1. Repentance According to the Scriptures: Mark 1:1-8

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    02/26/21
    10 mins
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    By Ken Sundet Jones
    Repentance comes on account of suffering, loss, failure, and death. It happens when the promise of forgiveness of sin given in Jesus’ death is proclaimed to us down-and-outers.
    Repentance According to the Scriptures: Mark 1:1-8

  2. Repentance According to the Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:14

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    02/19/21
    14 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    We cannot scan any random passage of Scripture and automatically assume the words are unconditionally addressed to us. Often, very often, they are not.
    Repentance According to the Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:14

  3. Surveying Our Soiled Condition, and the Condition of our Soil

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    02/17/21
    9 mins
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    By Steven A. Hein
    Ash Wednesday, is meant to remind us we have a death problem. All living things made from the soil shall return to it.
    Surveying Our Soiled Condition, and the Condition of our Soil

  4. The Man Born to be King

    book
    01/07/21
    13 mins
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    By Steven A. Hein
    Epiphany celebrates that we have not been left in our hearts’ cold darkness and this spoiled creation.
    The Man Born to be King

  5. I'll be Home for Epiphany

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    01/06/21
    15 mins
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    By Valerie Thur
    This year, I’m more excited for Epiphany than I am for Christmas.
    I'll be Home for Epiphany

  6. God Breaks the Silence

    book
    01/06/21
    6 mins
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    By Brad Soenksen
    What more could God do to prove to us that he is for us and not against us than to give his own Son into this fallen world to take the cross in our place, exchanging his righteousness for our many sins.
    God Breaks the Silence

  7. The Mystery of God's Incarnation

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    12/29/20
    6 mins
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    By Donavon Riley
    Christmas-time is the bold proclamation that God was born to save sinners.
    The Mystery of God's Incarnation

  8. A Living Word

    book
    12/28/20
    18 mins
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    By Ken Sundet Jones
    God's Word is the final word on you, and his claim on you as his people, his children, is the ultimate claim.
    A Living Word

  9. A Nativity Sermon

    book
    12/25/20
    9 mins
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    By John Chrysostom
    Truly wondrous is the whole chronicle of the Nativity. For this day the ancient slavery is ended, the power of death is broken, paradise is unlocked, the curse is taken away, sin is removed from us, error-driven out, and truth has been brought back.
    A Nativity Sermon

  10. God is not Dead nor does He Sleep: Christmas Bells in 2020

    book
    12/25/20
    8 mins
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    By Dan van Voorhis
    This story of despair met with the hope of the gospel is rightly told by many during the holiday season.
    God is not Dead nor does He Sleep: Christmas Bells in 2020

  11. Haunted by the Light: A Poetic Narrative

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    12/24/20
    8 mins
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    By Luke Kjolhaug
    The child was sleeping deep within the manger, sod, & hay. His tiny cries raised a heavn’ly din, on this most sacred day.
    Haunted by the Light: A Poetic Narrative

  12. Waiting with Simeon

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    12/24/20
    9 mins
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    By Kyle G. Jones
    We’ve hung on every whisper of hope that this way of life would end and a new one would rise to take its place.
    Waiting with Simeon
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