Sermons About Trinity
Why We Believe What We Believe About the Trinity
Today we continue our series, “Why We Believe, What We Believe.” The purpose of this series is to reacquaint us with the fundamentals of our faith. For some of us this is an important review. For others who are new to our church, you’re finding out exactly where we stand so you can make an informed choice about your attendance and involvement.
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Final Thoughts
In 1 John 5 John makes some final points about what the Christian looks like and gives us his reason for writing the letter.
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Papa & the Trinity
Like Mack, in Wm. Paul Young's book, The Shack, many of us have distorted images of God; distortions that can only be changed by an encounter with the true God at the point of our deepest hurts and disappointments.
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We believe in the Holy Spirit
Do we really need the Holy Spirit? Couldn’t we get along just fine in the Christian faith without this third rather vague member of the Trinity? Indeed, some Christians have sometimes been accused of making too little of the Holy Spirit as others have been over making too much of him. A friend of mine said we could get into danger if our Christianity became Spiritianity. Let’s be careful here with the word balance. The balance we need is not 1/3 of each person of the Trinity but the full 100% the Bible gives to each. In a sense the Holy Spirit does everything the other members do; he’s involved in creation; he’s involved in redemption, gives new life. The Father is in heaven holding the world together; the Lord Jesus, whose earthly work is finished, is with him. As the Father sent the Son, the Son has now sent the Holy Spirit. He is the one who is here with us. And what is he doing? He’s always pointing us to Jesus and applying Jesus' work of salvation.
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Mission Is...
Our God is a missional God. How does the Gospel motivate community missionwards? The Father sends the Son, the Son sends the Spirit, and the Spirit fills the church and sends it on mission and power into the world. To be on mission is simply to be like our God. It’s to understand His redemptive plan. It’s to join in His story. It’s to see our identity as it truly is.
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Community is...
God commits to make a people for Himself. This is His plan, to redeem a “people,” not just individuals. We’re not saved to be isolated individuals. This church, His people, our community, is what Christ died for and it is what we are saved into. The story of the Bible is the story of God fulfilling His promise to be our God as His people. So how do we do community? We do this by calling you into a messy community life where you “devote” yourself to learning the Gospel in fellowship with one another. This is not clean and tidy, but messy and disorganized at times. It isn’t a program to be attended, a curriculum to be mastered, but instead a life to be lived as the Gospel comes and regularly breathes new life into our wandering hearts.
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And The Word Was God
From John 1:1, I want you to see three attributes of the Lord Jesus Christ. 1. Jesus Christ is the Word of God. 2. Jesus Christ is eternal. 3. Jesus Christ is God.
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1 Peter 1:1-2 We Belong to Him
An exposition of 1 Peter 1:1-2, this sermon seeks to encourage those on mission with Jesus who are facing opposition. We're reminded in the midst of our hardships that we are simply temporary residents in this world and, better yet, chosen by God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit, and cleansed by the blood of Jesus. We belong to God!
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