KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: As it applies to a local church, integrity means ALL members are functioning in their God-given roles (ala Ro 12:1-8). Without YOU, there will be some kind of void, or gap, or pain within our church family. The lessons God gives us within our own physical bodies illustrates the pain […]
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Why Are We Not All Dead? – blog 12/29/23– To summarize…sin, in God’s eyes, is a capital offense.– Then why are we not all dead?– If we all got what we deserved, we’d all get God’s justice and we’d all be dead and in Hell.– Remember, God has never been unjust.
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Good evangelism’s foundation is mercy. A truly virtuous characteristic of a person (aka, mercy!) proves its authenticity by bearing good fruit. William Lane on Ch 3 A major theme in Hebrews is that Christians are the people of God who, like the generation in the desert, experience the tensions of
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OUTLINE: 1Co 6:19-20Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.The Great Litmus TestIs what you’re doing (or thinking about doing) bringing
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OUTLINE: The Great Litmus TestIs what you’re doing (or thinking about doing) bringing glory to God? Are you “[glorifying] God in your body?” (1 Co 6:20) “bodily discipline is only of little profit”It is conceded that bodily discipline is of profit; however, compared to spiritual fitness, it pales. This is not a license for physical unfitness (it’s
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Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait in it? Does a trap spring up from the earth when it captures nothing at all? — Amos 3:5 No and no, to answer the prophet Amos’ questions. What’s he getting at, though? The simple gist of his wisdom is that if
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