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Showing posts with label Sacrifice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sacrifice. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Sermon Video: A Life Worthy of the Calling - Ephesians 4:1-2

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Given what God was willing to do to save you, how should you respond? The Apostle Paul tells us that we must live our entire lives in a way ...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Beginning of Wisdom (Torah Club) lesson #25 - As a disciple of Jesus, do you need to "compensate" for not being able to offer animal sacrifices through a Levitical priest at the Temple? First Fruits of Zion teaches that you do.

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  The Straw Man in action again, these texts are not what prove that Jesus' death and resurrection canceled the sacrifices, but plenty o...
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Thursday, May 23, 2024

Beginning of Wisdom (Torah Club) lesson #24: I preached Romans 12:1-2 last July, contrary to what Daniel Lancaster (Torah Club) thinks, it doesn't have anything to do with Jesus' followers making up for being unable to offer animal sacrifices at the Temple in Jerusalem

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  "sacrifices can't be offered today," remember that line When you see beginner level mistakes in the interpretation of script...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Did the Apostles fully keep the Torah after Jesus’ death and resurrection? A response to the claim of FFOZ

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In the past year and a half, I’ve read a lot of things written by the leadership of First Fruits of Zion.   While individual misinterpretati...
Monday, July 31, 2023

Sermon Video: A Living Sacrifice to God - Romans 12:1-2

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What is the proper Christian response to God's mercy?  After we have received so much of it, and continue to depend upon it, how should ...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Sermon Video: Greatness in God's kingdom: service & sacrifice - Mark 10:35-45

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  After his third and final prediction of his upcoming death, while journeying to Jerusalem for that purpose, Jesus is asked by the brothers...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

Sermon Video: Take up your Cross and follow Jesus - Mark 8:34-35

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  What does it take to be a follower of Jesus? The blessings are well known, but what about the cost? Salvation is free, 100%, but discipl...
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Sunday, November 3, 2019

Sermon Video: The Day of Woe - Joel 1:1-2:11

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The prophet Joel wrote to his people, the descendants of Abraham who were heirs to the Covenant, during a time of extreme woe.  In Joel'...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Sermon Video: How Much do we care about the Gospel? 1 Corinthians 9:1-18

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Beginning with the remarkable story of Adoniram and Ann Judson who served in the 19th century as missionaries to Burma, this message utilize...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Sermon Video: Jochebed: A Mother's Courage and Sacrifice - Exodus 2:1-10

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In honor of Mother's Day, consider one of the Bible's courageous mothers: Jochebed.  Her name may not be overly familiar to most, bu...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

What is a Christian willing to accomplish by "doing whatever is necessary"?

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What are we willing to attempt to accomplish by "doing whatever is necessary"?  The answer, literally, should be nothing, for ther...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

The Wingfeather Saga and Christ typology: An enthusiastic book recommendation

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Having just finished reading the fourth and final book in Andrew Peterson's Wingfeather Saga, The Warden and the Wolf King , I can now g...
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...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Sermon Video: "unless a kernel of wheat falls" - John 12:24-32

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With the Triumphal Entry mere moments behind him, Jesus begins to impress upon his disciples that "the hour" is at hand.  The purp...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Sermon Video: "To obey is better than sacrifice" 1 Samuel 15:22

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In this final message on the life of Samuel, the repeated failures of Saul push God to abandon his kingly line and seek another to take his ...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Sermon Video - Hannah's Sacrifice, I Samuel 1:21-28 and 2:18-21

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In part 3 of the series on Hannah, the time of fulfilling her vow to the LORD is at hand.  With young Samuel at her side, Hannah makes the s...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Is this place sacred? John 2:12-17

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During our Wednesday night Bible study this week we were continuing through the Gospel of John and came to the passage where Jesus chases th...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Is being a Christian hard?

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At our Bible study today we were talking about I Peter 4:17-19 which lent itself to the question: Is it hard to be a Christian?  The answer ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Memorial Day in PA

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For the past five years I had led the service for Memorial Day at the little cemetery across the street from my church in Palo.  It was a pr...
Friday, March 23, 2012

What it takes to defeat evil.

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I've been reading in the Bonhoeffer biography about some of the various attempts to kill Hitler throughout the war (there were far more ...