1. Reading Flannery O’Connor & Reflecting on Lent, Part 1

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    03/03/23
    10 mins
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    By Donavon Riley
    This is the message of Lent. We are not called to sacrifice for Jesus in order to earn our salvation. Rather, we are called to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
    Reading Flannery O’Connor & Reflecting on Lent, Part 1

  2. I Don't Want Eternal Life, It's Too Long

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    01/27/23
    20 mins
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    By Bruce Hillman
    I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.
    I Don't Want Eternal Life, It's Too Long

  3. One Less Prophet

    book
    01/01/23
    15 mins
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    By Scott Keith
    In Memory of My Friend, James Arne Nestingen
    One Less Prophet

  4. Preaching in the Twilight of the Church Year

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    11/12/22
    32 mins
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    By John T. Pless
    That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
    Preaching in the Twilight of the Church Year

  5. How to Define Christian Community

    book
    10/25/22
    10 mins
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    By Wade Johnston
    There is no true life and meaningful community apart from forgiveness.
    How to Define Christian Community

  6. How Firm Our Foundation

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    10/20/22
    28 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    Both now and forever, the bruised and crucified Lord nailed to a cross is our assurance of deliverance.
    How Firm Our Foundation

  7. Every Day is a Sabbath

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    10/19/22
    9 mins
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    By Wade Johnston
    Every day is a Sabbath for Christians. Every day is the day the Lord has made. Every day is a day to find rest in Christ.
    Every Day is a Sabbath

  8. The Freakonomics of Jesus

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    10/17/22
    19 mins
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    By John Bombaro
    Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
    The Freakonomics of Jesus

  9. That was not me

    book
    10/12/22
    11 mins
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    By Craig Donofrio
    Sometimes in hanging on to our useless guilt, we are idolaters. We believe our sin or conscience is more powerful than our God.
    That was not me

  10. We Cannot Serve God and Mammon

    book
    10/11/22
    14 mins
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    By Donavon Riley
    We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
    We Cannot Serve God and Mammon

  11. 1 John 4:7-14: Love, self-hate, and the search for God

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    10/07/22
    19 mins
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    By Bruce Hillman
    To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.
    1 John 4:7-14: Love, self-hate, and the search for God

  12. 1 John 4:1-6: The Only True Confession

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    09/30/22
    10 mins
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    By Kelsi Klembara
    Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
    1 John 4:1-6: The Only True Confession
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