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Kathryn shares about Paul’s challenges to the Corinthian church. Paul teaches them to leave the habits and customs not edifying to other believers or their relationship with God.

Saved, Sanctified and Too Holy for Holidays Those of us who know Jesus as Savior and Lord, who know the infilling power of the Holy Spirit, who have submitted ourselves and surrendered ourselves to God and have tasted the blessings of holiness have a special responsibility to others. But it is not the…

Importance Romans is the most complete explanation of the Gospel. In the Old Testament we have the foundations for the Gospel. In the Gospels we have the life of Christ, culminating in the death and resurrection which are the basis for good news. Acts tells of the spread of the gospel. Romans explains…

Deuteronomy 16:8-21:9 REVIEW This is our fifth message from Devarim- Deuteronomy elle-ha deverim = these are the words Picture of Journey An 11 day journey that lasted 40 years Reason why the journeys are moments and opportunities to learn The first generation that came out of Egypt was “thick headed”…

Treat weakness as tenderly and patiently as God does, and quietly follow your Holy Spirit guided conscience in regards to disputable matters.

An Appeal to Obedience and Humility (2:12-13) Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things…

Christ Changes Our View of the World Becoming what we are designed to be, when we really connect to the idea of a new life in Christ, changes us in more ways than we can imagine. When we sacrifice ourselves to God, the Holy Spirit begins a work in us, to make us holy and acceptable. As our minds are…

Disputes Would you say that people, even Christians can dispute over even the smallest things? If we are honest do we want people to think the way we think and act the way we think they should act? If people don’t do that, what do we do? Or do sometimes? Insert Brothers in Christ Picture here The reality…

1. Liberty in Christ is good as long as it is helpful Paul is concluding his comments on Christian liberty and we will spend our time today looking at the final verses of chapter 10. As we had looked before Paul is dealing with two issues in the Corinthian church in regards to Christian liberty. Christians…

Hebrews 12:25-29 Talking about living on the edge, about taking chances we know we shouldn’t, of ignoring God’s boundaries and violating God’s best will for our lives. Our whole nation is living on the fault line of God's Judgment! So let me ask you a thought provoking question …. ARE YOU AND I LIVING…

As we have gone through the book of Romans verse by verse, Paul has taken on this great journey focusing mostly on the Righteousness of God, and our relationship to that righteousness. After a brief introduction in chapter one, He began to expound on the Sin problem that all of humanity has. But not…

Differences of opinion… like armpits, everyone has them... Though we are Chrisitians, there are things that are not addressed by scripture, about which we have differing opinions. Playing cards Peanut butter Alcohol Meat/vegan Two of the most famous Christians in the Victorian Era in England were Charles…

This Week’s Theme: He (Christ) Is Risen! Word of the Week is Resurrection: It is a rising again; chiefly, the revival of the dead of the human race, or their return from the grave, particularly at the general judgment. By the resurrection of Christ, we have the assurance of the future resurrection of…

Romans 14 BI: On disputable matters, don’t judge others but walk in love like Christ Introduction: Good morning everyone. Welcome to Epping Church. Great to have you join us this morning. It’d be great to have your Bible’s open as we work through today’s passage. I love the Church. I have grown up in…

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For . . . The last few classes we have looked at “For heaven’s sake” the What and the who, last week we started into the “why.” Today we will continue with that. The who: was everyone The what: was the government The first part of why: they were the authority as given by God This morning I want to pick…

Introduction Romans = Doctrine. This is the notion in the Christian world when they hear about the book of Romans. In other words, the belief in the Church today is that the book of Romans is full of doctrine. It is true that Romans teach us about doctrine. But it is not a book about doctrine itself.…

12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law 13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; 14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature…

Hebrews 2:1-3 Hebrews 6:4-6 Hebrews 10:26-31 Five times in the book of Hebrews, the writer warns his readers about the dangers of abandoning the Christian faith. Three of these passages are often used by those who want to prove that you can lose your salvation. We can’t possibly study in depth the book…

? ! . In English, there are 16 punctuation marks — the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, semicolon, colon, em dash, en dash, hyphen, parentheses, brackets, braces, apostrophe, double quotation marks, single quotation marks, and ellipsis — and they’re not as scary as they sound. . The .…

Last week we talked about Honoring Authority, honoring your neighbor and honoring God by living right. Today we move into another area that is very difficult for us. Honoring the Brethren ( fellow Christians) Lets start by diving right into Romans 14 1 Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not…

Listening to Your Conscience Romans 14:5-9 , 22-23 Introduction Ask for prayers Review of the book 4 reasons you should listen to YOUR conscience 1) Your conscience is a gift from God, so appreciate it ( Rom 1-13 ) Explanation The conscience speaks to us It is part of the image of God, which reflects…

Romans 15:1-13 We have been looking at the Christian’s relationships as we have studied the last few chapters. We talked about the Believers relationship to God in 12.1-2 Believers Relationship with Himself 12:3-8 Believers Relationship with Other Believers 12:9-13 Believers Relationship with Unbelievers…

Today we are going to be talking about something that we have talked a little bit about before. Background Written by the apostle Paul, this amazing book teaches us about God, about Humanity, and about Salvation (the Roman road). It was written around AD 57 to the church in Rome. Paul had not preached…

Consideration Imagine I get on a public bus and sit on an aisle seat with my legs comfortably stretched out into the aisle. When someone else gets on the bus and walks down the aisle, what do you think I might do. Why? Consideration. This is what Paul is calling us to here. Consideration of others. Good…