Sermon - Life His Love Has Made Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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July 20, 2008 Taken From: Ephesians 4:17-5:21; Romans 1:16-32 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel Night is breathing close to me, a sensuous dark; within me the dark cave and a fire. The evangel comes, holding tight a candle, shielding the withering flame, crying out “Sleeper, awake! Stand up out of the dead ones!” The light

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 Sermon - A Deepening Dark Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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July 13, 2008 Taken From: Romans 1:24-32 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel They have not imagined the weight of their sin: that it makes a knot in their hearts, cages the mind’s wings. Their trouble is only the trouble anyone, all of us, know: exchange the truth about God for a lie, live in a

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 Sermon - A Stirring of Wonder Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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July 6, 2008 Taken From: Romans 1:16-23 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel Under his wrath I stand on common ground, breathe an ill wind. I get my daily bread in sweat as I move from one moment into the next, into the next. Knowing that God is and that he is powerful, the creator, I

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 Sermon - Comes the Mystery Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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June 29, 2008 Taken From: Romans 1:16-3-31 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel I live in the fear of what I know, in the fear of what I know not. Then the gospel is heard, the real that makes me right with God. I taste and see how good he is. Blessedness soaks the ground of

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June 22, 2008 Taken From: Romans 1:16-17 Illustration by Grace Ellen Schiel Gospel encounter in the middle of living our self-help lives exposes our own righteousness as a sham; our false hope uncovered by the power of God. Gospel clarity shows us that no one is good; no one seeks for God; everyone, Jew and

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