1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 2 Thessalonians 2:13-15 Proverbs 19:11 Matthew 7:21-23 Proverbs 27:6 James 2:14-16 James 3:1-12 Matthew 22:15-18 C.S. Lewis wrote an essay titled: “Miserable Offender” “Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.” Lewis calls this a ‘JEALOUSY OF AFFECTION’ and…
Jewell, Iowa
COMMITTED to train men and women
to have minds for the Lord Jesus,
hearts for the truth, and
hands that are skilled to the task.
to have minds for the Lord Jesus,
hearts for the truth, and
hands that are skilled to the task.
Pastor Ernest Amstalden
03.15.2023 – Screwtape Letter Two
John 10:28-30 1 Peter 1:3-5 Romans 8:31-39 1 John 3:9; 5:18 Hebrews 6:4-8 Hebrews 10:26, 30 2 Peter 2:20-22 Romans 7:15-25 John 8:31-32 Ephesians 3:14-16 James 1:2-4 Romans 5:1-5 Luke 18:9-14 Dietrich Bonhoeffer in his book “Life Together” “Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so…
03.08.2023 – Screwtape Letter One
OVERVIEW OVERARCHING THEMES THEOLOGICAL THEMES: 1 Timothy 4:1; John 13:2; Acts 5:3; Job 1:12-21; 1 Kings 22:1-23; Matthew 13:19 STUDY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Characters in the Screwtape Letters: Heaven/Yahweh The Underworld/Satan The Patient Wormwood The Father Below is Satan Slubgob is the head of the Training College that future tempters attend. Glubose is the…
11.30.2022 – Lesson 11 | THE HOUR IS LATER THAN WE KNOW
Ephesians 4:17-25 Matthew 24:4 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 Dr. Kevin Donnelly ‘INTRODUCTION’ (published 2021) ‘Cancel Culture and the Left’s Long March’ ” Imagine a society where people, from high to low, are fired from their jobs for entering into the ‘wrong side’ of a cultural debate, where academics are routinely sacked or sanctioned for expressing incorrect…
11.16.2022 – Lesson 10 | WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?
Ecclesiastes 12:1-13 Philippians 4:8-9 Isaiah 5:20 Proverbs 23:23 “Winning the war in Your Mind” by Craig Groeschel “Our lives do follow the direction of our thoughts. The better we grasp that truth, the better equipped we’ll be to change the trajectory of our lives.” Fred Hollomon, a former chaplain of the Kansas State Senate: “Omniscient…
11.09.2022 – Lesson 9 | SILENT OR BEING SILENCED?
Luke 4:1-30 “LETTER TO THE AMERICAN CHURCH” by Eric Metaxas “What could conceivably be more deserving of complete freedom than that form – of all forms – of public speech? And if the conscience of the man of God in that pulpit would cause him to speak for or against a candidate, what is that…
11.02.2022 – Lesson 8 | UNHOLY ALLIANCE
Luke 23:1-19 “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb…
10.26.2022 – Lesson 7 | CAPITALISM VS SOCIALISM
Matthew 20:17-28 The Coming Neo Feudalism by Joel Kotkin (2020) Preface “This is a book neither of the right nor of the left. It is an attempt to diagnose trends that are leading to a more hierarchical and more stagnant society. It also stands as a warning to the global middle class. Although this die…
10.19.2022 – Lesson 6 | SELL IT AS A NOBLE CAUSE
Genesis 3:1-7 2 Timothy 3:1-5 Erwin Lutzer “We will not be silenced” “Sell it as equality, justice, civil rights, and love, the Propaganda of today becomes the ‘truth’ of tomorrow. In Eden, the devil sold slavery to Adam and Eve, but called it independence; he sold them wisdom, but it turned out to be mental darkness,…
10.12.2022 – LESSON 5 | DIVERSITY: DIVIDES and DESTROYS
Acts 17:16-31 Luke 12:41-48 F.A. Hayek “The Road To Serfdom (2007) Chapter Two: The Great Utopia “That socialism has displaced liberalism as the doctrine held by the great majority of progressives does not simply mean that people had forgotten the warnings of the great liberal thinkers of the past about the consequences of collectivism. It…