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Wedding Guests Demonstrate God’s Grace
Wedding Guests Demonstrate God’s Grace Matthew 22:1-14 T Trinity 20 INI God loves weddings. In Scripture, He frequently uses the bride and groom imagery to describe His masculine, self-giving relationship to His bride, the...
Spiritual Warfare – The Feast of St. Michael and All Angels
Spiritual Warfare Revelation 12:7-12 T Feast of St. Mihael and All Angels INI The physical world is saturated with the spiritual world. For various reasons, people believe heaven is off in the clouds, and hell...
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Humility In Jesus
Humility in Jesus Trinity 17 T Luke 14:1-11 INI Pride causes one to go like this (hug myself). It protects oneself at all costs. It can’t admit failures and wrongdoings, especially against God’s...
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Jesus Cures the Ears and the Tongue
Jesus Cures the Ears and the Tongue Trinity 12 T Mark 7:31-37 INI Your heart is shaped by what you hear. If you consume gossip, greedy talk, hateful words, prideful speech, people trying to gain...
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The Nature of Sinners and the Justified
The Nature of Sinners and the Justified Ephesians 2:1-10, Luke 18:9-14 T Trinity 11 INI In a different text, Jesus tells the ‘parable of the weeds’ in Matthew 13:24-30. But it helps us see...
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God’s Word of Warning for His Children – Trinity 10
Words of Warning for God’s Children Luke 19:41-48 T Trinity 10 INI Throughout the Scriptures, God is constantly acting like a Father to His children who’ve lost their way. He does so in our...
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Managing True Riches
Managing True Riches Trinity 9 T Luke 16:1-13 INI The idolatry of mammon looks like this: letting your stuff manage you, instead of you managing your stuff. That was the failure of the dishonest manager....
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The Bread of Life – Trinity 7
The Bread of Life Trinity 7 T Mark 8:1-9 INI There’s nothing more important than hearing the preaching and teaching of God’s Word. Everything else pales in comparison. There’s no amount of money in the...
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The Required Righteousness – Trinity 6
The Required Righteousness Matthew 5:17-26 T Trinity 6 INI Good people don’t go to heaven. At least, not in the manner by which mankind measures goodness. Our heavenly trajectory isn’t dependent on our goodness....
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Becoming Fishers of Men – Trinity 5
Becoming Fishers of Men Trinity 5 T Luke 5:1-11 INI Our heavenly Father gathers up His Church, and makes us one. He makes us His sons and daughters through the incarnation, death, resurrection, and ascension...