Thursday, November 8, 2012

Wisdom: The Ancient Science

Reading: Proverbs 8:1-36; John 1:1-14

I realized after I wrote this sermon that I've already preached a sermon called "The Ancient Science," but that one was based on the book of James. This week we're starting a short pre-Advent series on the book of Proverbs, because there's just some good stuff in there and I haven't really preached on it before.

Note that there is no sermon for October 28 since we had a special speaker in that service.

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Preached on November 4, 2012 at PLWC.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Deep Blood and Fearless Spirit

Reading: Colossians 1:3-29

We’ve spent some time focusing on a variety of very important spiritual disciplines that can help form us into deep, beautiful, and fearless people, but as important as they are, they’re not what matters most. None of it makes any difference if we don’t keep coming back to the deep blood of Christ and the fearless Holy Spirit.

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Preached on October 21, 2012 at PLWC.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Fearless Worship

Reading: Exodus 35:30-36:1; Acts 16:16-34; Psalm 96

Worship is one of those things that we don't tend to think of doing alone, and yet it can (and should) be a part of our individual spiritual lives.

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Preached on October 14, 2012 at PLWC.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Deep Community and Beautiful Hospitality

Reading: Psalm 133; Judges 21

It should be pretty clear from some of my other preaching that our treatment of and relation to others has a serious impact on our spirituality, so the call for this week is to evaluate whether we need to go deeper in our community.

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Preached on October 7, 2012 at PLWC.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Fearless Generosity

Reading: Isaiah 25:1-9; 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Continuing with the need to become deep, beautiful, fearless people of Jesus Christ, this week we focused on how we can use our money and other resources to become deeper spiritually.

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Preached on September 30, 2012 at PLWC.