Tag: God
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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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At Calvary – Episode 80 – Exchanging Truth for Lies
How do we get rid of guilt? The Bible’s antidote to guilt is the cross. How do folks who don’t want to give their life to Jesus attempt to get rid of guilt? They do it the way people have always rigged things. Rigged scales. Rigged games. Rigged life. All of it happens when we…
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At Calvary – Episode 79 – Is Purity Popular?
Pure. Innocent. When did these words become insults rather than praises? Our culture treats the pure as if they are deficient in some way. The words innocent and naïve are treated as synonyms. Why do we do that? Paul explains in Romans 1 that this dismantling of purity is a symptom of humanity’s rejection of…
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Living by Grace Protects Us
As a Christian, I am very familiar with being saved by grace. The question I often have, though, is, “Do I live by grace?” Have you asked that question of yourself lately? Paul says, “By grace you have been saved through faith. And that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. Not of…
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At Calvary – Episode 78 – Wise or Foolish?
When we think about fools, we usually think about those sophomoric characters in buddy movies. However, God has a different description – too wise for their own good. When we think we are wise without God, we are in danger. We are in danger of giving up what is real for a fantasy of our…
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At Calvary – Episode 77 – When People Don’t Think about God
As we think about the suppression of truth, we might think of folks with agendas who are trying to influence how people think. We might think of Facebook, Twitter, or the media. Most of us don’t realize that such influencing started much earlier in our history. It started when mankind thought that honoring and thanking…
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At Calvary – Episode 76 – Suppressing Truth, Suppressing People
God has declared that He is knowable. He tells us that He is not just knowable to those who have grown up in church. God has said that He is knowable to any who honestly just observe creation. So, why do so many people deny who God is? God says that it is because people…
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Precious Jesus
Which type of jewelry do you like – the gold and precious stones type or the homemade type? I am sure the vote is mixed. Some of us like the prettiness of store bought jewelry. Some of us like that homemade jewelry always reminds us of the person who gave it. Now think about God’s…
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At Calvary – Episode 75 – The Wrath of God, Not Always What You Think It Is
Hell. Damnation. These two words commonly come to mind when we think about the idea of God’s wrath. However, what if God’s wrath isn’t always what we think it is? What if God’s wrath isn’t immediately the fires of perdition? What if God’s wrath begins by God giving us the wickedness we ask for? What…
Pastor John D Jakes 