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Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Sermon Video: Walk in the Way of Love - Ephesians 5:1-2

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  Imitate God. That's a directive that prompts many questions in response. The Apostle Paul has one particular aspect of God's nat...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Sermon Video: How wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ - Ephesians 3:14-19

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The Apostle Paul relates to the church at Ephesus his prayer for them: that they might be strengthened by the Holy Spirit to enable Christ t...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

A reflection on the life of Pope Francis

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  {Disclaimer: While I am a lifelong Baptist, and an ordained minister of that denomination, my wife of nearly 24 years, Nicole, is a practi...
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...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Sermon Video: Love is the Fulfillment of the Law - Romans 13:8b-10

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Where does the Law of God come from?  How did God decide upon the commandments that he game to humanity?  Love.  God is love, his Law reflec...

How Franklin moves forward, together: the Law of Love, Romans 13:10

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Franklin PA from above, the 13th St. bridge to the right, and the 8th St. to the left. It was a tumultuous week here in Franklin, things got...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Sermon Video: The Debt you cannot repay: Love - Romans 13:6-8a

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After telling the followers of Jesus that they have an obligation to pay their taxes, along with other things they may owe to those in autho...
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, September 27, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #17: Matthew 22:37-40

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  Matthew 22:37-40     New International Version 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and w...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Sermon Video: The Fall of Peter: Love and Fear - Mark 14:66-72

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Alone in the courtyard while the trial of Jesus progresses, Peter is faced with three increasingly dramatic opportunities to affirm himself ...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Sermon Video: The Greatest Commandments - Mark 12:28-34

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We love top ten lists. Enjoy debating the merits of which team, movie, song, etc. is better than another. The rabbis had identified 613 la...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Sermon Video: Jesus loved to the end - John 13:1

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  Contemplating the Last Supper (in our celebration of Maundy Thursday) through the eyes of John's commentary at the start of his extend...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

When is governmental action morally justified? The morality of COVID-19 responses to protect less than 1%.

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This is a serious question, I'm actually curious about what you would answer: Given that as of today, 10/13/20, there have been at least...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Sermon Video: Start at the beginning - Love one another, 2 John 1-6

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Abbreviating themes he developed further in 1 John, the Apostle writes to another church he founded of the need to "love in the truth...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Sermon Video: The Greatest of these is Love - 1 Corinthians 13:8-13

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In the culmination of his ode to the supremacy of Love, the Apostle Paul emphasizes the permanence of love by comparing it to the temporary ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Sermon Video: Real Love - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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Christians are supposed to be known for their love, love for each other, and love for even their enemies.  This, of itself, is beyond our ca...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Sermon Video: We Need Love - 1 Corinthians 12:31b-13:3

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What is the center of Christianity?  Having explained to the church at Corinth their need for unity and gifts of ministry from the Holy Spir...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Our warped definition of Christianity is disastrous

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What, and how, we think is important; very important.  What we believe in , and what we believe about important topics and issues profoundl...
Friday, April 19, 2019

Sermon Video: Jesus and his friends - Luke 22:14-16

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Less than twenty-four hours before his brutal death upon a Roman cross, Jesus celebrates the Passover with his chosen disciples; his friends...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Sermon Video: "You stood aloof", the failure to love your neighbor - Obadiah 10-21

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Having foretold the doom of Edom at the start of his prophecy, Obadiah now explains why God's wrath is imminent: the violence against th...