Tag: Every Thursday
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At Calvary – Episode 90 – The Joy of the Lord is Jesus
Joy. We connect it so often with happiness. Happiness is temporary. Happiness is connected with our circumstances. Biblical joy is deeper. Jesus had joy when facing the cross. He offers to give us the same type of joy. Looking for more? You can always find all of the episodes right here…
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At Calvary – Episode 89 – The Word is Grace
Big words cause our tongues to trip. Small words trip up our life. This week at the Lighthouse Community Center we talk about a small word that has a huge meaning. It is the word that tells us what Jesus came to give us. That word is grace. Looking for more? You can always find…
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At Calvary – Episode 88 – How Can We Be Content?
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme. There is an almost insatiable desire for more built into our culture. It even bleeds into Christmas. As we prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ, it might be a good time to consider what it means to be content. Looking for more? You can always find all of the episodes right…
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At Calvary – Episode 87 – Thanksgiving and Gratitude
There is something significant about saying, “Thank you!” It isn’t just something we should do when we are helped by a server at a restaurant. Nor is it just a word that we should say when someone passes the potatoes. It is also a deep attitude of the heart that we should have toward God…
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At Calvary – Episode 86 – More than in Name Only
“Follow me as I follow Christ.” This is an encouragement that God’s man, Paul, gave to the young church leader Timothy. Paul wasn’t just asking Timothy to follow his example. He was also encouraging him to compare Paul’s example to the example of Jesus. Likewise, it is one thing for us to claim the name,…
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At Calvary – Episode 85 – Justified Before God?
Talk is cheap. That is a well used observation, isn’t it? It is the observation that it is easy to say things that sound good or loving. It is easy to sound committed to a cause. It is much more difficult to actually be committed. Did you know that God thinks that our talk is…
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At Calvary – Episode 84 – Becoming People Who Can’t Be Trusted
We’re better than lost people, aren’t we? Such is the attitude of self-righteousness and hypocrisy that we so often critiqued by the apostle Paul and our Lord Jesus. They didn’t just say that we shouldn’t think like that. They said that thinking such thoughts condemns us! We learn why this week during our time in…
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At Calvary – Episode 83 – Becoming People Who Can’t Be Trusted
We talk about sin as a wrong thing we do. Have we ever thought about what repeated sin does to our thinking? As we finish Romans chapter 1 this week, Pastors Jeff, Ed, and John share how humanity’s repeated choosing of selfishness and our consistent rejection of God’s way of thinking has made our own…
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At Calvary – Episode 82 – What a Tangled Web We Weave
Depraved. The word brings up images of the vilest of things. However, when God uses the word He doesn’t use it exclusively for those things which are traditionally considered immoral. He also uses ‘depraved’ to describe activities that we accept as commonplace. It should make us pause to wonder why we don’t consider such sins…
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At Calvary – Episode 81 – Love without Truth is Not Love
There are times I really shake my head at the news, don’t you? I just can’t understand the choices people make sometimes. I wonder if it has ever been as bad as it is today. In our passage this week, the book of Romans mentions something that many of us might think as a recent…
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