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6 mins read|12/16/20Advent is not a call to prepare to engage in a transaction with God.
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3 mins read|11/12/20The Pirates of Penance part 2. In this episode, we continue to examine Girolamo Savaronola’s sermon on penance. What happened in Florence that occasioned this sermon, and what can it teach us about church and society today?
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3 mins read|11/10/20The Pirates of Penance, part 1. In this episode, we look at pre-Reformation preaching. Girolamo Savaronola’s sermon on penance is read and discussed. What is penance, what effect did the sacrament of penance have on church and society, and what effect does it have on us at present?
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9 mins read|10/22/20Jesus will strengthen and encourage us because he is true life, and life has defeated death.
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7 mins read|10/20/20Satan and the old Adam don't want Jesus to bear our crosses for us because that means we can't claim that we've done anything to merit God's mercy and salvation.
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5 mins read|10/15/20In God's way of doing salvation, we see Jesus crucified and risen from death. We see in Jesus God's great mercy and the depths of our selfish sinfulness.
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5 mins read|09/15/20"Whom shall we fear?" We fear no one. We're not afraid of anything. Instead, we wait for the Lord with good courage. He will strengthen our hearts, as the psalmist writes (Ps 27:1).
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12 mins read|09/10/20This is an excerpt from “Crucifying Religion” written by Donavon Riley (1517 Publishing, 2019).
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7 mins read|08/25/20What does it take to be a Christian? Christ.
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9 mins read|07/15/20The good news of Jesus Christ guides us into godly worship, not self-worship.
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9 mins read|07/07/20In our attempts to flee from our fears and escape death, we will become imprisoned by them.
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7 mins read|06/09/20As the storm waves of life crash into us, threatening to pull us down into the undertow of sin, Jesus comes and stands between us and the furious tides.
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