Questions We'd Like To Ask The Lord - Steve Allen
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A sermon by one of our members asking about things many of us would like to know more about and approaching the unknowable through a view of faith.
The apostles were given an order to stop preaching Jesus. We read that instead, “They Kept Right On.” In this lesson, we some other things that they persisted in doing that should be lessons and encouragements for us.
Believers should know what the greatest and second commandments are. In this study, we see how Jesus was tested with questions about these, how are the right way to test all things, and the should be a comprehensive cure for self-righteousness.
The apostle Peter told of the power and importance of the resurrection in 1 Peter 1:3-5. We particularly look at our participation in the resurrection by the mercies of God.
The apostle Paul warns us that those seem wise to men aren’t of any real spiritual help.
Being humbled by someone else is usually messy and ineffective. Being humbled by God in the end is absolutely terrifying and will be irredeemably tragic. Peter advises a better course for believers — “Humble Yourselves.”
Rick leads us through a study in Judges teaching us lessons from the strange history of Gideon and his war.
The apostle explains that Jesus is the real head to hold on to firmly, as opposed to false thing that some were tempting the brethren to cling to instead.
Peter encourages the other elders in the church to rule well as examples, not from any selfish motivation.
Miracles are a great part of the Bible record. We examine the place of these true, powerful, testimonial events from scriptures and see that the curative ones are emblematic of the spiritual help we receive through Christ in the word.
“Do Not Fear” is a common encouragement in the scriptures — but if somebody wasn’t afraid there wouldn’t be much need to say it. We look at the scripture to see what might make us afraid and see how the cure is in Jesus Christ.
Paul assured the brethren that being a disciple of Christ was not about “food, drink, festival, new moon or Sabbath day.” These things once played a vital part in the religious life of God’s people, but they were but a “shadow of what is to come.” What was to come was, of course, Christ. Who was the “substance.”
In the vivid imagery of the crucifixion Paul explain what happened to the terrible record of sins and all that was against us — Jesus nailed it to His cross and see us free.
We have to hope so. The scriptures teach the universality of sinfulness. Those sinners saved weren’t other — they are us. The this bad new is worse than we think—but the good news in Christ is better than we think. Yet the good news is often unheeded.
“Social isolation” and “shelter-in-place” recommendations and restrictions have given all of us a lot of extra time. What to do, what to do…
Concluding his the teaching on suffering persecutions, Peter ends by telling us to “entrust our souls to a faithful Creator in doing what is right.“
Peter addresss the sad and sobering subject of Christians facing persecutions. He said don’t be surprised about it, but also don’t let it make behave in a way that doesn’t follow and honor Christ.
In explaining the great change that happens to us in Christ, the apostle Paul said we were circumcised in Him (a circumcision without hands) and then buried with Him in baptism, raised with Him and made alive with Him. This is the full, and only, solution for our sins.
Peter tells just there are a lot of ways to serve, but the commonality to our service in them is be in the power and and grace of the Lord for the benefit of others.
Based on Paul’s instruction to Timothy (1 Timothy 2:1-4), a Christian approach to the current pandemic: with prayer, service, and questions of morality, ethics, and mindset for us to seriously consider.
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