Tag: Jesus
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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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Consider the Cost of the Life You are Living
We have been talking a lot about living for Christ on Sunday mornings. Sometimes I think that as we emphasize living for Christ we can come under the false impression that such living is easy and has no cost to us. So, we are surprised when God asks something of us that has unexpected cost.…
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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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Treasuring New Things
Jesus said, “Wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” I have always used this verse as a test. I look at what my heart yearns for, and I discover what my treasure is. What if it can also be used as a challenge? Move your heart and your treasure will follow! What…
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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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Avoiding Blind Spots
Blind spots. I hate them in my cars. They cause accidents. They scare the livin’ daylights out of me. I hate them even more in my life. The problem of blind spots in life are two-fold – 1) I resist what it takes to remove them because 2) I create them! Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart…
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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…
Pastor John D Jakes 