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Weekly reflections from Mike Rinehart, bishop of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Podcast includes relevant ideas about preaching on the revised common lectionary.
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Message by Chris Brown on June 29, 2024. Have you ever wondered why you are here? Or what is the purpose of this life and how do we find real significance? Better yet, how can we win at life in a world that seems to be filled with losing? All of these answers can be found in our chapter today, and therefore hopefully in your life as well.Video avai…
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Message by Damean Easter on June 22, 2024. We are at the point in John’s vision where time is running out for the people of earth. The sixth trumpet has sounded, resulting in a third of the earth’s population being wiped out. Can it get any worse? The answer is yes, it does get worse, but before it does, we are given a pause in the pandemonium. Cha…
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Message by Chris Brown on June 15, 2024. What in the world is a loving God doing bringing so much destruction on the earth? Or maybe a better question would be: how far would God take pain and suffering to save a life? These two horrifically vivid and graphic chapters about the end of the world may just bring the hope and encouragement that we need…
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Most of us would love to experience spiritual renewal. It begins with God rousing our spirits and changing our hearts so we have a desire to seek Him and power to live according to His purposes. It leads to sacrifice, obedience, service, celebration and lament. When we see Ezra 3 in light of the cross, we find out what that looks like for us today.…
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Message by Larry Osborne on June 8, 2024. It’s easy to get caught up trying to figure out all the details of the symbolism in the Book of Revelation. This week, we come to a passage so full of symbols that most people miss the main point. Join us to find out the important and glaring principle that most people miss.Video available on YouTube at htt…
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Message by Arnold Camacho on June 1, 2024. Expectations, we all have them. Have you ever wondered what we inadvertently expect from God? There could be moments in following Jesus that we begin to believe that the Christian life is about comfort and riding the wave of salvation all the way to the shores of heaven. Yet, Jesus tells us of a different …
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Message by Chris Brown on May 25, 2024. Our culture seems to be fascinated with the spiritual realm and the understanding that there are supernatural forces around us, or amongst us, that we cannot see. In this message, a door has been opened to that world for us to get a glimpse of these spiritual beings, and to walk away with a picture that may j…
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Message by Larry Osborne on May 18, 2024. Who wouldn’t want to be blessed with health, wealth, and success? It obviously beats the alternative. But as we’ll see this weekend, those blessings and pretty much every other blessing, can come with unforeseen dangers if we don’t know what to watch out for.Video available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fu…
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Message by Chris Brown on May 11, 2024. How do you know if your Christian life is dead or alive? Or maybe a better question could be: How do you know if you are doing the things that God wants you to do? After studying chapter three and these two cities, I think the answer to both of those questions is going to be obvious and crystal clear.Video av…
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Message by Chris Brown on May 4, 2024. Maybe you have heard before that the God of the Bible is a jealous God, and that struck you as rather odd. Why is He so needy and insecure, or why does He have to have His way in everything that we do? In this message we will discover that His jealousy is not about His weakness, but ours, and that our desire t…
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Message by Damean Easter on April, 27 2024. Two churches, two letters, one God. One church God has nothing against. The other not so much. What did God see in these churches and what can we learn from them today?Video available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/2AhI7h8mSOA - Live Notes available at https://churchlinkfeeds.blob.core.windows.net/notes/3…
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Message by Larry Osborne on April 20, 2024. Great starts are no guarantee of a happy ending. And that’s exactly what we’re gonna find out in the first letter from Jesus to one of the churches in Revelation as we look at how the great and mighty fall.Video available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/p30pn_XKeCg - Live Notes available at https://churchl…
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Message by Chris Brown on April 13, 2024. For some it strikes fear, for others mystery and intrigue, and for many simply an apathy because of its confusion and uncertainty. For whichever group you find yourself in, this study of the Book of Revelation is promised to be so much more, and we hope you can hop in and buckle up for the ride of your life…
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Message by Chris Brown on April 6, 2024. If true Christianity is not just knowing the right things, but acting on them, have you ever wondered how to live out your Christian faith? After almost a year and a half of studying the life and teachings of Jesus, we finally come to the last chapter and get great examples of how to now walk in the truth.Vi…
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Message by Chris Brown on March 30, 2024. I always hated it when Christians that I knew tried to prove the Bible by using verses from the Bible. Uuugggghhh, the insanity. This message will take a few minutes looking at what the Bible claims to be truth, and then dive into the historical evidence to see if Jesus really could have raised from the dea…
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Message by Larry Osborne on March 23, 2024. When it comes to prayer, there are lots of ideas out there as to what works and what doesn’t. In this weekend’s passage, the Apostle John narrows it down to one simple concept that is too easily forgotten. Join us to find out the secret to Powerful Prayer.Video available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/TbO…
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Message by Ricky Jenkins on March 16, 2024. Choose this day whom you will serve. Join us as we dive into another week of 1 John with special guest, Pastor Ricky Jenkins.Video available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/7dyloaPLdMo - Live Notes available at https://churchlinkfeeds.blob.core.windows.net/notes/38370/note-201200.html…
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Message by Chris Brown on March 9, 2024. Somehow we have been lead to believe that Jesus came just to save us and give us a better life. Today we will see how this view of Christianity is bound to fail miserably and lead us to a place of great disappointment and frustration with God.Video available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Lut81sSVrqM - Live …
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Message by Chris Brown on March 2, 2024. If you have ever found the Christian life far more depressing and frustrating than life-giving, then you are not alone. Today we will see how Christianity has led a lot of people down a very dark road, and how to get our love, joy, and life back.Video available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Oj9mRDkK9fk - Li…
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Message by Larry Osborne on February 24, 2024. Have you noticed that it’s sometimes hard to tell what’s real and what’s bogus these days? In a world of knockoff products, phishing emails, A.I., and deepfake videos, a little extra caution is called for. It’s the same in the spiritual realm. Which is why in this week’s message we’ll dig into how to q…
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