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Showing posts with label Temptation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Temptation. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Sermon Video: Do Not Give the Devil a Foothold - Ephesians 4:25-28

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As a follow-up to his command that Jesus' followers adopt a new attitude divorced from our former futile thinking when we were apart fro...
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Monday, June 10, 2024

Sermon Video: Cain: "sin is crouching at your door" - Genesis 4:1-7

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The story of God's involvement with humanity continues in Genesis with the children of Adam and Eve: Cain and Abel. Cain's experien...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Sermon Video: The Fall: Temptation and Rebellion, Genesis 3:1-6

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When consider the Fall, the more important thing the text of Genesis is not how it happened, but why.  The why is straight-forward: autonomy...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Sermon Video: The cause of Peter's bitter tears, Luke 22:54-62

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Peter's denial of Jesus is famous, in part because all 4 Gospel accounts cover this low-point of the Apostle's life. But what cause...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Sermon Video: "I do not understand what I do", Romans 7:14-25

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In this passage, the Apostle Paul discusses the war that rages within the human heart against sin. The two primary ways to interpret this s...
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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #25: Luke 16:13

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  Luke 16:13  New International Version “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devot...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Sermon Video: "we are those who have died to sin" - Romans 5:20-6:7

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Having explained that we have died with Christ, and been raised together with him to new life, the Apostle Paul explores how we then should ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #22: Luke 4:5-8

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Luke 4:5-8     New International Version 5 The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. ...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Sermon Video: The Fall of Peter: Love and Fear - Mark 14:66-72

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Alone in the courtyard while the trial of Jesus progresses, Peter is faced with three increasingly dramatic opportunities to affirm himself ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Why Legalism doesn't work: Footloose and the self destruction of Jerry Falwell Jr.

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 I recently watched the movie  Footloose  for the first time, and can concur with Peter Parker's response to Star-Lord's assertion i...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Sermon Video: Jesus: Baptism, Temptation, and Proclamation - Mark 1:9-15

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What does it take to get something big started? How much planning, what preparation? As the Gospel of Mark unfolds, Jesus travels to the J...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Sermon Video: Standing Firm Against Temptation - 1 Corinthians 10:12-13

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"God will never give us more than we can handle"  Really?  Whether or not this popular phrase is valid depends upon how one define...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Why "winning" as the goal ought to be anathema to Christians

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To 'win', at all cost, and by all means, whether in business, politics, or personal relationships, is an idea embedded in the human ...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Serving Two Masters: the Southern Baptist Convention and V.P. Mike Pence

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In case we needed another reminder of the danger of trying to serve two masters (in this case, God and power/politics), the Southern Baptist...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Sermon Video: Marriage and Temptation - 1 Corinthians 7:3-7

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In 1 Corinthians 7:3-7, the Apostle Paul delves into a topic that most people would rather not talk about, or at least would be embarrassed ...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

When a church fails to protect the innocent...

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Tennessee pastor apologizes for 'sexual incident' with teen - Article on CNN Having read this story, plus much of the linked mater...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Sermon Video: The Growth of Sin - 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

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As part of his ongoing warning to the church at Corinth to expel one of their own who has been living in sexual immorality, Paul further sta...
Friday, December 9, 2016

The Temptation to be a Culture Warrior as a Pastor, and why I'm not interested.

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I've been a pastor for ten years, five at my first church in Palo, MI and five here at Franklin, PA.  During that time I've received...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Sermon Video: The Nature of Temptation - James 1:13-18

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From the very beginning, man has sought to assign blame to somebody else.  This isn't a tactic that we need to be taught, children figur...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Sermon Video: Ruth approaches Boaz - Ruth 3:1-18

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As the story of Ruth continues in this fourth part of five, Ruth embarks upon a seemingly bold plan given to her by her mother-in-law Naomi ...