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Date: Sun, Nov 26, 2017 Teacher: James Slone

Passage: Matthew 24:45-46

Jesus said that he is coming back. When he comes there will be a judgement separating the wise from the foolish, the good from the wicked, the sheep from the goats; and we must be ready (Matthew 24:42-25:46). The wise will be ready, the foolish will not. So, we had better smarten up if we are going to be ready for his coming.

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Planning Thanksgiving While in a Whale of a Mess

Date: Sun, Nov 19, 2017 Teacher: James Slone

Passage: Jonah 2:9

In the belly of a big fish, deep in the Mediterranean, is a strange place to make plans for thanksgiving, but that's where Jonah was and that's what he did, made plans for thanksgiving while in a whale of a mess.

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Scared Straight

Date: Sun, Nov 12, 2017 Teacher: Jon Carrell

Passage: Philippians 2:12-13

We hear this phrase in the Bible repeatedly that we are to "fear the Lord" or that we need to have "the fear of the Lord". What does that actually mean?

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The Protestant Sacrament

Date: Sun, Nov 05, 2017 Teacher: James Slone

Passage: Romans 10:14

The Reformation reclaimed and received the great message of justification by faith. Martin Luther and the reformers preached that we are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

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A Return to Repentance

Date: Sun, Oct 29, 2017 Teacher: James Slone Series: Reformation

Passage: Matthew 4:17

The first thesis in Luther's 95 Theses cites the subject of Jesus' first sermon-repentance (Matthew 4:17). In fact, the first four theses are about the nature of true repentance. A return to real repentance was not only essential for the Reformation, but it is essential for our salvation and holy living today.

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A Good Old German "Aha!"

Date: Sun, Oct 22, 2017 Teacher: James Slone Series: Reformation

Passage: Romans 1:17

Martin Luther considered Justification by Faith to be "the summary of all Christian doctrine" and "the article by which the church stands or falls." We live in dangerous days. We may not need another full-blown reformation, but we certainly need to remember and reemphasize the great Scriptural truths that revived the Church in those days 500 years ago. Let's look at some essential biblical teachings that Luther and others of the Reformation period experienced and proclaimed, truths we still must hold on to today.

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Captive to The Word of God

Date: Sun, Oct 15, 2017 Teacher: James Slone Series: Reformation

Martin Luther did not set out to start a rebellion. He was not a fire-breathing, fed-up radical hammering his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church, the event commonly associated with the Reformation. His hammer was the Word of God (Jeremiah 23:29).

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True Ease

Date: Sun, Oct 08, 2017 Teacher: Jon Carrell

Passage: Proverbs 1:32-33

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The Blessed Hope

Date: Sun, Oct 01, 2017 Teacher: James Slone Series: Hope

Passage: Titus 2:13

Paul not only ways that we have hope, he says we have blessed hope, a future full of blessings, and future that itself is blessed. All that says that the future expectations of those who have put their faith in Jesus Christ is better than good.

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Our Living Hope

Date: Sun, Sep 24, 2017 Teacher: James Slone Series: Hope

Passage: 1 Peter 1:3

Peter wrote a letter of hope, sure hope, hope for the future anchored in an event that happened in the past. By the third verse of his letter, Peter breaks into a doxology, a praise to God, in which he defines the nature and basis of that hope.

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