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Sacred Psalms: Psalm 115
Scott Berthel is our teacher today. He is married to Sally and looking forward to celebrating their 22nd anniversary this summer. Together they have two daughters, Isabella and Elleanna. As a family, they enjoy traveling, cooking, reading, and playing together. They have lived in Carrollton for four years after moving from Michigan, and joined The Ridge Church three years ago. Scott serves as the Assistant Head of the Middle School at Trinity Christian Academy in Addison. He will be starting our Sacred Psalms series by teaching Psalm 115 and challenging us to consider the way all of the 150 Psalms can help to shape our worldview. Psalm 115 is an excellent example of a Psalm that offers important components of a God-centered worldview as it helps us understand more about who God is, the purpose He gives us in this world, and our human tendency to create idols as a mistaken form of response to God and His gifts.
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Sacred Parenting: The father and the fear of God
On this Father's Day we will see that the fountain head of the culture in the home is the father. He is the head of his wife and family. He is to be a servant leader in his home. As the head he should fear the Lord and walk in His ways. Such a man will be blessed in all of the contexts of his life (marriage, parenting, work and the community).
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Sacred Parenting: Culture
Each family is designed to be a culture with a languauge, customs, traditions and many unspoken assumptions. God has made the world in such a way that children who grow up in the culture of the family are to be shaped and molded by it. So what is shaping your children? Is the culture of the home shaping them or is the outside culture influences taken primacy when it comes to shaping your children? This week we will be encouraged to shape our children according to the standards of God's Word.
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Sacred Parenting: God's Covenant
This week we begin a three week teaching series on Sacred Parenting. As Christian parents we are called to know, to remember and to grow when it comes to God-centered parenting. All this for the good of our children, but even above that, for the glory of God. As we begin we will lay such a foundation as we focus on our faithful God who keeps covenant with families.
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Sacred Marriage: Denying Self (Marriage Bed)
We conclude our five week teaching series on marriage this week with looking at what God has to say about sex. God has much to say about everything, even sex. God created sex for His glory. He longs for us to have right thinking and proper practice when it comes to sex.
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Sacred Marriage: grace
The spiritual aroma of your marriage fills the whole house. This week we will see how grace must fill a marriage. It is what makes a home smell sweet of God's pleasure.
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Sacred Marriage: holiness
We continue this week through our five week teaching series on marriage. Marriage is treated casually and aimlessly in our culture. But God has a different view of marriage. This Sunday we are asking these questions: What if God didn’t design marriage to be easy? What if God had a different end in mind that went beyond our happiness and comfort? What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy? What if we had this perspective? This week we will look at marriage through this lens.
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Sacred Marriage: the fear of God
On this Mother’s Day we are going to look at the fear of God through womanhood. Then come Father’s Day we will look at the same thing through manhood. The fear of God is crucial to marriage. Today we will see the fear of God described in this sacred context.
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Sacred Marriage: God, Design and Display
Join us this week as we begin a five week teaching series on marriage. Marriage is treated casually and aimlessly in our culture. But God has a different view of marriage. In fact, He is the creator of marriage. He has given it a sacred purpose. As we launch into this series we begin with God, His design and His displaying purpose in marriage.
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Sacred Spokes: 1 Timothy 4.1-10
What are you paying attention to? What are you constantly being nourished on? Are you engaged with the disciplines of the Christian life? Paul tells the young pastor, Timothy, that we should discipline ourselves for the purpose of godliness because it is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. Today we will look at four sacred spokes that are huge to the motion and movement of our life with Christ: The Word, Prayer, Fellowship, and Witness. These are individual and corporate disciplines that we need to pay attention to, be nourished on and engaged in.
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