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Showing posts with label Patience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patience. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Sermon Video: God's Promises - The Birth of Isaac, Genesis 21:1-7

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  After decades of waiting, the promised son of Abraham and Sarah arrives. What does this miracle birth tells us about God's promises? ...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Sermon Video: After the Flood - Genesis 8

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  The literary structure of the Flood narrative in Genesis draws the reader to 8:1 where we read, "But God remembered Noah." Just...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Sermon Video: A Zeal that imitates Jesus - Romans 12:11-12

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The Church, in America at least, isn't suffering from a lack of zeal.  We have plenty of passionate intensity, much of it in the form of...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Sermon Video: All Creation awaits the Redemption of God's people, Romans 818-25

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We, as God's people redeemed by Jesus, are already saved, but not have not yet been fully transformed into what we will become (Christ-l...
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...
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...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Sermon Video: God's Chosen People: Bound together in love - Colossians 3:11-14

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Having already told the people of the church at Colossae of the need to "put to death" their earthly nature with all of its vices,...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Sermon Video: Our Prayer - Live a Life worthy of the Lord, Colossians 1:9-11

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Having already expressed his thanks to God for the good report of the faith, hope, and love evident at the church of Colossae, Paul goes on ...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Sermon Video: Remain where you are? 1 Corinthians 7:17-24

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As a Christian, should you stay where and what you are, assuming it is God's will, or should you seek to change the life you're livi...
Friday, September 2, 2016

Sermon Video: The Patience of the Prophets, the Perseverance of Job - James 5:10-11

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Suffering and difficulties of every sort are inevitable in this world.  We will all go through them, and those who live by faith will also p...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Sermon Video: Be Patient, until the Lord's Coming - James 5:7-9

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In light of the corruption and vice caused by the pursuit of, and attainment of, wealth outlined by James in verses 1-6, he now calls for pa...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Sermon Video: Always pray and don't give up - Luke 18:1-8

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In this passage, Jesus utilizes a parable about a widow seeking justice from a corrupt judge to illustrate the value of persistence and the ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Clash of Clans, sub-prime mortgages, and Dave Ramsey

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Stay with me for a minute as I explain why a game that I play on my iphone is connected in my mind to the financial meltdown that happened i...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

A marriage built on ecumenical goodwill - Our marriage highlighted in local newspaper article.

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I was asked by our local religion reporter for the combined newspaper, The Derrick & The News Herald, Curtis Hanna, if he could write a ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

When God's "No" is a lot smarter than your "yes"

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I'm working on part 2 of the Hannah 3 part sermon series that started last week and I just asked the question, "Could God have answ...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Joseph: The all grown-up version

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The story of Joseph is one of those that kids raised in the Church learned about early on.  We were told about his coat, his dreams, his bro...
Friday, January 20, 2012

"In bitterness of soul Hannah wept much and prayed to the LORD." I Samuel 1:10

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If you're like me, you love verses like this.  That the Bible contains such revealing texts makes it all the more of a blessing.  It is ...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Praise to God, gratitude to many others.

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As he would have even if the answer from Franklin has been "no", God deserves my praise.  Job knew that the Lord giveth, and the L...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

A new ministry, a new beginning

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On December 4th of this year, Nicole and I will be in Franlin PA where I will be preaching at the First Baptist Church of Franklin.  After t...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

Sermon Video: "clothe yourselves with compassion" Colossians 3:12-14

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How does a Christian become Christ-like?  What do we need to do to imitate our Savior and set our minds on 'things above"?  Paul of...