last wednesday i taught on 2 Kings 2.19-22.

i really enjoyed studying this little passage and finding some things that i hadn’t seen before.

audio and text below, should you desire.

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pdf transcript

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this past week i taught a couple studies for our evening services. each were on parables; their significance and general awesomeness. i’ll post the audio and transcripts, but i wanted to give you a little sneak peek into what i talked about:

Highlights

• parables are not sermon illustrations. they are not fables. they are not fun little stories to help kids learn morals. they may, at times, serve those purposes, but a parable is, above all other things, an invitation.
• parables often share a wonderful connectivity. as i encounter them in the Gospels it is important that i look for progressions and keep in mind the context.
• parables are an important part of Bible prophecy.
• parables were a preferred style of teaching for Jesus.
• parables melt my face.

i really enjoyed my study and prep for these 2 studies (i always like study and prep) and i feel like i really understood some new things (new for me, not for everyone).

if you happen to listen or read, i hope the Lord speaks to you.

ps – if you’re reading in a RSS reader, come on over to the real post for both studies.

Parsing Parables part 1 transcripts | Parsing Parables part 2 transcript

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if you’ve been around here for a few months you’ve probably pieced together that at our wednesday evening services we have a mixture of media and Bible study and worship and congregational interaction and short, segmented devotionals.

last wednesday i did a short update on some of the outreach that calvary hanford is doing in our area and around the world.

for me it was just exciting to think about the varied ways that God is currently using our little country church to further the Gospel and demonstrate the life-changing love of Jesus Christ to our neighbors.

here’s the audio.

it’s about 11 minutes.

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this title is all for you casey.

for the next couple of weeks i’m teaching at our wednesday morning men’s study and prayer time (yeah…we need a better name…). i’m taking a sort of ‘digested-Bible-study’ look at paul’s letter to the Colossians.

yesterday was chapter 1. i’ll put the transcript and the audio. the study was about 20 minutes long, in case you were wondering.

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transcript

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ps – i don’t know why my regular podcasting plugin isn’t working…the one that lets you download or play in a popup…will do some recon to figure it out.

having your own domain makes it very easy to track how people got to your site. it’s usually fun, but if i’m honest sometimes i feel bad because i think people occasionally get here under false pretenses.

for example, in the past month, people have made it to this blog by typing (among other things) the following words in search engines:

1. photo scavenger hunt list
2. a $60,000 car
3. stop motion jesus
4. df2d2d2b1301ba0de30b64c24eab2a9a

these searches may bring people in to Jesus Is Extravagant, but they certainly don’t learn too much about their query, and i decided to try to remedy that at some level.

so, this series will be a sort of nuts and bolts set of information about topics or people that bring visitors into this site that i don’t currently have a lot of information about.

our first Who Are Those Guys? entry is for pastor tim chaddick. every week i get people landing on JIE looking for info on him, yet there really isn’t any on here.

so here we go:

WHO

tim chaddick is the pastor of reality los angeles. that church was a plant that came out of reality in santa barbara. he was also a member of a christian band named Smithfield who released an EP and was featured on the worship generation compilation Revive Us. chaddick also had an original song recorded on the worship generation compilation Heaven Sings It.

tim teaches at various calvary chapel camps and conferences throughout the year, most recently at the calvary chapel senior pastor’s conference, where he taught a workshop session on the emergent church.

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WHERE

you can find pastor tim online at these places:

his Bible studies and some others
his podcast
his facebook
his myspace

so there you go. all you people who are getting here by searching for tim chaddick, i hope you are a bit closer to what you want.

i’ll leave you with a study tim gave at a worship conference a number of years ago.

it’s called The Power Of Praise In The Midst Of Trials.

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i filled in on wednesday night for our main Bible study. we took a look at Matthew 14:13-14.

here’s the transcript, should you choose to peruse.

transcript

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a couple sundays ago we had an evening worship meeting to talk about our vision for worship at calvary hanford.

here’s the media from the event, should you desire to check it out.

quicktime

windows media

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Elohim.

enjoy.

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my segment last night was With The Word, where we take a look at the passage in the reading schedule. low and behold it lined up with 2 Chronicles 21, which i posted about earlier in the week.

adapted and expanded my thoughts from my post. not my strongest showing, but shown none the less.

here’s the audio

sorry, podpress is broken.

about 10 minutes.

hope it’s a blessing

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9.5 minutes.

sorry, podpress is broken.

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