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Showing posts with label Works. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Works. Show all posts
Friday, May 30, 2025

HaYesod's 2023 edition (First Fruits of Zion, Torah Club) heretically redefines grace: "grace is earned" and claims humans can atone for sins by suffering

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  HaYesod is the primary disciple-training material for the Hebrew Roots Movement aligned organization: The First Fruits of Zion This analys...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Sermon Video: God has a plan for each one of us - Ephesians 2:10

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Ephesians 2:8-9 is an amazing ode to God's plan to save those who trust in Christ by grace.  However, God's plan for his people does...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Sermon Video: Saved by Grace - Ephesians 2:8-9

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The essence of the Gospel is our salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.  This is a simple message, but also the most powerful one...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Sermon Video: The Tower and Israel's 70 neighboring nations -Genesis 10:1-11:9

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Sometimes it is difficult for us to connect with the purpose behind why a particular portion of scripture was included in the sacred text.  ...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Clearing up misconceptions between Catholics and Protestants

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One of the things which makes ecumenical conversations and cooperative efforts more difficult is the abundance of misinformation that Catho...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Mt Everest vs. Space: Why we can never reach God on our own.

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When trying to explain why our own righteousness, that is the morally upright things that we do, can never be sufficient to please the holy ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Sermon Video: Making Faith Complete - James 2:20-26

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After his conclusion that faith that is not accompanied by works is dead, James offers two Old Testament examples to further prove the point...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Sermon Video: Living Faith in Action - James 2:14-19

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In an effort to explain why his previous instruction about favoritism and discrimination is of the utmost importance, even beyond the prior ...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

The agreement of Paul and James

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The book of James has at times been viewed, most famously by Martin Luther, as being in opposition to the message of salvation by grace alon...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Sermon Video, "that I may gain Christ" - Philippians 3:1-9

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In this passage Paul offers advice to the Church at Philippi in the event that it proves necessary in the future.  He warns them about ...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Sermon Video: "work out your salvation" Philippians 2:12-13

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Paul's asks the people of the church of Philippi to "continue to work out your salvation with fear and treambling".  This isn...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

"Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved." - Acts 16:31

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There are time when the Bible is, admittedly, hard to understand.  There are passages of Scripture that baffle Bible scholars and provoke en...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Faith & Works

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I've been preaching my way through the letter of St. James at Palo and it has reminded me that the Church has come a long way in the las...