Emmanuel Baptist Church Emmanuel Baptist Church - Mora, MN

Biblical friendship is different than worldly friendship. In this message from 1 Samuel 23, we examine what biblical friendship looks like, doesn't look like, and how the ultimate biblical friendship is in Jesus.

If you want to build an amazing sports franchise, you will try to sign the biggest, best, and most talented athletes. If you run a company, you'll want to hire the brightest and most competent candidates. If you want to build a government, you would want the wisest and. the most strategic people around you.

But God builds his kingdom in a much different way than the world. In this message, we find out how David built his kingdom. And it is a foreshadowing of how Christ would build his kingdom.

Speaker: Pastor Mike Rue
Date: May 19, 2024

We all have different fears; most are harmless, and you just learn how to deal with them. But how are we supposed to respond to those big, legitimate fears that happen in life? How do we respond when waiting for the test results to come back from the doctor? What do we do when we know that our children are spiraling into ruin? How do we compose ourselves when the storms of life threaten to change everything? Where do we go when our physical safety is in jeopardy, when our livelihood is on the brink of collapse when we are lonely and desperately afraid of our thoughts? It is those types of fears that we encounter in 1 Samuel 21.

Speaker: Pastor Mike Rue
Date: May 12, 2024

Where do we turn when the life goes off of the rails? Who do we run to when things are uncontrollably difficult? In 1 Samuel 20, we find a picture of what we are to do and who we are to run to – the covenant faithfulness of God.

Speaker: Pastor Mike Rue
Date: May 5, 2024