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Showing posts with label Evil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evil. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Sermon Video: The Supporting Cast at Advent: King Herod - Matthew 2:3-8,13-18

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  Often forgotten amidst the joy and celebration of Christmas, King Herod attempting to thwart God's sending of the Messiah from its sta...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

sermon video: Faithfulness in Evil Times - Habakkuk 1:12-2:20

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  What can the righteous do in evil times when justice is hard to find?  Be faithful.  In this world we will always see evil appear to win, ...

Sermon Video: Where is God when evil happens? - Habakkuk 1:1-11

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  Living in the midst of a people who had failed to live up to the covenant but instead embraced violence, the prophet Habakkuk asks an age-...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Sermon Video: The Full Armor of God - Ephesians 6:10-17

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Before concluding his letter, the Apostle Paul offers an extended military metaphor about spiritual warfare.  We learn that our enemy is not...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Sermon Video: Children of Light - Ephesians 5:8-14

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Light vs. Dark imagery is very common in the Bible.  In fact, when seeing a vision of God, or meeting an angel, the text typically describes...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Sermon Video: Do Not Give the Devil a Foothold - Ephesians 4:25-28

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As a follow-up to his command that Jesus' followers adopt a new attitude divorced from our former futile thinking when we were apart fro...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Sermon Video: God is deeply troubled by human evil - Genesis 6:1-6

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Transitioning from the story of the line of Seth that came before it, and the story of Noah and the Flood that follows after, Genesis 6:1-4 ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

6 months since October 7, there are no winners here: A response to the essay by Frida Ghitis (CNN, 4/5/24)

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  {“In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.” - Neville Chamberlain       That quote wou...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

Light vs Darkness and the reason why Christians should be perpetual optimists

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  John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have ov...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Sermon Video: Crime and Punishment from God's point-of-view, Romans 13:3-5

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What does an ideal government do with respect to crime and punishment?  The Apostle Paul was well aware of the shortcomings of human governm...
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 ...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Sermon Video: Love Must be Sincere - Romans 12:9-10

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What does a Christ-like community look like?  The Apostle Paul answers the question by starting with (1) sincere love, and then adding to th...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

I'm not afraid, should I be?

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  Psalm 46 1 God is our refuge and strength,     an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way   ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #22: Luke 4:5-8

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Luke 4:5-8     New International Version 5 The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

The Watchman Decree: 'Christian' Nationalism's 'name it and claim it' dangerous prayer

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The following 'decree' was written by pastor Dutch Sheets, a member of the  New Apostolic Reformation , a loosely affiliated group o...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Sermon Video: The insanity of: "Let us do evil that good may result" Romans 3:5-8

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By way of answering a question about why our sinfulness doesn't make God's holiness more glorious, the Apostle Paul refutes a hereti...
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...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

Sermon Video: God: Good will be rewarded, Evil punished - Romans 2:5-11

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In the process of explaining to those who think they're on God's good side, but who in fact have stubborn and unrepentant hearts, th...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Another Mass Murder inspired by the Evil of the "Great Replacement" theory

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Nine people murdered at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015.  In August 2017, White Supremacist...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Mark Meadows, Ginni Thomas, and the blasphemy of thinking God is on your side.

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  It was recently revealed that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was deeply involved in trying to prevent the inauguration ...