KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Our great hope for eternal salvation is God’s integrity. Grace is no longer grace if we must work for it. If we ever had to “work” for God’s grace, we’d always fail ourselves because our human capabilities are flawed. God’s standard of righteousness is nothing short of perfection. Only Christ’s […]
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KEY PRINCIPLES IN THIS MESSAGE: Christ-like love and action are intrinsic to one another. Two Hearts – 3/1/24 Just because someone hates you doesn’t mean you must hate them back. In fact, Jesus taught just the opposite. He taught we ought to have a compassionate love, like His own, towards our enemies. (Mt 5:43)Perfect love is
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Grace gives without any expectations. To disobey God is to say in your heart that you don’t trust that His will is the right way for you. Disobedience results in failure to enter God’s rest. How One Forfeits the Forgiveness of Sins – blog 1/26/24 While it’s true there’s always hope
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We learn in grade school that we are to respect one another, to care for one another, to “remember the golden rule” (treat others the way you want to be treated). We’re taught to treat everyone the same, without regard to their station in life. However, here’s the rub… When we grow up, society rewards
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TODAY’S VERSE: James 2:1 “My dear brothers and sisters, how can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others?” As we continue our study on the book of Esther, we meet the “bad guy” of the story. His name is Haman and he was an
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Whenever I preach a sermon that includes the account of James’ and John’s mother asking Jesus for preferential treatment of her sons, I chuckle, as does the congregation. It’s a ‘roll your eyes’ type scenario, where a mother’s partiality is on full display and her children are completely onboard. It makes me think about how
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OUTLINE: Personal Favoritism (ala Jas 2:1)Why is our inclination to adopt world standards and meet its esteemed proponents at levels that they define for us? Why are we plagued with a desire to please those same people, proportional to their social reputation, even though they couldn’t care less about our Lord? Is Our Faith Genuine?According
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OUTLINE: Happy New Year!The year of our Lord 2019! 1 Co 6:12All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. The Total Depravity of Man re: Gen 3:10If the words of Adam in [Genesis 3:10] are carefully pondered, a solemn
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OUTLINE: The Total Depravity of Man re: Gen 3:10If the words of Adam in [Genesis 3:10] are carefully pondered, a solemn and fatal omission from them will be observed: He said nothing about his sin, but mentioned only the painful effects which it had produced. As another has said, “This was the language of impenitent misery.” The
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OUTLINE: Jn 8:32“and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”Jn 17:17“Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.”Jn 1:17b…grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. “realized”from ginomai – to come into being, to be born, become, come about, happen. The Dichotomy of Ps 73:22-23In order to “see it all as truth” (Eph 5),
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