Total Sermons: 150
Total Amens: 2
Manifesto of Freedom - Chosen
After the crescendo of Romans 8, Paul answers questions about how Israel fits into what God has been doing all along to repair the broken shalom of creation. Israel's story serves as reminder that God is faithful to his covenant promises of putting the world to rights as well as a warning that we can't reject God continually without there being consequences.
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Manifesto of Freedom - Life in the Spirit
There is now no condemnation for those in Christ. How does one live this no condemnation life? God sends the Holy Spirit to live in us and show us. The Spirit's role is to make us look more like Christ by putting the old life behind us and fully participate in the new humanity. God has freed us by his grace and now we are a part of the rescue and repair of all things. - Hank Wilson
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Manifesto of Freedom - Civil War of the Soul
There is war that is happening in our world between the Old humanity of Adam and the New Humanity in Christ. But as Paul transparently communicates, it's something that happens in our soul. Many of us have a hard time believing that a real Christ follower would ever struggle in our new life and what we need more than anything else is grace...again. - Hank Wilson
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Manifesto of Freedom - Death to Life
As people, part of a common humanity we are part of a common family, a broken one. But, in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus we have a chance through baptism to identify with a story that makes a breathtaking recovery of life. -Tim Hawkins
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Manifesto of Freedom - This Hope Will Not Disappoint
In the first 11 verses of Romans 5, Paul argues that we now have peace with God and also a place in God's presence once again. And that grace and kindness, Paul argues is what God is doing to repair the world. He says that leads to hope, sometimes despite the circumstances, and this hope does not disappoint. - Hank Wilson
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Manifesto of Freedom - A Righteousness Made Known
Alan Greenspan recently commented to the BBC that financial crisis will come again unless someone can find a way to change human nature. Are we simply locked in a cycle of ongoing crisis of violence, greed and vandalism of humanity? Or is their a power at work in the world that can break the cycle? Paul says the power to bring life from death has broken into the middle of the story and changes the way we see everything. -Tim Hawkins
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Manifesto of Freedom - Religion Gets You Nowhere
If last week Paul describes humanity's dark spiral because they have lived without God, this week he tells us who's responsible. All of us. And to the Jewish believers surprise, Paul said religious efforts actually add to the mess. - Hank Wilson
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Manifesto of Freedom - The Exchange and Downward Spiral
If last week, Paul introduced the Good News, then this week is the bad news. In Romans 1:18-32, Paul addresses what's wrong with humanity. How we've exchanged the glory of God for a mirror, the truth for a lie, and the natural for unnatural.
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Manifesto of Freedom - Paul and the Good News
Romans is a Manifesto of Freedom. Paul wrote to the church in Rome to help them understand and be changed by the power of the Gospel. The message of the Gospel is that you can be free through Jesus Christ. - Hank Wilson
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