Berachah Bible Church

Berachah Bible Church Join us this Sunday morning at 9:30 AM for Worship! We were created to worship God. Worship not only explains the very reason for our existence.

It defines our fundamental purpose as a church. Berachah Bible Church exists to declare the excellencies of God and to delight in His infinite worth. We value Bible exposition as the life-blood of all worship, for when truth is preached, God is exalted, adored, and praised. The Word and worship are bound together like the sun and the warmth it gives, like water and the life it produces. Join us in

the pursuit of God and the spread of His fame throughout all the world. Sunday Morning Worship 9:30 AM
Sunday School at 11:30 AM

01/07/2022

We will wrap up our winter study on worship this Sunday. If there are any questions you have or issues you’d like to discuss related to worship, please leave a comment below or send a text/email to Justin or Patrick and we will work to include them.

10/10/2021

Due to the sensitive nature of what is shared during the services at our World Missions Conference, we will not be providing a livestream of the service the next two Sundays. We'd encourage you, as you are able, to join the in-person gathering the next two Sundays for the conference.

08/15/2021

Unfortunately, the internet at BBC is not working this morning. We will get the livestream going if the internet is restored.

07/04/2021

We’ve moved the livestream from Berachah’s public page to a private page for our members who long-term are unable to attend the weekly gathering. Unfortunately, we did have some technical issues with the feed this morning that we will work to address for next week. If you regularly attend in person but are unable join the weekly gathering a given week (due to travel, illness, etc.), sermons will still be available through the app the following week. When you can’t be at the gathering on a Sunday, we encourage you to listen to the sermon in the app and look forward to you being back in the gathering soon!

If you have questions, please reach out to Patrick Work.

06/08/2021

"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.” Matt 5:7

MERCY

Don’t misread this fifth beatitude. It is not showing us how to get to heaven. Praise God, we have already received mercy from God in Christ’s incomparable atoning work on the cross. We are saved “not because of works done by in righteousness, but according to his own mercy...”(Titus 3:6). Having been shown such great compassion by God, we are to lavishly extend mercy to others. Fellow sinners are in desperate need to see God’s mercy through us. This is is what receives God’s approval when we, as Christ’s disciples, stand before Him for approval or disapproval at the judgment seat of Christ. Condemnation will not be the issue, but commendation for our forgiveness of others. Rewards or loss of rewards will determine the kind of participation we will have in the kingdom of God. We are to look around us to see hurting people who need tenderness, and much love like we have received from God. Thank God for those who have touched our lives when we were broken by sin, in pain, and enduring a very dark hour. If you want to experience a genuinely happy life, be merciful to people in need. “Are you sorry for every sinner even though the sinner offends you? Have you pity upon all who are the victims and dupes of the world and the flesh and the devil?” (ML Jones). “Father, keep me mindful of the generous mercy you have shown to me that it might be reflected in the way I deal with others.”

Pastor Howard

06/03/2021

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” Matt. 5:6
APPETITES
Are you a disciple of Jesus? One of the characteristics of those who love Him is to want what they do not have. We will come back to that, but first take Jesus’ hand, as it were, and listen carefully. Kingdom citizens have an abiding sense of need. They are grieved and broken by sin, theirs and all others. They take a lowly place before God, having a position of strength in God but see that as a means of gentleness with others. Disciples of Jesus are driven to God, not paralyzed by our sense of need, but rather seeking what we do not have. And that is a desperate appetite to please God by the way we live. Are you starving for God? It is just like our physical appetites of hunger and thirst. They are always there, pushing us to be satisfied. As one Bible teacher has put it, “What you long for and do not have may be the most important thing about you.” Righteousness is the God-pleasing life, a longing for right living before God. Tell this to non-disciples of Jesus and you get a blank stare. The world of unbelief is turned in upon itself, consumed with self-fulfillment. The truth is, our hunger pains and unslaked thirst, craving for satisfaction can only be filled by the bread that comes down out of heaven and the water that springs up from the fountain of God’s Word. Smelling fresh bread and face down in the best of drinking water - wanting more of Christ’s life in and though you - is fulfillment only God can give. The rest of the world ought to envy such a ravenous appetite and soul-satisfying thirst. But it doesn’t. Such a life’s pursuit is considered of no value, at best just your truth, not theirs. Meditate on this: I know I am hungering and thirsting after righteousness when I do what is necessary to get it. Am I seeking out those times and places where and when God’s Word is read, understood, eaten, digested, nourishes, and changes me? "Precious Lord, revive my commitment to a healthy, hearty spiritual appetite. O that a holy dissatisfaction will keep me satisfied in experiencing the life that delights you.”
Pastor Howard

05/25/2021

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” Matt. 5:5

THE MEEK

“Docile, compliant, yielding, spineless, spiritless, weak-kneed, unadvertised, mousiness, timidity.” These are some of the synonyms found in a thesaurus for the word “meek.” These words take us in the opposite direction from the true meaning of meekness. Jesus gives another paradox to highlight the difference between man’s way and God’s way in the search for a contented, joyful, and peaceful way of life. The tendency in our day is to think that we must fight the world and sin by means of great organizations, political power, and personal assertiveness. Cruel and destructive, terrorism, a despised political regime. That was the world of Jesus’ day. The idea of a meek Messiah leading meek people was far from any of the concepts of the Messianic kingdom found among the religious leaders in Judaism. Follow the divine logic of Jesus: We are in need of God. We are to grieve over our sin and that of the world. We, therefore, as Jesus’ disciples are responsible to relate to other people in light of ourselves and our sin. Talk about a reversal; think of the world-conquering power of meekness. In the Greek world during the time of Jesus, a meek horse was not a weak horse. It was a strong horse that was under control. That was the way the Greek word for meek was used outside the New Testament. Ferguson states the meaning of meekness as “humble strength that belongs to the man who has learned to submit to difficulties (experiences and people), knowing that in everything God is working for His good.” Jesus was the perfect example of meekness. He didn’t have to resort to feats of strength to prove Himself. Jesus said “take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle (meek) and lowly in heart...”(Matt. 11:29). Get into the yoke with Him and He will gently show you how to exercise strength under control. A meek person is a strong person, one who has developed the spiritual muscle of knowing what is right and what is wrong, subdues his anger for the glory of God, and channels it in constructive ways. One day when Jesus returns the meek will have ownership of the earth. Jesus will make certain that happens. “Lord, I can think of nothing better than to be so tightly connected to you that I am known for godly strength under control to benefit others.”

Pastor Howard

05/18/2021

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matt. 5:4

MOURNERS

Comedy is considered as the great escape. Nightly situation comedies on TV compete with one another for the biggest laughs. How true that “the one thing the world tries to shun is mourning.” Jesus switches another value price tag. Kingdom citizens, the disciples of Jesus, are commended for being sorrowful. But of what kind of grief is Jesus speaking? It is not bouts of grief over personal losses as when someone dies we love. That’s a normal human response when we encounter the shock of great losses and disappointments. The mourners who follow Jesus choose to grieve over what is wrong with human beings and the human race in general. One word: sin! The pain of sin within is a sorrow that overwhelms. Sinclair Ferguson captures the thought: “the grief Jesus describes is man’s mourning over his own sinfulness; it is regret that he has proved a disappointment to the Lord. Numbed by the discovery of his poverty of spirit, he learns to grieve because of it.” The weight of the consequences of sin in others is also a weeping matter. The psalmist wrote, “My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law” (Psa. 119:136). My personal sin should drive me to the Lord. He alone can forgive and save. At the same time the rebellion of the human race against God is a crime that can’t be measured. Jesus wept when He saw the toll sin had taken in the death of His dear friend Lazarus. Yes, Jesus could and did reverse the death of a good man (Jn. 11:35). But it was the damage of death that brought Jesus to tears. We are to mourn when we see our nation sitting down to a banquet of consequences of evil. We are to mourn as we watch families explode in divorce and child abuse. We can mourn over the injustice of murderers who do not pay for their crimes. We are to mourn over civil disorder, riots, lives lost in confrontations with police. Those who mourn over sin are comforted by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. It is the generous and free forgiveness of God that heals the sin-sick soul. “O Lord, it is you alone who can turn the corruption of sin into the occasion for the comfort of the gospel.”

Pastor Howard Dial

05/05/2021

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matt. 5.3

BEING POOR

Jesus wants His disciples to be poor? No, it is not His desire for His followers to become economically destitute. The divine stamp of approval, “blessed,” is pronounced on those who recognize their spiritual needs, know that no one can meet them but Christ, and are utterly dependent on God. The blessing is not in having nothing but that things mean nothing. It is not relying on self but on God’s provision of grace. Poverty of spirit is spiritual humility. If you belong to Christ and know just how empty-handed you are before God, then you own the kingdom. The treasures of the riches of the kingdom of heaven can be called your own. Why? Because you have the privilege of living out the values of Christ’s coming kingdom. Our afflictions are God’s way of advancing our poverty level. They make us increasingly aware of the fact that: “God doesn’t help those who help themselves; He helps those who are helpless and know it” (Teasi Cannon). I am poor in spirit when I remember that I can’t change selfish, stubborn ways without God. I am poor in spirit when I am reproved and I become the better for it. I am poor in spirit when I refuse to blame God for my troubles. I am poor in spirit when I ask for forgiveness instead of placing the blame on the other person. I am poor in spirit when I stop, care, notice, listen to express candid appreciation and treat others well. I am poor in spirit when I delight in God’s sufficiency and the sufficiency of His Word. “O gracious Father, I praise you for the generous goodness you have bestowed on me. May it be poured out through me on to others.”

Pastor Howard

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