Tag Archives: Paul

We Abide

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Ancient Landmarks – Come to think of it, all of Scripture is a reliable navigation tool for the journey of life. A solid foundation upon which to build one’s life and for discerning this world’s complexities. How can it be so? God breathed out its very words, guiding the prophets of old as they penned its words. The Spirit preserved His work through time to be available to us as faithful men and women passed it along, translating it, and teaching it to the next generation.

2 Timothy 3:14-17

Taught Sunday morning, August 4, 2024 by Brad D Harris

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Ten Commands – Part 3

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The LORD spoke from the mountain these ten commands of His covenant with Israel but they have been taught much longer and wider than there. Jesus expounded them in His gospel of the kingdom (Sermon on the Mount). The apostles taught them and applied them to new Christians regardless of their ethnicity and culture. These are the timeless guidelines for honoring God by honoring His image in humanity.

Exodus 20:1-17
Seventh through Tenth Commands

Taught Sunday morning, June 9, 2024 by Brad D Harris

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Good News of Resurrection

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The good news is that Jesus the Messiah died for our sins, just as was foretold in Scriptures. He was buried and then He rose from the dead, as was foretold in Scriptures. And we receive the benefit by asking and trusting that Jesus did enough to save us from all our sins. He said He did. So we can trust that He did. The resurrection proves He was right.

1 Corinthians 15:1-8

Taught Resurrection Sunday morning, March 31, 2024 by Brad D Harris

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Fellowship with Lord

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Acts 2:41-42 tells us what the followers of Christ did steadfastly – learning the teachings of the apostles, fellowship together, Communion, and prayer. Acts 20:6-13 gives us a vignette of a church in a town called Troas (or Troy) doing those four things on the first day of the week with a special guest, the traveling teacher, Paul the Apostle. We can learn much from this gathering as told by the eyewitness who occasionally traveled with Paul for this journey.

Acts 2:41-42 and Acts 20:6-14

Taught Sunday morning, February 18, 2024 by Brad D Harris

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The Lord’s Body

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The Lord’s Supper consists of bread and the cup – physical symbols of a spiritual reality. The body and the blood of Jesus broken and shed on the cross for sinners in order that they might be forgiven and made clean from guilt and shame. And to incorporate them into the church which is the body of Jesus Christ on earth today. Examine oneself to determine where you stand in this?

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Taught Sunday morning, February 11, 2024 by Brad D Harris

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Resurrection for Christmas

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Mary Magdalene finds the tomb of Jesus empty. But the evidence doesn’t stop there. Before the morning is done, she will be the first witness of the resurrected Jesus. And she is sent to testify of what she has seen and now knows. And so are we.

Romans 1:1-4 and John 20:1-18

Taught Sunday morning, December 24, 2023 by Brad D Harris

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Unity in Love

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Jesus prays that His disciples and their disciples would be unified by His Spirit in them and that unity would create a visible unity among His people through humility, love for one another (John 13:34-35), and serving one another through the Spirit. And Paul echoes that teaching in 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, Galatians 3:28, Ephesians 4:1-6ff, and Philippians 2:1-4. Others will see that kind of loving unity and they will know that God has been at work. And we are practicing for eternity, Jesus prays that we will be with Him forever in glory.

John 17:20-26

Taught Sunday morning, October 15, 2023 by Brad D Harris

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Communion in Lord’s Supper

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Paul had to correct the Corinthian believers where they were failing to discern the significance of the what he called the Lord’s Supper. It was to be a time of communion with Christ as well as with one another in unity. And we learn much about this ordinance for our day as we read this letter over their shoulders.

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Taught Sunday morning, August 13, 2023 by Brad D Harris

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Written for our Learning

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What is written in the Scriptures is written for us so that we will know why we can endure with joy and abiding comfort through Holy Spirit that gives us confident hope – so that we might know God.

Romans 15:4-6

Taught Sunday morning, August 6, 2023 by Brad D Harris

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A Good and Perfect Rule

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The rule of sin is broken by Christ as He bodily defeated the temptations of sin and He defeats sin in our body through His Spirit. Christ fulfilled righteousness bodily so that He can bring righteousness in our body through His Spirit.  How does He do that?  By putting to death the sinful temptations and being living sacrifices that are holy and acceptable to God, the good and perfect will of God.

Romans 8:1-14 and 12:1-2

Taught Sunday morning, May 28, 2023 by Brad D Harris

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