Sermons About Slaves
Is Jesus-centeredness culturally relevant?
Underneath this text is a big question - namely, how do you understand the Bible? This is a bigger question because it really informs the answers at which you arrive. How you read and interpret the Bible has a direct impact in your conclusions. So the issues in play here are not just about women, slaves, and masters.
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Galatians 4.8-20: marks of sonship
Scripture says that God is unknowable, but that He reveals some things to us. This week as we continue our study of the letter to the Galatians we look at three distinguishing marks that are revealed to us as characteristics of children of God.
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Honor Your Masters
Honoring our masters relates to today in more ways than we think. Our work relationships in a sense are similar to the master slave relationships of earlier biblical times.
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Moses & the Exodus: Out of the Frying Pan
God chooses another man, Moses. He is to go to the Hebrew slaves. God often chooses unlikely leaders, and he does so for his own purposes and his own glory. Moses was a reluctant recruit, as many of us are. But even though he lacked some important qualities, God lifted him to the highest point of the Old Covenant.
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Living for Pleasure
As the Teacher in Ecclesiastes continues his quest for meaning, his describes his test of living for pleasure and concludes that it too is pointless.
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1 Timothy 6:1-2 (PM)
Adam preaches 1 Tim. 6:1-2. Paul directs slaves in the church at Ephesus to serve and respect their masters, regardless of their masters' spiritual condition, so that the message of the cross would remain credible.
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alt.church.lifestyle
In his letter to Titus, Paul gives specific instructions to 5 different groups in the church. His theme to all of them is the same: to live "Sophron" lives. What is "Sophron" and why do we need it?
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