“Paul wrote, ‘Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God…'” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
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I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food.
“Paul in the letter to the Corinthians wrote, ‘I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food.’ Thanks, Paul – thanks, a lot. That is the first response of the Corinthians, at least I would imagine it so. Imagine what the Corinthians are feeling when they hear this from Paul…” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
God Chose You From The Beginning To Be Saved
“The letters to the Thessalonians are absolutely chock-full of comfortable words to believers. One of the themes of these two letters to the church in Thessolonika is the end times and how should Christians behave knowing that Jesus will return just as He promised…” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
Christian Life and Christian Death
“Paul is in prison and has been abandoned by his friends and co-workers. He is facing his own mortality, even as he continues in his teaching to young Timothy. The events that have led Paul to this place in his life have been of his own choosing. It was not a case of poor Paul being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This portion of the letter shows a man at the end of his life finding meaning in a life lived for Christ Jesus. Hear his words again, “I am already on the point of being sacrificed. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race. I have kept the faith….” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
Think about how God has set up His salvation…
“Think about how God has set up His salvation. He created us to give glory and honor to Him to the end that all might come to Him. But God did not create robots did He? No, He also implanted free will so that whoever returned to the Father might do it on his or her own…” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
I Know In Whom I Believe
“Did you catch that portion of the Letter to Timothy? The part that intimated that Paul was in prison? Paul finds himself in trouble and yet he still writes these letters to support a younger church leader….” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
Forgiveness
“The slave, Onesimus, has done the unthinkable. He has stolen his master’s valuables and run off. Somehow or another the slave and Paul meet up and during their time together, Onesimus has been converted. The slave is now a believer in our Lord Jesus…” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
Comprehending the Grace of God
In the sermon this week, I ask the congregation of Saint Mark’s the same questions Paul asked of the Colossians: “What is the fruit of this congregation?” and “Is it in line with what we see in other healthy churches?”
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“To truly comprehend the grace of God. We come to two great questions for St. Mark’s in Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae. Paul has earned the right to plant churches for the spread of the Gospel. He has internalized the Gospel of Jesus in a way that allows him to step back from a particular Body of Christ and observe the actions of the church. He begins to ask questions about the functioning of the faithful people who have gathered in the name of the Lord. We see this in the beginning of Paul’s letter. He has asked himself, ‘What are the fruits of this Colossian congregation, and are they similar to other healthy churches?'” — Listen here, or download the MP3!
How to Be a Community of New Creation
"This is the last time we will be in Paul’s letter to the Galatians for a while and he does not disappoint in this final volley to a church in trouble. Paul is reducing the several themes of this letter to a very ‘thick syrup’ of what it means to be a Community in Christ – that New Creation he speaks of so often. How does he do this?" — Listen here, or download the MP3!