Good News for the Grand Valley: Recent Episodes
Orwell Bible Church
This message from Mark 5:36 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, August 27, 2023.
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This message from 1 Corinthians 3:5-17 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, August 20, 2023.
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This message from Ecclesiastes 8:10-17 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, August 13, 2023.
Here we learn from Ecclesiastes that you must trust in the Lord and rejoice in what he has given!
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This message from Ecclesiastes 8:1-9 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, August 6, 2023.
Here we learn from Ecclesiastes that you need Christ’s wisdom to know how to act before your superiors.
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This message from Philippians 3:9-11 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, July 30, 2023.
Here Paul exhorts the Philippians and Christians today to trust in Christ alone!
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This message from Ecclesiastes 7:25-29 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, July 23, 2023.
Here Solomon teaches that neither righteousness nor wisdom is ever found among the sexually immoral: Flee Immorality!
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This message from Ecclesiastes 7:19-24 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, July 16, 2023.
Here Solomon teaches that while wisdom is very helpful, because of your sin and finiteness your wisdom will never be so perfect and complete that you’re guaranteed “the good life.”
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This message from Ecclesiastes 7:15-18 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, July 9, 2023.
Here Solomon teaches Beware of assuming you know what God will do in this life.
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This message from Revelation 21:1-22:5 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, July 2, 2023.
The New Heavens and New Earth is the Christian's eternal home!
This message from Acts 2:42 was given by Pastor Jonathan Smith during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, June 25, 2023, for our 14th anniversary as a church body.
Jonathan Smith serves as pastor of Tipton Bible Church in Tipton, Iowa, and president of the American Council of Christian Churches.
This message from Ecclesiastes 7:13-14 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, June 18, 2023.
The point Christians must take from this passage is, "You must have a Christ-like response to God’s sovereign plan."
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This message from Ecclesiastes 7:11-12 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, June 11, 2023.
The point Christians must take from this passage is, "You need Christ's wisdom!"
This message from Ecclesiastes 7:5-6 was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, June 4, 2023.
Solomon continues addressing temptations to live foolishly in both good and bad times. Specifically here in 7:7-10, you can be pressured to do what's wrong, you can be proud of your position, and you can have a hair-trigger temper.
This message was given by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's afternoon service, November 20, 2022.
Christians are thankful because they are controlled by God's Word (Colossians 1:9-14).
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This message was preached by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, November 13, 2022.
In Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 Solomon teaches that though sinners corrupt justice, believers trusting God’s perfect justice can judiciously enjoy the results of their work.
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This message was preached by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, November 6, 2022.
In Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Solomon teaches that you must submissively recognize God’s sovereignty and gratefully rejoice in his gifts.
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This message was preached by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, November 6, 2022.
In Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Solomon teaches that you must submissively recognize God’s sovereignty and gratefully rejoice in his gifts.
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This message given on Reformation Sunday was preached by Pastor Dan Greenfield during Orwell Bible Church's morning service, October 30, 2022.
The doctrine of soul liberty is that no person, religious power, or civil authority can force, compel, or coerce belief. Each person has a conscience and is answerable only to God for his beliefs.
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Christians can—and must!—sensibly enjoy life by submitting to Christ!
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Here in Ecclesiastes 2:12-21, Solomon demonstrates that regardless of who you are, you will die.
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Here in Ecclesiastes 2:1-11, Solomon proves that living for yourself is not the meaning and purpose of life.
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Fallen man's efforts cannot make lasting improvements to a fallen world, nor can fallen man's wisdom provide a thorough understanding of life. Only when you trust in Christ do work and wisdom find its true significance.
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Trying to make sense of life apart from Christ will always be a baffling, impossible mystery.
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Knowing the author of Ecclesiastes--Solomon--and his times is essential for understanding what he wrote.
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Ecclesiastes says that while life in a fallen world makes no sense to man, he can wisely enjoy life if he is right with God.
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What should Christians know and how should they live in light of transgenderism? God in Scripture gives truth that must inform and control Christians regarding this issue.
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God’s salvation accomplished through Jesus and brought about by the Holy Spirit compels and enables suffering saints to joyfully persevere. Consequently, Christians must be controlled by who they are in Christ and their salvation in him, always praising the Lord who saved them.
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Knowing God’s perfect sovereignty over a sin-cursed world enables faithful service for Christ.
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When you’re tempted to leave Christ because the world looks better, you must seek the Lord, see things from his angle, and trust him, because the Lord blesses his people.
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Christians must live a faithful, Christ-like life in every circumstance, experience, and feeling in this sin-cursed world.
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Christians must know and believe from Scripture that God providentially controls all circumstances in a sin-cursed world to fulfill his sovereign purposes. The experiences and testimony of Joseph demonstrate this (Genesis 45:5-8; 50:20).
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God justifies sinners when they receive and rest on Christ alone for salvation. God declares believing sinners righteous. Through Christ God pardons the believer's sin and credits Christ’s righteousness to his account.
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Christians must be sexually pure, show Christ-like love to one another, and correctly view the death of brothers and sisters in light of Christ's imminent coming in the clouds.
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Persecution can bring temptation from Satan, so believers must encourage one another to be faithful through prayer and exhortation until Christ returns.
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Paul responds to slander against him as Jesus' apostle by reminding them how he acted among them and how they received the gospel message from them.
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Paul greets the Thessalonian church, giving thanks to God for their Christ-like character, example of steadfastness in persecution, and reputation.
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Faith is the knowledge of, assent to, and unreserved trust in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ as revealed in the Christian Scriptures. True faith alone in Christ alone is the sinner's only hope of eternal life.
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Paul concludes instructing Titus how to bring the Cretan church into proper order. Those who are saved by God's grace must stop living like unbelievers because of the great grace they have received through Jesus Christ. These truths must be taught. Those teaching contrary to Jesus' will must be rebuked, and if unrepentant, removed.
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Paul continues instructing Titus how to bring the Cretan church into proper order. Those who are saved by God's grace must stop living like unbelievers and instead zealously live for Christ. These truths must be taught.
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This is the 6th message in the series, “Gospel Truths,” taught by Pastor Dan Greenfield at Orwell Bible Church’s 10:30 a.m. Sunday service on April 10, 2022.
This is the 5th message in the series, "Gospel Truths," taught by Pastor Dan Greenfield at Orwell Bible Church's 10:30 a.m. Sunday service on April 3, 2022.