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Showing posts with label God's Judgment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's Judgment. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Sermon Video: The LORD rescues Lot from Sodom - Genesis 19:1-29

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Once again Genesis focuses on  Abraham's nephew Lot, a secondary character in the story Moses is telling, but one whose life has impacte...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Sermon Video: Abraham pleads with God to spare Sodom, Genesis 18:16-33

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In a fascinating conversation, Abraham humbly pleads with God on behalf of the soon-to-be condemned city of Sodom. Why?  We know that his ne...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Sermon Video: God's Wrath and Noah's Righteousness - Genesis 6:7-13

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  As the Flood narrative begins, God expresses his intention to pour out his wrath on the human population which had embraced evil, especial...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Sermon Video: Having Grace in Disputable Matters, part 2 - Romans 14:10-14

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Continuing his teaching that Christians must show grace in disputable matters, the Apostle Paul adds the new consideration that we will all ...
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...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Sermon Video: "No condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus"! - Romans 8:1-4

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Having established, in Romans, that all of humanity is alike condemned for sin, the Apostle Paul has offered up salvation by grace through f...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Sermon Video: Nobody is Good Enough for God - Romans 3:9-20

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Before offering hope in the subsequent verses, the Apostle Paul emphasizes the conclusion that ON OUR OWN nobody is good enough for God.  Al...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Sermon Video: Those who are Righteous in God's sight - Romans 2:12-16

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Long story short, the only ones whom God will declare to be righteous are those who obey his Law (that of Moses for the Jews of the Abrahami...
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, October 11, 2021

Sermon Video: "the end is still to come" - Mark 13:1-19

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Days before his own Passion, Jesus drops a bomb on his disciples that the Temple in Jerusalem is going to be completely destroyed. The disc...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Sermon Video: The Parable of the Tenants: Don't Ignore God - Mark 12:1-12

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In this allegorical parable, Jesus recounts the history of the Abrahamic Covenant and the Israelite people leading up to his own arrival as ...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

Sermon Video: Pluck out your eye? Mark 9:42-48

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 Utilizing brutally stark imagery, Jesus seeks to impress upon his disciples the seriousness of the things that people do (or fail to do) th...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

"You do you, I'll do me" - Quintessentially American, but incompatible with the Judeo-Christian worldview

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If you're like me, this meme below has floated through your Facebook feed at some point since the pandemic hit America.  It presents a b...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Friendly Fire? Why examination and censure by Christians belongs primarily on us, not them

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I have been asked variations of this question, "Why all the focus on Christians?"  (Or conservatives, evangelicals, Republicans). ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Sermon Video: A world without life after death - 1 Corinthians 15:29-32

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What would be different about our world if we knew that there was no life after death? Considering that most people both now and throughout...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

A Refutation Of: White evangelicals' attacks on James Cone are about power, not truth by Andre Henry

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The opinion piece in italics below was written by Andre Henry the program manager for the Racial Justice Institute at Evangelicals for Soci...
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Why would we celebrate the death of the wicked?

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When word spread that Adolf Hitler had taken his own life on April 30th, of 1945, most of the world rejoiced, for a great evil had be...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Sermon Video: The LORD dwells in Zion - Joel 3

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The finale of the message of the prophet Joel is upon God's ongoing concern for the people and land of Israel.  "In those days...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

Sermon Video: "Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved" Joel 2:12-32

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In the midst of a message of woe, the prophet Joel shares the desire of the LORD to relent and heal his people.  "Even now," the m...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Sermon Video: The Gospel, simply - John 3:16

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Life is complicated, problems and their solutions are often difficult to understand.  Thankfully, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not complica...