Question & Answer
Benjamin Murphy
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Have you ever read through the ENTIRE Bible?

Curious to find out how much of the Bible Harvest has covered since launching in Pittsburgh in October 2011? So were we and now you can track it along with us! Harvest Bible Chapel believes in expository preaching, which means that we read God's Word each week and apply it's meaning into our daily lives.

Expository preaching is a form of preaching that details the meaning of a particular text or passage of Scripture. It explains what the Bible means by what it says. Exegesis is technical and grammatical exposition, a careful drawing out of the exact meaning of a passage in its original context.

Click on the image to see the full Bible coverage

We are called to witness God's truth in His son Jesus Christ and it comes from the Word that he breathed into existence. We'll be keeping this file up to date in order to show what books and chapters of the bible we've covered during the regular Sunday sermons, click on the link to see our progress. (HBC Sermon Bible Coverage)
Note: X = full chapter coverage, / = "slash" for partial coverage or a few verses from a particular book. Yellow highlights are guest speakers, hover over those cells to see who preached from that passage.

If a particular book interests you, please check out our sermon archive that can be filtered by a particular topic or book that was covered on the right hand side of the Sermons Page.
Note: The number (#) next to each topic or book of the Bible indicates the number of sermons that covered each accordingly.

We hope that you enjoy this little bit of nerdy attention to detail as much as we do!

All for His glory! 

Small Group Outreach: Hosanna Industries

In the 2016 winter quarter, the Murphy Small group teamed up with Hosanna Industries by helping an elderly woman named Linda with her home in Mckeesport, PA. She lived by herself, already had one knee replacement while awaiting another and could not do much with the dampness in her basement. Russ, Mike, and Ben traveled down together on the coldest day of the year to help scrape off old mortar, dust, and then dry-loc her basement walls to keep the moisture from seeping in and the mildew out of her home.

She was very appreciative of the work and we enjoyed our time together working to further His kingdom with some good old fashion sweat and sore hands. Check out the brief video below to see the work that was done in Linda's home.

Things Are Gonna Get Worse Before They Get Better.

I say that a lot to myself.

We have seen, over and over for 11 years, any time our son Owen goes through any type of health treatment that ultimately benefits him, his initial reaction is rough. He may be more hyperactive, screaming, up all night, easily irritated, crying – any combination of these OR even all of the above. He had a treatment last week, actually, so it has been a hard few days. But I keep saying, “It always gets worse before it gets better.”

Sometimes I say it with conviction. Sometimes I am trying to talk myself into it. Sometimes I am reminding myself as if I forgot (again).

And days like today, I have to remind myself that, for whatever reason, it seems God likes to work like that. Things are gonna get worse before they get better.

Like Israel, right? God promises freedom, the land promised to Abraham, the fulfillment of a promise. But they were slaves in Egypt. Before they marched out (on Pharaoh’s dime), their slave labor went from horrible to worse. “Keep making bricks but gather your own straw!” (Exodus 5). Things are gonna get worse before they get better.

Or like Jesus. He came to save us. Glory to God, Exaltation to Christ, Salvation for His people. But Hebrews 12:2 says, yes, the joy was set before Christ, yes, He is seated at the right hand of God, but before that, He had to endure the cross. Things are gonna get worse before they get better.

Or like the whole book of Revelation, right? Jesus comes back and sets up His glorious kingdom on earth, according to Revelation 20. And Revelation 21 says He is making a new heaven and a new earth! What is better than that? But, Revelation 6-19 tells us of God’s wrath being poured out on the earth! Seals, trumpets, bowls, truly terrifying events describing the end of the age as God's judgment is being poured out on a sinful world. Showing us again that things are gonna get worse before they get better.

So maybe the good news you were expecting from the doctor actually ended up being another dose of bad news.

Maybe that relationship you have been praying for took a turn for the worse.

Maybe the marriage you have been trying to save took a huge step backwards.

Maybe the job you applied for fell through.

Maybe today, like me, you are a little discouraged and more than a little disappointed.

Maybe you should turn your eyes to God, look at His Word and His track record, and say it with me:

Things are gonna get worse before they get better.

Pastor Jeff

-better days ahead!