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Jesus—The Solution to the Human Dilemma (Selected Scriptures) Well, those of you who are a part of Grace  Church, you know that I’ve been in a rut for   years and I just keep teaching the Bible  week after week after week after week,   verse by verse. But every Christmas I try to  do something different. [...]

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The Importance of Doctrinal Courage (Selected Scriptures) Today on grace to you. >> It was for freedom that Christ set us free. Therefore, keep standing firm. Do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Trust in your works and you have just destroyed grace. What in the world makes us so embarrassed about [...]

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The Marvelous Birth of the King (Selected Scriptures) As we look to the Word of God this morning, I  want you to open your Bible to the first two   chapters of the gospel of Matthew, the first two  chapters in the New Testament. They introduce us   to the birth of the King. It never ceases [...]

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The Amazing Child of Christmas (Selected Scriptures) This morning as we consider together the  wonderful reality of the Christmas story,   I want us to look at a text of scripture  found in the first couple of chapters of   the gospel of Luke and I would invite you  if you will to open your Bible to [...]

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The Ugliness of Christmas (Selected Scriptures) For many years now, here at Grace Church, it’s  been my challenge and joy to preach Christmas   messages. In fact, some years I’ve preached two or  three Christmas messages, and so there have been   many different ways that we have looked at the  birth of Christ. This year, for [...]

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The Lord Will Be Your Guide I believe there are three things God wants to do  in your life right now. I’m speaking to the person   who has been in a state of confusion. I wanted  you to know that there is a cloud over your life. Whatever wilderness you find yourself in today,  whether [...]

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People’s Approval Doesn’t Matter One thing I have learned is we don’t graduate  from our need to be approved by people when we   graduate high school. We still live for  approval; it just gets more expensive. When God gave me this message, he said, “Call it  The Father Saw, because they thought nobody saw,   but [...]

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How To Be Confident In Christ I’m starting to wonder…Do we need more confidence?  It’s just a question, because lately I’ve been   thinking that the dangers of overconfidence are  just as great as the dangers of under-confidence. Maybe it’s not about the amount of confidence  we have at all. I wrote a little note to [...]

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When Your Faith Feels Low The Greek word for overhear that  Mark uses… It’s a brilliant word.   It has three different meanings. Not  one meaning. It has three different,   distinct meanings where he says that Jesus  overheard them saying, “She’s dead. Why   bother?” [Phone ringing] Sorry. Three definitions:  to overhear something not intended for one’s [...]

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Break The Cycle Of Negative Thinking What do you do when you’re in a situation where   what God did is so much different than what  you thought he should do? That is Psalm 77. “I remembered you, God, and I groaned.” Not  shouted…groaned. Not clapped…groaned. Not   danced…groaned. “I remembered you,  God, and I groaned; I [...]

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