Washed in the Word

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  3 "Nine Practical Biblical Principles for Kingdom Accomplishers Part II" Nehemiah 2:9-3:32 16.08.2026 42min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. How come some saints can motivate others to do what at first seemed utterly impossible? Nehemiah is one of Scripture's great leaders. Join in today as we uncover another three of the "Nine Practical Biblical Principles for Kingdom Accomplishers." Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide at www.washedintheword.life & let's get Washed in the Word! Free Sermon Outlines...
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  2 "Nine Practical Principles for Kingdom Accomplishers" Part I Nehemiah 2:9-32 09.08.2026 43min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Nehemiah is a man who can “Git-R-Done.” God used Nehemiah to accomplish in 52 days something that 50,000 Israelites could not accomplish in the previous 95 years. Nehemiah "Got-R-Done" & rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem. So what separates kingdom accomplishers from mere dreamers? Over the next three messages we will be surveying "9 Practical Biblical Principles for Kingdom Accomplishers" from Nehemiah 2 & 3. Grab your B...
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  1 "Leadership Lessons from Nehemiah’s Notebook" Nehemiah 1:1-2:8 02.08.2026 38min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Gooooooood morning! New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel used to quip that the key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Dave Barry opined: When trouble arises & things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution & is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. Many today admit we have a woeful deficit of good leaders. Godly ...
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  5 Ezra 9:1-10:44 "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly" 26.07.2026 47min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. In 1966 the pinnacle of spaghetti Westerns was released when Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach were hired guns, loyal to none searching for a stolen cache of gold ending in an epic three-way duel. The movie was The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. Today we end our time in the book of Ezra & that is a fitting title to our text. A book that begins with a list of the faithful ends with a list of the unfaithful. A book which b...
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  4 Ezra 7:1-8:36 "Cool Hand Luke" 19.07.2026 47min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. In keeping with our Ezra series’ 60’s cinematic theme let’s go back to 1967 when Paul Newman introduced the world to an indomitable individual whom his fellow prisoners dubbed Cool Hand Luke. Luke’s tenacity in the face of adversity earned the other prisoner’s respect & the guard’s attention. The film’s iconic line comes when the prison’s captain strikes Luke & says “what we got here is failure to communicate.” Now, what does New...
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  3 Ezra 5:1-6:22 "The Sound of Music" 12.07.2026 1h

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Imagine for a moment the scene before us as we move from the close of Ezra chapter 4 to the start of chapter 5. For 16 years all temple construction had ceased. By force & with haste Israel’s adversaries compelled the returning remnant to cease & desist. After 16 years of neglect, tall weeds have overtaken the derelict temple site. A palpable sense of despondency overcomes the faithful. So God’s people returned to their out...
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  2 Ezra 4:1-24 "The Dirty Dozen" 05.07.2026 45min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Sometimes saints think spiritual warfare is something new to me & you. It’s not. Anytime God is at work in this world Satan is skulking somewhere nearby. Satan never wants God’s work to prosper so God’s workers he will pester. Today we turn in the Old Testament to Ezra chapter 4 to endeavor to discover "The Dirty Dozen" ways Satan attempts to pour sand in our gears to try to grind God’s work to a halt. Grab your Bible, a pen, & p...
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  1 Ezra 1:1-3:13 "The Magnificent Seven" 28.06.2026 47min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Have you been in a protracted season of difficulty? Perhaps you strayed for a season & now you have experienced some hard discipline? If that is true for you, you are in a similar situation to the Israelites in the days of Ezra. After 70 years of captivity brought on by their own iniquity, God graciously is restoring them to the Holy Land, but this will be a great adventure of faith, that sadly, few will agree to take. If you a...
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  5 Know Your Future 2 Peter 3:1-18 21.06.2026 1h 5min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Knowing the future helps us invest wisely in the present. The problem is we are not prescient. That is we don’t know the future, but God does. God is omniscient. God knows all. That means God knows the future. If knowing the future helps us invest in the present, we ought to listen if God offers prophetic truth. This is exactly where we find ourselves today in 2 Peter 3. God is urging us to "Know Our Future....
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  4 Know Your Adversaries 2 Peter 2:1-22 14.06.2026 1h 10min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. First Peter focused on beleaguered believers bearing up under persecution. So, the threat in First Peter was external. Second Peter focuses on false teachers. The threat in Second Peter is internal but all the more lethal. The New Testament is quite clear that the greatest threat to the church is not external persecution, painful though it may be. The greatest threat to God’s church is internal doctrinal pollution. It i...
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  3 Know Your Scriptures 2 Peter 1:12-21 07.06.2026 54min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. In a day when people are chasing & embracing every wind of doctrine. In an era where it is taken as an absolute truth that there are no absolute truths, it is critical that we Know Our Scriptures. The antidote to the poison of false teaching is the undiluted Truth of God found in the Word of God that points us back to the Son of God so that we might find the grace of God. But false teachers are going to say they have additional revel...
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  2 Know Your Salvation 2 Peter 1:1-11 31.05.2026 1h 10min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Second Peter is the last love letter to beleaguered believers from the pen of Peter. Roman Emperor Nero is in charge & he has been a scandalous scourge to the cause of Christ. Peter knows that his leadership & apostleship are about to be extinguished by martyrdom & he wants his torch to be passed on so that his exit does not extinguish the light of Christ. Whereas First Peter dwelt on how to persevere under persecution, Seco...
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  1 Know Your Savior 2 Peter 1:1-11 24.05.2026 1h 1min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. The most important question one can ask is: "Who is Jesus?" Depending on who you ask, you may hear that Jesus was a great moral teacher like Socrates, Buddha or Gandhi. Or that Jesus was a paragon of compassion like Mother Theresa, Francis of Assisi or Florence Nightingale. Skeptics portray Jesus as an itinerant Rabbi whose followers got carried away. He may have been a Mandela-like figure but he was just a man, cynics say. How wo...
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  15 Three Keys to Being an Effective Witness in a Defective World 1 Peter 5:5-14 17.05.2026 49min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. How would you end a letter to beleaguered believers scattered, battered & tattered for standing for Christ in a world that was hostile to the gospel? What would your final words be to those you want to encourage to persevere when the going is rough? What would you say to those willingly undergoing unjust suffering for the sake of Christ? Our text today is the Holy Spirit’s words to such saints through the pen of the Apostle Peter who offer...
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  14 Biblical Expectations for Shepherds 1 Peter 5:1-4 10.05.2026 44min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. What ought we look for in a shepherd? Christians and churches have a lot of expectations for pastors but what are God's expectation for shepherds? 1 Peter 5 is one of the most helpful texts in all the Bible in answer to this crucial question. we have many expectations for shepherds. But what are God’s expectations? Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide &amp...
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  13 Suffering for Christ’s Sake - 1 Peter 4:12-19 03.05.2026 56min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Have you ever wondered: Why this? Why me? Why now? Over 40 years ago Harold Kushner wrote a best seller entitled “When Bad Things Happen to Good People?” For most folks the question isn’t when, but why? “Why do bad things happen to good people.” Christians often wonder “Why do bad things happen to God’s people?”Indeed this will be the subject the Holy Spirit moves the pen of Peter to unpack in our time together today i...
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  12 A Big Three for You & Me: Suffering, Supplication, Service 1 Peter 4:1-11 26.04.2026 51min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Today the Bible calls us to three things that will help us as elect exiles to minister to our neighbor & bring glory to our Savior. "A Big Three for You & Me: Suffering, Supplication & Service". These three are found in 1 Peter 4. Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word! Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for Old Testa...
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  11 Suffering in the Will of God - 1 Peter 3:8-22 19.04.2026 1h 1min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Have you noticed that sometimes following Jesus hurts? Our passage today speaks about suffering in the will of God. The Bible is not bashful about this subject. Peter began our epistle by telling us that as elect exiles we should not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon us as though something strange were happening to us For the past few sessions our near context in chapters 2 & 3 has called us to submission to unrighte...
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  10 Submission to Imperfect Spouses 1 Peter 3:1-7 12.04.2026 53min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Our text today takes us to challenging places. To the original hearers these words upended societal norms in liberating but threatening ways. To modern ears these same words are equally challenging but for the opposite reason. These words are threatening not for their radical liberation but for their seemingly unseemly subjugation. 1st Peter is a monument to the vast difference between how we think & how God thinks. Our culture says ...
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  9 Submission to Unjust Employers - 1 Peter 2:18-25 05.04.2026 48min

  We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Work is a central facet of our existence. Most of us spend about a third of our lives at work. Work is a good gift from God. Before sin entered in, Adam worked the garden. But after the fall there is a curse on it all. Apart from the curse, when you add sinful man into the mix given our proclivity to iniquity, work often feels less than good, especially when our employers are ungracious or unjust. We are midway into our perusal of ...