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Showing posts with label God's Mercy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's Mercy. 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...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Sermon Video: God responds to the foolish choice of Abram and Sarai - Genesis 16

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  Abraham and Sarah are heroes of the faith, but they made plenty of mistakes along the way.  One of the most serious of them was the decisi...
Monday, June 17, 2024

Sermon Video: God is merciful, even to the murderer Cain - Genesis 4:8-16

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It is well known that Cain killed his brother Abel, what is less well understood is that God showed incredible mercy to Cain when he confron...
Monday, July 31, 2023

Sermon Video: A Living Sacrifice to God - Romans 12:1-2

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What is the proper Christian response to God's mercy?  After we have received so much of it, and continue to depend upon it, how should ...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Sermon Video: Righteousness by Faith, not Law - Romans 9:27-33

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Since the Law was given by God to his people, and he rewarded them for keeping it and punished them for breaking it, why couldn't righte...
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Monday, May 1, 2023

Sermon Video: Who are you to talk back to God? Romans 9:19-26

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It is only natural as people made in God's image, that we wonder how the mind of God works, that we question what we don't understan...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Sermon Video: Salvation depends upon God's mercy, not human effort - Romans 9:10-18

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It is all about the mercy.  Salvation depends utterly upon the mercy of God, thanks be to God for that.  The Apostle Paul uses the example o...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Doubt and Faithfulness are not polar opposites: A Lesson from "Doubting Thomas" - John 20:24-29

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  I find Caravaggio's The Incredulity of Saint Thomas to be a fascinating painting.  One of the reasons why is that the text of John...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #20: Mark 2:15-16

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Mark 2:15-16     New International Version 15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating wit...
Monday, May 30, 2022

Sermon Video: Self-Righteousness = Contempt for God's Mercy

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Released between two horrific mass shootings was the report about how sex abuse was handled by the Southern Baptist Convention.  This horrif...
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...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Sermon Video: The Fall of Jericho - Joshua 5:13-6:27

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The story of the fall of Jericho being fairly familiar to many Christians, the text itself from the book of Joshua contains two moments that...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Sermon Video: Jacob I Loved, Esau I Hated - Malachi 1:1-5

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The last of the prophets before the 400 years of silence preceding John the Baptist, Malachi brings a message to the people of Israel remind...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Sermon Video: King Manasseh - Wickedness and Repentance - 2 Chronicles 33

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King Manasseh was a wicked man, he lived the majority of his life steeped in idolatry, blasphemy, and he even committed child sacrifice, off...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Sermon Video: The Power of Prayer, Part 1 - James 5:13-15

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Prayer is a fairly common human response, to troubles in particular.  For the Christian, prayer is a necessary part of our relationship with...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Sermon Video - "Lord, I want to see" Luke 18:35-43

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In this final message from Luke, (having preached the whole Gospel of Luke here at 1st Baptist over the past four years, which means all of ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Sermon Video: "God, have mercy on me, a sinner." - Luke 18:9-14

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If the actions of two individuals are outwardly identical, or at least nearly so, how would you or I differentiate between the two if we sus...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Sermon Video: "because of his mercy" - Titus 3:4-7

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Following his description of the wretched state of humanity apart from God in verse three, Paul highlights the dramatic turn in human histor...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Sermon Video: "Give thanks to the LORD" - Psalm 107

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“Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.”  A familiar refrain from Psalm 107 that is echoed throughout Scripture....