 18 drives the unfolding narrative.

Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Genesis 2:7-17
Adam is formed from dirt; at the same time, the LORD God uniquely makes him in His own image, breathing into his nostrils the "breath of life!"

Sunday May 25, 2025
Joel 1-2, "The Day of the LORD" / Dylan Ackley
Sunday May 25, 2025
Sunday May 25, 2025
Minor Prophet: Joel 1-2
Our own Dylan Ackley preaches on important themes from Joel chapters 1-2 -- focusing especially on the significance and importance of "the day of the LORD."

Sunday May 18, 2025
GUEST: Curt Fleck - "Jesus's Crucifixion & Resurrection Demands a Response"
Sunday May 18, 2025
Sunday May 18, 2025
Matthew 27:45 - 28:9
Curt Fleck, the Executive Director of Civil Servant Ministry, preaches a "condensed" message from the regular Bible study series (Matthew's gospel) he hosts with various State governmental officials in Springfield.

Sunday May 11, 2025
Sunday May 11, 2025
Genesis 2:5-17
In today's message we consider difference between vegetation created by God on Day 3 and the description in 2:5, "When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground".
We also survey the larger context of verses 5-17 to glean what we can know about the LORD God.

Sunday May 04, 2025
Genesis 2:4 - A Second Creation account !?
Sunday May 04, 2025
Sunday May 04, 2025
Genesis 2:4 - Genesis 1:1-2:3 narrates seven chronological days of creation (6 days of activity followed by an explicit day of cessation). Then (apparently without adequate explanation) chapter 2:4ff recounts what appears to be creation with significantly different details. Are the two "versions" of creation irreconcilable, or are they complimentary?