Lose It All to Gain It All

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What are we willing to do to gain something of value? Well, you may respond that it depends on what it is. In so many realms of our lives, ...

All About the Resurrection

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Are you really who you say you are?

We are doubted every day. Every time we log in. Every time we swipe. Every time we try to unlock our phones. ...

Miraculous Births: The Church

This sermon is part of the “Miraculous Births” sermon series. See the whole series here.

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Getting Things Done, Deep Work, First ...

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Across from the residence where I lived in college stood a mysterious building known as Scroll and Key. This great stone-clad mausoleum was ...

A Hunger for Glory

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Something happened in the fall of 1976 that sent shockwaves through the senior class of Edina-East High School in Edina, Minnesota. During ...

Your Brothers' Keeper?

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Sibling rivalry is a reality of life. For those who have a sibling or two, it starts young. Like the first-grader who came home and proudly ...

God's Eraser

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I have a friend who has a great saying. He says, "Make your plans in pencil because God has a big eraser." That's great wisdom. I used to ...

To Live Is Christ, and to Die Is Gain

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I don't like it when people take Bible verses out of context and slap them on coffee mugs, put them on bookmarks, put them on bumper stickers. ...

Testing the Limits

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For the past couple of weeks we've been talking about friendship. And what we're learning is that our friendships play an important role in ...

Renewing Work: Cupcakes and the Glory of God

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We're in a series called (re)new and we're looking at how the gospel makes everything new again. How does the gospel change the way I look ...

The Power of Identity

The story behind the sermon (from Jeff Manion)

In preparing to preach on Ephesians 1:3-14, I felt that there were a couple significant challenges to overcome. ...

Fly Like an Eagle

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An old American Indian legend tells about a brave who found an eagle's egg and put it into the nest of a turkey. The eaglet hatched with the ...

The Secret of Self-Esteem

Several years ago television star Suzanne Somers was on a talk show discussing her experience as an adult child of an alcoholic. During the course of ...

There Must Be More Than This

I grew up in church, and I learned at a pretty early age that I didn't enjoy it all that much, except for maybe snack time. (I didn't fully understand ...

Why Is My Christian Walk So Unstable?

Several years ago my grandmother agreed to allow a Craftmatic Adjustable Bed salesman come to her home and make a presentation. She thought this might ...

Think Like a Christian

A few years ago a pseudo-religion began working its way into the American mindset—you can see evidence of it in self-help books, modern music, ...

Singing in the Rain

The psalmist is singing again. It's not exactly like singing in the rain, but it's kind of like singing in the rain, because he's in trouble ...