So how does Jesus relate to the Old Testament? And what about us? Now that we have the New Testament, what are we supposed to think about it? God didn’t send Jesus into the world so we wouldn’t do what He wants. He sent Jesus into the world so it would be possible for us to do the right things for the right reasons. God still wants us to live good lives, do good things, live holy lives. Matthew 5:17-20
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We all want to change the world but we don’t want to change. Jesus says you are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. You know all those things you think are wrong with the world? Draw a circle around your feet and start making those changes inside the circle. Let your good works shine to lead people through the darkness—so that they will praise your heavenly Father. To salt the earth—live the extraordinary lives of normal people, uncorrupted by all the impurities of the world. You've got to be the difference you want to see in the world.
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This is who you are now—this is who you’re gonna be.
Jesus takes an interesting turn on the last Beatitude—in the previous eight blessings He said “Blessed are the poor, the meek, the pure in heart—for THEY shall see God, THEY shall be called the sons of God, for THEIRS is the kingdom of heaven. They. Theirs.
The ninth Beatitude is different—This just got personal.
Kemper Crabb performs "A Malediction" after the sermon.
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The Beatitudes are the doorway to understanding Jesus’ teaching. If we get them wrong, we get everything wrong. It’s a question of how we see the world: Are we trying to do something so God will bless us? Or are we responding to God’s blessing in how we live our lives?
Matthew 5:1-12
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Romans 12:1-2 The world wants to conform you to itself. It never sleeps. Never rests. Every moment of your life, whether you’re awake or dreaming, the world is trying to bend you, twist you and distort you into something unholy. Ungodly. Something ugly. May God give us the courage to resist the world and truly do His will as we are transformed and renewed into the people He has called us to be.
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Go straight to awkward. Not to prove anything but to offer a gift.
John 3:16–17 and 1st Peter 3:8-15
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Our job is to eat and drink with sinners like us. Not only so they can come to know the hope that we’ve found in Jesus—but also because it’s part of how God is changing us into the people Jesus is calling us to be. We’re not gonna become the people God wants us to be in isolation—we gotta do this in community.
Isaiah 55:1–3
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We can’t survive without something to believe in. We can’t live without hope, and we can’t create our own meaning, our own thing to hope in, to live for—our hope can’t be in something that can be taken away. Psalm 90
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"If we are not living for something worth dying for, we are not truly living." Kemper Crabb"
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Joy = Thankful Happiness X Hope.
Rooted in the past, experienced in the present and hopeful for the future. There is no disconnect between "Joy to the World" and Christmas cards and the darkness of a world that needs joy.
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Do you think you're better than other people? Want to have a merry Christmas? Find a way to make it less about you. Mary and Joseph had a lot of reasons to complain on that first Christmas but they seem to be filled with joy, wonder and thankfulness instead.
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We meet a nice young man who has some big decisions to make. Who were you before you believed? Who are you now?
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A young girl gets news that turns her life upside down. She becomes the first Christian. ADVENT is about waiting—not passively, not impulsively, but faithfully.
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Titus 3:1-8. In this final message of the "Faithful Sayings" series, we look at what kind of person God has saved us to be. There is also a 5th bonus saying.
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If there is a God, most of us think we could do a better job—we think we’re nicer than God, more tolerant, we wanna give Him a few pointers. We wanna help God rule the world, cause He doesn’t seem to know what He’s doing.
This is a trustworthy saying: 2nd Timothy 2:8–13
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This is a trustworthy saying: training in godliness is good—but what does that mean? How do we "train" in godliness? 1 Timothy 4:7-10
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Who are we supposed to trust? Who’s trustworthy? We don’t trust the news. We don’t trust politicians. We certainly don’t trust preachers—at least not if we don’t know them! We don’t know who to trust or what to believe. As a culture, we need something true we can put our faith in. Something we can trust. Something we can believe in.
There are five times in the Bible that the Apostle Paul says something that’s so foundational—he basically says, “look, if you don’t hear anything else I’m saying—hear this! This is true. This is trustworthy. This is a faithful saying.”
Here’s the first one: 1 Timothy 1:15 “This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.”
Grace is a scandal.
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What is the biggest idea of the Reformation? Why does it still matter 501 years later? Why does it matter to you? Listen and find out.
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For whatever reason, one day you wake up to suffocating disappointment—and God seems so far away—why’d He let these things happen? Where can we turn when we’re disappointed with God? I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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We gotta talk about our faith. If we don’t, we’re not gonna have faith—not as a culture, or as a nation, even as individual people. Because faith comes by hearing—somebody has to talk about it if anyone is gonna hear about it. Romans 10:9-10, 1 Peter 3:15
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Pastor Frank talks about how awkward it can be to visit a church for the first time, and how God saves His people so He can live with them—then he paints a picture of a big bright future.
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Kemper Crabb talks about Moses and how to battle doubt.
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Monologue by Mark Fast. In this message, Pastor Frank talks about how our most embarrassing moments and failures are all part of how God makes us into the people we need to be. The difference between a happy story and a tragedy come down to who your story is about.
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First, Angel Hart (Pastor Frank Hart's son) does a monologue as the boy king who finds the Bible after it had been lost for over a hundred years. Then, Pastor Frank talks about what we can learn from the story of Josiah. How can we know what it looks like to be good, faithful, compassionate?
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A message on friendship, what it means to be a friend, that we are a friend of God—all by looking at the life of Jonathan. The opening monologue was performed by Nathan Berea. Check it out.
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