It’s tempting to think that when Elijah leaves the scene in 2 Kings 2 that Elisha has lost something, but we would be wrong. It was never about Elijah. In fact, God is the main thing in all of life.
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It’s a common mistake to think of God’s power being like the powers we are familiar with here on earth. But God’s power is very different; most of all, God can be trusted. In this message you will hear four ways in which God’s power is different and more reliable than earthly ones.
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We’ve all made exchanges in our life, some of them bad. We’ve traded greater things for lesser things. Jesus calls us to a reversal: to give up lesser things for the greater life of following him. But first, Jesus makes a Great Exchange for all of us on the cross.
The last couple of weeks following the events in France with the newspaper Charlie Hebdo, many of us have grown bitter; more people seem to be clamoring against religion as nothing but intolerant and violent. What are we to do? How do we respond to large-scale injustice and how do we respond to it in our own everyday lives?
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Jesus came to abolish the insider/outsider culture that divides, yet sadly, that culture still exists even in the church and keeps us from fulfilling the Great Commission. The story of ancient Israel gives us a few insights about how we might work with God to eliminate this culture within the church and thus reach the world.
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The Advent season is always filled with great joy and festivity, and rightly so, but the real question is “Will you take the baby home?” Jesus did not come to stay in a manger, but to teach, heal, fulfill, die, and rise. Will you embrace the Christ child after Advent or will we give him away?
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