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Reflections on Hebrews 3:12-14 2008-12-19

12 Take care, brothers and sisters, so that there will not be in any of you an evil faithless heart by which to fall away from the living God, 13 but encourage one another every day as long as the day is still called Today, so that none from among you become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For ...

Translation and Commentary on Hebrews 3:12-14 2008-08-10

Translation 12 Take care, [a] brothers and sisters, so that there will not be in any of you an evil faithless heart by which to fall away [b] from the living God, 13 but encourage one another every day [c] as long as the day is still called Today, [d] so that none [e] from among you become hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we become participants ...

Participation and Transformation, Part 4 (Romans 12:1-2) 2007-10-01

Vibrant Sanctified LifeGod in his mercies gave us in Christ Jesus a new mind a new set of desires that are beyond what we could imagine before. Paul is urging us on here to that greater immeasurable Christian imagination. Now why do I put it like that? Lewis put it something like this:Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises ...

Participation and Transformation, Part 3 (Romans 12:1-2) 2007-09-30

The Mercies of God as the Basis for Sanctification and Paul's UrgingPaul had written to the church at Rome. That church had some life in it in its own right. He was hashing out some of the main points of the Gospel for them and he turns to urge these good Christian people towards their created purpose. In ...

Participation and Transformation, Part 2 (Romans 12:1-2) 2007-09-27

When Paul pens Romans 12:1-2, he has in mind the unspeakable, immeasurable wonder of what is ours in Jesus Christ. Jesus is the man that has already experienced resurrection and brings that life giving purpose from the future into this world here and now. We who are in Christ, who is himself the image of God in whom the likeness of ...

Come and See - Sermon Audio 2007-05-15

A sermon preached at Arlington (Texas) Presbyterian ...