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Part 6 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To The Local Church

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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: We are called/commanded to BE a community of brothers/sisters/mothers/fathers in the faith. And like ANY command, this requires OBEDIENCE. Our first reaction to challenging teaching or correction shouldn’t be defensiveness, but rather openness. This takes humility, as that is the essence of obedience. The Truth hurts sometimes, especially when there’s […]

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Part 37 – The Book of Hebrews

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OUTLINE:Merriam-Webster.comSentence: a word, clause, or phrase or a group of clauses or phrases forming a syntactic unit which expresses an assertion, a question, a command, a wish, an exclamation, or the performance of an action.God spoke His final word on His salvific plan through His Son, Jesus Christ.Jn 1:3All things were made through him, and

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KIDS’ CORNER: Authority

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TODAY’S VERSE:   Romans 13:1 “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” In prep school we have started a series on Esther, a book in the Old Testament of the Bible. The story begins during a huge

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Part 77 – Proverbs 17 Wisdom

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OUTLINE:Take Hold, By FaithWe should receive His truth, whatever it is He reveals to us from His Word, so that we can enter His joy. (Jn 8:31-32, 15:10-11) HumilityThere’s no such thing as humility in the absence of authority-orientation; otherwise, who/what would you be “being humble” to??? Will You Receive It?Slavery to Christ is a

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Blind Obedience

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Please don your philosophical cap for a moment while I dissect the concept of obedience with you. First, let me begin with a fair enough definition: Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of “social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure”. Obedience is generally distinguished from

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Church Ordinances

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People seeking the truth are looking for facts. In a “perfect world” (I write as a man) that would reward all of our fact-seeking efforts, any time we had a question about something, we could simply open our Bibles (maybe go to the back where someone has painstakingly organized doctrines by category or has included

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