We are excited to share these messages fromGrace Agenda 2019: Keep Your Kids! The last several years Christ Church has tried an experiment in grace and has not charged for the Grace Agenda conference. In keeping with this spirit of grace, we are accepting free will donations at christkirk.com/give. Be sure to select ‘Grace Agenda’ in […]
So make no mistake about it. How a husband and wife build their marriage day by day and year by year is fundamentally shaped by their theology. It governs how you think, what you say, and how you act. Your theology governs your entire life. And it determines how you live in your marriage. When […]
A Psalm of David. Vindicate me, O Lord, For I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in the Lord; I shall not slip. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; Try my mind and my heart. For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth. I have […]
“Till Sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.” Thomas Watson, quoted in, When Sinners Say, “I Do,” by Dave Harvey
In the last installment about Rights, I mentioned that the only right we’ve earned from God was the right to go straight to Hell for eternity. In this installment, I would like to lay a groundwork for the context of rights spoken of in the Bible. In a word, that context is all about grace. […]
We talk about rights in a number of different ways. One way is to say, “I have earned the right to X.” This seems to mean that I’ve done A, B, and C and therefore whatever X is it is right for me to have it, do it, or maybe be it. For example, “I’ve […]
Introduction What I have in mind here that would qualify as a difficult discussion is one where you’d rather not have it, but you love God and the person too much to let things go any further. Your friend is hurting himself; either spiritually, reputationally, relationally, or something else. But you’ve been watching things for […]
I thought I would take a few moments to talk about rights. Someone told me this morning that I had told them that they didn’t “have any rights.” While I can’t remember saying that to them, I can imagine saying that to someone in a particular context. So, here’s the first of a couple of […]
Neh 8:10 Text Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Neh 8:10). Context Israel had been in captivity for 70 years when Ezra was sent by Cyrus, king of Persia, to Jerusalem to build the temple of God (Ezr 1:1ff). After many years, Nehemiah, the cupbearer to the king (Artaxerxes), […]
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