Sermons About Sons
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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Galatians 3.26-29: what are you wearing?
This Sunday we deal with the complex statement “there is nothing more important than what you are wearing” as we continue our study in the book of Galatians.
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Following Christ -- Eph. 1:3-6
In seeking all the fleeting pleasures this world offers we're prone to miss the real spiritual blessings that we have in Christ. Paul here reminds us of the richness of those blessings. God has chosen us to be his children and to be holy and blameless before him.
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"Go Talk to Your Father"
To pray in the name of Jesus is to pray, through God's Spirit, to God as "Abba, Father", coming to him in the love and trust that title makes possible.
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The self-defeating strategy of rule keeping
Christians are sons but how should we live? Not as slaves to rule keeping but by grace. Enjoying the gospel. These are the final three nails in the coffin of rule-keeping - 1. Rule keeping is idolatry 2. Rule keeping is joyless 3. Rule keeping is futureless
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Fighting for peace (AM)
Matt. 5:9 reveals the exclusive right to internal and eternal happiness for the peacemakers. In contrast to the world's constant pursuit of war or of cheap peace, kingdom peacemakers actively make peace happen on the basis of truth and in imitation of the greatest Peacemaker, the crucified Christ.
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Doing Right When Life Isn't Working
Does it ever seem to you like life simply is not going your way? Imagine waking up on the first morning of your marriage and the person lying next to you is not the person you thought you were marrying. Imagine the confusion, disappointment, anger, and hurt that would run through your mind all at once. That was the life the Jacob woke up to on a very strange morning. Jacob waited another week to get the wife he really wanted, and it was not long before the two wives became four wives. What a mess. It was not a mess that was entirely Jacob’s fault, but it was a mess that he was going to have to live with. And it is a mess that God has preserved for us in His Word so that we could learn about His greatness and mercy. Most of our lives are not filled with problems that stem from four wives, or marrying someone we did not plan to marry. They are rather problems that stem from our own choices and the choices of those around us. While these choices may have brought great problems for us, we can learn about God’s mercy and goodness through the life of Jacob as we look at this part of life this morning.
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Session 5: Raising Masculine Sons and Feminine Daughters
Some practical thoughts on how to foster masculine sons and feminine daughters.
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