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How is it that we who are saved ought to behave?

The Results of God’s Love Good morning. It is good to be back to preaching today, after a short-term fever knocked me out of commission last weekend. I am so thankful for our regular Sunday worship and tech team, Andrea and Patty, and for Mary Lopez with a really good Mother’s Day message for us. And…

1 Timothy 1 Timothy is a charge to one of Paul’s most trusted disciples. He led Timothy to Jesus, worked with him, and now sent Timothy on his own to strengthen churches. We need Timothies. We need people we can trust to work together to strengthen this church. Are you on board? This church is going…

In this present crisis, how should the church behave? Paul, who believed that the church was in the last days, instructs the church to behave like God's ideal family. But what does that look like, and how do we live it out?

Those in Christ behave differentlyfrom teh way they did when they were in and of the world.

Last week we looked at the truth Question 33 Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else? No, everything necessary to salvation is found in Christ. We looked at Galatians 3 and the foolishness of these Galatian believers We are saved by faith We…

Belonging to Christ and His community anchors and empowers us even in teh face of doubts of fears.

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Guest Preacher: Chris Stukenberg Reputation: Honoring Behavior – 10/29/23 Title Slide The church has a bad wrap Problem: Our reputation is self-inflicted and in many ways deserved – why? Pray 14 I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that, 15 if I delay, you may know how…

“Therefore” Whats the Therefore, therefore? Eph. 4:1-16 is all about Christian unity which we will be addressing over the next few weeks, but from chapter 4 through the end of the book, Paul will be addressing the believers on how they are to behave as Christians. Here in chapter 4, Paul will proceed…

We are working our way through the summer heat with what I hope is a refreshing call to unity during a time of deep division in our society. If no other group of people can find a way to unity, surely the church can! We began with a call to be United with our Minds, holding fast to the essential and…

Philippians 1:27-2:1 I. Behave Appropriately v. 27 Webster’s – Fit; suitable; congruous; proper; graceful; belonging to the character, or adapted to circumstances; Appropriately – To set apart for, or assign to a particular use, in exclusion of all other uses; A. Behave Christ-like 21 For even hereunto…

There is growing interest in learning what the Bible says about our career, jobs, and professions, and for good reason! Our “work” is a major part of our lives. In 2019, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted an American Time Use Survey, finding that working Americans spend more time per week working…

6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.…

Titus 2:3–4 (NKJV) the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—that they admonish the young women to love their husbands ... Famous Hollywood actor, Andy Rooney, said, “It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life…

Paul is telling us that how we ought to behave is a result of who and what we are. So a proper understanding of what it means to be a Christian in the biblical sense is essential to how we ought to live our lives.

Psalms 107: 1-2 ; 17-22 God’s Word Comes to Delivery Us! · How We Think o Romans 12:2 o Eph 4:23 · How We Feel o Matt 6:25 ; 31-34 o Philippians 4:6-7 o Col 3:15 · How We Behave o Romans 12:1 o I Tim 4:6-8 , 15-16 Because his Word is alive in us We should be Different John 17:14:18 Sanctified means to…

Psalm 14:1-7 The majority of Americans have a wrong view of human nature. A survey by Barna and the Cultural Research Center (CRC) of AZ Christian University in 2020 indicated that most Americans (7 of 10) believe mankind is “basically good” – and this percentage was the same even among those who identified…

Legalism is just a foolish, state of make believe. God provides the ture means of maturity.

Two friends met for dinner at a seafood restaurant. Each requested filet of sole, and after a few minutes the waiter came back with their order. Two pieces of fish, a large and a small, were on the same platter. One of the men proceeded to serve his friend. Placing the small piece on a plate, he handed…

1 Peter 2:11-17 Have you ever felt like you wore a target on your back? Like wherever you go at school, work, etc., your classmates, coworkers, teachers, or managers were suspicious of you, waiting for you to misbehave and finding ways to criticize and make your life miserable? It’s not easy to live…

Introduction In Chapter 1:1-9 this church ++Had recieved God’s grace ++Was enriched with all knowledge ++Was not lacking in any gift Paul address 5 issues in this church Issues ++Division - Chapters 1-4 ++Sex - Chapters 5-7 ++Food - Chapters 8-10 ++The Gathering-Chapter 11-14 ++Resurrection/Final Greeting…

The Christian life is not a playground; it is a battleground. We are sons in the family, enjoying the fellowship of the Gospel (Phil. 1:1–11); we are servants sharing in the furtherance of the Gospel (Phil. 1:12–26); but we are also soldiers defending the faith of the Gospel. And the believer with the single mind can have the joy of the Holy Spirit even in the midst of battle. Let's be confident as we spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Hypocrisy is agreed to be a curse! If there is something both Jesus and the world agree on about the Christian church, it’s that blatant hypocrisy is a terrible curse. Real life has many trials, sadnesses and griefs. Many of them are a result of our our self, pride and sin ; many more are simply the…