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Message Preview: Avarice – I Want It All
How many kinds of greed do we hear about? This week we’ll look at the sin of avarice, and take a look at how Jesus views success compared to how we humans sometimes see it. And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does…
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Sloth – Resisting the Demands of Love
The vice we’re talking about today is sloth and at the most basic level, sloth is reluctance to exert ourselves, to work or make an effort; laziness. Click to listen: Click this link to get a printable version: Sloth – Resistance to the Demands of Love 2 Peter 1:3-7 “His divine power has given us…
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This week we’ll take a look at the vice called “sloth.” It’s not an animal, nor is it just plain laziness, it’s more along the lines of resisting the demands of God’s love for us! “For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and…
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Vainglory: Image is Everything
Thirty years ago in 1989 on the set of a commercial in the Nevada desert for a Canon Rebel camera, 19-year-old tennis pro Andre Agassi was instructed to step out of a white Lamborghini, lower his sunglasses, and utter the words, “Image is everything.” “Image is everything?” Agassi asked the director. Click to listen: Click…
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Was Nike right when they said “Image is everything”? “Vainglory” is about just that, appearances, and seeking attention and approval. How do we pursue authenticity, instead? “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. The Gospel of Matthew…
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