Category Archives: Galatians
April 10, 2011 The Cross
4.10.11 Next 2 Sundays before Easter: the Cross Why the cross? Why didn’t God just forgive us? Galatians 1:4 “who gave himself” 2:20 “who loved me and gave himself for me” 1. The cross was an action of love: the sacrificial giving of oneself for others. Why didn’t God just forgive us? because when someone [...]
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July 25, 2010 Carry People’s Burdens
7.25.10 Mt 22:34-40 “love your neighbor as yourself” How do you love yourself? Answer this and you will know how you should love your neighbor. You naturally love yourself for your own sake. (not some quality of you) You wish your own good, even when you may not like yourself or things you have done. [...]
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March 22, 2009 Love One Another II
download 3.22.09 Before I left for Africa I preached on John 13:34: “Love one another” The point of the sermon was that being part of a church is not simply attending a Sunday service, but loving your brothers and sisters in that church all through the week Today I want to look at 10 commandments [...]
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November 23, 2008 Walk by the Spirit
download 11.23.08 Galatians 5:16-18 The problem that the Galatians have that Paul is answering is this: “Even though we have the Spirit we find that we still have evil desires. How can we resist these evil desires and do what pleases God?” They had received an answer to this question from some other Christian missionaries [...]
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October 19, 2008 Jesus Against Religion
download Once I was in a large store with a demonstration model of a living room. The furniture was all arranged and on the shelves were beautiful hardback editions of classic works like Moby Dick and Great Expectations and War and Peace. Being a book lover I was drawn to these beautiful books and I [...]
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