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THE LOCAL CHURCH IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD

There is nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. It comforts the grieving and heals the broken in the context of community. It builds bridges to seekers and…

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Essence of Salvation

For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices…

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Jesus is Our Sanctification:

Union with Christ in his death and resurrection is the element of union which Paul most extensively expounds…if we are united to Christ, then we are united to him at all points of his activity on our behalf. We share in his death (we were baptized into…

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Dependence on Jesus for Healing and Sanctification

And so I thought the healing would be an “it” too, that the Lord would take me like the old run-down clock, wind me up, and set me going like a machine. It was not thus at all. I found it was Himself coming in instead and giving me what I needed at the…

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The History of Redemption

The Bible is the history of redemption. That is what it really amounts to. And all the history, all that you have about other nations, comes in simply because it throws some light upon the history of redemption… It is always the history of God searching…

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An Interview about Rick and Josh’s journey to a Christ-centered theology highlighting 4 essential areas: Bible-Based Christ-Centered Spirit-Filled Mission-Minded

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Worry

Worry http://wp.me/s3zFBl-worry

Worry is a small trickle of fear that meanders through the mind until it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

—Anonymous

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Christ-centered sanctification

Being sanctified means possessing:

the thoughts of Christ, the desires of Christ, the will of Christ, the faith of Christ, the purity of Christ, the love of Christ, the unselfishness of Christ, the single aim of Christ, the humility of Christ, the…

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Great minds

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Proclaimers of the Gospel

Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to be proclaimers of the gospel of God … Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose—to proclaim the gospel of God.

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Growing in the knowledge of God

To know God personally is salvation (John 17:3). To know Him increasingly is sanctification (Phil. 3:10). To know Him perfectly is glorification (1 Cor. 13:9–12).

- Warren Wiersbe

Wiersbe, Warren W. The Bible Exposition Commentary. Wheaton, IL: Victor…

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It is impossibl...

It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.

- John Stott

John R. W. Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7):…

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Sin and God's Wrath

Sin is a deliberate treason against the majesty of God, an assault upon His crown, an insult offered to His throne.

Source: A Jealous God, Sermon 502, March 29, 1863. (p.186)

Spurgeon, C. H. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, Vol. IX. London:…

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Resurrection means life not in vain

“The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it…What you do in the present—by painting, preaching,…

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The evidence fo...

The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their…

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"Study universa...

“Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined…

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OUTLINE: ROMANS 1-8

Outline of Romans Chapters 1-8

By Rick Arnold

I. Introduction: Paul and the Gospel of God (1:1-17)

a. Paul’s call: A servant apostle set apart for the gospel (1:1-6)

b. Paul’s prayer: His desire to visit the Romans (1:7-15)

c. Paul’s Theme: The powerful gospel of God’s salvation through justification by faith in Jesus, the Son of God

II. Salvation: Needed for all have sinned (1:18-3:20)

a. The Gentiles have sinned (1:18-32)

b. The Jews have sinned (2:1-3:8)

c. The entire world has sinned and is in need of salvation (3:9-20)

III. Salvation: Justification by faith in Jesus (3:21-5:21)

a. Justification by faith revealed (3:21-31)

b. Abraham: Justification by faith illustrated (4)

c. The results of justification (5:1-11)

d. Adam vs. Jesus: Justification by faith illustrated (5:12-21)

IV. Salvation: Sanctification by faith in Jesus (6-8:17)

a. Dead to sin, alive to God in Jesus (6)

b. Dead to the law, married to Jesus (7:1-13)

c. Fighting the flesh by looking to Jesus (7:14-25)

d. Life in the Spirit of Jesus (8:1-17)

V. Salvation: Glorification throughout eternity with Jesus (8:18-39)

a. Resurrection of the dead and restoration of creation (8:18-25)

b. Present intercession (8:26-27)

c. All things work together to bring about glorification (8:28-30)

d. Eternally loved by Jesus (8:31-39)