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Showing posts with label Obedience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obedience. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

sermon video: The supporting cast at Advent: The Magi - Matthew 2:1-2,9-12

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  We all know about the central characters in the story of Christmas, but what about those "cast" by God in a supporting role?  Th...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #33 Acts 5:29

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Acts 5:27-29      New International Version 27 The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the ...
Friday, September 9, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #12: Matthew 16:21-23

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  Matthew 16:21-23     New International Version 21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem a...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Sermon Video: "circumcision of the heart"? - Romans 2:25-29

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Surface level participation in religion isn't good enough.  Paul demonstrates this by discussion the circumcision of Judaism, but it equ...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Sermon Video: Immoral Christians blaspheme God's name - Romans 2:17-24

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The original audience to which Paul refers are 1st century observant Jews, people who knew and approved of God's Law (his Word), yet as ...
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, April 9, 2019

Sermon Video: An immoral people cannot expect God's blessings - Haggai 2:10-19

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Utilizing an illustration involving consecrated food and the defilement associated with touching a dead body, the LORD utilizes the prophet ...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

After the politics, will you listen?

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After you vote today, after the cheering or cursing that will come tonight when the results are known, after the gloating or seeking of blam...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Sermon Video: A Chosen People once more - Joshua 5:1-12

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Having successfully crossed the Jordan River, and having memorialized God's display of power, the people of Israel are now commanded by ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Sermon Video: Doing the right thing for the right reasons - Philemon

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In his short letter to Philemon, an important member of the church at Colossae, and a slave-owner.  The Apostle Paul encourages Philemon to ...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

How do we know which things are disputable?

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The Greek term,  ἀδιάφορα (adiaphora, meaning "not differentiable") refers to those issues of faith and practice, as well as ethic...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Becoming a Christian vs. Being a Christian

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Ignorance and confusion are not helpful ingredients when talking about religion.  With that in mind, there seems to be a significant amount ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Sermon Video: The Prideful Presumption of Uzziah - 2 Chronicles 26

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One of the oldest and ongoing conflicts in human society is the struggle to define and maintain morality.  In the pride of the wickedness of...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Sermon Video: The Half-hearted obedience of Amaziah - 2 Chronicles 25

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It is often a dangerous thing to enter into a commitment half-heartedly, whether that be a commitment in business, relationships, politics, ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Sermon Video - Submit Yourself to God: James 4:7-10

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There is much that humanity doesn't, by nature, like about the idea of submitting to God.  Americans, in particular, confuse their love ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Sermon Video: Do what the Word says - James 1:22-25

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We have all experienced the distinction between listening and hearing.  Parents and wives of husbands watching football are familiar with th...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Sermon Video: "At one time, we too were foolish" - Titus 2:15-3:3

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As Paul finishes up his directions to Titus regarding Christian ethical behavior, he focuses that topic on the respect that the people of Go...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Sermon Video: The Sower and the Seeds - Luke 8:4-21

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The teachings of Jesus are far more difficult to live by than they are to understand.   When Jesus taught the parable of the Sower, he ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Sermon Video: "Worthy is the Lamb" - Revelation 5:1-14

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The Triumphal Entry of Jesus that we remember each year on Palm Sunday was a spontaneous event of enthusiasm by the people of Jerusalem...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Sermon Video: The System is Broken - Isaiah 1:10-20

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Where does the road to the cross begin? As we once again begin this week our Lenten journey, it is important that we remember that the road ...