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Part 5 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To The Local Church

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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: God has designed His creation to follow simple truths, such as ‘trees bear fruit after their own kind’. We shouldn’t expect anything different. These are ancient primitives that we can use as fundamental underpinnings to our understanding of God. God has designed His creation to follow simple truths, such as […]

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Part 1 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To the Local Church

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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “Freedom comes through servitude.” – Pastor Barfield of High Plains Fellowship Church We are always a slave. Freedom and slavery are not mutually exclusive terms (that’s what Satan wants you to believe). LOVE is not a vapid emotion that “feels” its way to righteousness. Love isn’t love if it lacks

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Part 198 – The Book of Hebrews

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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “exhort” – from parakaleo [para = “from close-beside” + kaleo = “to call”) – to “make a call” from being “close-up and personal”  (“personally make a call”); refers to believers offering up evidence that stands up in God’s court. Barnes on Heb 3:13 Church members should exhort one another. There may not be the intimacy of personal friendship among all

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Part 30 – The Book of Hebrews

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OUTLINE: 2Ti 3:16-17 [Amplified]All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage]; so that the [a]man

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Forgiving Our Parents

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With power comes responsibility. We are introduced to this reality as children. We are born powerless, unable to even feed ourselves, never mind fend for and protect ourselves. We are, in the most vulnerable of ways, at the mercy of our parents. We are their responsibility from the start. God bestows a lot of responsibility

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Duty or Desire

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“The greatest leaders do not seek their position, rather they assume responsibility out of necessity,” said the noble leader mentoring their protege in a movie my family happened to be watching. My 15-year-old son turns to me on the couch and says, “Hey, dad, that sounds like something you’d say.” The corner of my lip

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