Posts Tagged With: sin

The Truth in the Cross

  The Cross enforces three truths:   about ourselves, about God, and about Jesus Christ.   1. Our Sin must be extremely horrible.   Nothing reveals the gravity of sin like the Cross.  For ultimately what sent Christ there was neither the greed of Judas, nor the envy of the priests, nor the vacillating cowardice [...]

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Podcast: Confronting Evil

 Week of September 11, 2011     On September 11, 2001 we experienced evil on a scale never imagined. Thousands died, 10s of thousands more were left to grieve over the loss of a parent, child, spouse or friend. This Sunday we remember the 9/11 Tragedy and rededicate ourselves to confront evil in our world with truth, [...]

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Breaking Free: The Addiction of Sin

 July 17, 2011       We drastically underestimate the power of sin. Sin, by its nature, hides itself. It crouches at your door; it always looks smaller than it is. Your sins are not done with you when you think you are done with them. But there is hope in the gospel.   Why do we [...]

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Breaking Free: The Problem of Slavery to Sin

 Week of July 10, 2011     Sin is more than just an action to be avoided, it is a power that is released in our lives that continues to enslave and choke the life out of us. In this passage from Number, God’s people are addicted to the pleasures of Egypt even though they hate the [...]

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Breaking Free: Addiction and Spiritual Blindness

I am Absolutely NOT in Denial! When we are in our addiction, we are blind to it.   Alcoholism and all other addictions come with built in denial.  The patient does not know that they are ill.  They have no real concept of how severe the situation is and they are frequently not willing to talk [...]

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Breaking Free: Spiritual Addiction Quotes

What follows is a collection of quotes on the subject of Sin, Addiction, and God’s reaction through the work of Jesus Christ. These quote and ideas were used in a sermon Series “Breaking Free” presented at First United Methodist Church on July 10 & 17, 2011 and are currently available on line for listening and [...]

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TEMPTED: the Nature of Sin Part 2

 Week of June 26, 2011     We drastically underestimate the power of sin. Sin, by its nature, hides itself. It crouches at your door; it always looks smaller than it is. Your sins are not done with you when you think you are done with them. But there is hope in the gospel. Scripture Verse          Genesis [...]

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TEMPTED: Recognizing the Deceptive Nature of Sin

 Week of June 19, 201     We drastically underestimate the power of sin. Sin, by its nature, hides itself. It crouches at your door; it always looks smaller than it is. Your sins are not done with you when you think you are done with them. But there is hope in the gospel. Scripture Verse          Genesis [...]

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The Prison

“Sin is the missing of a target, a wandering from the path, a straying from the fold. Sin is a hard heart and stiff neck. Sin is blindness and deafness. It is both the overstepping of a line and the failure to reach it – both transgression and shortcoming. Sin is a beast crouching at [...]

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Alma

This is an excellent quality video to share with people about what it means to be trapped by our insatiable desires. Animation by Rodrigo Blaas that is hugely compelling. And chilling. A visual metaphor of entrapment. A real discussion starter – it would be useful to show, for example, to a youth group.  There is [...]

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