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9 mins read|03/10/19Everything in the text sets up the polarity of earth and heaven, mortification and glorification, humiliation and exaltation. We preach the cross, because it is the only way to glory. Just look at Jesus, who set His face toward Jerusalem, endured the cross, despising its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of power, with all things under His feet.
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10 mins read|03/10/19I don’t think the people of Jerusalem designed to reject God. They didn’t wake up one day and decide that, instead of listening to God, they would make it their mission to kill him. They were deceived. Blinded. Deluded by sin and its author. As a result, they were unable and unwilling to hear the Word of the Lord.
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10 mins read|03/07/19“Each of us shares in this sin; the sin of self-justification and disbelief in God’s promises.”
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5 mins read|03/06/19Our sin marked Christ. Jesus was marked with the scars of nails and a spear for us. His hands, feet, and side are marked with scars displaying the cost of our redemption.
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9 mins read|03/06/19All this disciplined living is to be done in freedom.
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18 mins read|03/05/19Our church doesn’t talk a lot about giving up things for Lent. Lent seasons means we have Sunday night services as well, where we bring in speakers who talk about a different theme each year.
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9 mins read|03/05/19The post-Reformation observance of Lent is both commemorative and penitential
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14 mins read|03/03/19The word of faith means the word that declares us righteous and gives us Christ’s own righteousness as a gift. At the start of the Passion Season, these texts call us deny ourselves and our pride that comes by our obedience to the Law, and to cast all of our sins, failures, and weaknesses onto Christ, to trust Him alone for our salvation.
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9 mins read|03/03/19There are two ways to think about what’s happening when someone is tempted. The first is to imagine temptation as enticement toward something bad and wrong. This is probably the more common of the two. But there’s another way of thinking about it. Temptation could also be seen as encouragement away from something good and right.
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14 mins read|03/01/19The Father uses this last festival of Epiphany, the Transfiguration, to announce one more time to us just who Jesus is: His beloved Son, the Chosen One
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5 mins read|03/22/18The greatest joy of Lent is failing at it only to find Jesus has already done it for us.
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9 mins read|03/07/18The Law must attack because nothing outside of Christ can enter Heaven—nothing!
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