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For Your Benefit & the Future
On Sunday, Paul preached from Romans 3-4 about the fact that salvation has always been by grace through faith. As we think about people being saved though, behind that is someone who took the time to share or teach the truth. Thinking on the theme of Romans, The Gospel Proclaimed and Practiced, today I want to challenge us to seriously consider the calling we have been given by Christ. Not only has the faithful obedience of this by others benefitted…
WHAT KIND OF FRUIT DO YOU LIKE (LUKE 6)
I personally like apples…and strawberry jelly, but that’s not so much fruit as it is fruit turned into something else. Jesus though tells us in Luke 6 that the fruit we produces (our actions, thoughts, & words) reveal a the nature of what’s within – the spiritual condition of our hearts. What we feed ourselves is important. My other thought was that what comes out is also important as it affects those around us for good or bad in our…
STRANGE FEET UNDER YOUR TABLE (LUKE 5)
In Luke 5 as Jesus calls Levi, we see that he has a feast with the “undesirables” of his day. The Pharisees condemned him for it. Yet they were the ones in need of the hope he spoke of and the compassion he showed. Many of us have neighbors in need of that same hope and compassion and what better place to show them that than around our own table over a meal. As Paul Tripp says, let’s put strange…