Category: Bible
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#Philippians #Iwashavingfun
For various reasons, I’ve always thought that it would be fun to Tweet the book of Philippians. I shared some of this madness with our church yesterday as I preached Philippians 4:10-20 in preparation for our week of vacation Bible school. Here is what the text could look like, Tweeted. v. 10 – I thought…
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Jesus’ Preoccupation With Thievery
Sunday I preached about the eighth commandment from Exodus 20, and during that sermon I highlighted the following eight ways Jesus seems to be preoccupied with stealing. When Jesus cleared the Temple, he referred to it as having become a den for thieves. Yes, he was quoting Jeremiah, but he chose that particular scripture to…
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Proverbs 4–The Forward Gaze
Don’t waste energy by dwelling on the past. The future is where the action is.
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The Old Testament and Resurrection
Yesterday in the Easter Sermon I spent a good bit of time talking about five key verses of scripture from the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, that point to a view of life after death. We would rightly call these resurrection verses in light of Jesus and the empty tomb, as well as the explicit…