OUTLINE:The Holy OneJesus knew His mission on earth from a very young age, and He also knew He was born not only to die, but He was also born to live a perfect and sinless life as the Savior of the world. To Be PERFECTLY RighteousJesus was perfect in the sense that He was completely […]
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If you were to have asked me years before I became a believer where I thought attacks on Christians would most likely come from, I would’ve said, “From unbelievers and skeptics, of course…makes perfect sense to me!” Fast forward to me today, a pastor with nearly a decade and a half of full-time ministry under
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TODAY’S VERSE: Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” What is eternal security? Let us define each word in the phrase to find out. Eternal means existing at all times; always. Security means protected; safe. So, then, eternal security means always safe or saved.
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OUTLINE: Renaissance Humanism – worldhistory.orgRenaissance Humanism was an intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which focused not on religion but on what it is to be human. Renaissance Humanism – worldhistory.orgHumanists believed in the importance of an education in classical literature and the promotion of civic virtue, that is, realizing
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TODAY’S VERSE: Romans 5:11 “And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.”Have you ever heard the word atonement before? If so, do you know what it means? Atonement is defined as, “to make amends for a wrong against another”. In the
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OUTLINE: Pulpit Messages 11/18/21 – The Root Cause of a False Gospel 11/14/21 – We Are Sanctified to God’s Glory 11/11/21 – Beholding God’s Glory 11/7/21 – Whose Life is This? Whose Glory? 11/4/21 – Do All to the Glory of GodDo you think there’s a direct relationship between our respect for God’s glory and our Gospel? God’s Glorious ImmutabilityWhen
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Have you ever smelled propane gas? It smells like rotten eggs. A lot of people don’t realize that, in its natural state, propane gas is odorless. This means that you could breathe it in at length and not even know it. Given that it is an asphyxiating gas (it displaces oxygen in your lungs), high
OUTLINE: Getting Out of Bed in the Morning Blog: 2/26/21 MacDonald on Ro 5:13Although there was sin during that time [before the Law was given], there was no transgression because transgression is the violation of a known law. The Simplicity of SalvationNot only is the Gospel easy to understand/digest, but it is also tied to a
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The last blog I wrote was titled, How to Handle Aggression, and it had a heavy bent on passive aggressiveness, which, let’s face it, is just plain ugly to see in others. It’s also challenging at times to avoid the temptation to respond in kind when on the receiving end of it. In the same way
OUTLINE: The Deceitfulness of SinThe more you INSIST on your “light”, the deeper you sink into the deceptiveness of darkness. Your insistence drives you deeper into darkness, where you are less and less likely to “see it all as truth” (ala Eph 5:13-14a). A “good” lie never stands alone for long.Eph 5:22-23Wives, submit to your own
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