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Building Up Your Faith
Building Up Your Faith

Introduction

The Book of Hebrews is about Christians persevering in faith. It’s about understanding all that Jesus accomplished and walking by faith ...


How do we build a faith that is rationally satisfying, biblically grounded, joyfully attractive, and practically beneficial to the people in our lives?


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The Only Wise God
The Only Wise God

Introduction

The most revolutionary book ever written wasn't Karl Marx's Das Kapital or Mao's Little Red Book or any of that nonsense. The most revolutionary ...


God displays his incomparable wisdom in unlikely places—like at the Cross and in the church.


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When You Really Want to Quit

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We all struggle with the reality that sometimes bad things happen to good people. Adding to our inner turmoil is the reality that sometimes ...


Trust in God during life's disappointments, and never, never give up.


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The Miracle of Christmas

Introduction

In Luke 11:33–35, Jesus says, "Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body. If you live in wide-eyed wonder and belief, your body ...


God wants us to celebrate the mystery of Jesus' birth.


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Things I'm Glad I Don't Know

Introduction

I once heard R. C. Sproul conduct a question-and-answer session during which he gave a delightful answer to a very complicated question: "The ...


The story of Judas points out several truths that we ought not know.


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God's Noninterventions

Introduction

When I was a boy, my sister left our home in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, and traveled to Central Bible College. She had a lifelong problem with ...


There is a purpose to God's silence.


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Embarrassed by God

Introduction

I want to tell you about my Aunt Julie, because everybody has an Aunt Julie in their family or an Uncle Harry or a cousin Jessica—someone ...


God often works in ways that we don't understand, and are even ashamed of, in order to demonstrate love, mercy, and redemption.


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How Does the Trinity Work?

Introduction

I want to begin our discussion of this difficult question about the Trinity not with intellectual speculation about how God is three and yet ...


Exploring how God's three-fold nature was uncovered by human experience


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Diamonds in the Rough

Introduction

The hardest and most valuable substance in the world is diamonds. Diamonds are thought to be formed by intense heat at the Earth's core and ...


As believers, we are redeemed, we are forgiven, we have understanding, we have the mystery of God, and we are heirs with Christ.


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Ancient Mystery Revealed

Introduction

Everyone loves a good mystery, a thriller, a whodunit! Some of the most popular books, movies, and TV shows of all time are mysteries. We ...


The mystery of God bringing together Jews and Gentiles to form his body is significant to Paul, Jewish and Gentile Christians, angels, and to us today.


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"Trinity": The Christian Name for God

Sermon One

Introduction

Over the next few Sundays we'll explore a concept of God unique to Christian spirituality called the Trinity. It's ...



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The Art of "Hanging Out"

Introduction

One of my favorite movie scenes occurs in City Slickers, when Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner have a heart-to-heart conversation. Reiner tells ...


How and why the Trinity draws us into Christian community


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Happy New Year!

Introduction

Have you ever wondered how many seconds in this year you'll be unhappy? Have you ever thought how much can happen in a second? When you say, ...


Happiness comes from knowing that God works through every moment of life.


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Listening to the Dark

Elijah is on the run, running for his life. He's on the run not because he's been a horrible failure, but because he's been an outstanding success.

You ...


While hiding in a cave, Elijah learns that God doesn't always speak to us in loud ways; sometimes he whispers in the dark.


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The Message of Ecclesiastes

As I look back in my life over the last several years there was a period in which I lived in the dark night of the soul. I spent several months of my ...


In a "meaningless" life, you can trust the sovereign, good, and righteous God.


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