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Showing posts with label Grace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grace. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Rethinking the Five Solae - by Jacob Fronczak (FFOZ, 2021) - full rebuttal by Pastor Powell

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In many of its publications, the First Fruits of Zion presents itself as an educational organization that is simply trying to help the Churc...
Friday, September 5, 2025

Beginning of Wisdom (Torah Club) lesson #41: More disparaging of grace and using a folktale to interpret scripture

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 I'll admit, I'm a fan of God's grace.  That isn't a hot-take, nor should it raise anyone's eyebrows.  If there are a fe...
Friday, May 30, 2025

HaYesod's 2023 edition (First Fruits of Zion, Torah Club) heretically redefines grace: "grace is earned" and claims humans can atone for sins by suffering

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  HaYesod is the primary disciple-training material for the Hebrew Roots Movement aligned organization: The First Fruits of Zion This analys...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Sermon Video: Saved by Grace - Ephesians 2:8-9

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The essence of the Gospel is our salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.  This is a simple message, but also the most powerful one...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Because of His Great Love for Us - Ephesians 2:4-5, Sermon Video

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The Apostle Paul offers us hope with a well placed "But."  Immediately after proclaiming that humanity is spiritually "dead...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Sermon Video: An Introduction to God's Grace - Ephesians 1:1-6

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The first half of Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus is an ode to the wonders and majesty of the grace of God.  Fittingly, Paul delv...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

The Dangers of the First Fruits of Zion and their Torah Clubs: summarized in one page

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To everyone who follows Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, While we all ought to enthusiastically support deep study of the Bible, including...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Sermon Video: Having Grace in Disputable Matters, part 3 - Romans 14:15-21

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Having established the need for grace in the areas of Christian liberty about which we disagree with our brothers and sisters in Christ, Pau...
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, November 6, 2023

Sermon Video: Having grace in disputable matters, part 1 - Romans 14:1-9

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Chapter 14 of Romans is Paul's full argument as to why Christians ought to treat each other with grace with respect to "disputable ...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Sermon Video: How should we view ourselves? - Romans 12:3

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Before explaining how the various members of the church (local and universal) fit together in God's will, the Apostle Paul offers a remi...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Sermon Video: A Remnant Chosen by Grace - Romans 11:1-6

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When his Covenant people rejected the Messiah, how did God respond?  Did he reject them and walk away?  No, God continued to be faithful by ...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Sermon Video: Believe in Jesus, and you will be saved - Romans 10:5-13

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How simple is it to receive the Good News of the Gospel? Amazingly simple.  The intellectual hurdle is minimal, one only need acknowledge th...
Monday, May 15, 2023

Sermon Video: Christ is the culmination of the Law - Romans 10:1-4

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Why did Paul's generation of Law observant Israelites fail to accept Jesus as the Messiah?  One of the primary explanations, coming from...
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, 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...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

FFOZ (Torah Clubs) admit they are sharing a another/new/different Gospel

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  It really isn't a big deal if FFOZ (Torah Clubs) reinterprets the Gospel message in a way unknown throughout Church History, is it?  I...
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...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Sermon Video: Joseph graciously accepts the Christmas gift he didn't ask for - Matthew 1:18-24

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Have you ever received a Christmas gift that you absolutely hated?  One that you can't wait to return, one that you struggle to pretend ...
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 ...