South Valley Community Church

Purposeful: Giving by Isaac Serrano Sep 16, 2018 by Gospel Centered Mission Focused

Purposeful: What is meaning? by Isaac Serrano Sep 9, 2018 by Gospel Centered Mission Focused

34th Anniversary by Pastor Malcolm MacPhail by Gospel Centered Mission Focused

Exposing Contradictions from Atheists by Frank Turek by Gospel Centered Mission Focused

Does belief in God make sense of the world? Or does reality itself point to God’s absence? Is God real or is he a product of human minds? On Friday, August 24, Michael Shermer and Frank Turek debated "What better explains reality: Atheism or Theism?"

Bobby Conway is the founder and host of the rapidly-growing ministry, The One-Minute Apologist, which is found on YouTube and on his website. He provides quick, credible answers to apologetic questions that offers resources to people with a hunger to defend their Christian faith. At the OneMinuteApologist.com, he posts a new apologetic answer video five days per week. Bobby has had the privilege of interviewing some of the worlds leading Christian apologists. Among them are: William Lane Craig, Josh McDowell, Hank Hanegraaf, JP Moreland, Norman Geisler, Frank Turek, and many more. He also serves as the lead pastor at Life Fellowship in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus by Michael Brown by Gospel Centered Mission Focused

J. P. Moreland is one of the leading evangelical thinkers of our day. He is a distinguished professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and director of Eidos Christian Center. With degrees in philosophy, theology, and chemistry, Dr. Moreland has taught theology and philosophy at several schools throughout the U.S. He has authored or coauthored many books, including Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview; Christianity and the Nature of Science; Scaling the Secular City; Does God Exist?; The Lost Virtue of Happiness; and Body and Soul. He is coeditor of Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus.

When we boil down humanity to humanity, sometimes it is difficult to see huge differences between David and Saul, or David and Absalom, maybe even David and Goliath. But the fact remains that the Bible speaks of David as the one after God’s heart. It is his name that is used when looking to the day when God would put all things right. With all the success and failure, unification and strife, life and death in David’s story it can be hard to reconcile. Maybe this thin line exists to help us realize how we too are a hair’s breadth away from being “one after God’s own heart.” What is the difference that remains and how do we seek after it? A humble repentant heart toward the real King, our King Jesus, is all that remains—in fact, if we look closely, we realize that the person at the heart of these poems and at the heart of 1 and 2 Samuel is God Himself

God established a covenant with King David to extend a permanent place on the throne to him and his descendants because he was a man after God’s heart (2 Samuel 7:5- 16). We find the kings that follow fail to live up to the ideals of the covenant God made with David. We see a glimmer of this failure during the end of the reign of Solomon. The phrase from the opening paragraph of Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities, aptly describes the rule of Solomon: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, . . .” It was under Solomon’s rule that Israel was at its peak in political influence, prosperity, and affluence. But his greatness betrayed him for Solomon was also the last of the kings to rule over a united kingdom. There was disobedience and rebellion under the cover of the best of times. In this session we examine both the glory and tragedy of Solomon.