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Introduction Heading C.S. Lewis: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered…

God-Centered Ethic Intro: It’s all about the “ Therefore ”! Big therefore - since we are blessed with every spiritual blessing, since we are adopted as sons/daughters, since the purpose of it all is to unite all things in Christ in heaven and earth, since you’ve been saved by grace through faith from…

Introduction Heading 1 C.S. Lewis: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered…

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Humanity is Hopelessly Religious Throughout the widely different cultures geographically dispersed, and at all points from the least recorded groups in history to the largest gathering…

Introduction Heading 1 C.S. Lewis: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes…

We are called to be in the world, but not of it. Yet in our world today, we are surrounded by powerful, influential corporations. These entities are rarely aligned with Biblical ethics because they exist to make money. So how should Christians interact with them? How should we be customers, employees or even bosses in this complex, sinful world we are called to shine in, but not belong to? Join us as we explore God's words on this important topic.

Introduction A Clean Heart devotionals are available. Read passage: 1 Peter 1:13-25 (ESV) Biblical: Peter makes a remarkable claim: Our identity as born again children of God is the basis and foundation for ethics and morality. “Therefore” (v. 13)… “As obedient children” (v. 14)… “as he who called you…

Is The Bible Enough? The Westminster Confession of Faith: Edinburgh Edition (Chapter I. Of the Holy Scripture) VI. The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in scripture, or by good and necessary consequence…

Join Pastor Jonathan as he discusses IVF (in vitro fertilization).

“You can pick your actions, or you can pick your consequences, but you can never pick both” This was the central idea of a lecture on ethics I heard a while back. You can pick your actions, or you can pick your consequences, bur you can never pick both. The central idea is this: If you are picking your…

INTRODUCTION Title of today’s less is Integrity in the Workplace Integrity defined for a secular/worldly point of view Consistently acting in accordance with one's values and beliefs and being accountable for one's actions. Integrity defined from a biblical point of view Adhering to moral and ethical…

Introduction: New interpretations of the Bible, based on cultural issues: presuppositions of LGBTQ For example: Gen 19 and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. When angels appear as men go into the city to rescue Lot and his family, the men of Sodom seek to attack the men and act immorally towards them.…

Introduction Our new them for September is “What Ever You Do, Work Heartily” Corresponds with our 2023 theme of Right Race, Good Fight, Steadfast Faith Our Topic for today’s message is “Finding Purpose in Our Work” Some Common Attitudes Towards Work Work from a Biblical Perspective Living Out Purposeful…

How should Christians think about these things. Introduction If you had told me thirty years ago that the issue of my day as a 45 year old man would be that we as a collective culture can't define what a man or a woman is, I would not have believed you. If you had told me that we would have major medical…

Announce Business Meeting! March 17, 2024 after Sun PM service Hand out proposed bylaw updates Who Is Paul? As we get started studying 1 Corinthians, one of the most important things we can do is learn about who the author is. 1 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our…

We are continuing our tour of the churches in Asia Minor and today we make the next stop. Now we move away from the coast and to the smallest town in our seven city tour: Thyatira. Thyatira is a city located about 40-45 miles southwest of Pergamum. The city was located in what is now known as Akhisar.…

Join us today as we discuss the debated topic of euthanasia.

Is God approachable? Though many of us, at least in this place, do not think about this question I think it is important to sometimes bring to the forefront what we may just assume as a “simple, easy” answer. God is approachable to all. This is I believe the answer of Scripture. How do we approach God?…

Character of the Teacher and Teaching Accurately Handling Depart from Wickedness

After a few rather long introductory chapters, Paul now gets to the heart of the letter, teaching his brothers and sisters in Thessalonica what he wasn’t able to teach them in person. From 1 Thessalonians 4:1-5:22 , Paul writes some specific instructions and admonitions. Instructions and admonitions…

Back in 2012 I was in the middle of my senior year of college. I was serving in a local church heading up their AWANA program, and as a ministry leader and also a young man aspiring to a future in pastoral ministry, the pastor of the church invited me to attend the church’s administrative board’s annual…

Last week we saw that the world had degenerated into corruption and evil. God was sorry that He had made mankind, and He is going to use Noah to start over. He gave Noah instructions on how to build an ark, and it was done according to what God had commanded. Noah was 500 years old at the time that he…

Introduction Both Ezra and Nehemiah begin with building projects that, once completed, allow the focus to shift to the rebuilding of God’s people. Ezra 1-6 - Rebuilt temple Ezra 7-10 - Rebuilt people Nehemiah 1-6 - Rebuilt wall Nehemiah 7-13 - Rebuilt people Once the foundations of Jerusalem were relaid…

Submission to God Peter will be speaking to servants in a household. This is not the same word commonly translated as servant or slave Instead it is a word used for domestic or house slaves. As a slave in the house, the slave would be more susceptible to a hostile master - since a field laborer simply…

In this story faithfulness is exemplified. Daniel was faithful in old age, in godly example (v. 5), in prayer (v. 10), in trials (v. 16), and in testimony (vv. 16, 20). As a result he was delivered (v. 22), experienced a special manifestation of the presence of the Lord (v. 22), provided an opportunity…