The Bible demands that we children of God hold each other accountable. I recently preached an entire series on this topic titled Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To the Local Church that expanded on how this accountability is critical to the health of a church, which has been designed by God to bring glory to Him. […]
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One of the reasons actors sometimes refuse otherwise good roles is because they may have already played a similar one in the past. Though they may have been wildly successful in it, they don’t want to play it again because they run the risk of being typecast. Once an actor is typecast, audiences struggle to
Have you ever taken a personality test? There are multiple, but I believe the most popular one is the Myers-Briggs test. In these tests you answer a battery of questions and at the end are presented with a personality type. For example, there are 16 different types of personalities according to Myers-Briggs. I’ve taken the
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What happens when a person chooses evil over good? Does God ever allow it? Does He ever just give you what you want? (Strictly speaking, since God ordains all things, He is effectively giving you what you want even when it’s against His better judgement.) The answer is, “Yes!” The more important question is, do
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In both the ministry and in my secular life, I’ve heard hundreds of people repeat Paul’s encouraging words to Timothy, “Fight the good fight” (1 Timothy 6:12). I believe it is an oversubscribed call to action in the sense that it is often used disrespectfully (many times the original sentence is truncated, lacking the “of the faith” at the
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OUTLINE:An obedient person is a blessed person.Ps 111:10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!To fear the Lord is tantamount to fearing His Word.Ecc 12:13The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments [aka
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OUTLINE:Recent NCC Blogs –Love Being Yourself – 4/29/22 –Faithful Are the Wounds of a Friend – 4/22/22The ElectBelievers and God’s elect are indeed one and the same group from God’s perspective. However, from man’s perspective, there may be an elected person that isn’t yet a believer (they will believe before they die, though, guaranteed). Placing Your Hope
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OUTLINE: What is salvation? – Hebrew yesha (root for Joshua & Jesus) – refers to freedom from something binding/restricting deliverance – Greek soteria – means deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation; to cure, to rescueInstead of Seeking Theology…Somewhere along the line, the religious Jews lost sight of the spirit in favor of the letter – they lost sight of Christ, the
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OUTLINE:Gill on Jn 6:29“Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of God,… The main and principal one, and which is well pleasing in his sight; and without which it is impossible to please him; and without which no work whatever is a good work; and this is of the operation of God,
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Though it may be difficult for some to hear, there’s such a thing as holy hatred. The reason it exists is sin. By definition, sin means to “miss the mark,” which refers to the divine standard of God. Since God is infinitely more righteous than sin (or sinners), He is intrinsically separate from it (or
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