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Showing posts with label Wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wisdom. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Beginning of Wisdom (Torah Club) lesson #47: Only one ancient source gets bashed, the Christian one

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  One of the challenges that I face when responding to the false teachings of the First Fruits of Zion is that they utilize sources that mos...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

What the furor over the Witch Walk in Franklin can teach us about Christian cultural engagement

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Downtown Franklin during last year's Witch Walk As many of you in the Franklin area will have noticed, a post on the St. Patrick Parish ...
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Monday, July 18, 2022

Sermon Video: The insanity of: "Let us do evil that good may result" Romans 3:5-8

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By way of answering a question about why our sinfulness doesn't make God's holiness more glorious, the Apostle Paul refutes a hereti...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

Sermon Video: What is your soul worth? - Mark 8:36-37

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  The human soul is unique, there's only one of mine, and one of yours. The rarity of each is not its only reason for value, that is va...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Sermon Video: Why did Jesus do that? - Mark 7:24-37

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  Some things in life are confusing, including the Word of God. There are passages and episodes in God's Word that, rightly, are head s...
Friday, September 6, 2019

A rejection of a One-Party Church, and pastors as political operatives

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In a response to essays by Pastor Timothy Keller ( How Do Christians Fit Into the Two Party System? They Don't) , and Pastor Kevin DeYo...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Sermon Video: We Need Love - 1 Corinthians 12:31b-13:3

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What is the center of Christianity?  Having explained to the church at Corinth their need for unity and gifts of ministry from the Holy Spir...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Sermon Video: "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting" - Acts 26:1-16

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Imagine spending your life, all of your passion and effort, on behalf of God, only to learn at the end that your entire attempt was not simp...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Sermon Video: Know Christ, Know Wisdom - Colossians 2:1-8

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When explaining to the church at Colossae his goal for them for which he was willing to contend and even suffer, the Apostle Paul speaks of ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

To not "look Catholic" is a terrible rationale for a Baptist Church to base decisions upon.

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The Red Bank Baptist Church of Lexington, South Carolina, recently voted (in Baptist Churches all members have a vote, and can vote at regul...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Sermon Video: The Wisdom that comes from Heaven, Part 1 - James 3:13-18

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What is wisdom, how do we recognize it, and where does it come from?  Important questions, no doubt, to which James offers the answer by exp...
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, September 25, 2012

The sermon I didn't preach

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One of the things that fascinates me about my job of preparing a sermon each week for my congregation is the initial thought process I go th...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Sermon Video: "Nothing new under the sun" - Ecclesiastes 1:4-11

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We live in a world of fast paced change.  It seems that something new appears almost every day.  Yet is any of it really new?  Solomon reali...
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, March 14, 2011

When the Oceans Rise...

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We sang an iworship song in church this week entitled, "Still", that has a line in its chorus "When the Oceans rise, and thun...