Sermons About Salt
So You Want To Go Back To Egypt
You can't follow Jesus' lead if you are constantly looking back.
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The Christian's Relationship to the World
What is to be a Christian's relationship to the world? Jesus calls his followers to be salt and light in a word needing the savor of grace, a world lost in the darkness of sin.
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Making a Name for Ourselves
Who is the Greatest? Whoever is not against us is for us. Causing to Sin Saltiness
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Kingdom Effects
Adam preaches Matt. 5:13-16. Christ moves on from presenting the character of kingdom citizens to explaining the preserving and illuminating effect they should have on the watching world.
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Chewing on Scripture
As we seek to be salt in our community, we need to allow God to stretch our perspective into a larger picture. One of the primary ways God does this is through His gift of the Scripture. Sunday's sermon is a 'painfully practical' (thanks, Mark Batterson) look at tools we can use to chew on Scripture together.
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Salt and Light
In the eyes of the world, Jesus was a fool. He did not abide by the rules of the day; the people he associated with were shunned by society; his Sermon on the Mount reads like a primer on being left behind, stepped on and ignored. Being a ‘Christian’ is not some magical process by which we are automatically transformed into better people. We must train to become who God wants us to be. We are sinful, faulted beings. Our system fi les are corrupted and we need to reset our systems to the defaults that Christ has demonstrated for us. It begins with the reshaping of our minds ‒ how we think ‒ what we believe ‒ what we know to be true, and then beginning to live out that truth in practical ways in our daily lives. Key Passage: Matthew 5: 1-16
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The State of the Church
Looking back at 2007 and sharing vision for 2008. The sermon followed a retrospective video which can be seen here - http://anakin-redeemed.livejournal.com/13517.html
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Creation, Redemption and Artistic Action
This week we looked at the role that art plays in our calling to be salt and light in the world.
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Resident Aliens | Holiness and Discernment
This week we examined the calling to be "Resident Aliens" in our world. We looked specifically at how followers of Christ are called to live lives of holiness and discernment.
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Purpose
Join Pastor Duane as he delves into one of the most known passages in the Bible: The Sermon on the Mount. This week, What Jesus Had to Say About... Purpose.
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Preserving our Saltiness and Light
In Biblical times, salt was a fundamental element needed to preserve food and prevent decay and rotting. Society is decaying morally and spiritually, and we as Christians need to act as "salt" for society to offer preservation. Salt must be applied and absorbed, as does the Word, and without our "saltiness," we would be useless. How can we be "in the world but not of the world"? How do we remain "salty"? Our "light" is one answer to both of those questions and this message addresses those questions, how to be aware of the things that can tempt us to lose our saltiness and become diluted, and how our light can be bright, effective and pure.
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The Outward Way
In Matthew 5:13-16 Jesus shifts from the character of the Christian in the Beatitudes and toward the influence of the Christian in the world. We will influence the world in much the same way salt (flavor, preservative) and light (penetrates darkness, reveals hidden realities) function in the world.
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Salt of the world
Peter Stokes from the Salt Shakers ministry challenges us with Jesus' command for the church to be the salt of the world. We must stand up to the attacks from our culture and fight for the truth.
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Don't Miss This
In this week's message Pastor Mark Burch examines Hebrews 3 and 4 and speaks about our identity as Christ followers. The writer of Hebrews admonishes us to claim our inheritance and find our rest and strength to do that in Christ. We are not to sit back and let this world pass us by; instead we are to engage our culture and influence our world as co-heirs with Christ. Are you willing to take your inheritance? Key Passage: Hebrews 3:1-4:13
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