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Son of Encouragement

October 25, 2026

If you have ever been the one in the dark waiting for a word, or the one sent to say it, come and hear the rest of the story. We meet at 9:30 for Bible class and 10:30 for worship service at 5051 Wilmington Pike Dayton, OH 45440. If you cannot be there and you want to listen, you can find us on YouTube, Facebook or our website for the live stream!

YPH 443

October 18, 2026

Join Matt, Hunter, and Jason for live bible talk at 8 AM.

Grace to Those Who Hear

October 18, 2026 • Matthew Allen • James 1:19–25

We'll spend the morning in James 1:19-25. James gives us one of the most searching pictures in the New Testament there: a man who looks in a mirror, sees exactly what's wrong, and walks out the door without doing a thing about it. James has a name for hearing without doing: *deceiving yourselves*. Then he holds out a promise to the one who keeps looking and lets what he sees change him.

YPH 442

October 11, 2026 • Hunter Davis, Jason Schofield

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They Quieted Down

October 11, 2026 • Hunter Davis • Acts 10:28–35

Week 9: Moving to Egypt

November 1, 2026 • George Wacks, Jason Schofield • Genesis 46

Jacob is a hundred and thirty years old, Joseph is alive, and Pharaoh's wagons are parked in the yard. Everything says go. But this family has been taught that Canaan is the land and Egypt is the place you don't go, and God once told Isaac in so many words, Do not go down to Egypt. So before Jacob crosses the border he stops at Beer-sheba, at his father's altar, and waits. That night God speaks to him for the first time in more than twenty years, and for the last time anywhere in Genesis: Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt. I will go down with you, and I will also bring you back. Then come the wagons and a list of seventy names, failures and all, and a long embrace in Goshen that Genesis says went on for a long time. An old man who has talked about dying for twenty-two years says he's ready now, because he has seen his son's face. The chapter leaves the family fed, together, and settled at the edge of a country that looks down on shepherds. All they have to carry them through the four hundred years ahead is what God said at Beer-sheba.

Week 9: The Ax and the Hand Who Swings It

November 3, 2026 • Matthew Allen • Isaiah 9:8—10:34

God's word has already come against the northern kingdom, and Israel's answer is to rebuild bigger: the bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with cut stones. Nobody asks who struck the blow. In four stanzas Isaiah follows the slide. First comes national disaster, then leaders who mislead, then a civil war where Manasseh and Ephraim turn on each other, and finally courts that rob the widow and the fatherless. Each stanza ends on the same line: his hand is still raised to strike. Then Isaiah turns to Assyria, the empire God sent as the rod of my anger. Assyria's king boasts that he conquered the nations by his own strength and wisdom, and God answers with a question: Does an ax exalt itself above the one who chops with it? God uses Assyria, and then He judges it. A remnant of Jacob will come back to the Mighty God, which is the hope behind the name of Isaiah's son Shear-jashub. The Assyrian army marches to within sight of Jerusalem, and then the Lord cuts that proud forest down. Paul saw this remnant again in his own day (Romans 9:27–28), and the lesson asks us whose hand we believe is holding the things we fear.

Week 8: The People Walking in Darkness

October 27, 2026 • Hunter Davis • Isaiah 8—9

Ahaz turned down God's sign and paid Assyria to rescue him, and Isaiah 8 shows what that bargain cost. Isaiah writes his second son's name on a public placard before the boy is born, and before the child can say "Daddy," Damascus and Samaria have fallen. Then the flood Ahaz invited rises over Judah up to the neck. It spreads across what Isaiah calls Immanuel's own land. The people stop listening to God, turn to mediums and the dead for answers, and end up in thick darkness. Isaiah and a few disciples choose to wait for the Lord while He hides His face. Then the gloom breaks. A light dawns over Galilee, the region Assyria stripped first, and a Child is promised for David's throne whose name is Mighty God. Seven centuries later Jesus made His home in Capernaum, began preaching there, and Matthew saw Isaiah's words come true.

Week 7: The Sign Ahaz Refused

October 20, 2026 • Hunter Davis • Isaiah 7

It's around 735 BC, and Jerusalem is scared. Rezin of Damascus and Pekah of Israel have joined forces to remove Ahaz and put a puppet king of their own choosing on David's throne. The king and his people shake "as trees of the forest shake in the wind." God sends Isaiah out to meet Ahaz at the conduit of the upper pool, and he brings along his son Shear-jashub, whose name means "a remnant will return." The message is simple: calm down, and don't be afraid of these two smoldering stubs of firewood, because their plan won't stand. Then comes the line the whole chapter hangs on: "If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all." God even lets Ahaz name his own sign, as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven. Ahaz answers piously that he won't test the Lord, but he has already decided to seek Assyria's help (2 Kings 16:7). So the Lord gives a sign of His own choosing. A virgin will conceive and bear a son and call him Immanuel, "God with us," and before that child is old enough to know right from wrong, both enemy kings will be gone. The irony is painful, though. The Assyria that Ahaz paid for will turn out to be the razor God uses to shave Judah bare. Matthew shows us where the sign finally came to rest (Matthew 1:23), and the lesson asks each of us where we run when we're afraid.

Week 10: Love in Relationships

November 4, 2026 • Jim Grushon, Matthew Allen • Colossians 3:12–17

Most Christians can manage a kind week. The real test of love comes years later, with the same brother in the same pew. Colossians 3 treats the Christian life as a change of clothes. Those raised with Christ take off the old self and put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Each of these garments is worn toward another person. Paul tells God's chosen and dearly loved people to bear with one another and to forgive as the Lord forgave them. Over everything they wear goes love, which holds a congregation together the way ligaments hold a body. The lesson ends at the cross. The soldiers gambled for Jesus's clothes while He prayed for them. At the same time He gave His mother and His friend to each other as family.

Week 9: Love That Teaches

October 28, 2026 • Hunter Davis • Titus 2:11–14

Crete was a hard place to plant a church, and Paul's plan for it was teaching. Older women were to teach younger women how to love their families. Older men were to show younger men what lasting faith looks like, and young Titus was to teach with his life before he taught with his mouth. Behind all of it stands the grace of God, which has appeared in Christ. That grace pardons, and it also trains. It teaches Christians to refuse what pulls them away from God and to live sensibly, rightly, and in a godly way while they wait for His return. The lesson goes to Jericho, where grace stopped under a sycamore tree and invited itself to dinner before Zacchaeus had changed a thing. Then it watches what that grace taught him.

Week 8: Love That Unifies

October 21, 2026 • Hunter Davis, Jim Grushon • Philippians 2:1–11

Paul loved the church at Philippi, but two of its faithful women had stopped thinking together. His remedy starts with the mind. In five verses he reaches for a word about thinking six times. He names the two appetites that pull a congregation apart, selfish ambition and empty glory. Against them he sets humility that counts the other person as more important. Then he points to Christ, who considered His own rights, emptied Himself, and went all the way down to a cross before God lifted Him to the highest place. The lesson closes on the road to Jerusalem, where James and John asked for the seats at Jesus's right and left. Mark later shows who was actually on His right and left at Golgotha.

Week 7 - Grace in Speech

October 14, 2026 • Hunter Davis, Jim Grushon • Colossians 4:2–6

Colossians 4:6 is one of the best-known verses on Christian speech, and it's almost always quoted by itself. Paul actually placed it at the end of a paragraph that starts with prayer. Before he says a word about the tongue, he asks the church to pray, to stay alert, to give thanks, and to pray for him as the one who has to speak. Then he turns to wisdom toward outsiders, who hear how Christians talk to each other as well as how they talk to the world. Finally he describes speech that is always gracious and seasoned with salt, with an answer fitted to each person. The lesson ends at a well in Samaria, where Jesus opened a conversation with a request, offered grace, told a hard truth with courtesy, and sent a woman back into town carrying good news.

YPH 441

October 4, 2026 • Hunter Davis, Jason Schofield , Matthew Allen

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Week 9: Suffering and Faith

November 1, 2026 • Jim Grushon, Nathan Armstrong • Romans 5:3–5, 1 Peter 1:6–7

Sooner or later most of us sit in a hospital waiting room at three in the morning and wonder where God is. Paul says we boast even in our afflictions, because affliction produces endurance, then proven character, then hope. He points to the cross as the place where God proves his love, whatever our circumstances say. Peter tells suffering Christians their faith is being tested like gold in the fire, and that it's worth more than the gold. The lesson closes at the cross, where Jesus prayed the first line of Psalm 22. That psalm goes on to say God did not hide his face.

Week 8: When Growth Doesn't Feel Like Growth

October 25, 2026 • Greg Morrison, Kyle Fletcher • Psalm 42, Habakkuk 3:17–18, 2 Corinthians 4:8–9

Most Christians know the Sunday when we sing every verse and feel nothing. The man who wrote Psalm 42 had once led the crowds into the house of God. Now he was far from it, as thirsty as a deer in a dry season, and he talked back to his own soul and told it to hope in God. Habakkuk watched every source of food fail and still rejoiced in the LORD. Paul admits he was perplexed and refused to despair. This lesson treats the flat season as part of growing. God's people in Scripture kept praising when they had nothing to go on but who he is.

Week 7: Developing Godly Habits

October 18, 2026 • Eric Renegar, Paul Braden • 1 Timothy 4:7–8, Luke 22:39

Most of us sit in the same pew every Sunday, and when a regular's seat is empty, somebody notices by the second song. A habit runs underneath the week and carries us to the same place whether we feel like going or not. Paul tells Timothy to train himself in godliness, using the word our gymnasium comes from. Luke shows Jesus going out "as usual" to the Mount of Olives on his last night. The disciples kept the habit of going to the place, and then they slept when they got there. This lesson asks what we practice, and why the habits built on ordinary nights carry us through the hard one.

Week 6: Learning to Say No to Sin

October 11, 2026 • Dan Dekoski, Mark Ringle • Colossians 3:5–10, Romans 8:13

Bush honeysuckle on an Ohio fencerow can be cut back every summer for twenty years and come back thicker each time. Most of us have handled some sin the same way. Paul's word for what we do with sin is a blunt one: put it to death. This lesson looks at why strict rules can't reach the wanting underneath, and why Paul gives that command to people who have already died with Christ. It also traces what he names, from the body inward to the heart and back out through the mouth. Romans 8:13 tells us where the strength for the fight comes from. Jesus' answer to Peter shows what saying no looks like when the temptation sounds kind.

Week 8: Joseph Reveals Himself

October 25, 2026 • George Wacks, Jason Schofield • Genesis 45

Joseph can't hold it in any longer. He clears the room, weeps so loudly the whole palace hears him, and tells his terrified brothers who he is. His first words name exactly what they did: "the one you sold into Egypt." In the very next breath he tells them God sent him ahead to save lives. Joseph holds both of those truths together, and for the first time in fourteen chapters someone says out loud what God has been doing all along. He kisses every one of his brothers, and men who once couldn't speak a peaceful word to him finally sit and talk with him. Then come wagons, new clothes, and a realistic warning not to argue on the road. Back in Canaan, an old man who's been numb for twenty-two years comes back to life when he sees the wagons.

Week 7: Judah's Plea

October 18, 2026 • George Wacks, Jason Schofield • Genesis 44

The brothers head home with full sacks and every problem apparently solved, until a silver cup turns up in Benjamin's bag. Joseph has rebuilt the scene at Dothan almost exactly. There's a father waiting at home, Rachel's favored son is in the hands of strangers, and ten brothers are free to walk away. This time they could even tell their father the plain truth. Nobody leaves. Judah steps forward and gives the longest speech in Genesis. He never once mentions the cup, and he can't stop talking about their father. Then the man who once sold his brother for twenty shekels asks to stay behind as a slave in Benjamin's place. Part Two has asked whether guilty men can change, and this is where we get our answer.

Week 6: Testing the Brothers

October 11, 2026 • George Wacks, Jason Schofield • Genesis 43

The grain runs out, and Jacob finally has to let Benjamin go. Before he does, Judah stands up and offers his own life as the guarantee for his brother's safe return. That's a long way from the man who once asked what they'd gain by killing Joseph. In Egypt the pressure changes. Nobody's accused and nobody's locked up this time. The steward speaks peace, Simeon walks free, and the brothers end up eating at the governor's own table. Kindness turns out to be its own kind of test, though, and these guilty men can't stop reading every open door as a trap. When Benjamin's plate comes back five times fuller than theirs, Joseph is watching to see whether the old envy that started this whole story is still alive.