Sermons About Pharisees
Suburbanomianism
Knowledge of what makes for purity and impurity is the final qualification issue.
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Believing Is Seeing
Pastor Lance Parrott calls us to come and see the Kingdom of Christ. But we must see in a way that we are not used to. We must look for Jesus not signs. We must look to the spiritual not the physical. And we must have the eyes of our hearts touched by Jesus. Listen to these stories in Mark and see the Kingdom by believing.
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Dirty Job
The Pharisees lived in a “pluralistic” society - and their job was to sift through all of the local religious goings-on and set up the boundaries that kept Judaism pure and unpolluted by all of the religious weirdos and nut jobs that threatened to make the wheels come off the Hebrew wagon. Jesus wasn’t the first miracle worker who had come down the pike, and he certainly wasn’t the first one that people speculated might be the Messiah they’d all been waiting for...
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How Could You Be So Heartless?
In today's passage Jesus confronts the religious leaders and takes them to the matters of the heart. Pastor Lance Parrott challenges us to see our selves in the lives of the Pharisees and to see that God cares most about our hearts.
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Jesus And The Critique Of Religion
Did you know that Jesus had a problem with religion? In Jesus day there were some religious leaders who,if you entrusted the care of your soul to them, you would end up with something lifeless on the inside. That approach to religion is still very much with us. Jesus is still very much against it. It doesn't glorify God and it isn't good for people.
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What about the Resurrection
Christ is questioned by the elite of his time in an attempt to discredit him. He answers their question with authority and shows the foolishness of their own logic based off of scriptures account of itself.. He declares that God is the God of the living, not the dead and so proves the truth of the resurrection.
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Religion Killed Jesus
In the second week of the "Who Killed Jesus" sermon series, we examine Mark 2 and study the role that religion had in putting Jesus to death.
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Commercialization of Sex
Since our bodies are the temple of God, we must treat them with respect and dignity. The church must be willing to speak against the use of sex as a marketing tool.
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Conflict and Community: Are You Living for Today or Tomorrow?
In this third and final round of conflict, Jesus meets the head of the religious elite: the Sadducees. As they confront Jesus about the resurrection, we see the problems with living for today, the hope of living for tomorrow, and how the future is the key to making a difference in the present.
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