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Showing posts with label Mercy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mercy. Show all posts
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, January 16, 2024

Sermon Video: Jesus: Fulfilling God's promises to the Jews, showing mercy to the Gentiles - Romans 15:7-13

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In his conclusion to the section that began in chapter 14 about the need for Christians to accept each other, Paul offers us a telling analo...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Jesus, Jim Harbaugh, and the fallacy that, "Only the guilty take a plea."

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  Before I begin, I'm aware that terms like Innocent, Guilty, and Victim ring fairly hollow when thrown around between the NCAA who make...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Sermon Video: Building up God's people, including the doubters - Jude 17-23

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Given the need that the Church has to be on its guard against false teachers and divisive people, what ought we to do about those who have d...
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...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Sermon Video: The Problem with breaking some of God's Law - James 2:8-13

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In order to impress upon his readers the seriousness of their willingness to show favoritism (and thus discriminate), James connects this mi...
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...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Why we can never allow "them" to be singled out.

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After World War II, Pastor Martin Niemoller, who was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1937 and eventually confined at Dachau concentration camp, ...
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, February 17, 2015

Sermon Video: "Who is my neighbor?" - Luke 10:29-37

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As the conversation between Jesus and the expert in the Law continues, the lawyer and Jesus have agreed that the heart and soul of the Law ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Sermon Video: Joseph and the angel - Matthew 1:18-21

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Infidelity is a brutal emotional and spiritual wrecking ball, it destroys families and ruins lives.  Joseph, a young man pledged to be marri...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

To Judge or not to Judge, that is the question.

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Please don't judge me for borrowing Shakespeare's phraseology from Hamlet, that would make the rest of this post difficult to read. ...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Sermon Video: "Be merciful" - Luke 6:32-36

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As Luke's version of the Sermon on the Mount continues, Jesus further explains the command to "love your enemies" and "do...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Sermon Video - "Love your enemies" Luke 6:27-30

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As Jesus continues to confound the wisdom of man with the mercy of God, he offers one of the most difficult commands to those who would foll...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

More Grace?

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An interesting question was raised at last night's Bible study (Hebrew 11).  We were talking about how all of the saints of the Old Cove...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Sermon Video: Christmas with Mercy and without Fear - Luke 1:49-50,68-75

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Long before our favorite Christmas carols were written Mary and Zechariah spoke words of poetry to commemorate the wonders that God was doin...