Tag: Faith
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Experiencing Truth: When Knowledge of God Reaches the Heart
It’s one thing to know God’s word by heart — it’s an entirely different thing to experience the God we read about. From Ephesians 3:14–21, Pastor Justin unpacks Paul’s prayer for a church that knows the truth but hasn’t been transformed by it.
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A Glorious Mystery
God is the great storyteller, and the gospel is the story he wrote before “Let there be light,” full of plot twists no generation saw coming. In part one of this message from Ephesians 3, Paul unveils the mystery itself (Jew and Gentile made one body in Christ) and the unlikely messenger God chose to…
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Saved By Grace
What you believe about salvation determines what you believe about your identity in Christ. A look at Ephesians 2:1-10 and three truths about God’s work of salvation: how desperate our situation was before Christ, the distinct change grace brings, and why it was all a gift.
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The Story Isn’t Over: The Conclusion of John’s Gospel
We are bringing the Gospel of John to a close this morning. We have been in this series for a long time, and we have covered a lot of ground together. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in this book, and I will miss it a little, but I am excited about what God has…
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Reminders for the Citizens of Two Countries
This morning we’re dwelling on the blessings of God, and I think we have to acknowledge that as Americans and American Christians, many of the blessings we have known have come to us because of the nation that God has allowed us to live in. It is the vehicle through which many of our blessings…
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You Are Chosen
From the series on the book of Ephesians entitled “Understanding Your Identity in Christ”. Main Text: Ephesians 1:1-14 As you know, we’ve just finished a very deep study in the Gospel of John, where the gospel writer presented us with massive amounts of evidence that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. For that entire…
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The ABCDs of Fulfilling God’s Covenant
In 2015, a single search for parenting books would have yielded over thirty-five thousand results on Amazon. And that was over ten years ago. Since then, countless more books have been written about parenting, child development, discipline, emotional intelligence, routines, systems, and strategies for raising children well. There are experts, therapists, counselors, teachers, and specialists…
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From Sorrow To Peace
Jesus told His disciples plainly that sorrow, suffering, and tribulation would come, but He did not leave them without hope. In John 16, Christ gives His people real reasons for peace: the presence of the Spirit, the promise of His return, access to the Father, and grace for our weakness.
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The Death That Leads To Life
The Cost Jesus Never Hid For the last year, I have had the opportunity to work in a new field for me. I started working in the marketing industry, and it is a very interesting world. In fact, I told everybody from the beginning that marketing is about a lot more than making posters. As…
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Living In The In Between (Part 2)
The Promise of a Helper “If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him;…
