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Bill Jacobs

Pride and Humility

Pride and humility. Most Christian’s function on the world’s definition of these words. In the Bible, the definitions are different. Are you proud? Are you humble? How would you know unless you understood the biblical definitions? Check it out in Pride and Humility.  

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Bill Jacobs

Taking Meaningful Sermon Notes

How would you like to be able to look at the notes you have taken on a sermon and see the direction God is moving in your life? How would you like to be able to find and recall what you heard for more than a few days. Listen to

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Bill Jacobs

Forgiveness – The Bigger Picture

“Forgive and forget” is an old saying that makes no sense because it is impossible. We can’t forget. So what do we do with all the wrongs done to us and that we have done to others? Consider the bigger picture in this presentation, and be at peace.  

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Bill Jacobs

Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas

The old, familiar saying about the consequences of our actions might seem somewhat trivializing when we compare it with what the Bible says about our choices and their consequences. How have your choices affected your life, so far?  

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Bill Jacobs

Jonah and the Big Fish – Bible Stories for Adults – 13

This presentation is an explanation showing how to derive the biblical intent of the Bible story about Jonah. Many people today, including some who profess Christianity, don’t believe it happened. The debate is like noise that distracts us from what God is telling us in the biblical record.  

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Bill Jacobs

Making Life Easier – Part 10 – My Burden is Light

This final presentation in our series, Making Life Easier, is about a paradoxical statement Jesus made. He said his yoke was easy and his burden light. Yokes limit freedom and are for hard work. Burdens are heavy. That’s what the words mean. What did Jesus mean? How do we understand

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Bill Jacobs

Making Life Easier – Part 9 – Self-View

It probably wouldn’t come as a surprise that  life is harder on us if we believe that we are better or worse than others. Is there a view of self that would make life easier? This part of our series, Making Life Easier, Self-View, digs into this vital issue.

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Bill Jacobs

Making Life Easier – Part 8 – Communication

It is so easy to misunderstand someone. And that is why we are adding Communication to our series, Making Life Easier. When we are misunderstood or misunderstand, things can get tangled and relationships damaged. Learn some vital tools to communicate and understand others so that life is easier.

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Bill Jacobs

Making Life Easier – Part 7 – Being Mild

In this series, Making Life Easier, we have covered topics that are strategies for making life easier, such as problem-solving and personal organization. For the remainder, we will cover more character based topics, the first of which is Mildness. Jesus, we are told, was mild.  What do you know about

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Bill Jacobs

Making Life Easier – Part 6 – Contributing

Solomon tells us in Ecclesiastes, that one of the few things in which we can find true satisfaction is our work. This squares with psychological research. People are happier when they are doing work that makes a contribution to a greater good. In other words, contributing makes life easier.

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Bill Jacobs

Jerusalem Old and New – FoT

God tells us in his word that he will send “New Jerusalem” to us. His description of it in Revelation 21-22 is so different it’s difficult to comprehend. Can we learn anything about New Jerusalem by studying the Jerusalem of the past? This presentation explores Jerusalem from the past to

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Bill Jacobs

The Purpose of Prophecy

What does God want us to learn from Bible prophecy? It’s quite likely Christians in every generation since Christ’s death have believed he would return in their life-times. And, so far, they have all been wrong. What is the purpose for Bible Prophecy, then, if it’s not to know when

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Bill Jacobs

A New Heart – Day of Atonement

God promised, in the Old Testament, to grant anyone who wants it a new heart, a heart that willing conforms to God’s ways, a heart like God’s heart. In this presentation, A New Heart, we see that the Holy Days of God also predict this mass change in humanity. “Come

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Bill Jacobs

Making Life Easier – Part 4 – Personal Organization

This series, Making Life Easier, is about things often overlooked, such as the topic of this presentation, personal organization. When we don’t have a plan, it creates anxiety in us. Anxiety makes life harder. Getting organized is hard for some people, so we have some thoughts on getting organized the

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Bill Jacobs

Making Life Easier – Part 1 – Taking the Long View

Life is hard enough without making it harder on ourselves. This series, Making Life Easier, provides strategies and tools, so we don’t inadvertently make it harder. These approaches are not no-brainer’s, like “don’t steal,” or “tell the truth,” but deal with real but less understood issues. The first in the

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Bill Jacobs

Shadows of Things to Come

The Apostle Paul tells us that the Old Testament biblical festivals are “shadows of things to come.” The Feast of First Fruits, gives away the shadow meaning of  this Festival in God’s plan. Jesus founded the Church of God in the New Testament on that same festival (called Pentecost in

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Bill Jacobs

The Fruit of the Spirit – Part 10 – Self-Control

Self-control in modern culture has gone out of style. It’s not often seen as a solution to our problems. Moderns would rather blame them on heredity, or parents, or the political party we are not a part of, or the culture itself. The Bible, however, offers a different view. There

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Bill Jacobs

The Underlying Reason for the Christian Passover

Most would say we observe the Passover to commemorate Christ’s death. Since we are asking what’s most important, it’s acceptable to ask, “Why?“ What’s behind Christ’s sacrifice? This presentation probes some more profound elements of God’s design, things that help us understand more about Christ’s sacrifice and what comes our

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Bill Jacobs

The Fruit of the Spirit – Part 8 – Faithfulness

One of the fruit of the Spirit which Paul mentioned in Galatians 5 was faithfulness, an easy thing for God—faithful is what God is It’s a part of his nature, he remains steady, committed, enduring, honest, ever-present with us. We, on the other hand…

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Bill Jacobs

The Fruit of the Spirit – Part 6 – Gentleness

We all could come up with a definition of the word, “gentleness.” But what is the Bible definition of it? Since gentleness is called a fruit of the Spirit in the Bible, it would be good to know what the Bible means by this term. We do that in this

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Bill Jacobs

The Fruit of the Spirit – Part 5 – Patience of God

Patience seems like a difficult but completely human quality. And yet, the Bible highlights a kind of patience beyond the patience of human beings. Paul calls this kind of patience a fruit of the Holy Spirit—Jesus and the Father living in us. What is that kind of patience like? Read

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Bill Jacobs

The Fruit of the Spirit – Part 4 – Peace of God

Trees produce fruit. If you were a tree, what kind of fruit would you produce? The Bible tells us that a Christian has within him or herself the Holy Spirit—the Father and the Son within. One of the fruits of that kind of life is peace from God. Do you

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Bill Jacobs

The Fruit of the Spirit – Part 3 – Joy

Many people think joy comes upon us because of benefits they receive or accomplishments they achieve. Consequently, they have no way to think about joy in the face of danger or deficiency. The Bible shows us a different way to experience joy. In this presentation, we explain biblical joy and

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Bill Jacobs

The Fruit of the Spirit – Part 2 – Love

In the New Testament, God promises that both He and his son, Jesus, will live in believers by the power of His Spirit. The presence of God in the heart of believers causes real change. The Apostle Paul listed nine specific qualities and behaviors, fruit of the Spirit, in a

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