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Glorious Impossibility: Part 1
1) What is this really about? We treat the sermon on the mount like its a glorious self-help book. We read the Bible as if its about us. The Bible is about Jesus and what He has done. Jesus is describing…
Created about 1 month ago
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A Shadow of Similar Realities
God is about God, and is predicated about His value not ours. No one is a greater threat to your happiness than you are. God owns salvation and it is His, we cannot do anything in regards to our faith.…
Created about 1 month ago
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Unique Yet Part of the Whole
When you start talking about what theChurch might be, you have to realize its going to be a bumpy ride. 1 Corinthians 12 You should not be ashamed of your testimony, you should rejoice in it. The idea…
Created about 1 month ago
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Putting it All Together
1 Peter 2 A fear is the justification is in our good right that we would forget to pursue holiness and rationalize sin. God loves the sinner but hates the sin. God loves the sinner hates the sin, this…
Created 2 months ago
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Free at Last: Part 10
What does it look like to be free? The law makes you selfish, focuses everything on you. Turn us inward and not outward. The law focuses us on "getting better." The more I focus on getting better, the…
Created 2 months ago
Galatians 5:15 (ESV), Galatians 5:16 (ESV), Galatians 5:17 (ESV), Galatians 5:18 (ESV), Galatians 5:19 (ESV), Galatians 5:20 (ESV), Galatians 5:21 (ESV), Galatians 5:22 (ESV), Galatians 5:23 (ESV), Galatians 5:24 (ESV), Galatians 5:25 (ESV), Galatians 5:26 (ESV)
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Further into Joy
Galatians 3:10-14 The Lord calls us to come to Him like a child. You are accepted by God through Christ. Galatians' hearts had doubt and fear and tried to add things to the gospel so that they may be…
Created 2 months ago
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Why not the Law?
You are not saved through the work of your hands, but through the work of Jesus Christ. People who attacked Paul's gospel, we are cursed and originated from man, they preached the "additional works" gospel.…
Created 2 months ago
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God Saves
Our greatest hope is God being about God: God is after my joy, set free from the universe being about you, and making disciples of ALL nations. The goal is not about converts. There is a way to eat, watch…
Created 2 months ago
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Free at Last: Part 9
When we rest in done we are free. The constant voice of the law saying do, do, do is being overshadowed by the voice of the gospel saying done, done, done. You are not what you do, you are what Jesus…
Created 2 months ago
Galatians 5:1 (ESV), Galatians 5:2 (ESV), Galatians 5:3 (ESV), Galatians 5:4 (ESV), Galatians 5:5 (ESV), Galatians 5:6 (ESV), Galatians 5:7 (ESV), Galatians 5:8 (ESV), Galatians 5:9 (ESV), Galatians 5:10 (ESV), Galatians 5:11 (ESV), Galatians 5:12 (ESV), Galatians 5:13 (ESV), Galatians 5:14 (ESV), Galatians 5:15 (ESV)
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Learning Contentment
Philippians Chapter 4:8-20 We struggle with discontentment because we struggle to trust God. We should all be content with what have, because God will always take care of you. In Genesis 2 you see man…
Created 2 months ago
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Garbage and Glory
Philippians 3 In this chapter Paul lists his resume. He is saying that if anyone who has the right to put favor in himself it is Paul. But he states that with everything that Paul has done, it is counted…
Created 2 months ago
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A Forgetfulness that Leads to Foolishness
You can love just about anything, we love really weird things. The word "love" no longer has any substance in its meaning. Actual love moves to engaging and rebuking when the ones we love are leading…
Created 2 months ago
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Living to God
We get God's righteousness and He takes upon our sin. The law shows us where we are sick and where we need help, the law does heal us. If you believe that you sin without any consequences you truly are…
Created 3 months ago
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Free at Last: Part 8
When you mix our doing with God's done, you are hearing the wrong thing. The message of grace is not new or novel. The false teachers used scare tactics to scare us into morality. The implication was…
Created 3 months ago
Galatians 4:8 (ESV), Galatians 4:9 (ESV), Galatians 4:10 (ESV), Galatians 4:11 (ESV), Galatians 4:12 (ESV), Galatians 4:13 (ESV), Galatians 4:14 (ESV), Galatians 4:15 (ESV), Galatians 4:16 (ESV), Galatians 4:17 (ESV), Galatians 4:18 (ESV), Galatians 4:19 (ESV), Galatians 4:20 (ESV), Galatians 4:21 (ESV), Galatians 4:22 (ESV), Galatians 4:23 (ESV), Galatians 4:24 (ESV), Galatians 4:25 (ESV), Galatians 4:26 (ESV), Galatians 4:27 (ESV), Galatians 4:28 (ESV), Galatians 4:29 (ESV), Galatians 4:30 (ESV), Galatians 4:31 (ESV)
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Substance over Shadows
Christmas Blues and Christmas Hangover are two terms that happen at Christmas. It is what happens when expectation comes to reality. All things at Christmas are not exactly how you think it should feel…
Created 3 months ago
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Promises and Patience
We have all the information that there is as quickly as we want. Most of us get extremely annoyed when things take too long. We as a people are extremely impatient. Food and eating starting the worshipping…
Created 3 months ago
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Free at Last: Part 7
The false teachers: depends on us and what we need to do Paul: depends on God and what He has already done The Gospel is not your life and mine. The Gospel is about ChrIst's life, death, and resurrection.…
Created 3 months ago
Galatians 4:1 (ESV), Galatians 4:2 (ESV), Galatians 4:3 (ESV), Galatians 4:4 (ESV), Galatians 4:5 (ESV), Galatians 4:6 (ESV), Galatians 4:7 (ESV)
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The Gospel and Licentiousness
You can be justified by God through no act of your own, but by the divine act of Jesus. The law has no right to save you, but has the right to show you why you need grace and the gospel. Whence diagnostic…
Created 3 months ago
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The Diagnostic and the Cure
Galatians 1 Overview In Christ, He imputes to us His righteousness. All the glory, honor, and praise belongs to Christ and Christ alone. People believe you need Christ AND something else. If the gospel…
Created 3 months ago
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Awaiting an Advent
Isaiah 59 We are waiting for hope in all the wrong places. We look for hope in places where hope does not exist. When life is hard for you, where do you run for hope? In you dark moments your true hope…
Created 3 months ago
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Free at Last: Part 6
If you count on you, you will not make it. God is holy and His demands are holy and He demands perfection and we are imperfect; therefore we cannot enter heaven. The God who makes the demands of perfection…
Created 3 months ago
Galatians 3:15 (ESV), Galatians 3:16 (ESV), Galatians 3:17 (ESV), Galatians 3:18 (ESV), Galatians 3:19 (ESV), Galatians 3:20 (ESV), Galatians 3:21 (ESV), Galatians 3:22 (ESV), Galatians 3:23 (ESV), Galatians 3:24 (ESV), Galatians 3:25 (ESV), Galatians 3:26 (ESV), Galatians 3:27 (ESV), Galatians 3:28 (ESV), Galatians 3:29 (ESV)
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Resurrection and Return
Christmas is a good thing but is a shadow and not the substance. A shadow will not comfort us. It's okay to party but do not put your heart in theses parties. The world is broken and it is not what it…
Created 3 months ago
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Free at Last: Part 5
"A low view of the law produces legalism, a high view of the law produces grace." The Bible shows us how Christ meets the demands the Bible puts on us. The false teachers were telling the Galatians that…
Created 3 months ago
Galatians 3:10 (ESV), Galatians 3:11 (ESV), Galatians 3:12 (ESV), Galatians 3:13 (ESV), Galatians 3:14 (ESV)
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Incarnation and Implications
No matter what happens in our world, greed, murder, and hate still exist. trying to fix an illness that we do not know exists does not end well. How do you compare yourself to? Man or the holiness of…
Created 3 months ago
John 1:1 (ESV), John 1:5 (ESV), John 1:9 (ESV), John 1:18 (ESV)
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A Call to Pray
You are not going to accidentally grow in godliness. The main issue in our prayerlessness is that we know that God loves us. We think that in 10 years from now we are better than we are today, so that…
Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-01-29
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Acts 5:38-39
Acts 5:38-39 (NIV)
Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.Created 8 months ago
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Acts 4:31
Acts 4:31 (NIV)
After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.Created 8 months ago
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Acts 2:20
Acts 2:20 (NIV)
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.Created 8 months ago
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Acts 1:7-8
Acts 1:7-8 (NIV)
He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.Created 8 months ago
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Psalm 10:14
Psalm 10:14 (NIV)
But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.Created 9 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-09-11
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-09-11
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Philippians 4:4
Philippians 4:4 (NIV)
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!Created 9 months ago
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John 15:11
John 15:11 (NIV)
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.Created 9 months ago
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Luke 21:36
Luke 21:36 (NIV)
Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man."Created 9 months ago
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Luke 19:26
Luke 19:26 (NIV)
"He replied, 'I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away.Created 9 months ago
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Luke 18:17
Luke 18:17 (NIV)
Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."Created 9 months ago
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Luke 17:24
Luke 17:24 (NIV)
For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.Created 9 months ago
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Luke 15:32
Luke 15:32 (NIV)
But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'"Created 9 months ago
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Luke 15:10
Luke 15:10 (NIV)
In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."Created 9 months ago
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Luke 13:30
Luke 13:30 (NIV)
Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last."Created 9 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-09-06
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Luke 13:19
Luke 13:19 (NIV)
It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds perched in its branches."Created 9 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-08-14
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-05-29