Sermons About Scripture
The Authority of the Bible
Can we trust the Bible? Is it nothing more than a compilation of nice thoughts, or is it truly the word of God?
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Opened Eyes Burning Hearts
Guest speaker Steve Lonetti explores some interesting insights on what it means to "see" Jesus, as we encounter the experience of doubts on the road to Emmaus.
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Facing Temptation with God on Your Side (Luke 4, Psalm 119)
Life is filled with all sorts of landscape. An all terrain faith is equally balanced for the breathtaking view from the mountaintop and the confusing trek though a cold, dark valley. It provides adequate support for walking in rough, rocky stretches and stability for the slippery spots. In this exploration of the Psalms, we will see that no matter where you find yourself in life there is an appropriate faith response to your life situation. Are you ready for the hike?
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Keeping Your Way Pure and Avoiding Self-righteousness (Psalm 119, Part 2)
Life is filled with all sorts of landscape. An all terrain faith is equally balanced for the breathtaking view from the mountaintop and the confusing trek though a cold, dark valley. It provides adequate support for walking in rough, rocky stretches and stability for the slippery spots. In this exploration of the Psalms, we will see that no matter where you find yourself in life there is an appropriate faith response to your life situation. Are you ready for the hike?
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STAY IN LOVE WITH GOD: Scripture
God calls us to remember the story through the reading of scripture and the breaking of bread.
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The Vindication of Jesus, Part 3 - From Followers to Witnesses
Luke 24:36-53 Luke brings volume 1 of his biography of Jesus to a fitting climax with the long awaited reunion between Jesus and his closest disciples. Again, as in the previous 2 episodes, we see that their confusion is confronted with the truth of Scripture, and they are changed forever. Those who have followed Christ, are now asked to run ahead as witnesses. Jesus is who he said he was; and Jesus has done what he said he would do; and now, we have been given the privilege of letting the whole world know.
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Learning to Live (Psalm 119)
Life is filled with all sorts of landscape. An all terrain faith is equally balanced for the breathtaking view from the mountaintop and the confusing trek though a cold, dark valley. It provides adequate support for walking in rough, rocky stretches and stability for the slippery spots. In this exploration of the Psalms, we will see that no matter where you find yourself in life there is an appropriate faith response to your life situation. Are you ready for the hike?
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A Reformed-Charismatic Approach to Our Bible
<p>This is the first message in a series of messages on what it means to be both reformed and charismatic. These are Christian distinctives that you don't often find in combination. Each has its own particular stereotypes and its own unique tendencies, strengths and weaknesses; we believe that at their best, both positions are biblical, and our goal will be to capture and embrace the strengths of both as we see them in Scripture.</p> <p>In the way that reformed believers approach Scripture, one of their particular strengths is to emphasize the truth, authority, infallibility, sufficiency, and God-breathed nature of scripture. Scripture is God's word to us and it is our source of truth and it is our authority in all matters of life and death. Scripture is to serve as the one objective measure by which we judge all other subjective matters of experience.</p> <p>In the way that charismatic believers approach Scripture, one of their particular strengths is to emphasize the effect that Scripture is to have on us, and the proper response that we are to have. In our reading of scripture God is communicating not <i>merely</i> truth to us, but also encouragement, comfort and hope, as well as warnings and admonition. Scripture is to cause us to grow in joy, contentment, peace, humility. It is to change us, bring wisdom to our foolishness, and speak to every area of our lives.</p> <p>Fortunately, we do not have to choose between these two! We are to eagerly study Scripture as our source of truth, and we are to hungrily apply that truth to our lives as we grow in faith and affection for God, resulting in worship toward him.</p>
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Obeying God's Word
We all struggle to obey God’s word. We are in good company, though, because most of the people who are lifted up as examples in the Bible struggled to obey God’s word too. We have a tendency to be more concerned with learning the Bible than with applying it to our lives, which makes us knowledgeable but proud, contentious, and condescending instead of humble, loving and merciful. We also don’t make reading the Bible a priority so we are ignorant of what it says, which leads us to wander off of God’s good path and make a wreck of our lives. Once we do learn God’s word our stubborn hearts get in the way and we reject someone else telling us to surrender to them and obey because we think we know better. In the end the only one who can obey God’s word perfectly is Jesus Christ, and we need His death to cover over our failures to obey God’s word, and we need His perfect obedience to be credited to us through faith in Him.
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