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Aug 31, 2021

Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. (Deuteronomy 8:2).

Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do Christians suffer?

These are questions that keep coming...


Aug 30, 2021

“My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be...


Aug 29, 2021

A special, extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings!  The text is Romans 13:8-14 from the New International Version of the Bible.  Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection!

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Aug 27, 2021

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession (Deuteronomy 7:6).

Today, let’s talk about being holy.

The way I phrased this is not helpful. This phrasing is a common misconception regarding...


Aug 26, 2021

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.  From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. (Ephesians 4:15-16)

 

I’ve been thinking...