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Christmas through the Eyes of a Child- Wonder and Awe
Our 2011 Advent sermon series is entitled Christmas through the Eyes of a Child. We’re rereading the familiar Christmas story and rediscovering for ourselves the excitement and awe that children...
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Listen to “The Night before Christmas”
This past Sunday, I gave a sermon entitled “The Night before Christmas.” The Christmas story is much more fascinating and real to life than we give it credit for. The way that Luke describes Jesus in...
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Mothers’ Day Teaching
As we approach Mothers’ Day, it’s important to remember that there are women who would like to be mothers, but for various reasons, they are not. For example, about 12% of the couples in America...
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One Church Podcast- Why One Church?
One Church Lead Pastor, Ryan Gear, and Associate Pastor, Jason Grindle, discuss the mission of One Church (including the interesting thing that happens when you Google “christians are”). Why One Church?
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?S: Questions and Doubts About Faith Results
Our second sermon series after launching weekly worship at One Church was entitled ?S: Questions and Doubts About Faith. You can listen to the sermon series here. On our first two Sundays, I collected...
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The Bible and Slavery
The following is from my sermon, “What Does the Bible Teach about Slavery and Sexuality?” (October 20, 2013). All Scripture quotes are from the NIV. In the early 1860s, slavery divided our nation to...
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Why I Welcome People Who Are Gay (Part 2)
Here is a simplified list I use to describe how Christians must thoughtfully wrestle with passages in the Bible that raise questions in 21st century developed world. Some examples of these passages...
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Ten Things Conservative Christians Got Horribly Wrong
A friend sent this article from Salon to me. Salon is a left-leaning publication, so Evangelicals will be suspicious of it. The author is generally correct, however, in her assessment of the role of...
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New Series- We’re All In This Together: Ephesians
This Sunday, One Church is beginning a new sermon series entitled We’re All In This Together: Ephesians. I have two goals for the series: To apply practical wisdom from Ephesians to our lives To learn...
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What Does Jesus Say About Same Sex Marriage?
Jesus does not mention homosexuality or same sex marriage in the Gospels. Some Christians believe that Jesus did, however, when the Pharisees asked him his stance on divorce (divorce, mind you, not...
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Love.Sex.Marriage.
Today, I started a new sermon series at One Church entitled Love.Sex.Marriage. There are three big “back to church” times of the year- 1) Christmas Eve/January, 2) Easter-Mother’s Day, and 3)...
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What Is Love? (Baby, don’t hurt me…)
This is the first sermon from the series I’m currently teaching at One Church, Love.Sex.Marriage. It’s entitled, “What Is Love?” (Sing it with me: “Baby, don’t hurt me…”) During the sermon I quote from...
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