Category: new testament
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This is Our Home (Matthew 9:35-38)
Seeing the City with the Compassion of Christ Introduction I love our city, and over the past four years, as I have served in this Church and parish, I can honestly say I have only grown to love our city even more as a city I studied in began to feel like home, and the…
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When God Breathes Life into His Church: The Spirit Who Saves, Sends, and Makes Us One
The Spirit came at Pentecost to save, send, and make us one.
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Who Are You Looking For? ( John 20:1–18)
If you could pick one word to describe our world, what would it be? Many options come to mind—purpose, identity, politics, tribe. You could make a case for any of these as defining our present moment or how we relate to the world. But none fully capture it. As I reflected on this passage for…
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1 | Grace in the Wilderness and For the Wilderness | Matthew 4: 1-11
I wonder: if you were asked what some of the challenges the Church faces in our context are, what would you say? The answer would depend a lot on our background and our desire for our own lives. We might say: declining numbers, a loss of tradition, a lack of confidence, among other things. Then,…
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5 | From the Mountain to the Ordinary (1 Peter 1:22-25)
There is something about the mountain top, the beauty of getting there after a long hike, and looking around and suddenly the breathlessness of the couple of hours it took to get to that moment feels a lot less, and the world seems a lot smaller as you look out across the views, and it…
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4 | Redeemed for Such a Time as This (1 Peter 1:17–21)
A Holy life because of the wholeness of Christ
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Atr Irwin 