Podcast: Download (35.7MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Grace, The Law & Tithing II The Law and the Believer II.mp3 Last week we began talking about Grace, the law & Tithing. During that message I illustrated that the “curse” we have been redeemed from is not the Law, but the curse of being UNDER the LETTER of the Law for righteousness. Since then I was approached with the following question… “What then IS the curse if it isn’t the Law itself”? Good question! I actually addressed this last week, but if one person missed it, they are very likely not alone, so […]
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Sunday Main 10-14-12
Podcast: Download (41.9MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Freed to Love XII.mp3 Stir it up! – PDF Key Texts: Deut. 30:6; II Thess. 3:5; Rom. 14; I Cor. 8 Review: As Jesus said in Matthew 18:7 and Luke 17:1, it is impossible to avoid offenses, but woe to those through whom they come, “It would be better for them if a millstone were tied around their neck and they were drowned in the depth of the sea…”. These are words which are uncharacteristic of Jesus’ typical teaching, which should cause all who love Him and take His words with the gravity they […]
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Podcast: Download (33.8MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Grace, The Law & Tithing I The Law and the Believer I.mp3 A question came up in one of our small groups this month concerning tithing. I had recently been addressing this very same topic with the elders of our “sister church”, A Grace Place and with Dave in particular over the course of the last year. So it seemed almost fortuitous that this question should come up now while all the facts are so clearly in my mind to deal with them. One thing I have found, and in all honesty it has […]
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The Danger of False Doctrine
A little leaven… All false doctrine has its roots in truth, which is what makes it believable! Just like rat poison, false doctrine does not need much error to be deadly. Consider this… How many grains of sand would I have to put into a jar of honey to make it not 100% pure honey? How much leaven (yeast) does it take to raise a whole lump of dough? – (the metaphor Jesus used in His teaching for the false doctrine of the Pharisees – Matt. 16:6-12; Gal. 5:7-9). Not to make too much use of examples, but this is a very […]
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Podcast: Download (40.2MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Freed to Love XI.mp3 Stir it up! – PDF Key Texts: Deut. 30:6; II Thess. 3:5; Matt. 18:21-35; Lk. 17:1-10 Review: This week as we journeyed through Jesus’ instructions on how to deal with an offending brother we did a side by side comparison of Matt. 18 & Luke 17. This comparison offered us a much broader lense through which to see this teaching as it really took place. Though Matthew naturally has more of the original discourse, Luke’s information gathered from the apostles is from a Greek perspective and so capitalizes on different […]
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