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Mark 4:1-20 | Ben Potloff

Mark 3:20-35 | Ben Potloff

Mark 3:7-19 | Ben Potloff

Mark 3:1-6 | Nathan Noorlun

Mark 12:18-28 | Jacob Hutcheon

Mark 12:13-17 | Ben Potloff

Mark 12:1-12 | Ben Potloff

Mark 1:21-45 | Ben Potloff

Mark 1:14-20 | Mike Clarensau

Mark 1:9-13 | Ben Potloff

Mark 1:1-8 | Max Janusch

Matthew 28:16-20 | Ben Potloff

2 Corinthians 9:6-15 | Ben Potloff

1 Thessalonians 1:2-10 | Ben PotloffPastor Ben Potloff opens A Gospel Church series by asking what symptoms reveal genuine gospel transformation. Preaching from 1 Thessalonians 1:2-10, he shows that faith, love, and hope resound from a gospel-gripped community. Paul praised God for the Thessalonians because their faith worked, their love labored, and their hope endured through affliction. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, the gospel had taken root, producing repentance, new life, and joyful perseverance. Like the Thessalonians, we are called to turn from idols, serve the living and true God, and wait with assurance for the return of Christ. True gospel transformation is seen in steadfast faith, loving service, and unshakeable hope.

1 Peter 1:3-9 | Ben Potloff

Zechariah 9:9-13 | Max Janusch | "Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey" (v. 9b). Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem is recorded in all four Gospels, and two gospel writers, Matthew and John, go so ffar as to cite a particular Old Testament passage an connect it with this moment. In Zechariah 9:9-13, God promises his people that their king is coming and that he is bringinations and salvation for Israel. "Rejoice greatly! . . . Shout aloud!"

Joshua 12:1-13:7 | Ben Potloff | Often when we study scripture it is easy to fall into the temptation of wanting to quickly “skip or skim over” the chapters that are made up of lists. These lists could be a list of covenant commandments, a list of family members or as we see in our passage this week, a summarized list of conquered kings. But if we humble ourselves to the study of God’s word, we will come to realize the depth and magnitude that these lists can speak to us regarding the character of God our Father.

Joshua 11:1-23 | Ben Potloff | The question before us centers on why we should care about these narratives in Joshua. Aren’t they just bedtime stories we read to our children? 1 Corinthians 10:11 tells us why the historical books in both the Old Testament and New Testament are so important. “Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction.” The narratives that we read are all lessons that we are to learn from those who went before us. As we read about the victories of God’s people, our faith is increased knowing that God will do the same for us. He will give us victory over our enemies.

Joshua 10:16--43 | Gavin Hesse | While Israel lived like He had commanded, God took the Israelites' meager force, listened to Joshua and the Israelites, and worked a mighty victory with them. God likes to work with us, even though he does not need us. He holds victory in his hands, but, like a good father, he likes to act with his children. The Lord of the sun and all of creation even bends nature’s laws that he put into place at the beginning of the universe’s natural processes. He is not limited by the time set for a day, but he can, if he wishes, lengthen or shorten them. The Lord lengthened the day to punish the kings of Canaan’s evils, but he shortened the time of the sun’s shining when he punished his son in our place. Adoni-Zedek and his coalition could be defeated by spears and hail, but human sin needed a more personal touch to plunge sin’s darkness into the sea of Christ’s light.

Joshua 10:1-15 | Mike Clarensau | One thing to keep in mind as we read through Joshua is that the Lord is carrying out his judgment on the people in the land. Sometimes God uses man as his sword, but he is more than capable of carrying out his offensives without us. The focus of this passage is not on the martial might of Israel calling in the heavenly artillery by summoning a deity to fight for them. The Lord himself throws hailstones down on the Amorites, and most of the fallen were from his hand, not Israel’s. Whatever the Amorites did, it must have been pretty bad for God to make fresh stones just for their stoning. His ways are higher, and his knowledge is greater than ours. We must trust His righteousness in that time, also the text itself says that “there has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord heeded the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.” This makes it clear that ascribing something this clear-cut of God’s “smiting” of a people is something that we can’t do in our modern c