We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Today we begin our journey together through the last letter of the Apostle Paul. This is his last word to his protégée Timothy. If Christianity is going to flourish not perish...we must pass it on! If the light of the gospel is not to be extinguished in our land in our day it will be by God’s sovereign grace upon us & our humble faithfulness to "Pass It On!" Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the sermon outline & accompanying...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. When we first began our study in Judges we saw a sad slide from the faithfulness of Joshua’s generation to an utter disregard of the things of God in the next. We saw that compromise leads to consequences. That neglect leads to regret & that rejection leads to God’s wrath. Today, we go to the last word regarding the dark days of Judges. I’m sad to say that today we come to the most sordid story in all of Scripture. It is scandalous,...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. We all have a God-sized hole in our souls. We were created to worship, but we also want to be our own gods. How do we reconcile these competing impulses? An easy answer is to refashion god into a god of our own making & liking. In the beginning, God made man in His image & ever since we have been trying to return the favor. We would like a god who is there for us, who cares for us, but one who demands very little of us. We ...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Samson is arguably the most famous person in the book of Judges. So today we will tread well-worn Scripture in revisiting Judges 16. We shall see Samson at his most audacious & salacious. We will then witness Samson humbled & handed over to those he was supposed to be the deliver from. This self-centered sot will become a sickening site. For a cuddle with a damsel Samson, the able, will become Samson the pitiful while the P...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Today we come to Samson, the last judge chronicled in the book of Judges. Samson was a he-man with a she weakness. Samson is probably the most well-known of all the Judges & yet he is the least heroic, least obedient, & least commendable. Samson is far from a paragon of virtue & so his judgeship demonstrates the sad state of affairs when everyone does what is right in their own eyes. In Judges, it becomes hard to find a hero among ...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. In our modern marketplace leadership books, seminars, & courses abound. But in Jeremiah 6:16 The Lord says: "Stand by the roads, & look, & ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; & walk in it, & find rest for your souls." Today we shall examine a topic that is overstudied from a passage that is too often understudied. We will be in Judges 12 today as we endeavor to discover "Leadership Lessons From Slighted Script...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. After a fast footnote about Tola & Jair our main story opens with a sad indictment in Judges 6:6 "The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD..." We have seen this pattern throughout the book of Judges. God saves His people under a deliverer judge & the very next generation wanders away from the Lord. What is new here is not the pattern, but the progression. For when Othniel was sent to deliver God...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Galatians 6:7 says: "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." The God of Nature is the God of Scripture. The God of Nature has made it clear that if you sow pumpkin seeds you get pumpkins not petunias. This immutable law extends to our actions. We reap what we sow. Sometimes there is a long gap between one’s sowing & one’s reaping. Sometimes some folks seem to get away with sowing f...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. When we read the Bible we tend to think the real battles are at places like Mt. Carmel where Elijah stood alone against Jezebel’s 850 false prophets. We tend to think that the big battle is the real battle. The real battle is often not in attaining victory; it is usually in maintaining the victory. This is Satan’s best-kept secret. When we have the faith to trust Jesus & muster for the big battle, Satan knows he is defeated.&n...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Today we meet Gideon. God will use Gideon to deliver His people from Midianite marauders, but in this deliverance, Gideon’s faith will be repeatedly tested. Grab your Bible, a pen, & print off the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying guided study questions & let's get washed in the Word! Free sermon outlines & accompanying study guides are available at our website: www.washedintheword.life on the Study Guides page.

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. In 1779 Captain William Jones gave the US Marines one of their most iconic recruitment slogans when he advertised “for a few good men.” That slogan well serves the sentiment of Judges 4 & 5. This passage is unique in the book of Judges in that instead of having a person function as the deliverer figure guiding the people into protracted peace instead only here in all of Judges we have two people. A military deliverer & prophetic...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Satan loves to sideline the saints. One of his most effective tactics is to keep us from saying “Here I am, Lord, send me.” When God calls forth from heaven: “Whom shall I send, who will go for us?” Satan whispers “Not you!” “You are too feeble, faltering, & filthy. You’re unworthy, your gifting is iffy, & your track record is shaky.” “Better sit this one out & let the ‘real saints’ answer God’s call.” This is why...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Today we embark on our journey through the book of Judges. Judges is one of those books preachers kind of tiptoe around. It’s a violent book. All its supposed heroes are deeply flawed. Some are fairly degenerate, yet God used them to deliver His people - though sadly God’s people quickly stray away into deeper & deeper levels of sin, suffering, & subjugation. Judges is a book that throws a spotlight on just how low w...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. In our final session in the book of James we shall focus on six questions that pertain to the biblical reality that "True Faith Works on Our Witness." Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable study guide & let's get Washed in the Word! Free sermon outlines & accompanying study guides are available at our website: www.washedintheword.life on the Study Guides page.

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Jesus urged us to "always pray & not give up." Yet somehow Satan has dulled us into saving prayers for Sundays & emergencies. In this our fourteenth session in the book of James we shall discover that "True Faith Works on Our Prayer Life." Grab your Bible, a pen, & print off the free downloadable study guide & let's get Washed in the Word! Free sermon outlines & accompanying study guides are available at our website: www....

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Patience is not something we always value, but it is something God values. God is so committed to us developing patience that He providentially permits us to enter into stretching situations so we can cultivate this vital virtue. Why is patience something God actively seeks to cultivate in us? Because He wants to conform us more and more to the image of Christ. God wants us to learn patience because God Himself is patient. If we ar...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Greed hides itself from its victim. Greed is all too often a cancer that remains undetected in our hearts. In our text today, God wants to help us scan our hearts before this cancer consumes our souls. In this our twelfth session in the book of James we shall endeavor to discover that True Faith Works on Our Greed. Grab your Bible, a pen, & printout the free downloadable sermon outline & study guide & let's get Washed ...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. James’ entire epistle hinges on the premise that True Faith Works. James 1 & 2 showed us that True Faith Works on our Perspectives & our Actions. James 3 demonstrated that True Faith Works on Taming Our Tongues & True Faith Works Us Toward True Wisdom. James 4 demonstrated that True Faith Works on our Judgmentalism. Today in our eleventh message in the book of James we shall see that True Faith Works on our Boasting bec...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Don’t Judge Me Bro! is the refrain of our age. People who know perhaps no other Bible verse can quickly quote “Judge not, Lest ye be judged.” This statement is used as a blank check by our society that any and all behavior is beyond any and all scrutiny in any and all situations. It is true that Jesus said in Matthew 7 & Luke 6 "Judge not, & you will not be judged" but Jesus also said in John 7:24 "Do not judge by appearances, b...

We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Conflicts are common. If we are not careful those conflicts can rend relationships & ravage churches. The good news from James 4 is that True Faith Works on Our Conflicts. James 4, like a searchlight on a dark night, reveals why we fight and like a surgeon’s scalpel it shows how to make it right. Join us today in our ninth message in the book of James as we ask the Lord to help us understand that "True Faith Works on Our Conflicts." ...