“…Throughout the past few centuries there have been missionaries going to many remote places in the world bringing the Gospel to every ‘tribe, tongue, and people.’ Quite often these men and women take the time to learn the language of the peoples and do the hard work of translating the Old and/or New Testament into their own language. Lest we forget, all of our modern translations were at one time handed over to our...
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Two Sunday’s ago we were encouraged to study out the doctrine of “Union with Christ” if we were unfamiliar with it (3 minute clip below): Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. The following two messages from the Basics 2010 Conference will help in our understanding of this doctrine,...
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It is always important to reflect on the Lord’s faithfulness on New Years. More than anything we should use this as a time to reflect on God’s faithfulness and give thanks to Him for His unfailing love and mercy which He has so richly lavished us with in Christ. I am personally grateful for the ministry of Sovereign Joy Community Church (SJCC). I am grateful that God has taken our church through so much expositional terrain. I am...
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Originally from Dec. 2009, but re-posted given it’s relevance to this past Sunday’s sermon: Christina Jesuroga has been edified and highly recommends the following series from 1 Timothy 2:9-15 for the women at our church to read or listen to: Christian women are under tremendous pressure these days: “Get a job, don’t waste your education.” “You’ll only be fulfilled if you succeed in your career.” “You need a new...
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As many of you already know, Pastor Jay was out of town this past week. What you may not of know is that he was enjoying some time at the Trinity Baptist Church of Montville’s 27th Annual Pastors’ Conference 2010. He was very edified by one sermon in particular and wanted to share it with us. This from Jay: “I had the distinct privilege of attending a pastors conference at Trinity Baptist Church. I was blessed beyond measure at...
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This week, the Men’s Study will be picking back up in chapters 5 & 6 of Jerry Bridges’ “The Pursuit of Holiness.” The chapters are quite short, so don’t be discouraged if you haven’t been able to make it yet. You are still welcome to drop in and benefit from the discussion. This week, the discussion will focus largely on the concept of being “raised with Christ” as taught in Romans 6....
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Repost as a resource for this past Sunday Seminary on prayer (originally posted Aug. 17, 2009): “Prayer is communication with God, it’s talking to God. It’s through prayer that we talk, revere, address, repent to, confess our sin to, acknowledge, worship and praise God.” – Pastor Emilio Ramos We don’t usually record the Sunday Seminary messages, but I was glad Pastor Emilio recorded his small teaching on...
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If you were in Sunday Seminary last week then you remembered the presentation went haywire once we started discussing John 1:1 regarding the Trinity and showing from Scripture that Jesus is fully God. It was then I [Jason Delgado] recommended that you listen to Pastor Emilio Ramos’ exposition on John 1:1. I clipped that sermon down into 4 parts that talk about the points presented in John 1:1 that I was dealing with in regards to our...
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Two Sunday’s ago (July 25, 2010) Pastor Jay was a guest preacher at Southside Bible Church in Denver, Colorado. He preached a sermon called “Seek & Think on Things Above” from Colossians 3:1-4. First he started with by explaining the context of the passage, in one part dealing with the heresy that arose in Colosia which Paul was address (3 minute clip below): Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required...
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REMINDER: No service tonight (July 23, 2010). Since our service is cancelled tonight, we thought we would highlight one of our Friday sermons, specifically last Friday’s sermon from James 1:22-25 entitled, “Word-hearers & Word-doers” by Pastor Jay Jesuroga which comes from our sermon series through James. With as much doctrine and teaching we get at our church, this was an especially important message for us to hear...
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