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Philippians 2:19-30By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Today we are in Philippians 2:12-18: "Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that …
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The Relational Mindset : Humility | Abel Mendez
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This Sunday we are in Philippians 2:5-11: "In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found i…
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Unlocking the Christ Mindset | Ryan Pfeiffer
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This Sunday we'll study Philippians 1:12-26 and see Paul's character as he deals with opposition and hardship.By Ryan Pfeiffer
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To Live is Christ: Mindset | Ryan Pfeiffer
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I'm looking forward to starting our new fall sermon series in the book of Philippians this Sunday! Before our first message in Philippians this weekend I encourage you read Acts 16 which gives the story of the birth of the church in Philippi. This will provide helpful context for you as we begin our journey through Paul's letter.…
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In the final installment of our recurring series study of spiritual practices, Rhythms for Renewal, today we will focus on the practice of Generosity. We did the first few messages in this series in January on the practices of God’s Word, Fellowship, and Service and then a few more messages in May on Worship, Prayer, and Sabbath, and last week we l…
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As we return to our Rhythms for Renewal, today we will focus on the practice of Silence & Solitude with a message on Mark 1:32-39. This is the final two-week installment in our study of spiritual practices throughout this year. We did the first few messages in this series in January on the practices of God’s Word, Fellowship, and Service and then a…
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God of Revival: Reconciliation to Renewal | Abel Mendez
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This weekend in JOSEPH we will continue our study in Genesis looking at chapter 45, as Joseph reveals himself to his brothers and his family experiences renewal.By Abel Mendez
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Forgiveness to Reconciliation | Ryan Pfeiffer
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This weekend in JOSEPH we will continue our study in Genesis looking at chapter 44, as Joseph continues to hide his identity from his brothers as they seek out food in Egypt.By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Genesis 43:14-31By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Genesis 42:1-28By Abel Mendez
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Christian Humanist Profiles 259: Katherine Dell
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When I was a novice in Biblical Studies Hans Frei’s book The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative invited me to consider not only the world that gave us the Bible but also the world that the Bible gives us, to read the canonical text as world-generating as well as world-contingent. As I continued in the discipline, another world emerged, namely the world …
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Genesis 41 (Part 2)By Mark Foreman
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Genesis 41:1-40By Mark Foreman
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Dreams to Destiny: Perseverance | Ryan Pfeiffer
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Genesis 40:1-23By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Genesis 39:1-23By James Choung
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Dreams to Destiny: The Pit | Ryan Pfeiffer
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Genesis 37:12-26By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Genesis 37:1-11By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Sabbath: A Joyfully Subversive Sanctuary in Time | Joseph Carlson
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Matthew 12:1-14By Joseph Carlson
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Christian Humanist Profiles 258: Ben Witherington
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Slogans have always occupied our public attention, and the ways that an enemy redefines a slogan can be as important as the phrase’s original connotation. We can learn a fair bit about public life and public speech just tracing the course and changes and counter-thrusts surrounding words and phrases like fake news, alt-right, social justice, and wo…
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Luke 11:1-13By Nic Gilmour
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Revelation 4:1-11By Ryan Pfeiffer
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1 Corinthians 14:1-5By Ryan Pfeiffer
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1 Corinthians 13:1-13By Mark Foreman
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1 Corinthians 12:1-11By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Becoming a Disciple-Making Culture | James Walton
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Matthew 28:16-20By James Walton
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John 20:24-29By Abel Mendez
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Luke 24:36-49By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Christian Humanist Profiles 257: David Jasper
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Taken down to their etymological components, scriptures are any written texts and literature is any human craft involving letters, usually of some alphabet or another. But etymological roots don’t go far making sense of the fascination and the division and the devotion and the emotion that literature and scriptures bring forth in readers of all sor…
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Luke 24:13-35By Ryan Pfeiffer
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John 20:1-18By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Christian Humanist Profiles 256: Jeffrey Bilbro & David Henreckson
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What is education for? The oldest grand library of which I have any knowledge is the tablet-collection of the Assyrian emperor Ashurbanipal, and as far as I can tell, it’s mainly a collection of magic spells for the court sorcerers to draw from when they need this or that kind of wizardry. And on the other end of things, in our little corner of the…
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Matthew 21:1-17By Ryan Pfeiffer
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John 11:38-57 This Sunday we continue in the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from death to life (John 11:38-57) as part of our RISE series leading to Easter.By Nic Gilmour
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Christian Humanist Profile 255: Michael F. Bird
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If you don’t spend much time around Biblical-studies people, the neologism “parallelomania” might be a new one on you, so let me explain: for different reasons, some writers in Biblical studies seem bent on discovering, naming, and insisting on a particular significance for any text that looks like, sounds like, works like, and otherwise resembles …
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A Bright Sadness: The Paradox of Pain | Joseph Carlson
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John 11:1-37 This weekend we will begin our new series for the Easter season called Rise. We’re going to take a four-week journey together to prepare our hearts for the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.By Joseph Carlson
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Mark Foreman shares an important message with us on Christians and Politics. Mark recently shared this teaching at a pastors’ gathering and it was so phenomenal we wanted him to bring it to our church family. He has great wisdom for us as Christians in America right now on how to lift our political concerns up to the heights of the kingdom of God, …
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Christian Humanist Profiles 254: Gary Dorrien
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History as a practice examines the contingent. Everything that leaves evidence of having-happened might have happened otherwise, and nothing that has come to be except that it displaced other things that might have been. In the realm of Black religion in the United States, the what-if questions and counterfactuals wonder about a seventy-year-old Dr…
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John 4:39-42 - This is the final message in our "Well Said" series on Jesus’ conversation with the woman at the well in John 4. Sign up for Gospel Conversations, an excellent follow-up workshop to help you further develop tools for sharing the good news of Jesus and build your confidence in doing so in a natural, conversational way. It’s a 3-week c…
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John 4:10-26 - As we continue in our Well Said series about Jesus’ conversation with the woman at the well, we are focusing on the living water that Jesus offers to us and those around us.By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Well Said - Gospel Conversations | Nate Alcorn & Debbie Samuels
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This weekend we continue our series on John 4 called Well Said. I want to encourage you to take a moment to read John 4:1-10, the passage we will focus on as we take time to learn ways to engage in Gospel Conversations with the people in our lives.By Debbie Samuels
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John 4:27-38By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Service | Ryan Pfeiffer & Kelly Steele Carlson
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John 13:1-9, 15 - This weekend in our series Rhythms for Renewal we explore the role of service in our lives & how it strengthens us in our relationship with the Lord.By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Spiritual Practice: Fellowship | Ryan Pfeiffer
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Acts 2:42-47By Ryan Pfeiffer
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2 Timothy 3-12-4:-5By Mark Friestad
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Luke 6:46-49By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Christian Humanist Profiles 253: Eckart Frahm
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Some of us first encounter them as the wicked city that Jonah eventually visits. For others they’re one of the Asian empires that Herodotus surveys on his way to the grand showdown between the Persians and the Greek-speaking city-states. Some of us have run into their legendary figures Sardanapallus and Semiramis in Dante or Byron. And of course so…
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Matthew 2:1-12By Mark Friestad
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Luke 2:1-21By Ryan Pfeiffer
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Joseph The Just & The Strangely Wrapped Gift | Joseph Carlson
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Matthew 1:18-35By Joseph Carlson
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