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And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.
Ephesians 4:32, HCSB
Joy and peace are found in Christ alone, and we should be spreading that joy and peace through His redeemed Church and then to the world.
This fits in nicely with what we have been preaching the past couple of months on the joy of church, “making Sunday the most important day of the week” by prioritizing attendance with fellow believers to worship God.
Daniel
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Being grateful for those who are tired and yet go to church.
This Sunday at Church: Being grateful for those who are tired and yet go to church
I preached again!
As usual, my PowerPoint is below the video.
Send Your light and Your truth; let them lead me.
Psalm 43:3-4, HCSB
Let them bring me to Your holy mountain,
to Your dwelling place.
Then I will come to the altar of God,
to God, my greatest joy.
I will praise You with the lyre,
God, my God.
It can feel like God is distant, yet He is always as close as a prayer, inhabits our praise, and promised to always be with His Church.
This Sunday at Church: Thank those who prepare the Church Bulletin.
This Sunday at Church: Thank those who prepare the Church Bulletin
I remember this as I pour out my heart:
Psalm 42:4, HCSB
how I walked with many,
leading the festive procession to the house of God,
with joyful and thankful shouts.
God should be our greatest desire, and our time with His Church should be the reminder of His faithfulness and reason to celebrate His coming to us, pushing us to love Him even more.
I thirst for God, the living God.
Psalm 42:2, HCSB
When can I come and appear before God?
God should be our greatest desire, and coming into His presence through reading the Bible, prayer, and being with the Church are the start. Our hope is eternity through Christ.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17, HCSB
God has redeemed us from death and sin through the cross of Christ, and we know have received freedom from their power by the indwelling Holy Spirit and the fellowship in the Church.
This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you.
John 15:12, HCSB
God has redeemed us from death and sin through the cross of Christ, so we should love others with the same sacrificial and grace-filled love, especially within the Church.
I wrote a guest post!
SlimJim was originally correct that I was doing a series on 1 Peter, and I would still like to, but being demoted from Yourh Pastor to essentially an executive pastor of another church took away a bunch of the time I originally intended to use to finish this series. I completed this part because I had offered it months ago. (And, as stated in the post, I had to finish this part for a seminary preaching class assignment. I did much of the exegesis for the rest of the book to complete this work. I slightly modified the work for the blog.)
Keep in mind it is mildly academic, and I pray you enjoy it!
Daniel
Note: This is a guest post since presently I am overseas. This is by Daniel M. Klem. His blog be found here. This is part of a series he’s doing for his blog! Exegesis of 1 Peter 3:8-17 as the Chiastic Hinge of 1 Peter or Answering the Faithless and the Faithful, An Exegesis of […]
Guest Post: Exegesis of 1 Peter 3:8-17 as the Chiastic Hinge of 1 Peter
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