OUTLINE: Family Discipline APPLIEDThe faithfulness of our God disciplines us when we need it, out of His tremendous love for us. Perspective On DisciplineA humble person accepts pain for what it is – a grace gift from God! Pain from discipline is a cause for gratitude, not spite. The Good From DisciplineGod’s plan includes training […]
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OUTLINE: The Mind of ChristThe Bible, as a whole, is the very mind of Christ. We don’t just “hear” from Jesus Christ when we read red letters in our Bibles. The Bible is His Word, mind, thoughts, heart. Religious PerversionThe Jewish leaders had made the Sabbath (Ex 20:8) part of a religious works program, which
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OUTLINE: “good works”They are never, ever by means of work done by you in the absence of His grace. “for good works” – Tit 2:14“Good” implies God’s scale of values, not man’s. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above…” (Jas 1:17a). “for good works” – Tit 2:14If we’re sanctified for the purpose of being “zealous for good
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TODAY’S VERSE: John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.We have begun a new study in prep school titled, “Christianity vs. Religion”. We could also call it, the religion of
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TODAY’S VERSES: I Timothy 2:3-4 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. In prep school we just finished a series titled, “What Every Christian Should Know”. So, what is it that every Christian should know,
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There are two kinds of obedience: that which is done in love and that which is not. The litmus test is how we treat others. If our obedience forms an impenetrable outer crust, we have failed. If our obedience is a light that guides the way for the lost and the weak, then we have
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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” I can’t remember the first time I heard this, but I’m confident it was after I had been verbally abused by another child. I imagine either my mom or an elementary school teacher handed this little quip down to me. I’ve since
What happens when you dislodge a deeply rooted doctrine from the human soul and replace it with a lie? Inevitably, you get false religion. Case in point, the Catholic Church. The Council of Trent (Latin: Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent (or Trento, in northern Italy), was the 19th ecumenical council of
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OUTLINE: When we judge wrongly, we are being deceived by sin.Lk 11:46 [Expanded]Jesus answered, “How terrible for [Woe to] you, you experts on the law! You make strict rules that are very hard for people to obey [burden people with burdens hard to carry], but you yourselves don’t even try to follow those rules [or
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You might be saying to yourself already, “There’s no negative side to grace!…what’s this guy talking about?” Give me a moment to explain myself…geesh! 🙂 Grace teaches us amazing things…things we’d never be able to understand otherwise. In fact, it’s more precise to say that we lack every capability of understanding the things of God in the absence of
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