God Centered Life - Beyond Redemption, Part 2
December 5, 2022
There's a bit of Sodom and Gomorrah in all our hearts. The point of this story in the Bible is to show the depth of depravity of the human condition. Unless we have a deep understanding of our sin, we will not have a deep experience of grace.
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Some of us like long hikes, and others of us drive around parking lots trying to find the closest spot. Here Paul looks at the metaphor of walking in Galatians.
December 3, 2022
Many of our problems come about through not bravely saying what we think to God. Our fallen natures make us hesitate to be honest with God because we're afraid of judgment. Only grace and the love of Jesus can persuade us that we can have a relationship with God.
December 2, 2022
Family is important, but we can't look to others to meet all our needs. This is true both for the tight-knit family as well as those that struggle with co-dependence. If you look for your fulfillment in another person, it will tend to drive you apart.
December 1, 2022
Our culture insists that you make your own luck and pull yourself up by your own bootstraps in order to get ahead. But what if luck (or blessing) is not earned, but granted? God determined to bless the whole world through Abraham, which is fulfilled in Christ through faith.
November 30, 2022
We often think that God confusing the languages at the tower of Babel was only a judgment, but He also had a plan to spread the people throughout the earth. God stops their doomed approach to reach heaven and achieve salvation so that they might find the right approach.
November 29, 2022
Could any text in the Bible be any more relevant to our contemporary Western society and the church? Just as in the time of the tower of Babel, we long for unity and peace and community, but we're still rebels so we try to achieve it without God, and the result is disaster.
November 28, 2022
The law says "you must," and we find that we cannot. Christ says "in me you will," and by his Spirit we find that we want to, and we do. We find that we fulfill the law!
November 26, 2022
Grace triumphing over wrath is a Biblical theme that begins in Genesis and sets the trajectory for the message of the whole Bible. The theme of grace and the gospel goes right across Scripture, and it's a wonderful thrill to begin to see that in Genesis.
November 25, 2022
God saw the hearts of the people, that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil all the time. No clearer description of the doctrine of total depravity could be written.
November 24, 2022
Our society today shows a constant battle between one side and another. It has its roots beyond culture—deep within the human condition. Once we understand that, then we are open to the solution the Bible presents.
November 23, 2022
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