Getting Over Your Moral Superiority
By Daniel Emery Price
03/26/26
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Getting Over Your Moral Superiority

The Pharisee valued fasting and giving tithes, but could not find value in his fellow sinner.
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Magnus Persson
Magnus Persson
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The Original Sin of Preaching: The Constant Craving for a Useful God in Pulpit and Pew

God is not a tool in our hands. He does not exist to serve our goals, our metrics, or our platforms.
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Even Chuck Norris Needed a Savior

The gospel isn’t for the strong but people who know they aren’t.

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As we do in daily life, so we have done in our reading of the Bible: we have placed ourselves at the center, and Christ at the periphery.
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Gospel: Luke 14:1-14 (Pentecost 12: Series C)

The question that this text poses for us today is “What does it mean to believe in the resurrection?”
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Scott Keith
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Christ’s death is sufficient for all, even Christians.
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The focus of 1 Peter on baptism is one that has puzzled many people.
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God Alone Saves, Right?

This is the God of the Holy Scriptures. He is the one who repeatedly saves, always preserving his people by providing rescue in situation after situation...
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Luke does not tell us who asked it. But it’s a good question. “Lord, will those who are saved be few?”
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Chasing After the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is not ours to hunt down; rather, we are the ones relentlessly pursued by the word of Christ.
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Contrary to what pop-psychology, social media memes, and your sweet grandmother told you, you are not fine just the way you are.
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Gospel: Luke 12:49-56 (Pentecost 10: Series C)

Jesus is still in the business of dividing. He has come to divide us from our sinful thoughts and habits. He has come to divide us from false views of the world and distortions of His Word.
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Salvation and the Silly Summit of Some Great Thing

Overcrowding on Mount Everest betrays what our culture worships. We bow down at the altar of the impossible to be seen as the conquerors, the champions.
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Preaching and Sola Scriptura

Preaching is simply the verbal bestowal of what Scripture has already given us in written form
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Gospel: Luke 12:22-34 (Pentecost 9: Series C)

The Father knows our needs because he knows everything. This is a comforting thought, but only if He is gracious.
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