This is number two of three posts in this series. Read post one here and the big announcement here. Picture a missionary. Do you imagine someone wearing a safari jacket or someone like yourself? We tend to think of missionaries as super-Christians in foreign lands; but every Christian is an ambassador for Christ. The great […]
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Dulin’s Grove, As you know, we began our three-week Penny Crusade Sunday. This fundraiser supports the foreign missions endeavors of our denomination. During these three weeks we will be studying what the Bible has to say about foreign missions. You can read a recap of Sunday’s sermon here. This Sunday, we’ll look at the Biblical strategy for
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Did you see the Kony 2012 video? It reveals a horrific evil taking place in Africa. Many who watched it were stirred to do something. But what? As the debate over what to do grew, the determination to do it shrank. What can we do about the darkness in the world? A lot. Christians have the most powerful weapon
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Ephesians 1:15-23 “Why do I have to go and hear the same story again EVERY YEAR?” I remember my brother saying something like this one Easter Sunday morning, trying to get out of another boring church service. Why do we talk about this same story so often? Because it isn’t like other stories. It’s like
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Romans 9:24-29 For more on the context of these verses, click here. The Call …even us whom he has called… This word, call, sums up Paul’s whole meditation on God’s sovereignty in selecting some for salvation in Romans 9. It is God’s call that makes the difference, not ethnicity or morality or any other human
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Romans 9:22-23 The Forest and the Trees Studying Romans is like hiking through a forest full of fascinating trees. We’ve been studying individual trees one-by-one for weeks in chapter nine: God chose Isaac, not Ishmael; God chose Jacob, not Esau; God has mercy on whomever he wills and hardens whomever he wills, etc. Before looking at another
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