(Read part one here.) What follows is a continuation of our walk through the Bible for clues. Clues to help us sort out how God can tell us to be subject to all human authorities, even bad ones. It springs from Romans 13:1-7, in which God tells us that all authorities are instituted by him. Luke […]
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Books over Topics I prefer to preach through books of the Bible rather than individual topics for several reasons, one of which is the way God steers us to appropriate passages each Sunday. We arrived at Romans 13, the most politically themed passage in Romans, the Sunday before the 2012 election. Once again, God shows himself sovereign even in my stubborn preference for preaching
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Romans 12:14-21 Do you know any difficult people? Are you forced to work with them? Live with them? Be the church with them? These relationships are no accident. God has sovereignly placed you in them so you can worship him by loving difficult people. In Romans 12:14-21, we see six ways to do so. But before
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Romans 12:13 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. We are designed to worship God, not just through music on Sundays, but through practical action every day. We’ve studied worship as discernment, being the church, loving each other, being passionate, enduring troubles and more. In this post, we’ll consider three
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Romans 12:12 Three more ways to worship God with practical action: Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Rejoice in Hope Rejoice means to be glad. Hope means anticipation of something certain. Here God is not saying, “Be glad because something good might happen.” He’s saying, “Be glad because something good
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Here are my notes from the final three evenings of revival last week: Monday: 1 John 3:1-3 Our privilege: we are loved by God. In Jesus, God lavished his love on us, transforming us from enemies to children. Our promise: Jesus will return. We will be like him, perfect physically, emotionally and spiritually. We will
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