God and Our American Flag
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/IndependenceDay.mp4 No one really knows who designed our American Flag – We all grew up thinking that Betsy Ross sewed the first American Flag. However, only God knows for sure. Rather than attempting endless endeavors to establish our flags beginning, I find it very interesting how the number and colors of our flag are representative […]
I Would Rather Stand With God
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/StandWithGodOrElse.mp4 Believe it or not, “sin” came to us from the eternal realm. God did not create sin but rather God created beings with the ability to choose. God created the angel lucifer who was both beautiful and “perfect in all his ways” (Ezekiel 28, Isaiah 14). Then, using God’s gift to choose, he chose […]
Our Heavenly Father
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/fathers.mp4#t=4 Today is Father’s Day – A day when we reflect on that man in our life that we call “Dad”. I know as we breach the subject of a father, there are some who have not had a good relationship with their earthly father. I also know that there are many of us who […]
Are You Building God’s Temple?
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/Temple.mp4#t=4 After 70 years in captivity, a small group of Jews returned to the land of Israel to rebuild the temple which had been decimated by the Babylonian King, Nebuchadnezzar. At first the people went right to work rebuilding the Temple of God. But then, apathy, discouragement and local resistance convinced them to build their […]
Suffering Servant Isaiha 53
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/Isaiha53-1.mp4 Chapters 42, 49 and 50, of Isaiah paint a picture of a Servant who will “establish justice”, be a “Light to the Gentiles” and be endowed with “God given wisdom”. However, when the reader arrives at the 53rd chapter, this Servant will be displayed as the “Suffering Servant”. Why? Why would this Servant suffer? […]
Memorial Day 2023
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/memorialday.mp4 Tomorrow is “Memorial Day” and on that day we remember those men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our “Freedoms”. The Bible teaches that “greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:13). But, today is also Pentecost, the day in which […]
Micah 7:7 A warning we may need
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/05212023.mp4 We have been studying the last chapter of the Book of Micah for our Wednesday night Bible study. Micah was telling the people of his day that they were about to be conquered and carried away as captives to the land of Assyria. When Micah looked out at his country, Israel, he saw evil […]
Mothers Day
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mothersday.mp4 Have you ever wondered why we are who we are? Most of us, if not all, can trace who we are back to the cradle. It is the hand that rocks the cradle who has been the influencer and the developer of our lives. Today we celebrate “Mother’s Day”, a day set aside to […]
Agape Love
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/love.mp4 If I were to give one word to describe Christianity, that word would be LOVE. If I were to give one word to describe the entire contents of the Bible, that word would be LOVE. If I were to give one word to describe the Creator and Savior of the world, that word would […]
If You Love Me Keep My Commandments
https://yucca.church/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Commandments-1.mp4 It is important for myself to have someone capable of stepping into my place as pastor/teacher whenever the occassion may arise. Pastor Don is that person. Sometimes I simply cannot be there on a Sunday or a Wednesday night and I need help. I know that I can count on Don to cover even […]