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Showing posts with label The Lost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Lost. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

A reflection on the life of Pope Francis

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  {Disclaimer: While I am a lifelong Baptist, and an ordained minister of that denomination, my wife of nearly 24 years, Nicole, is a practi...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Sermon Video: Bring them the Good News - Romans 10:14-15

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Believing in Jesus is simple.  Salvation can be attained by anyone.  But only if they know about it, only if they get the chance to accept J...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #20: Mark 2:15-16

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Mark 2:15-16     New International Version 15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating wit...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Friendly Fire? Why examination and censure by Christians belongs primarily on us, not them

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I have been asked variations of this question, "Why all the focus on Christians?"  (Or conservatives, evangelicals, Republicans). ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Sermon Video: Spiritual Discernment - 1 Corinthians 2:10b-16

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Why is it that two people can look at the same evidence and arrive at contradictory conclusions?  In the case of the spiritual things of fai...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Sermon Video: The Foolishness of the Cross - 1 Corinthians 1:18-20

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The Message of the Cross, that is the Gospel message about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, has always been foolishness to...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Sermon Video: The Prodigal Son's brother - Luke 15:11-32

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The Parable of the Prodigal Son is the third parable in a row told by Jesus in response to the muttering of the Pharisees and teachers of th...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

The danger of the preacher as a party man

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"He who preaches salvation to all  should never make himself a party man ; otherwise he loses the confidence, and consequently the oppo...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

"No Earthly Good", in defense of Ecumenism

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I recently experienced my first significant resistance to our efforts through Mustard Seed Missions to work ecumenically to help the needy....
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Sermon Video: The Good News about Jesus, Acts 8:26-40

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Which is harder for God, to find someone willing to listen to his message of forgiveness through faith in his Son Jesus, or to find someone ...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Sermon Video: "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick" - Luke 5:27-32

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Jesus once again does the unexpected when he calls the tax collector Levi (Matthew) to be his disciple. In 1st Century Judea tax collectors ...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Undesirables

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I've been preaching through the Gospel of Luke as Jesus meets one person after another who was marginalized by their own culture (fisher...