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Showing posts with label Christ-likeness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christ-likeness. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Sermon Video: Submission for Christ - Ephesians 5:21-24

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The Apostle Paul lays the foundation for a discussion about specific commands that apply to segments of the Church (wives, husbands, childre...
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, July 22, 2025

Sermon Video: The Church that is Safe - Ephesians 4:14-16

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  We live in a world that is obsessed with safety.  We are more aware of the dangers that exist than our forebearers, and spend more time tr...
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, June 3, 2025

Sermon Video: How wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ - Ephesians 3:14-19

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The Apostle Paul relates to the church at Ephesus his prayer for them: that they might be strengthened by the Holy Spirit to enable Christ t...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

A reflection on the life of Pope Francis

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  {Disclaimer: While I am a lifelong Baptist, and an ordained minister of that denomination, my wife of nearly 24 years, Nicole, is a practi...
Monday, March 6, 2023

Sermon Video: The Purpose for which God works all things - Romans 8:28-30

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Romans 8:28 is an oft misunderstood piece of scripture, in part because it is often quoted or considered apart from its context, especially ...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Sermon Video: All Creation awaits the Redemption of God's people, Romans 818-25

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We, as God's people redeemed by Jesus, are already saved, but not have not yet been fully transformed into what we will become (Christ-l...
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, April 1, 2021

Christianity has always been a self-imposed Cancel Culture, on purpose

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Few ideas are as controversial in this moment in American history as the notion of a Cancel Culture.  Firebrands and pundits on both the pol...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Sermon Video: At the Last Trumpet: We will all be changed

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When Christ returns, we will all be changed. All those who have faith in Jesus Christ, whether then living or already dead, will be resurre...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Sermon Video: When the dead are raised to new life - 1 Corinthians 15:35-44a

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Having striven to establish confidence at the church in Corinth regarding the reality of Jesus' resurrection, and the certainty of our f...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Sermon Video: How to know the power of Christ's resurrection Philippians 3:10-11

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How can I know Christ? Really know him? The Apostle Paul considers that thought and responds with two ideas: know the power of his resurre...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Sermon Video: God will preserve his people, increasing his glory - Jude 24-25

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Having just instructed the Church to show mercy to those who doubt, Jude now encourages all believers by assuring us that God is capable of ...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Why must I as a Christian love all people?

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The following quote from John Calvin ( Institutes of the Christian Religion , Book 3, Chapter 7, section 6) illustrates our duty as disciple...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Sermon Video: Be Slow to Anger - James 1:19-21

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How much better would our world be if everyone followed the advice of James that we ought to be, "quick to listen, slow to speak, and s...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Sermon Video: Only the foreigner praised God - Luke 17:11-19

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On his way to Jerusalem with his Passion drawing nigh, Jesus is confronted by ten men suffering from leprosy who cry out to him for pity.  I...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

The Wingfeather Saga and Christ typology: An enthusiastic book recommendation

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Having just finished reading the fourth and final book in Andrew Peterson's Wingfeather Saga, The Warden and the Wolf King , I can now g...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Sermon Video: Persistence in Prayer - Luke 11:5-13

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Persistence is an interesting quality in people, it can be the making of our success, and it can be the cause of our destruction.  When per...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Hobby Lobby ruling by the Supreme Court

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Regarding the Hobby Lobby ruling...Why was Hobby Lobby able to successfully make their case before the Supreme Court?  Because the Green fam...