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Quotes regarding the dominant understanding of our culture, which denies there is an objective human nature. The dominant belief today is that freedom and fulfillment is found by determining our own reality and nature and embracing our desires, whatever they may be.
The key to human freedom is recognizing and embracing our inherent nature as we were created by God, including both the God-given dignity and limits of that nature.
Genesis 1:26-31
“Authentic II” is a study of the letter of Second John. The short letter of Second John is full of big topics, helping to define an authentic Christian faith and life.
Authentic community requires in person, face to face relationships rather than those mediated by technology.
2 John 12-13
Believers must be prepared to resist unauthentic teachings that distort the Person and work of Jesus Christ and thus create a false Gospel.
2 John 7-11
Authentic love is rooted in the character of God, displayed in the life and death of Christ, described in God’s Law, and is an essential trait of the obedient Christian life.
2 John 1-6
In our rebellion against God, humanity has consistently demeaned, degraded, and attempted to destroy other humans because they are created in God’s image.
Genesis 4:8-10
Authentic truth has been revealed in Jesus Christ, preserved for us in Scripture, is experienced by Christians through the powerful Presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and is displayed in a life of obedience to God.
2 John 1-4
God gives the blessing of grace, mercy, and peace to His people, the Church, through Jesus Christ.
2 John 1:1-3
The Scriptures provide satisfaction for the Christian soul.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
“The Advent” is a 5-teaching series, which was taught to help us celebrate Advent in 2020. Advent is a time to reflect upon the coming of Christ, and how He is the source of true hope, peace, love, and joy.
Christ has come that we might experience true, full life, now and eternally.
Romans 5:1-5
All people are motivated by the search for joy and happiness, but the route to real joy is through the shadow’s valley and into the wide-open arms of your Lord.
John 15: 9-11
Advent Devotionals Week 4 – Joy
God showed His love for us by sending His Son to sacrificially lay down His life for us, and we are to follow His example by laying down our lives for others.
John 15:13; 1 John 4:7-12
Advent Devotionals Week 3 – Love
Peace comes from within through the strength that Christ provides, not from our external circumstances or possessions.
Luke 8:22-25
Advent Devotionals Week 2 – Peace (December 7 – 12, 2020)
In times of distress we need to expectantly wait upon God, knowing we can have hope because He is the Sovereign God Who has fulfilled all of His promises in Christ.
Isaiah 40
The first week of Advent Devotionals for 2020 on Hope.
This 11-week series talk about how the Church is the Body, Bride, and Temple of Christ, the community of all true believers for all time, and all Christians are called to be part of local churches where they worship, care for one another, and serve God’s purposes in the world together.
Question 71: Are Christians only called to be part of the universal Church?
The Church has been given the Spirit to empower us to be on mission together, taking the Gospel forth and displaying the love of God to others from our location to the ends of the earth.
Luke 4:16-19; Luke 24:45-49
Question 71: Are Christians only called to be part of the universal Church?
The local church community is where we are taught humble servanthood as a virtue, where we practice acts of servanthood, and where our souls are shaped so that our whole life becomes characterized by the attitude and practices of servanthood.
Galatians 5:13-15
The Church is the community of those who are God’s people through faith in Christ and are therefore exiles in this world. Consequently, they must persevere through suffering and persecution, knowing God is worth far more than this passing age.
Hebrews 11
The Church is God’s Nation in the world today, comprised of believers from every earthly nation, scattered throughout every earthly nation, and with ultimate loyalty and affection reserved for God and His kingdom.
1 Peter 5:1-2; 2:9-12; 5:13-14