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My Least Favorite Verses – Part Six – When You Pray
06/13/2021 – My Least Favorite Verses – Part Six - When You Pray Matthew 6:1-6. Many of us have a troubled-relationship with spiritual disciplines and practices we learned early in our faith journey, and those practices often become casualties of our "maturing faith."...
My Least Favorite Verses – Part Five – Leave Your Gift at the Altar
06/06/2021 – My Least Favorite Verses – Part Five - Leave Your Gift at the Altar Matthew 5:21-24; 18:15-17. My Least Favorite Verses - Part Five - Leave Your Gift at the Altar. To watch this message on our YouTube channel, go to...
My Least Favorite Verses – Part Four – Beyond What You Can Bear
05/23/2021 – My Least Favorite Verses – Part Four - Beyond What You Can Bear 1 Corinthians 10:12-13. Colloquially, in Christian circles, there is a verse from Paul's first letter to the church at Corinth that often gets (mis)quoted something like this, “The Lord will...
My Least Favorite Verses – Part Three – Sun and Rain
05/16/2021 – My Least Favorite Verses – Part Three – Sun & Rain Least Favorite Verses - Part 3 - Sun and Rain Matthew 5:43-48. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. To watch this message on our...
My Least Favorite Verses – Part Two – Darker Still
05/09/2021 – My Least Favorite Verses – Part Two – Darker Still Proverbs 24:17; Obadiah 1:11-14; 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. There is a terrible, awful, sickly, cancerous, but wickedly satisfying sin that often takes root in the deconstruction (critical thinking) phase of...
My Least Favorite Verses – Part One – A Quiet Life
05/02/2021 – My Least Favorite Verses – Part One – A Quiet Life 1 Th 4:11. "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life." To watch this message on our YouTube channel, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUDkBfrtzso&t=278s
Changes – Part Three – Heaven’s Gates and Hell’s Flames
04/25/2021 – Changes - Part Three - Heaven's Gates and Hell's Flames Revelation 22:12-17. We Evangelicals often conflate our thoughts and doctrines and dogmas to be the gold standard, and reflective of all Christianity. But they are not. When it comes to thoughts and...
Changes – Part Two – Turning 40. Seeing the Cash Registers
04/18/2021 – Changes - Part Two - Turning 40. Seeing the Cash Registers Philippians 3:1-14. To watch this message on our YouTube channel, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYQFh7TVV2U&t=300s
Changes – Part One – The Wrath
04/11/2021 – Changes - Part One - The Wrath Romans 5:6-11; Luke 15:11-24. When our theology says "God doesn’t change", it makes reimagining God really hard, because it feels as though we are changing God and being unfaithful. But perhaps spiritual change — even...
Upon This Rock – Part Eight – Shepherds and Sheep
03/29/2021 – Upon This Rock – Part Eight - Shepherds and Sheep Today we take a closer look at first Peter chapter five and the encouragements to "Shepherd God's flock". How do we walk in humbleness as both the shepherd and the sheep in need of a shepherd? To watch...
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