Stonebridge Bible Church Sermons

For the second week of Advent, Michael teaches from Matthew 2:12-13.

For the first week of Advent, Michael teaches from Matthew 1:18-20.

The Detailed Description and Destruction of False Teachers. Christianity requires constant re-education. We’re not teaching something new; rather we are re-educating, re-affirming, reminding, and teaching others who have yet to learn. Michael teaches from 2 Peter 2:10b–22.

Austin Brown and Holly Woodard share Thanksgiving testimonies and Michael Easley teaches from 1 Chronicles 29:9-13.

Peter explains God’s judicial dealings with three well-known historical stories and reminds readers that God judges justly. He uses examples that his audience would’ve been familiar with to display both God’s righteous judgment and God’s deliverance of the righteous. Like Peter’s readers, we live in a time of darkness, an unrighteous and ungodly world, rife with immorality, corruption and people who despise authority. Interesting that this was written some 1,950-some years ago!  Michael teaches from 2 Peter 2:4-10.

God’s Word is Reliable, Practical, and, indeed, from God. Michael teaches from 2 Peter 2:1-3.

God’s Word is Reliable, Practical, and, indeed, from God. Michael teaches from 2 Peter 1:19-21.

Guest teacher, Dr. William “Bill” Brown, teaches from Luke 6:32-37.

Dr. Michael Easley teaches an overview of the book of Proverbs.  Some classify the Books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon as “Poetical Books” or “Wisdom Literature.”  It is, perhaps more precise to classify Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes as Wisdom Literature. At the most basic level, Proverbs is a book of wisdom. In a way, it’s a book of wit.  Much of the collection is in couplets and, as we noticed in the Psalms, parallelism is very easy to see.  Beyond parallelism, the literary style is referred to as māšāl or something like a byword, or to be compared to, or we could simplify it to a simile:  Proverbs 6:23 – the commandment is a lamp, the teaching is a light.  From Bruce Wilkinson and Kenneth Boa's "Talk Thru the Bible": “Proverbs is perhaps the most practical book in the Old Testament because it teaches wisdom (lit., “skillful living”) in the multiple aspects of everyday life. In short pithy statements, maxims, and stories, Solomon and other contributors set forth about nine hundred proverbs—inspired precepts dealing with wisdom and folly, pride and humility, justice and vengeance, laziness and work, poverty and wealth, friends and neighbors, love and lust, anger and strife, masters and servants, life and death. These maxims are not theoretical but practical; they are easily memorized, timeless truths that touch on every facet of human relationships. Reading a proverb takes only a few seconds; applying a proverb can take a lifetime.” (1)

God’s Word is Reliable, Practical, and, indeed, from God. Michael teaches from 2 Peter 1:16-18.