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The One Remedy for What Ails Us Our Sickness is Sinfulness. Here’s the cure: This skin we live in needs the injection of the Holy Spirit (and the booster shots) How to Try and Fail at Doing Right So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law…

Justification To be declared righteous; to be in right relationship and thus accepted by God. It is by faith in Jesus that individuals stand justified before God, not by trying to live by the OT rules and statutes. Old Man vs New Creation The Old person has been killed along with Christ and the requirements…

In the World for Witness The Power of Joy But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. The Power of Joy In Prayer Jesus lifts us up Through His Word in the world We may have His Joy Joy that is birthed in us Joy that is made complete…

3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave…

We will be in heaven one day, but we can also be in heaven right now. In fact, Jesus taught us how to live in heaven on earth. It has eight steps. I call it “8 Steps to Heaven.” Precisely “8 Steps to Heaven on Earth.” Let's take a walk ...

Review from past two weeks: God’s grace was on full display when Jesus paid it all on the cross. Grace didn’t end at the cross! We still need grace. Last week we saw that Jesus is alive. He’s Alive, so You’re Alive Colossians 2:13 God made you alive together with Christ. I’m alive, now what do I do?…

This week.... yesterday actually.... some of us completed a 1600 mile motorcycle ride from here to the Hill Country, and around that area.... I gotta tell you, it was a lot of fun! There is just something about getting away.... unplugging from our busy lives, and just getting away.... escaping into God’s…

Introduction : We’ve been talking about stories. We are story-formed creatures. There’s a battle for which stories control our hearts. There are nemesis narratives that seek to snuff out the gospel. But there is a surpassing story! This letter starts with John asserting … we have a better story! Illustration…

What does the movie "Unhinged" and the Pixar oeuvre have in common? And what does this have to do with Paul's majestic summary of God's grace in Ephesians 2:1-11? And how could this possibly tie in with the 19th century gold rush in North Queensland? You'll have to listen to find out!

Scene 1: A nurse who worked in maternity wards once told me that Christmas Eve is the most amazing time. A special atmosphere seems to flow across the ward. An extra special feeling as mothers look down at their newborn. There is a sense of peace and tranquillity A sense of stillness and holiness that…

How do you detect a counterfeit? How do you detect something that is fake or false? Do you study the counterfeit? Or do you study the genuine article? When the banks or government officials want to train people in the art of spotting counterfeit money guess what they have them study? They have them study…

It would be easy to come to today’s passage and consider dates, events, and timing of the things stated in this passage. We could allow ourselves to get wrapped up in the foolishness of man and the foolish things stated by mankind generation to generation. Today however, I want us to Consider God, Especially…

I know we have had a theme of sorts about growing up. We spoke a couple weeks ago about wanting out from under our parents control and how that helps us to grow up. Last week we talked about Adulting and how responsibility and the demands of the world help us to step into our calling and become more…

To Sin or Not to Sin This week we had another tragic example of the devastation and damage that human beings can do to one another. Another kid shooting other kids at school in Highlands Ranch. The damage and danger of sin. It is hard to understand why God allows that. Why does God allow the sin, the…

You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal…

Vision Planning ....mailing on Monday…check the box 50 Days of Prayer …Acts 29…cycle 2 God Moving…story of gas pump... Best Year Ever I want to explain things…i’m curious…when faced with a problem, I usually dig in and try to figure things out. For the last several weeks I haven’t been sleeping well…I’ve…

Perfect love is not just a nice idea; it is a lived ethic, part and parcel to our Methodist faith.

justification, necessity of Sinful, law-breaking humanity needs a means of justification because of its failure to keep God’s law and live up to God’s requirements. • Justification in human relationships The acquittal of the innocent Dt 25:1 See also Pr 17:15 ; Isa 43:9-26 ; Ro 8:33 Justification of…

13 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. 14 This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead. 15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”…

The process of becoming more like Jesus through the sanctifying grace of God by means of the Holy Spirit.

The Christian life, from its beginning to its end, is totally dependent upon the grace of God.