Praying Through Our Struggles

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What is the one thing we all have in common? We all struggle, we all know what it’s like to go through hardships. We may struggle with ...

The Plans of a Fool

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My wedding ring is inscribed with one of my favourite verses in the Bible: Jeremiah 29:11, maybe you may know what it says already. It talks ...

Connecting the Dots at Christmas

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My professor Haddon Robinson from seminary tells a story about a married woman who decided to go on her own private vacation to Europe. She ...

Average Asher

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Hidden away in the some of the most tedious books of the Bible, among a myriad of unpronounceable names, lies one of the most remarkable stories ...

Lean Up

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One of the most talked about books in recent years is Sheryl Sandberg's bestseller, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Sandberg is ...

Embrace Your Reponse Ability

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Each week in this series we've asked this question: Am I taking responsibility for my life—really? The reason we've been asking this ...

Doubters Anyonymous

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"He is risen": it's the heartbeat of the message of the Christian church. These three English words are translated from one Greek word, egeirō, ...

Decisions Good Dads Make

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When we think about fathers, we often search the Bible for stories about Abraham. We study the plight of Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus. ...

Living for More and Getting Less

An insightful student of our culture, Francis Schaeffer wrote this observation on Americans just before he passed away, "It is my observation that Americans ...

Guide

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The story behind the sermon (from John Ortberg)

I have grown to love the theme of God's guidance. This is a chance to ...

Focus

Introduction

There's good news and bad news about our gospel passage. First the bad news: this is one of the most difficult, disturbing, and surprising ...

How to Be Blessed in the New Year

From the editor

Your listeners will have to make a number of choices in the new year, but no choice is more important than the choice between living within ...

Cross Here

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One of the great ironies of history is that those who took Jesus to Calvary believed they were forcing him to his dead-end; in reality, Jesus ...

Cross Talk

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There are times when the greatest power to change the world proceeds not from an act of forceful self-assertion, but from an act of gracious ...

Cross Bow

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I recently turned on the news and found myself confronted with another one of those stories that have become so common; my great fear is that ...

Cross Over

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It was an ordinary day of commuting Cameron Hollopeter. The 20-year-old film student made his way down the steps into a New York City subway ...

Cross Out

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In August of 2003, the Church of the Holy Cross in New York City was broken into twice. In the first break-in, thieves made away with a metal ...

Doubters Anonymous

Text: John 20:19–29
Topic: Dealing with doubt

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"He is risen": it's the heartbeat of the message of the Christian church. These three English ...

A Crop Is A Crop

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We've been considering what it means to be jars of clay—ordinary, fragile people living in a difficult and dangerous world. The message ...

Doubts in Belief

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I once participated in a very interesting conversation. A group of sixteen evangelical pastors, who believed the Bible and had good ministries, ...

The Lord Is My Shepherd

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I don't know much about sheep. I was born and raised in the suburbs, and we didn't have sheep. In fact, they were probably illegal. ...

The Story of Our Broken World

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When I was about ten years old, my dad, a medical doctor, received a special gift from one of his patients: a beautiful globe with shiny sequins. ...

God's Noninterventions

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When I was a boy, my sister left our home in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, and traveled to Central Bible College. She had a lifelong problem with ...

Jesus Uncensored

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I want you to replay a video in your head about coming to chapel this morning. You leave your room, checking your watch to make sure you have ...

My Favorite Heroes: Esther

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Some time ago I went on a retreat, and one of the topics at this retreat was how we're all created for a mission; everybody was made for a ...

When You Feel Under Appreciated--Mother's Day

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I’ve noticed that sometimes children enjoy looking at photo albums. Both of our girls, for some reason, really enjoy getting out all the family ...

Hilarious Hupotasso

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This is a hot button issue: the woman's role in church and family. Feelings are running high, and we all bring a certain bias with us.

Losing Our Minds

Sermon One

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How do you put together the pieces of the puzzle of life? When a terrible storm sweeps over your life and blows your careful constructions ...

Reality Shows

Sermon Two

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Imagine a report comes on the television that a terrible tragedy has just befallen a group of people beyond your town. Person "A" ...

Quantum Communion

Sermon Three

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For more than 1600 years, Christianity occupied the head seat at the vast communion table that came to be called Western Civilization. ...

Image is Everything

Sermon Four

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One of our church members recently recounted to me the story of a woman named Lorena, who directs the Onessimu Brother's Home in ...

Choosing Sides

Sermon Five

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The year was 536 B.C., the third year after the great Persian king, Cyrus, had overthrown the vast kingdom of Babylon, and a new ...

Payback Time

Sermon Six

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Almost everyone I know wants to believe what the Bible says in the first verse of Psalm 73—that "surely God is good to … ...

Bad to the Bone

Sermon Seven

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On all sides today we are reminded that something in this world has gone wrong. Women are abducted in increasing numbers. Precious ...

Superhero

Sermon Eight

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When I was five years old, I was sent to the school nurse by my kindergarten teacher, who was very concerned that I was ill. The ...

Choices

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Life has been described by many as a series of choices. That's partly true. Obviously there are times when our lives are impacted by things ...