Fellowship Renewed Church

The Verdict is In (Isaiah 59:1-15a)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams.
"Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,    or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;2 but your iniquities have made a separation    between you and your God,and your sins have hidden his face from you    so that he does not hear.3 For your hands are defiled with blood    and your fingers with iniquity;your lips have spoken lies;    your tongue mutters wickedness.4 No one enters suit justly;    no one goes to law honestly;they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,    they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.5 They hatch adders' eggs;    they weave the spider's web;he who eats their eggs dies,    and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.6 Their webs will not serve as clothing;    men will not cover themselves with what they make.Their works are works of iniquity,    and deeds of violence are in their hands.7 Their feet run to evil,    and they are swift to shed innocent blood;their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;    desolation and destruction are in their highways.8 The way of peace they do not know,    and there is no justice in their paths;they have made their roads crooked;    no one who treads on them knows peace.
9 Therefore justice is far from us,    and righteousness does not overtake us;we hope for light, and behold, darkness,    and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.10 We grope for the wall like the blind;    we grope like those who have no eyes;we stumble at noon as in the twilight,    among those in full vigor we are like dead men.11 We all growl like bears;    we moan and moan like doves;we hope for justice, but there is none;    for salvation, but it is far from us.12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you,    and our sins testify against us;for our transgressions are with us,    and we know our iniquities:13 transgressing, and denying the Lord,    and turning back from following our God,speaking oppression and revolt,    conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
14 Justice is turned back,    and righteousness stands far away;for truth has stumbled in the public squares,    and uprightness cannot enter.15 Truth is lacking,    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey."
Isaiah 59:1-15a ESV
May 7, 2023

Peace to the Far and Near (Isaiah 56:9-57:21)

Preaching/ teaching by Elder Sam Taber.
Isaiah 56:9-57:21 ESV
April 30, 2023

God Gathers the Outcasts (Isaiah 56:1-8)

Preaching/ teaching by Eric Williams.
"Thus says the Lord:“Keep justice, and do righteousness,for soon my salvation will come,    and my righteousness be revealed.2 Blessed is the man who does this,    and the son of man who holds it fast,who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,    and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3 Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,    “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”;and let not the eunuch say,    “Behold, I am a dry tree.”4 For thus says the Lord:“To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,    who choose the things that please me    and hold fast my covenant,5 I will give in my house and within my walls    a monument and a name    better than sons and daughters;I will give them an everlasting name    that shall not be cut off.
6 “And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,    to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,    and to be his servants,everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,    and holds fast my covenant—7 these I will bring to my holy mountain,    and make them joyful in my house of prayer;their burnt offerings and their sacrifices    will be accepted on my altar;for my house shall be called a house of prayer    for all peoples.”8 The Lord God,    who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,“I will gather yet others to him    besides those already gathered.”
Isaiah 56:1-8 ESV
April 23, 2023

The Provisions of God (Isaiah 55:1-12)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams 
“Come, everyone who thirsts,    come to the waters;and he who has no money,    come, buy and eat!Come, buy wine and milk    without money and without price.2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,    and your labor for that which does not satisfy?Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,    and delight yourselves in rich food.3 Incline your ear, and come to me;    hear, that your soul may live;and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,    my steadfast, sure love for David.4 Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,    a leader and commander for the peoples.5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,    and a nation that did not know you shall run to you,because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,    for he has glorified you.
6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found;    call upon him while he is near;7 let the wicked forsake his way,    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,    so are my ways higher than your ways    and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven    and do not return there but water the earth,making it bring forth and sprout,    giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;    it shall not return to me empty,but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,    and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
12 “For you shall go out in joy    and be led forth in peace;the mountains and the hills before you    shall break forth into singing,    and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands."
Isaiah 55:1-12 ESV
April 16, 2023

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams. 
Easter Sunday 
April 9, 2023

Fasting and Prayer (Isaiah 58 and other texts)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams.
Isaiah 58 and other texts
April 2, 2023

The Servants of the Lord: Their Heritage and Vindication (Isaiah 54:1-17)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams. 
“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;    break forth into singing and cry aloud,    you who have not been in labor!For the children of the desolate one will be more    than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,    and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out;do not hold back; lengthen your cords    and strengthen your stakes.3 For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left,    and your offspring will possess the nations    and will people the desolate cities.
4 “Fear not, for you will not be ashamed;    be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced;for you will forget the shame of your youth,    and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.5 For your Maker is your husband,    the Lord of hosts is his name;and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer,    the God of the whole earth he is called.6 For the Lord has called you    like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit,like a wife of youth when she is cast off,    says your God.7 For a brief moment I deserted you,    but with great compassion I will gather you.8 In overflowing anger for a moment    I hid my face from you,but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,”    says the Lord, your Redeemer.
9 “This is like the days of Noah to me:    as I swore that the waters of Noah    should no more go over the earth,so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you,    and will not rebuke you.10 For the mountains may depart    and the hills be removed,but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,    and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,”    says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
11 “O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted,    behold, I will set your stones in antimony,    and lay your foundations with sapphires.12 I will make your pinnacles of agate,    your gates of carbuncles,    and all your wall of precious stones.13 All your children shall be taught by the Lord,    and great shall be the peace of your children.14 In righteousness you shall be established;    you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;    and from terror, for it shall not come near you.15 If anyone stirs up strife,    it is not from me;whoever stirs up strife with you    shall fall because of you.16 Behold, I have created the smith    who blows the fire of coals    and produces a weapon for its purpose.I have also created the ravager to destroy;17     no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,    and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord    and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
Isaiah 54:1-17 ESV
March 26, 2023

With His Wounds We are Healed (Part VI: Isaiah 53:10-12)

Preaching/ teaching by Elder Sam Taber. 
"Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;    he has put him to grief;when his soul makes an offering for guilt,    he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,    make many to be accounted righteous,    and he shall bear their iniquities.12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,    and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,because he poured out his soul to death    and was numbered with the transgressors;yet he bore the sin of many,    and makes intercession for the transgressors."
Isaiah 53:10-12 ESV
March 19, 2023

With His Wounds We are Healed (Part V: Isaiah 53:7-9)

Preaching/ teaching by Pastor Eric Williams.
"He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,    yet he opened not his mouth;like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,    so he opened not his mouth.8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;    and as for his generation, who consideredthat he was cut off out of the land of the living,    stricken for the transgression of my people?9 And they made his grave with the wicked    and with a rich man in his death,although he had done no violence,    and there was no deceit in his mouth."
Isaiah 53:7-9 ESV
March 12, 2023

With His Wounds We Are Healed (Part IV: Isaiah 53:4-6)

Preaching/ teaching by Elder Jimmy White.
"Surely he has borne our griefs    and carried our sorrows;yet we esteemed him stricken,    smitten by God, and afflicted.5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;    he was crushed for our iniquities;upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,    and with his wounds we are healed.6 All we like sheep have gone astray;    we have turned—every one—to his own way;and the Lord has laid on him    the iniquity of us all."
Isaiah 53:4-6 ESV
March 5, 2023