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Press on toward the goal—knowing Christ. |
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Thanksgiving Sermon - Contrast is important in developing an attitude of gratitude in our lives. |
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Easter - After denying Christ three times, Peter had certainly failed, but Jesus restores Peter in a post-resurrection appearance, asking Peter three times if he loves Christ. |
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We can have peace throughout life's storms by committing to Jesus and listening to his Word. |
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God will prepare us for his use by asking us to walk the path of obscurity, the path of obedience, and the path of opposition. |
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We mustn't become so familiar with God that we "tame" Him and begin to treat Him disrespectfully. |
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Funeral Sermon - The life of Laura Scott Taylor points us to the resurrected Christ. |
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When we clear up confusion about confession and forgiveness, we’ll be able to hear clearly the gospel promise of God’s forgiveness. |
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Integrity is a journey of many stages of self-examination and honesty. |
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Christmas - We are to tell the nations what the angels have seen of Jesus. |
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Easter - The reality of Christ's resurrection means everything. |
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Christmas - Christian celebrations of Christmas are only set apart from the rest of the world when they focus on Jesus. |
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When we're full of grace, we will be bursting at the seams, overflowing with grace in a lifestyle of worship toward fellow believers as well as toward unbelievers |
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To live a "whatever happens" existence is to embrace the superintending hand of God that guides us even in the midst of mystery. |
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When we worship and humbly persist, God will speak. |
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We tend to be people of many preferences, making our walk quite different from our talk. |
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We must learn to resolve our anger immediately and completely. |
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The sooner you embrace the fact that you’re a sinner, the sooner you can engage in God's grace. |
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When someone tells us what to do, the issue is not what but who. |
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God is the great evangelist. |
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Like the members of our physical bodies, the members of the body of Christ are wholly significant and wholly dependent on the others. |
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We can begin to influence the world for Christ if we make our bodies available to God and allow our minds to be transformed. |
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Thanks to Christ’s death, we can have a hope-filled relationship with God. |
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There are at least four reasons why we should serve: serving promotes unity, fosters teamwork, imitates Jesus, and changes us. |
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The church has a responsibility to place a high priority on youth. |
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Love is the key to holiness. |
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Strive to be intimate friends who unselfishly serve one another. |
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Jesus Christ sets us free from sin, guilt, and self-centeredness. |
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Jesus' example of befriending sinners is the model for Christian mission. |
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We must repent of Christian pessimism and reaffirm our confidence in God's power. |
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Easter - The Resurrection is at the very heart and core of the Christian Good News. |
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Jesus calls us to lay aside our differences and our distractions, and to take up the cross. |
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Christ exemplified compassion toward sinful people. |
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Cash, comfort, or Christ? |
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If we love Christ, we will care about what he cares about. |
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God searches for people with particular kinds of hearts. |
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The fervent prayers of the righteous release God's provision and power into our lives. |
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It's not easy to "be still and know that I am God" in the middle of crisis, but the rest of this psalm gives us clues on how we can do just that. |
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True followers of Jesus will have troubles, and they will endure. |
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There is only one way to heaven, and that is through Jesus Christ. |
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Three stories show God's desire to adopt, forgive, and redeem. |
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The consequences of legally assisted suicide would be morally and scoially disastrous. |
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Easter - The evidence is overwhelming that Jesus rose from the dead. |
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Everybody asks the "why" questions of God, but what does it take to keep the faith even when we don't get answers? |
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What appear to be coincidences often are God's purposes working in history. |
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Because of God's infinite and intricate knowledge, we can be confident in our trust in him. |
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God works the seemingly impossible through people of prayer. |
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God will take care of his people through his own methods and in his own timing. |
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God fulfills his promises through a zigzag path in order to protect and encourage us along the way. |
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The Word of God is our most effective weapon in the fight for helping people with disabilities. |
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The hope of heaven brings perspective to life on Earth. |
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God has good reasons for what He does, and His answer to our suffering is himself. |
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Jesus promises to continually replenish and restore us when we give our lives for him. |
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The Good Shepherd provides us with all that we need. |
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Christmas - The orderliness of Matthew's genealogy shows that God is in control and can use anybody for his purposes. |
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There is no rational reason God loves us; he loves us just because. |
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Jesus is the imperial giver and taker of life. |
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You can overcome discouragement. |
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Christmas - The meaning of Christmas is at best pondered in silent humility. |
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Christmas - Those who accept the Christ child have Christmas forever in their hearts. |
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The Christian life is meant to be vibrant and exciting. |
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"Jesus wept" speaks volumes about our Savior's humanity, compassion, and tenderness - and teaches us something about the way we should be. |
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Good Friday - The Father’s love is with us in our darkest hours, just as it was with Jesus in his darkest hour. |
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We have to risk being open about our loneliness to our community. |
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How do we live humbly with God and combat our desires? |
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If we take an honest inventory of our attitudes, we can break free from money's power over us. |
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We need to admit our incompetence and grown in competence. |
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Mother's Day/Father's Day - God gives us children that we might be good stewards of them. |
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How confessing your deepest, darkest secrets will really set you free. |
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Mother's Day/Father's Day - Idolizing our children is dangerous for us and devastating to them. |
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Containing the message of Christ's salvation enables us to endure suffering. |
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Suffering for Christ's sake makes us like him. |
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When we are in the valley, God is preparing a blessing for us on the other side. |
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