Tag: morality
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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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Fruit Checking
I urge you to not become a fruit checker. Why?It is a depressing job. To look for the blemishes and nicks and rotten spaces in fruit has got to be one of the more discouraging jobs. Why? Well, what makes perfect, perfect? Is there a standard of perfection that any piece of fruit can match? …
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Purity – Modelling Purity
This week’s and last weeks sermons were about purity. We ended by talking about the necessity of modelling We read in Titus 2, “Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love…
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Purity – Clean on the Inside
Our passage for this week is Psalm 119:9. It says, "How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word." Purity. Yes, it is about morality. However, purity is also about much more. Purity in our morality is important. Purity in what we think, allow into our minds, and…
Pastor John D Jakes 