Teaching by Tag: Moral Purity
James: Living Out Our Faith, Part 3
When the church doesn't listen to the world, the world doesn't listen to the church. Listening is a platform for evangelism, and often listening speaks more than speaking does.
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The Patriarchs, Part 6: Jacob’s Personality
Present decisions determine future consequences. Living for the present will destroy your future.
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Seeing People As They Are, Part 2
Words create and words destroy. The words we speak shape the lives of the people we come into contact with. The church needs to be a proactive influence in the lives of everyone inside and outside of it with the tone and timing of our words.
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The Conscience
We tend to think of our conscience as a thermometer that registers the moral temperature around us. In reality, the conscience is more like a thermostat, which can be "reprogrammed" by the influences around us.
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Sexuality and the Gospel, Part 3
As we engage the culture with the topics of sexuality and the gospel, it is not our place to hate or judge. The broken world is waiting to see salt and light combined with grace and truth.
Watch / ListenSexuality and the Gospel, Part 2
As we address the issues of sexuality and marriage, love does not necessarily mean agreement nor does disagreement necessarily mean hate. But in our obedience, God often reveals the deeper things of Himself.
Watch / ListenSexuality and the Gospel, Part 1
Until you see yourself as sexually broken, you will never empathize with the brokenness of others; you will demonize them. God's indictment is not on a particular community, but on the sinfulness of all people.
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Rooted: A Study of Deeper Faith in Colossians, Part 11
Character counts. For better or worse, human character always impacts history. But divine character, led and influenced by the Holy Spirit, always impacts eternity.
Watch / ListenRooted: A Study of Deeper Faith in Colossians, Part 6
What does it mean to be complete in Christ?
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Getting to Know Scripture, Part 3
While we gain knowledge through study and insight through meditation, application is the practical implementation of Biblical precepts into our everyday lives. “Little” violations of the Word of God today will have major implications and consequences later in life. Where do we need to recalculate?
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Taking God Seriously, Part 3
Obedience is a key part of the Christian life, and God enables us in whatever He has called us to. It is not our purpose as Christ-followers to pass moral judgement on the world and society at-large. Rather, we are to uphold the testimony of the Gospel by holding fellow Christians accountable to obedience to the Word of God.
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The World System: It’s Where You Live, Part 1
We live in the tension of being in the world system, but not of it. As followers of Christ, how do we navigate this tension? In part one of this series, Pastor Mike defines the world system through the lens of scripture.
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Making Molehills Out of Mountains, Part 1
Moral purity and generosity represent two major biblical “mountain ranges” – huge teachings that span the width of Scripture – have become reduced to nothing more than molehills in the eyes of the world around us. Compromise only leads to more compromise in either of these areas.
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