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Well, if all goes according to plan, sometime within the next year I should be graduating with my Doctorate in preaching. This December would be the earliest possibility, next May would be the latest, if all goes according to plan. That’s a big “if” isn’t it? I can remember, not that long ago, say, my sophomore year of...
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Here’s what happened; Wednesday I go to church, right? Just a normal day preparing for Wednesday evening. And the wind is going crazy as you guys know, and I got there and told Patty Gralka I’m surprised that we still have power; that's good; we’ll just have to keep in mind if the power goes out we’re going to have to...
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Welcome Home
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Hebrews 11:8-16
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
I was in 5th grade the first time that I ever heard...
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Kingdom Rain: Noah's Ark, the New England Patriots, and the Gospel of Jesus
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Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
For the last 3 weeks, everyone I know has been congratulating me personally about the Super Bowl. Many of you here in this room greeted me with a, “Congrats!” the first time we reconvened after...
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The Gospel According to Enoch • Pastor Alex Loginow
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Hebrews 11:5-6
By faith, Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found because God had taken him. Now before he was taken, he was commended as having pleased God. Without faith, it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists, and that he rewards those who seek him.
What happened to Jimmy Hoffa? That is the question, isn’t it? The disappearance of the Teamsters president in 1975 remains an unanswered question. This mystery lives in Detroit folklore, for Hoffa was...
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Jesus, the New and Better Abel • Pastor Kevin McGuire
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Today, we are looking at a singular verse - Hebrews 11:4. This chapter [Hebrews 11], if you’ve been a Christian for any length of time, you know to be about faith. Having introduced faith last week as the pastor-writer did when we looked at the first three verses, now we’re going to see it - found in the lives of individuals given throughout all of the...
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What Faith Looks Like from Hebrews 11 • Pastor Kevin McGuire
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Faith in Hebrews is always closely linked to hope. Faith looks at God, and trusts Him for everything. Hope, then, looks to the future, and trusts God for it.
When we walk through the individuals of Hebrews chapter 11, we will see the perseverance of their faith. We will see the faith that they displayed and then the circumstance - the life circumstance, the historical circumstance - that God put them in.
About 30 years ago...
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