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Failure Doesn’t Have to be Final

May 8, 2013 — Leave a comment

Do your best to come to me soon. For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry. (2 Tim 4:9-11)

Demas and Mark are contrasts in failure. One example continues to provide words of warning; the other example, words of hope. As people who stumble in many ways (James 3:2), we need both.

This sermon explores what we can know about both men and emphasizes a powerful point: whatever your past failures, your trajectory can be changed at the foot of the cross.

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Around the Web (4/26)

April 26, 2013 — Leave a comment

CHEAP eBook Deal of the Day: Waiting For His Heart: Lessons From a Wife Who Chose to Stay (Joy McClain) – $1.99 (85% off).
FREE eBook Deal of the Day: Be Hopeful (1 Peter): How to Make the Best of Times Out of Your Worst of Times (Warren W. Wiersbe) – (regularly $12.99).
“The story of Noah and the Flood was a valuable illustration of several different New Testament truths.” Clay Gentry examines the New Testament applications of the Old Testament flood.
Andy Sochor considers the four C’s of effective preaching. “These points are not based upon personal experience, human wisdom, or any sort of formal religious training. Rather, these points are taken directly from the word of God.”
Gary Henry challenges us to do what’s right for God’s sake. “Great spiritual progress occurs when we learn to do what is right for reasons higher than those that have moved us in the past.”

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Around the Web (4/25)

April 25, 2013 — Leave a comment

CHEAP eBook Deal of the Day: A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers (D. A. Carson) – $1.99 (90% off).
Exploring Bible Lands gives us a modern-day glimpse into what the Bible frequently describes as “the early and latter rains” in Israel.
The Time Management Ninja suggests 10 time management rules you’re probably breaking.
The newly redesigned ESVBible.org can connect with Evernote to store your notes.
Gary Henry writes, “One evidence of how little regard we have for God is the flippant way in which we sometimes use his name.”

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Around the Web (4/16)

April 16, 2013 — Leave a comment

CHEAP eBook Deal of the Day: And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets to Sexual Purity (Dannah K. Gresh) – $1.99 (87% off).
Chris Taylor inquires, “Think you use your phone to look at Facebook a lot? Unless you’re doing it at least 14 times a day, you’re actually below average.”
The 38-volume Logos set of Florida College Annual Lectures books is set to ship on May 10. Ferrell Jenkins recently wrote about this great deal here.
Tony Mauck uses Paul’s words in Titus 1:12 to remind us, “Generalizations make a point. They summarize what is generally true. Then, important cautions can be issued about not joining in with the majority who do a thing.”
Reflecting on the danger of undiscovered sin, Gary Henry writes, “There is no human being who does not need help in seeing his own sins accurately. The extent to which we seek this help is one of the truest indicators of our desire to seek God.”

The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on February 28, 2013 made headlines around the world. Rome is abuzz and billions are watching as 115 cardinals prepare to elect a new Pope. According to Catholic tradition, this will be the 265th successor of the apostle Peter in a long line of vicars of Christ.

But was Peter really the first Pope?

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What were the “Gifts” of the Holy Spirit?

January 8, 2013 — Leave a comment

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed… There are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. (1 Cor 12:1-7)

What were these gifts? What role did the Holy Spirit play in conjunction with them? How did they advance the plan of God for mankind?

This sermon uses the New Testament to explore this topic of miraculous spiritual gifts. It was delivered on October 14, 2012 as Part 6 in a series of sermons on the Holy Spirit.

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A God-Breathed Message to Preachers on a Tuesday

December 18, 2012 — 1 Comment

Preachers did important work on Sunday. As those charged with teaching what accords with sound doctrine (Tit 2:1):

We challenged older men to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness (Tit 2:2).
We taught older women to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is good (Tit 2:3).
We encouraged young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled (Tit 2:4-5).
We urged younger men to be self-controlled (Tit 2:6).

Preachers did important work on Sunday. Lord willing, we’ll have another opportunity in five days to teach more of what accords with sound doctrine.

In the meantime, brothers, let’s make sure that we don’t neglect Titus 2:7-8.

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What Exactly is Fellowship?

October 9, 2012 — Leave a comment

What Exactly is Fellowship?

FELLOWSHIP. A wonderful Bible word that speaks to rich blessings for disciples of Christ. But also a word that is frequently misunderstood and misapplied.

This sermon—the fourth in a series on faith, freedom, and flexibility—uses the Bible to answer the question, “What exactly is fellowship?” It leans on 2 Corinthians 6:11-18 as a kind of “God-breathed thesaurus” on fellowship and explores the God-breathed principles, blessings, and boundaries of fellowship described in 1 John 1:1-10. It was delivered on May 13, 2012.

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Reasons for Ruptures in Christian Unity

October 2, 2012 — Leave a comment

The potential for ruptures in Christian unity is not an exclusively modern problem.

Reasons for Ruptures in Christian Unity

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. (1 Cor 1:10-11)

Paul leads Christians in Corinth to understand that their attitude as followers of Christ is just as important as (if not more so than) their actions. Thousands of years later, unity among disciples continues to be ruptured by…

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God’s Plan for Christian Unity

September 24, 2012 — Leave a comment

Unity In Ephesians 4:1-6 Paul writes,

I therefore, a prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

From this God-breathed passage we learn that:

The unity of the Spirit is observable (Eph 4:1)
The unity of the Spirit involves self-denial (Eph 4:2)
The unity of the Spirit is maintainable (Eph 4:3)
The unity of the Spirit is God’s idea (Eph 4:4-6).
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