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Last Sunday we got an image of how Satan messes with the harvest. In this parable he isn’t snatching the seed before he takes root he is sowing seeds of destruction – weeds. Many times we wonder why God just doesn't just get rid of it all but to pull the weed is to pull out the wheat. So evil and good co-exist and grow together until the end when e…

There's a new temple in town --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

Knowing Christ means we are in an all out war against the devil. We fight against sin and seek faithfulness not because we believe we can save ourselves but because Christ has saved us and we want to live faithfully and push back against anything and everything that would try to pull us away. 1 John 3:7-10 (ESV) Little children, let no one deceive …

Evil is not just a struggle with greed or lust; this is a spiritual struggle with spiritual forces at play. Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy, to undo what God has done. We see this with Job and we see this in so many ways in our own lives. However, no matter what Satan throws at us: loss, death, pain, etc. we know it is all temporary because…

Get Behind Me --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

Satan is a creature and ultimately has no power. He is powerless in the presence of Christ but he isn’t something to be toyed with or underestimated. The name of Christ isn’t something to be used for fame, recognition, or some demonstration of “magic”. Acts 19: 11-20 (ESV) The Sons of Sceva And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of P…

Evil is not just a struggle with greed or lust; this is a spiritual struggle with spiritual forces at play. Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy, to undo what God has done. We see this with Job and we see this in so many ways in our own lives. However, no matter what Satan throws at us: loss, death, pain, etc. we know it is all temporary because…

How to Pray After You Have Sinned --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

The last character we are looking at is Jesus. Jesus’ entire life was one of surrender to his Father’s will (John 5:19). As we get ready to enter into the season of Lent we are focusing on Jesus’ act of giving up control and how through his faithfulness to his Father’s will he brought life to all people. Jesus went to the cross for us. And because …

The Ultimate Superhero --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

Before meeting Jesus, Paul had placed his identity before God and other people in things like his heritage, his religious activity, and career accolades. As people living 2,000 years later, we often fall into the same trap. What enabled Paul to let go of these things to the point that he could call them rubbish?! Join us as we begin to discover how…

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This is a fairly well-known Bible story that is used to teach us to focus on Jesus. But we don’t often address what is going on in our hearts that makes it so difficult for us to “choose the good portion” which is Jesus. Maybe we have placed our worth in the hustle and maybe Jesus is asking us to surrender the hustle of life to him as we follow him…

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King David was a man after God’s own heart. Yet, David had committed adultery and murder which had negative consequences ripple throughout his life and throughout the generations of descendants to come. How did King David continue to move forward after his great moral failures? How do we learn to let go of our past sins as we move forward in life? …

Solid Like a Rock --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

Moses had been called by Yahweh to lead his people out of slavery into the Promised Land. Moses spent his life anticipating that day he would set his feet on the land Yahweh had promised him. Yet, with an outburst burst of frustration that dream was taken away. Nothing was guaranteed to Moses and yet we will see how Yahweh used Moses' disobedience …

A Person-to-Person Call --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

Abram and Sarai had given up their dream of having a child. But then Abram received a promise from God that was meant to encourage them to walk in faithfulness to God’s plan. Yet, they took matters into their own hands and things quickly went south. We will often do whatever it takes to make sure our dreams become reality. But what if in this new y…

The Great Break-In --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

We have all been formed by a world that tells us we can have whatever we want whenever we want it. Yet, many of us are left feeling empty and unsatisfied with the status quo. According to Jesus the way to true life is not through self-fulfillment but through self-denial as he calls us to pick up our cross and follow him. This week we kick off a new…

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על ידי Pastor Martin Danner

על ידי Pastor Martin Danner

Why we call him Savior --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

Why Mary? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

Just like the people of ancient Israel we too wait for the coming of Christ. The season of Advent fixes our gaze into the future as we wait for Christ’s victorious second coming when he will make all things new, where everything sad will become untrue. Isaiah 65:17-25 (ESV) “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things sh…

Why Joseph? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

We live our lives in AD, in the year of the Lord. But as we begin the season of Advent we intentionally step back into BC, the time before Christ, with our brothers and sisters in the Old Testament. As we do this we seek to take on their posture as we remember what it would have been like to long for the first coming of the Messiah, the redeemer of…

Why Did Jesus Become A Man? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

We don’t talk much about speaking in tongues and it certainly isn’t something you see practiced but at the root of all worship practices and works of the spirit is a sense of good order that brings us together and make it clear to everyone what God is doing in our midst. 1 Corinthians 14:1-12 (ESV) Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gi…

Now and Forever --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

על ידי Pastor Martin Danner

There are a lot of clanging cymbals and gongs in this world and we easily add to the noise. However, things done with love and in love are enduring and powerful. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (ESV) If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all my…

There are many spiritual gifts given to bring unity and togetherness to the body of Christ. The most important being faith given by the Holy Spirit. From that faith flows so many wonderful things that help us grow together! 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 (ESV) Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when y…

The last enemy to be destroyed is death. If this isn’t true then we like Paul said, of all people should be pitied. God did not mean for death to be the end and in Christ we have a promise and hope in the resurrection. 1 Corinthians 15:12-26 (ESV) Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrec…

Another Day In Paradise --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

What do we eat? Seems like a silly question but to early Christians in 1 Corinthians 8-10 it was a real discussion. A thread in Corinthians is this freedom we have in Christ but sometimes we bind ourselves. We do this not because Christ calls us to but so that we may serve others better for the sake of the Gospel. So we may adjust our lifestyles to…

The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

Divorce, Widows, and being single are all addressed here. There is some carry over from chapter 6 on the body and in marriage how we belong to each other but Paul goes further into how marriage and singleness can impact faith and focus. Faithful spouses can carry each other (7:12-16) but we can also lift up being single in fact as a better way. Chu…

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Lawsuits, greed, sex. In a sense beliefs lead to behavior and until this point a lot of Corinthians has been pretty theological and this section and part of chapter 5 sort of bring this all together. If you are a temple and Christ dwells within you then your body is important. We tend to downplay the body in our culture. Even the way we talk about …

Again I Say Rejoice! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blcwarren/support

Human judgment and God’s judgment are fundamentally different things. Culture confuses this and so do churches. We are not to assume the role of judge and jury of the world. Judgment is a tricky thing we want to encourage each other in Christ to be faithful and let God be the ultimate judge of creation. It can be unnerving but if God is a just judg…