The State of the Church: The Indestructible Church
Matthew 16:13-19
All the forces of hell will not keep God’s church from total victory.
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Three Lessons from Job
Job 2:1-10
We can learn three simple, but profound, lessons from the second chapter of Job; something about God; something about our situations; and something about our actions.
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The World Comes To Adore Him
Matthew 2:1-12
Christmas is coming soon. The celebration is going to be over soon, but Jesus remains forever.
Jesus is sometimes met with secret or open hostility. Others meet Him with apathy and indifference.
But then there ware those who really meet Him, and respond to him with worship, and adoration and praise
and spend the rest of their lives seeking to follow Him.
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Hope in the Midst of Darkness
Isaiah 9:1-7.
God raises up His just and forever King, Jesus, who rules the world in righteousness and gives hope to all who look to Him.
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The Greatness of Jesus
Luke 1:26-38.
The story of Christmas forever remains the story of the greatness of the only One providing salvation to the world, Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, God with us.
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Cultivating An Attitude of Thankfulness
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18; Ephesians 5:18-21.
Believers filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit remain thankful knowing God is working out everything for His glory and our ultimate good.
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Sovereign, Subject, and Service
Isaiah 6
In these trying times, we are faced with suffering of many sorts. Yet, even today, the prophet Isaiah’s encounter with God is instrumental for the Lord’s redeemed who likewise suffer along with the lost around them in any age.
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Living as Exiles
Jeremiah 29:1-14
Over 2,500 years ago, God’s people were uprooted and sent into exile, to live among a hostile pagan culture. God did not leave them without instruction, however, sending word through the prophet Jeremiah on how they were to live as his people in exile. Today, every assembly of believers is an outpost embedded in a pagan culture, and so Jeremiah’s message stands to guide us in how to live during the years of our sojourning.
God’s Greatness Made Known, Even in Apostasy
John 13:21-31
Sensational “deconversion stories” make the news, and seemingly threaten to undermine the faith. The Bible teaches us better than that. Certainly, it warns us to expect it and to guard against it. But it also shows us how great our God is, and how he glorifies himself even in the most egregious example of apostasy in history.
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Deuteronomy 6:4-9. Deuteronomy 10:17-18, Psalm 146:9, and Ephesians 5:25
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