Category: podcast
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At Calvary – Episode 144 – The Small Stuff
Have you ever heard, “Don’t sweat the small stuff?” I understand the encouragement to not make much out of unimportant matters, but I do wonder how I should approach the smaller matters of conviction and conscience. Should I believe I am right? Should I withhold judgment? What should we do about the small stuff? Let’s…
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At Calvary – Episode 143 – Searching for Meaning in All the Wrong Places
Children ask, “What will I be when I grow up?” Students ask, “What am I going to do with my life?” Adults ask, “What gives meaning to my life?” These are not new questions. Thoughtful people have asked these questions. Truly wise people have discovered that our search for meaning leads to a very specific…
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At Calvary – Episode 142 – Grace With Others
When we are young, cause and effect can be tricky things.God shows us connections that we would have missed. He, as it were, connects the dots for us. He shows us where things will hurt us when we couldn’t have predicted it. He also shows us what will help us. We have all been in…
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At Calvary – Episode 141 – Paul’s Story for the Good News
Your story. When you share your story, why are you sharing it? Do you share it because it is important to you? Do you share it because it helps people understand some point you want to make? God’s man, Paul, shares bits of his story in his letters in the New Testament. He shares to…
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At Calvary – Episode 140 – Looking for Meaning in All the Wrong Places
We look for meaning in all sorts of places, don’t we? We look for meaning in work, in friends, in family, and even in service to others or our world. Yet, we find this struggle at work – too often the activities of work, friendships, family, and even service seem trivial. Where is the meaning?…
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At Calvary – Episode 139 – Who God is To Us Changes Us
What is most important to you? It will be the thing you live for and perhaps a thing that you would die for. For Paul the Apostle, that most important thing is the gospel of Jesus. The good news was ‘the thing’ for Paul. Why is that? What makes the good news of Jesus so…
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At Calvary – Episode 138 – Worth Living and Dying For
What is most important to you? It will be the thing you live for and perhaps a thing that you would die for. For Paul the Apostle, that most important thing is the gospel of Jesus. The good news was ‘the thing’ for Paul. Why is that? What makes the good news of Jesus so…
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At Calvary – Episode 137 – Hopeful Cynicism
Wisdom. It comes in many forms. We are familiar with proverbs. We are familiar with stories. When wisdom comes from failure, despondency, and hopelessness, however, we barely know what to do with it. This is the book of Ecclesiastes. How can we learn the truth from someone who barely understands it himself?
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At Calvary – Episode 136 – Everyday Grace
God’s message through Peter is clear: this grace that has saved us is one of those big ideas that changes what we do every day. It isn’t just a spiritual truth that gets us into Heaven. Grace also unfolds every day in our lives. How? How does who God is influence those of us who…
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At Calvary – Episode 135 – Grace. A Hill to Die On
Give me Liberty or give me Death! This is a rallying cry made famous by Patrick Henry during the American Revolution could have been Paul’s cry in the book of Galatians. Galatians, considered to be Paul’s great defense of salvation by grace alone through faith alone, outlines why the liberty of grace is so important.…
Pastor John D Jakes 