Examining the Scriptures daily
The Jews of Berea never imagined that they would become the poster children for diligent study of the Scriptures, and that 2000 years later camps, churches, colleges and more would be named after them for that very reason. As we look at Acts 17:10-15 this Sunday, we’ll be inspired and challen...
What must I do to be saved?
After a brief hiatus for the recent Easter series, we’re back to the Book of Acts from now till mid-June. Our plan is to be done to the end of chapter 19 on June 16 before we head into the summer and our parables series. As we come to Acts 16:25-40 this Sunday, we pick up the story of Paul a...
Is Jesus’ offer desirable?
Over the past two Sundays (and Good Friday) we have been working through the teaching series, “Is Easter Unbelievable?” based on the book of the same name by Rebecca McLaughlin. This apologetics-oriented series has challenged us to consider the evidence for the life, death and resurrection ...
Is Jesus’ resurrection credible?
SERMON NOTES
Series: Is Easter Unbelievable?
Todd Dugard
Message: 3 - Is Jesus' resurrection credible?
Text: Various Scriptures
Harvest Bible Chapel
March 31, 2024
Luke 24:5b–6a
Science cannot disprove the resurrection because miracles aren’t something that science is equipped to address.
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THE PEOPLE WERE DISPERSED
I hope you have a sense that God has overwhelmed you with good things. Blessed you beyond what you deserve. What’s maddening for those of us who do indeed realize this is that despite his goodness, we still freely and often rebel against him. It is like we can’t help ourselves. We love him....
LET US MAKE A NAME FOR OUSELVES
This one may hit a little too close to home for all of us. It seems we’re hardwired to want control of our own lives. To call the shots. To determine our own path. That was the first sin, and it remains widely popular to this day. As we wrap up our series in Genesis 1-11 this Sunday, we’l...
BAPTISM
It is plainly obvious to anyone who gets connected in our church that our people come from faith backgrounds of all kinds. In that sense, we are truly a non-denominational church. I’m an example of that. Raised Anglican with an acute sense of God, saved through a Pentecostal youth worker during...
THE LORD HAS DONE THIS!
Do you know what I love most about our church? It's that the Lord keeps surprising me. That has to be the secret to staying in one church for a very long time and not getting bored. On any given week, I will hear a story, meet a person, receive a note, or experience something that I wasn’t expe...
AWAKE, YOU DRUNKARDS
What if God decides that the only way to get my attention is shock and awe? The phrase is a military term coined in the 1990s and refers to a strategy to achieve rapid dominance on the battlefield. As it might relate to the Christian life, which is itself a battlefield, God is patient to an extre...
PUT ON SACKCLOTH AND LAMENT
That was a “let's-get-right-into-it" start to our new series in Joel last Sunday, wasn’t it?! Hard-hitting, for sure. And it doesn’t ease up too much for the second message on Joel 1:13-20, as we look at what it means to be truly repentant. Sorrow, desperate prayer, and a proper fear of...
