October 6, 2024
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Date: 10/06/2024
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Key Text: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Description:
“Life feels overwhelming… and my struggles seem to never end.”
When this seems to be our reality, how do we keep going?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao brings us to 2 Corinthians as our church continues to feel the weight of overwhelm.
In Paul’s letter, he reminds us not to lose heart, even when our outer circumstances are tough.
Why?
…Because our temporary troubles are producing something far greater:
An eternal glory that outweighs them all.
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September 22, 2024
Sermon Notes
Date: 09/22/2024
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Key Text: Job 18-19
Description:
What do you do when everything falls apart and it feels like even God has turned away?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao presses pause on our Romans study and turns to Job, as our church mourns the loss of our dear brother in Christ, Elder Keith Barker.
In the midst of unimaginable suffering, Job offers a surprising declaration of hope:
“I know that my Redeemer lives.”
How can we find that same hope when life feels unbearable?
God helps us with this through the book of Job: a book where despair meets redemption and faith rises from the ashes of suffering.
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January 14, 2018
Sermon Notes
Date: 01/14/2018
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Key Text: Job 9:32-35;Heb 4:14-16; Matt 26:36-40
Description:
Average Guy:
If God can prevent our suffering then why doesn’t He?
Scandia Host: That’s a good question.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao steps to the pulpit once again following his son, Isaiah’s, tragic death… to wrestle with this. “How can we go to God for comfort when ultimately, God is the one who could have prevented it and has therefore ordained our pain?”
Average Guy: Exactly! That’s what I want to know.
Scandia Host: Well, you better pull up a pew and take a listen.
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December 31, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 12/31/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Key Text: Psalm 98
Description: While the Bible contains 150 Psalms, there is one that captures the true essence of all of them. And yet, if you didn’t know it, its title would fool you. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao, in the wake of his son’s tragic death, leads us to Psalm 98 – because he was lead there. It’s a psalm that in just nine simple verses, lays out the very heart of worship and the great and wonderful God who is greatly to be praised.
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December 17, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 12/17/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Key Text: Hebrews 13:15
Description:
Scandia Host: Sacrifice and Praise.
Average Guy: Wait a minute are we playing a game of opposites?
Scandia Host: No, but I can see what you mean. Because “sacrifice” sounds somber and costly.
Average Guy: –And “praise” sounds joyful… and a lot easier than “sacrifice.”
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao takes to the pulpit once again – following the fresh sting of the sudden loss of his son – and points out that when it comes to these two words, it’s not always one or the other, for the author of Hebrews tells us that we are to offer a sacrifice of praise. In fact, much of the New Testament describes the Christian life as the intersection between these two terms, where they not only meet but become intertwined into the very warp and woof of what it means to be a Christian.
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December 3, 2017
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Date: 12/03/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Key Text: Psalm 119
Description: Psalm 119. It’s not a Psalm we usually go to when looking for comfort, but, ironically, it has more to say about comfort and affliction than any other Psalm.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues to preach in the aftermath of his son’s tragic death and points out that when you see a passage of affliction in the Bible, take heart in knowing that you are not far from comfort — for this pattern, of passages of comfort following passages of affliction, occurs over and over again… in almost every instance. God is the God of all comfort, and He comforts the afflicted.
When it comes to Psalm 119, we often categorize it as a Psalm about the beauty of God’s word and statutes, but what we’ll find is that, consequently, it is also a Psalm about God’s great comfort.
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Saturday, December 9, 2017
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November 26, 2017
Sermon Notes
Date: 11/26/2017
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Key Text: 2 Corinthians 4
Description: How is it that the Christian can be devastated and yet hopeful at the same time? How is it that at the point when we are weakest is also the point at which we are strongest?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao preaches in the aftermath of losing his son to a brutal horseriding accident and shows us, in the midst of that, that the Apostle Paul answers these questions in the book of 2 Corinthians; and within it we find more beauty in the Gospel for it is Good News even in times like this.
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