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2 Corinthians 4 – Teaching #3: The Gospel of Christ (pt3 of 3)

5) Furthermore, the gospel illumines minds.

6 For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the KNOWLEDGE…

If the god of this age blinds unbelievers in their minds (v4) so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, then it makes sense that when the light of the gospel shines, it illumines minds.…

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2 Corinthians 3 – Teaching #2: The New Covenant (pt3 of 3)

When someone encounters Jesus and the veil is lifted and the Spirit breathes lives in your heart, you are not the same person. You change. I want to end outlining a few gospel fruits. Or evidence that you have truly met the Christ of the new covenant.…

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Evangelist Billy Graham defends Chick-fil-A

As predicted by those in the Reformed circle, liberalism is a slippery slope. First, you remove inerrancy. Then, you stop speaking about gender differences. Now, the battle lines are being drawn around sexuality and what constitutes a “family.”

By Richard Allen Greene, CNN

(CNN)– Billy Graham, the dean of American evangelists, has once again broken his usual silence on hot-button issues, defending the president of the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain for his opposition to same-sex marriage days after issuing a letter decrying what he sees as the nation’s moral decay.…

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1 Cor 8-14: Love Builds Up (pt2 of 3)

Second, love is self-limiting because we want to be careful not to stumble others. This is an extension of the first point. In order to build someone up, we need to consider how our actions affect others. That involves limiting our freedom.…

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1 Cor 6:12-20 – The Lord for the Body (pt4 of 4)

I close with two biblical motivations for why you should strive to free yourself from all enslavements, whether it is the fourth helping of food or to that first or second glass of wine or the twelfth cup of coffee or lust or laziness or work.…

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The Book of Romans: Under New Management (pt 3 of 3)

Quick recap.

1) If you are saved, you are free.
2) If you are free, you can choose whom to obey.
3) If you choose to obey God, your life will be characterized by constant dying and surrender.

At this point, you may be thinking, I understand the gospel.…

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The Book of Romans: Under New Management (pt 1 of 3)

Rom 8
6 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7 the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

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Romans 8:28 – The Conditional Part of God’s Unconditional Love (Part 1 of 4)

28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

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Henry Blackaby Devotional: The Testimony of Others

“Here I am. Witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed, or from whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes?

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After 16 years in prison, a whole new world (or is it?)

Here is an article from CNN that I read a little more than a month ago.

It’s about about a man who in 1993 was wrongly placed in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He was 31 years old. Now, 16 years later, he is 47 years old and free.…

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