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Baseball innings consist of three outs. Get three outs and you’ve won the inning. Even a long inning only lasts a matter of minutes. With life as crazy as it is, let’s not over-complicate it. Getting through 2020 sounds…

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What we do with God’s word is a pointer to what we would do with God himself. If we treat his word as worthless, disgusting, imposing, violating, or offensive, then we will also treat God himself that way.

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In Matthew 18:21-35, Jesus tells a parable about an unforgiving servant. Through it, he's helping us see two kinds of radical, radical forgiveness and radical unforgiveness, and what will happen if we ignore the former…

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Gaining the Kingdom doesn’t cost us anything. Receiving the Kingdom costs us everything. And it’s a happy trade-off. Everything we’ve ever longed for is inside. In his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that…

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There are two types of people – those who listen and those who don’t. Which one are you?

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Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown of…

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“Hear another parable…” Matthew 21:33 We know Jesus was patient with sinners. We see it in the gospel accounts in the Bible. He’s constantly eating with them, talking with them, spending time with them. The Pharisees…

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I highly recommend this sermon series by Ray Ortlund. (The Real Jesus series) This year, Ray is preaching through the Sermon on the Mount at Immanuel Church. He just finished preaching through the beatitudes of Matthew…

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An excerpt from Ray Ortlund's sermon on Matthew 5:7 preached at Immanuel Church on April 1, 2012. Read the rest here . If you have the time, I highly recommend you listen to the podcasts of the Real Jesus series. Ray is…