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While the death of Christ expiates and propitiates, the burial (as with the scapegoat) takes away shame.

1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. Chose to step away from the front lines. 2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose…

Shame is a confusing feeling It can be debilitating and crippling It can also lead us to repentance But first, what is shame? 3 main elements: emotional judgement self-depreciation In a nutshell, shame is exposure We see shame displayed in Lamentations Lamentations 1:8 (ESV) Jerusalem sinned grievously;…

This Week’s Theme: Thankful for Being Used This Week’s Word is Suffering : The experience of pain or distress, both physical and emotional. Scripture is thoroughly realistic about the place of suffering in the world and in the lives of believers. To become a Christian is not to escape from suffering,…

Intro Two men were on trial for armed robbery. An eye witness took the stand to testify and the prosecutor got up to begin questioning. First, he asked the eye witness… were you at the scene of the robbery? Yes the eye witness stated. Did you see the vehicle leave the scene at a high rate of speed? Yes…

Rock Solid Foundation Confusion or certainty, you choose? We know the answer, people want certainty. Our study this morning is a comfort and caution regarding religious confusion and religious certainty. Let’s journey together this morning in God’s Word. People want certainty, especially in religious…

Outline Read the Text from Hebrews 12:1-3 This passage should be set to the Rocky theme song, “Eye of the Tiger.” For me one of the greatest problems in religion and with religious people is use sanitized use of shame or shaming. For me one of the greatest problems in the secular world is the corporate…

Mirrors are interesting things. There is a saying that “mirrors don’t lie.” What one sees in a mirror is what actually is. I can look in a mirror and say: what lovely blond hair I have. However, that would be me disregarding what the mirror was showing me. The mirror is actually showing me that I am…

Introduction 1 Corinthians 14 . It has taken us a bit of work to get through this final section. By way of reminder, Paul is dealing with the topic of Spiritual gifts. In Ch. 12 he presented the purpose of Spiritual gifts, to build and bond the body of Christ. In Ch. 13 we saw the priority of Spiritual…

Two powerful weapons: shame & guilt trips . Over the past 5 years I have seen this becoming the tool of choice in our world. The goal: conformity & uniformity . There is an innate desire to be like others, or to have others be like us. We want to generalize our experience and make it mandatory for others.…

We live in a world of drama . None of us like drama, but many of us help produce it. Social media has many positive characteristics but can also help to create and sustain drama. We cannot please everyone. We try our hardest but it doesn’t work. I must admit this is a hard lesson I am still learning.…

Life is puzzling. We do not have answers for many things, or at least I do not. I still do not know exactly why there is a war going on in Ukraine, but I understand the devastation. I do not fully comprehend why abuse happens, though I know the results. Yes, I know the real answer is “sin” and I am not…

Introduction Therefore Series : Audacious truths about what it means to be a Christian. Justified, set free, a new life (out of autonomy and self-sufficiency, adopted, heirs, given hope, help, and purpose in our suffering. These truths build and build until you get an explosion, a crescendo of glory.…

God calls. Jonah flees. But the story doesn't end there, does it? What can we learn about God from his behaviour in the account of Jonah? Join Steve to find how amazing and (in some ways) scary the true God is.

God has taken our shame. learn from the life of Gideon & David. how they overcome shame. Jesus took our shame on the cross

Are you suppoed to be ashamed?

I need to take a quick survey. How many of you are busy? How many of you would admit to sometimes being too busy? Good. The rest of you can relax because because you won’t be the ones under conviction. How many of you are busy? I’d like to start by reading an email sent by “anonymous”: One day satan…