Faith
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The following is an automatically generated transcript with minor editing from the audio of a message I preached at Bergen Missionary Church. Lord, we are humbled by your invitation to participate in, in the work that you’re doing here on Earth, saving, rescuing. inviting people, people who don’t deserve your love people who don’t deserve…
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In John 13, Jesus gives the disciples two different “one another” commands. He tells them to wash one another’s feet and to love one another. In both cases, he says, do these things in the same ways that I have done them. He says, just as I have washed your feet, so you wash one…
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God has my attention in way lately that I’ve not ever experienced before. I’m not very old, but I’m approaching 40 which involves a new level of reflection that comes with knowing that if I’m going to do anything important, I better get on with it. So I ask, what can I do that could…
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I was a young adult when I was first introduced to the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer at a weekly breakfast book club. I was fascinated by Bonhoeffer’s story, his wisdom, and his boldness. A few years later, in my freshman year of college, I had the opportunity to take a course that focused on his…
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We are in a time of opportunity. In the midst of uncertainty, it may be easy to just shut down and wait for the storm to pass. But this is not the example set by Jesus. In the midst of the storm, Jesus calmed the storm. This is our call. To be calmers of the…
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I am participating with God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in the renewal of Creation. I am a messenger, delivering the proclamation of Jesus as our eternal king. The kingdom ruled by Jesus is not yet fully visible, but has begun to reveal itself. It is revealed when we are kind, generous,…
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This is a question that is very common: are we saved by faith or are we saved by obedience? This is a very troubling question, and I think it is the wrong question. If you have heard the gospel of Jesus, and have made a decision to believe that it is true. If you have…
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The blessing of Jesus is not dependant on our situation. It is not dependant on material possessions, or power, or prestige. It infiltrates these things and transforms them from the inside. Some of us get so caught up in looking a hundred miles away for how God is working, that we fail to see what…
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We tend to talk about building the kingdom and expanding the kingdom. I use that language fairly often, and I don’t disagree with it. But, there is a sense of understanding the kingdom as something we first and primarily receive and enter into. The kingdom is also the place from which we are sent. Of…
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Mammon is a genuine rival to God. We must choose one or the other: Mammon or God. ((Mammon, as define by Os Guinness, refers to money when it assumes an inordinate place in our lives until it becomes a personal, spiritual, god-like force that rules us.)) The crass heresy of the prosperity doctrines and the…
William Knelsen 