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Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Beginning of Wisdom (Torah Club) lesson #42-43: Afterlife uncertainty and more mysticism

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Lesson 42-43, page 13 "God has ordered things so that 'man will not discover anything' about his fate in the next life.  We are...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

The (Spiritually) Living Dead - Ephesians 2:1-3, sermon video

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The diagnosis is terminal.  The patient will not survive.  That's what the Apostle Paul wants us to understand in the verses prior to hi...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Sermon Video: In the Garden of Eden - Genesis 2:4-17

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A look at the Garden of Eden from the perspective of what it would have meant to the ancient Israelites (it owes much to Professor John'...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Beginning of Wisdom (Torah Club) lesson #8: Leaning into the mysticism of Kabbalah

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Note the terms: World of Concealment and World of Truth Note Lancaster's description of demons and angels contending over the souls of t...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Sermon Video: Christ arose, we too will be raised - 1 Corinthians 15:20-23

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Of the many blessings and joys that the resurrection of Jesus from the dead brings to those who believe in him, one that we will all need so...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Sermon Video: The Gospel in a nutshell - Romans 6:23

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The Gospel in one sentence.  Think about that for a moment.  God's plan to redeem humanity from sin and death, to turn humanity history ...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Sermon Video: "we are those who have died to sin" - Romans 5:20-6:7

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Having explained that we have died with Christ, and been raised together with him to new life, the Apostle Paul explores how we then should ...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Sermon Video: Death and Life, from the one to the many: Adam and Jesus, Romans 5:12-19

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Paul compares how death spread from Adam to all of humanity, with all of humanity joining Adam in sin, to how life can spread from Jesus to ...
Monday, March 7, 2022

Sermon Video: The Resurrection of Jesus - Mark 16:1-8

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Much of what we hear and read about in life is colored by hyperbole.  The greatest and most turns out to be a pitch.  Not so the Resurrectio...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

Sermon Video: Make use of what God has given - Mark 4:21-25

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 In a series of 4 connected sayings, Jesus explains the nature of the world that God created, emphasizing that the Truth is intended to be d...
Friday, July 31, 2020

How should Christians act during a pandemic? - Wisdom from Martin Luther's experience with the Plague

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The response of American Christians to the COVID-19 pandemic has run the gamut from faithful adherence to CDC guidelines, to open and proud ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Sermon Video: The defeat of Death by Jesus - 1 Corinthians 15:54-57

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We love stories that end with, "and they lived happily ever after", but real life isn't like that, is it? We know that evil d...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

Sermon Video: Christ will reign - 1 Corinthians 15:23-28

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How does it all end? The Apostle Paul offers an interesting analysis of the End Times by approaching it through the lens of authority/power...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Sermon Video: In Christ all will be made alive - 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

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The fear of death is common to all of humanity, and in the present COVID-19 crisis, it is being felt keenly by millions. But death is not t...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

The moral question of Avengers: Infinity War (Spoiler Free)

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There is a central moral question at work in Avengers: Infinity War between the protagonist, the villain Thanos, and the multitude of an...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Sermon Video: "He is not here, he is risen" Matthew 28:1-10

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As the faithful women came to the tomb seeking to care for the body of Jesus on Sunday morning, they encountered a remarkable sight: An ange...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Sermon Video: The Rise of the Son - Mark 16:1-8

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On the first Easter morning, it was not the apostles to whom the message of the resurrection of Jesus first came, for they were in hiding, r...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Sermon Video: The living hope of the resurrection - I Peter 1:3-5

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Hope is a necessity.  It may not sound as necessary as food and water, but we need hope.  The future is unknown, our own deaths are certain,...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Sermon Video - "Who will get what you have prepared for yourself?" Luke 12:13-21

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In this passage, Jesus uses the occasion of an inheritance dispute that is brought to him to instead give a warning about the perils of gree...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Sermon Video: "resting on the hope of eternal life" - Titus 1:1-4

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In this introductory message for an ongoing series that will cover the Apostle Paul's letter to his protege Titus, the background inform...