First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Evening Service First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Evening Service https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/service-index/evening-service Jephthah of Gilead Cory Brock Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/sermons/jephthah-of-gilead https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/2/4839 Jephthah of Gilead Audio of Jephthah of Gilead An All Too Common Story David Felker Please turn with me in your Bibles to the Old Testament book of Judges, Judges chapter 8. This summer on Sunday nights we’re in a sermon series in the book of Judges, and tonight we are looking at the conclusion of the narrative of Gideon. It’s a sad story; it’s a tragic story, this pathology of decline. It’s an all too familiar story, and so we’ll be considering Judges chapter 8, verses 22 to 35.  ]] Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/sermons/an-all-too-common-story https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/2/4832 Please turn with me in your Bibles to the Old Testament book of Judges, Judges chapter 8. This summer on Sunday nights we’re in a sermon series in the book of Judges, and tonight we are looking at the conclusion of the narrative of Gideon. It’s a sad story; it’s a tragic story, this pathology of decline. It’s an all too familiar story, and so we’ll be considering Judges chapter 8, verses 22 to 35.  ]] An All Too Common Story Audio of An All Too Common Story Did Gideon Check Out? Wiley Lowry Judges chapter 7 is about weakness, and the truth is, whether we feel it or not, we are all weak. All of us. We sometimes fool ourselves into thinking that money and training and status will get the results that we desire. But that’s not how God works, is it? Instead, God works through unlikely men and women, unlikely boys and girls, to accomplish unlikely purposes in unlikely ways. And He does that so that He may demonstrate His own power, His own strength, and that He receives the glory that is due to His name. And we’ll see God working in those very same ways in the story of Judges chapter 7, the story of Gideon, as he goes up against the Midianites. And we’ll consider two points from this passage as we study tonight. We’ll consider the weakness that pursues and the strength that prevails.  ]] Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/sermons/did-gideon-check-out https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/2/4830 Judges chapter 7 is about weakness, and the truth is, whether we feel it or not, we are all weak. All of us. We sometimes fool ourselves into thinking that money and training and status will get the results that we desire. But that’s not how God works, is it? Instead, God works through unlikely men and women, unlikely boys and girls, to accomplish unlikely purposes in unlikely ways. And He does that so that He may demonstrate His own power, His own strength, and that He receives the glory that is due to His name. And we’ll see God working in those very same ways in the story of Judges chapter 7, the story of Gideon, as he goes up against the Midianites. And we’ll consider two points from this passage as we study tonight. We’ll consider the weakness that pursues and the strength that prevails.  ]] Did Gideon Check Out? Audio of Did Gideon Check Out? Grace for Gideon Cory Brock Well we’re carrying on in the book of Judges tonight as we’ve been marching through it all of these Sunday nights lately and we’ve come up to, as Wiley mentioned, chapter 6, which is the story of the call of Gideon. And it’s a…