Sermons About Truth
Truth, Lies and Love for Neighbors (Exodus 20:16)
The ninth commandment forbids perjury in a courtroom context, but its implications cover our speech in general, and especially our speaking of others. God wants a people who treasure truth, and who also treasure and guard the unity of his church.
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Accept: Truth and Grace
Accepting and balancing both Grace and Truth are essential for wholestic Christianity.
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Acts 18:19-28 - The Value of Assistance
Paul continued on his missionary journey through the Roman Empire and he brought along with him a godly couple named Priscilla and Aquilla. These two later stayed in Ephesus and taught and encouraged a man named Apollos, who was a remarkably gifted speaker but had some gaps in his theology. This couple was willing to serve and understood the Scriptures well, and God used them to help bring the truth about the grace of God available through faith in Jesus to people who had never heard of it. We should follow in their example and be willing to assist others with the gifts that God has given us so that we would have the joy of seeing the Gospel would go out into our community and change people’s lives.
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Who Do You Say I Am?
The forth message in this empowering series where we are confronted with the question Jesus asked His followers...Who do you say I am?
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Acts 17:16-34 - Turning from Idols
The Apostle Paul traveled to Athens, where he was immediately troubled by all of the idols that he saw in town. He began to share the Gospel with the people and debated with the Epicureans and the Stoics. He was then brought before the local heads of philosophy at Mars Hill and preached the Gospel to them, explaining how God had created all people and He now wanted all people to turn from their useless idols and trust in Him and His Son, Jesus Christ. We can think it strange that people would bow down to stone statues but we all have things in our lives like possessions, relationships, comforts, and pleasures, that we devote ourselves to and expect to make us happy and content instead of our relationship with God, and we need to turn from these idols and trust in Christ for our salvation and satisfaction.
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John 1:35-51 The Glory of Christ and Our Mission pt. 2
In an age of multiplying and conflicting informational images, we will become people that have been denuded of coherent stories, and in search of larger ones that can make sense of our existence and provide us with the hope and purpose we crave. The New Atheist consistently eschews the idea that there is a revelation outside of the natural order because it doesn’t fit their materialistic presuppositions, but our passage over these past few weeks have screamed out to us that God, who exists outside of time/space as the necessary cause of it, has revealed Himself in the word.
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What's So "True" About the Light?
John is not contrasting true light with false light, but Christ’s light versus any other light. All other light (human wisdom, religion, etc.) is derivative, whereas Christ’s light is from the outside and eternal. This contrasts the Greeks’ understanding of light as an inner illumination of reason or conscience, and the Hebrew idea that the light is primarily written in the scriptures. It is the source of that light, and it comes “Into the world,†revealing something from outside our ability to know.
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