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To the Vibrant Lifeless Church

In this sermon, we'll dig into the sobering words of Christ to a church that looks very alive on the outside, but is very much dead on the inside. Revelation 3:1-6 is a letter to a vibrant [but] lifeless church, with convicting words that every Christian needs to hear.

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To the Courageous Compromising Church

In Christ's third letter to the churches of Revelation 2-3, we will seek to hear and learn from what the Spirit says to the courageous (yet) compromising church in Pergamum (Revelation 2:12-17). What can we learn from a church that was standing strong against the external pressures of the culture, while caving into the internal pressures of sin and temptation? We'll explore that in this sermon.

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To the Troubled Suffering Church

This Lord's Day we will hear and work through Christ's letter to the struggling church in Smyrna. We'll consider the sufferings they were enduring and the way Christ encourages them, and then spend some time applying the passage to our current circumstances as a church.

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To The Loveless Orthodox Church

In this sermon, we will kick off a new mini-series on Christ's letters to his churches in Revelation 2-3. In this first letter (Revelation 2:1-7), we'll see consider what Christ has to say to the church in Ephesus, a church much like our own. We'll meditate on the danger of a loveless orthodoxy and hear what Christ has to say to a church that has fallen prey to this danger.

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Identifying Unfaithful Teachers

Continuing our line-by-line study of the letter of 1 Timothy, we'll consider the four marks of unfaithful teachers given in 1 Timothy 6:2b-10. Do you know how to spot an unfaithful spiritual leader? Paul's instructions in these verses are very helpful for learning how to do so.

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Death Precedes Life

This Resurrection Sunday our Scripture text is 1 Corinthians 15:35-49. We'll dig into this passage together and consider how Paul uses the relationship of seeds to crops and of Adam to Christ to address the skepticism of those who believe the resurrection of all believers to be impossible. God's work in nature and in redemption both testify to the fact that in God's world, death precedes life.

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Christian Identity & Peter's Call to Action

The book of 1 Peter has much to say about Christian identity and how Christians are to respond to trials, suffering, and the alienation that comes from our allegiance to Jesus Christ. In this week's passage, we'll look at 1 Peter 1:13-21 to see the different ways Christians are encouraged to live out their faith and respond to the grace of God in hope, holiness, and reverent worship.

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Faithfulness in Hard Places

In this sermon, we will tackle the difficult words of 1 Timothy 6:1-2, where God instructs slaves to show respect and work hard for their earthly masters for the sake of the Gospel. There is no downplaying the difficulty of obeying teaching like this, nor of situations like that which it addresses. But God calls us to faithfulness even in the hardest of situations, as we'll hear in these two verses.

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How to Handle Unfaithful Pastors

Continuing in our line by line study of 1 Timothy, we'll wrestle with Paul's instruction in 1 Timothy 5:19-21 which teaches us what to do when a pastor becomes morally disqualified from serving as a pastor. Hard situations like this require clear and direct instructions, like what God gives us in this text. This passage will help us see that doing what's right in the church is far better than simply doing what's easy. May Christ be honored as we hear and respond to his Word again on Sunday.

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Supporting Faithful Pastors

This week's exposition of Scripture will be focused on the command to give generous material support to faithful pastors in 1 Timothy 5:17-18. What does it mean to give pastors "double honor" (v. 17) and why is it important to do so? It may not be the text you've been longing to hear preached, but with God's help we will see the goodness in it and why it's an important part of building a faithful church.

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On Christian Contentment

In today’s sermon, Paul walks us through the definition of Christian contentment and how we can apply that in our daily lives. The definition of Christian contentment we will be looking at today is taken from The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs. “Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.”

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