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The Discipline of Media
Dan Palmberg, one of the elders at The Table, explores our relationship with media and the spiritual realities of exercising spiritual disciplines in our relationship with media.
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The Master Series: Rethinking Our Call to the Poor
Jesus was called to the poor. As a community that follows Christ...
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Disciplines of Life: Part Three
Continueing our study of Spiritual Disciplines as the avenues of transformation by God's grace, we look this morning at the Discipline of Solitude. Solitude is a gracious gift of God offered to help us break out of selfishness and the compulsion to impress others. In being alone, we discover who we truly are, and are able to listen to God and be refreshed by His Spirit. In being alone, we discover that we are never truly alone - and in this awareness, we are set free. In being alone, we are prepared to be in community, and out of solitude we will have the inner heart necessary for true compassion and missional engagement with others. In doing this, we are walking in the footsteps of Jesus who modelled for us a life of inter-dependency on the Father.
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Disciplines of Life: Part Two
This sermon continues to unpack the means by which spiritual growth takes place. The Spiritual Disciplines are good gifts from a generous God to meet our needs. Today we focus on the spiritual discipline of serving; sacrificial, self-denying, often secret acts of service. This disicpline is designed to break our heart of loving ourself in an idolatrous fashion and fill our heart with the love of Christ for our neighbors.
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The Faith of Jesus: The Cross And The Problem of Evil
The events of Easter, climaxing in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ reveal to us God's answer to the problem of evil. He does not offer us an explanation, but an event in which God deals with evil -- and establishes the paradigm for us in which evil is overcome by good.
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Disciplines of Life
How do we grow into the type of people that God created us to be and that we truly long to be? The apostle Paul describes the tension that best answers this question when he wrote: So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. Philip. 2:12-13 (NASB-U) God's grace is what transforms, but He calls us to participate in that transformation and He provides us with the spiritual disciplines as the avenue of that participation. In Proverbs 3:13-35, we have sound biblical instruction about this process. We see that: 1. Wisdom is to be PREFERRED. 2. Wisdom is to be PONDERED. 3. Wisdom is to be PERSONAL. 4. Wisdom is to be PRACTICED.
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Loving Your Enemies
As Paul reaches Jerusalem, he encounters the prophesiezed persecution from the Jews he was expecting. His reaction to this persecution and the Jews perpetrating it, reveals a heart that has been transformed by the grace of God that loves its enemies.
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Being and Doing In the Kingdom
As Paul nears Jerusalem, the Spirit repeatedly emphasizes that what awaits him there is bondage and persecution. In the face of this revelation, and with his companions urging him to not go on, what is it about Paul that allows him to stay faithful to his calling?
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Kingdom Community
Paul is wrapping up his third missionary journey and heading back to Jerusalem with an offering from the poor and delegates from the churches that had contributed. As they stop in Troas, the church gathers to say a final farewell to Paul. In this glimpse into the life of the early church, we get to see some of the defining values of the early church community.
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