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You Are God’s Temple – Guard Yourself

May 28, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 2 Comments

2Co 6:14-18 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? (15) What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?...

Let’s Talk about Bearing One Another’s Burdens

May 21, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 2 Comments

Gal 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. What is the Law of Christ? Theologians no doubt have written massive essays on that subject. But I don't think it is that difficult to sort out....

An Appearance of Godliness – The Real Thing (Series Finale)

May 14, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

2Ti 3:5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. We have looked in this series at many real examples of counterfeits. People who, as Paul warns, have an exterior appearance of godliness but who, like...

An Appearance of Godliness (Pt 24) -The Lord is Winnowing His Harvest

May 7, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

Mat 3:8-12 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. (9) And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. (10)...

An Appearance of Godliness (Pt 23): King Joash

Apr 30, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 0 Comments

2Ki 12:1-3 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. (2) And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all...

An Appearance of Godliness (Part 22) – It’s Always Your Fault – Really?

Apr 23, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 1 Comment

Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown...

An Appearance of Godliness (Pt 21) – Celebrity “Christians” and their Fan Clubs

Apr 16, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 2 Comments

Mat 11:7-11 As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? (8) What then did you go out to see?...

An Appearance of Godliness (Pt 20) – The Judas Moment

Apr 9, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 2 Comments

Mat 26:14-16 Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests (15) and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver....

An Appearance of Godliness – Part 19

Mar 26, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 4 Comments

Mat 10:34-39 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. (35) For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter...

The False Appearance of Godliness Has Typical Identifiers (Part 18)

Mar 19, 2021 • Jeff Crippen • 2 Comments

Mark 12:38-40 ESV And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces (39) and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of...