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Showing posts with label Being a Christian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Being a Christian. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Sermon Video: The Problem of Unwholesome Talk, Ephesians 4:29-30

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As Paul continues to share examples of the new attitude that followers of Jesus must adopt, he turns his focus to our speech.  The contrast ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Sermon Video: Beyond Our Imagination - Ephesians 3:20-21

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What is God able to do?  More than we can ask or imagine. What does that mean?  Set aside whatever ideas pop into your head about personal e...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Sermon Video: God has a plan for each one of us - Ephesians 2:10

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Ephesians 2:8-9 is an amazing ode to God's plan to save those who trust in Christ by grace.  However, God's plan for his people does...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Sermon Video: The same attitude toward each other as Jesus had -Romans 15:1-6

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Why should Christians of "strong" faith bear with those whose faith is "weak"?  The answer certainly isn't to bolste...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

How Franklin moves forward, together: the Law of Love, Romans 13:10

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Franklin PA from above, the 13th St. bridge to the right, and the 8th St. to the left. It was a tumultuous week here in Franklin, things got...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

What the furor over the Witch Walk in Franklin can teach us about Christian cultural engagement

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Downtown Franklin during last year's Witch Walk As many of you in the Franklin area will have noticed, a post on the St. Patrick Parish ...
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Sunday, September 17, 2023

Sermon Video: Rejecting Evil and Revenge by Embracing Kindness and Peace - Romans 12:17-21

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How should the followers of Jesus respond to evil?  The answer can never be with our own evil attitudes and actions.  Where does that leave ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Sermon Video: One Body with many different gifts - Romans 12:4-8

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The Church was designed and created by God to be unity with diversity.  The Gospel has always appealed, purposefully, to many different peop...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Illustrating the types of cultural response available to Christians with the Barbie movie as the example

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  Full disclosure: I haven't seen the Barbie movie.  If my 8 year old daughter hadn't been out of town with my wife Nicole since it ...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #14: Matthew 18:3-4

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  Matthew 18:3-4      New International Version 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you wil...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #8: Matthew 5:13

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  Matthew 5:13     New International Version “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty a...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Sermon Video: "circumcision of the heart"? - Romans 2:25-29

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Surface level participation in religion isn't good enough.  Paul demonstrates this by discussion the circumcision of Judaism, but it equ...
Friday, June 10, 2022

The Bible doesn't mandate that Christians support Democracy, BUT preventing the Evil that Autocracy would unleash in America does

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  The Bible doesn't support Democracy.  Then again, the Bible doesn't denounce it either.  In fact, the Bible mentions Democracy not...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Sermon Video: The Way of the Righteous - Psalm 1

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The psalm chosen to begin the collection of music brought together as the book of Psalms highlights two stark and divergent paths.  The righ...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Sermon Video: Swords and clubs to arrest the Prince of Peace - Mark 14:43-52

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  They came with swords and clubs to arrest Jesus because they expected him to fight back, they couldn't imagine that Jesus would not re...
Friday, January 7, 2022

The irrefutable rejection of Christian Nationalism by the New Testament

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One of many crosses brought to the political rally that became an insurrection on 1/6/21   na·tion·al·ism Learn to pronounce noun identifica...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

The danger of defining 'real' Americans vs. the necessity of categorizing 'real' Christians

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It has become increasingly popular for politicians and pundits to tell their hard core followers that they represent the 'real America...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

I am a Minister of the Gospel: called, ordained, and entrusted to shepherd the sheep

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I may not look the part yet, but perhaps someday In recent conversations, primarily online, a number of people have 'warned' me agai...
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