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Showing posts with label Perseverance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perseverance. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Sermon Video: "hope does not put us to shame" - Romans 5:3-5

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Suffering is an oft misunderstood topic.  Many religions and philosophies, including people within Christianity, get it wrong.  Suffering is...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Sermon Video: God will preserve his people, increasing his glory - Jude 24-25

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Having just instructed the Church to show mercy to those who doubt, Jude now encourages all believers by assuring us that God is capable of ...
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, February 12, 2019

Sermon Video: The Anchor holds, in spite of the storm - Acts 27

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During the journey to Rome, where he will face a legal trial despite his innocence, the Apostle Paul faces a more immediate threat: a terrif...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Sermon Video: Jesus Fortifies himself with prayer - Matthew 28:36-46

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With his own final trial less than twenty-four hours away, Jesus purposefully leads his disciples from the room where they had just finished...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Sermon Video: Finish the Race - Acts 20:13-24

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Of all of Paul's metaphors to describe what it is like to be a Christian, running a race is of course my favorite.  In his farewell addr...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Sermon Video: Hezekiah's Revival, Part 4 (of 4) - 2 Chronicles 32

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The final chapter in the Chronicles' recounting of the reign of Hezekiah takes place after  the reform and revival movement he helped br...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

A lesson learned from the victories and defeats of running

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I'm sure I lost some potential readers already when they saw the title and realized this is about running, perhaps I gained a few to eve...
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, April 12, 2016

Sermon Video: Pride in Humble Circumstances - James 1:9-12

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Continuing his discussion on perseverance, James brings the factors of wealth and poverty into the discussion by saying that the poor believ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Sermon Video: The Wisdom of Perseverance - James 1:1-8

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The letter of James, written by the half-brother of Jesus by that name, contains a variety of advice/commands regarding practical morality f...
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, September 30, 2014

What of those who stumble and fall?

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I have known too many Christians in who, as Paul called it, “shipwrecked” their faith.  Mostly men, but a few women, who destroyed their wi...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Sermon Video: How do we react to trouble? - Acts 16:16-40

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How Christians react to trouble matters a great deal.   It matters because we all will endure hardship at some point, whether through o...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Paradise is Lost and it isn't coming back on its own

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My wife and I spent the afternoon hiking in Oil Creek State Park, enjoying God's wondrous creation and spending some quality time alone....
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The progression of our faith - II Peter 1:5-7

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In our Bible study today we talked about the list that Peter wrote when he was talking about our efforts to "participate in the divine ...