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Originally Proclaimed: 04/12/20 Intro: What is a good death? That question has been a major part of this series on the last words of Christ. Yet in our culture today we seem to be allergic to death, even its mention. We avoid discussing death by using euphemisms like “passing on”, “dearly departed” and “resting peace”.
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For a number of years, Redeemer Biblical Counseling Training Institute (RBCTI) has asked me to be one of their instructors training prospective counselors for the Association of Certified Biblical Counselor’s exam. This January, I had the privilege of teaching a course that teaches biblical counselors a basic approach to help people with problems. In an
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/09/20 Intro: Back a number of years ago, when I was a youth pastor, our group went on a World Changers Mission Trip to Tallahassee, Florida. I had the joy of being assigned to a roofing crew. Even though we were working on a hip roof, and it was at no place more
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/05/20 Intro Have you ever felt forsaken? Truly I can only ever think of two times in my life where I genuinely felt forsaken. One happened before I was ten. Union’s Carnegie Library held a children’s program for which my Mom dropped me off. It was not unusual for those programs to
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Originally Proclaimed: 03/29/20 Intro: In the earliest Protestant Catechism, the Heidelberg Catechism, the first question asks believers, “What is your only comfort in life and in death?” Just for a moment consider the answer to that question is not being so clear. Think about being someone who has never heard of Christ and his atoning
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Originally Proclaimed 03/22/20 Intro: In anticipation of Easter, we begin a four week series that will take us through the last words of Jesus Christ. Last words are important. They have an immediate impact due to the trauma of death, but also due to the significance of our lives. They linger in our minds, which
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Originally Proclaimed 6/30/19 Intro: In our series over the past weeks we have tried to ask the question, “How connected is too connected?” We have answered in part that we are too connected any time that we care more about connections than pleasing and serving God. We identified the fear of man as a perennial
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