Monthly Archives: November 2017

Advent 2017, Podcasts

11/26/17 – A Savior Sent for Sinners – Making Gospel Proclamation the Center of Christmas

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I.DEFINING ADVENT
A.Advent is a time to rejoice that Christ has come, to enjoy that Christ is still with us, and to joyfully anticipate that Christ is coming again.

II.A SAVIOR PROMISED (Genesis 3:15,21)
A.In the immediate aftermath of Adam and Eve’s sin, God promises a future Savior who would defeat death and the Devil.
B.In the immediate aftermath of Adam and Eve’s sin, God hints of the miraculous virgin birth.
C.In the immediate aftermath of Adam and Eve’s sin, God foreshadows the penal, substitutionary, and atoning work of the cross.

III.A SAVIOR ARRIVES (Luke 2:8-20, Hebrews 2:14-15)
A.The arrival of God’s Savior was in exactly the way He promised.
B.The arrival of God’s Savior, meant glory for Him and peace for men with whom God is pleased.
C.The arrival of God’s Savior meant Jesus was born to die and through death would set free us from slavery to sin and death.

IV.OUR SAVIOR RETURNS (1 Corinthians 15:50-58)
A.The resurrection of Christ opens up the door for the return of Christ.
B.The resurrection of Christ guarantees our resurrection upon the return of Christ.
C.The resurrection of Christ that guarantees our resurrection upon the return of Christ is the ultimate victory God promised over death in the Garden of Eden.

NEXT STEP:
1.Make this season about proclamation, not just presents.

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11/12/17 – Grace Gone Wild – The Church and The Purity of Its Members and Message

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1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV
1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. 3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13 God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”

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11/6/17 – Listen To Your Daddy: A Defense of Pastoral Authority, Care, and Discipline

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1 Corinthians 4:14-21 ESV
14 I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. 16 I urge you, then, be imitators of me. 17 That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church. 18 Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power. 20 For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. 21 What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?

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