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Rickey Bennett
Contributing sermons since Jun 11, 2009
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What Is My Significance?
Contributed on Aug 21, 2009
My Significance is found in a relationship with Jesus!
What Is My Significance? Why Am I Here? Introduction Antz Significance Image of God Psalm 8:1-9 Psalm 8:4 What are mortals that you should think of us, mere humans that you should care for us? Psalm 8:2 You have taught children and nursing infants to give you praise. They ...read more
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Godviews
Contributed on Aug 21, 2009
Your view of God has profound ramifications for knowing, applying and proclaiming the gospel.
Your View of God Has Profound Ramifications for knowing, applying and proclaining the Gospel. Each of our lives is centered on something. What’s at the center of yours? Think about it for a moment. What’s really the main thing in your life? Only one thing can truly be first in priority; so ...read more
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Christian Service
Contributed on Aug 19, 2009
Christians have the only truly satisfying and fulfilling reason to go to work: It’s to worship God.
INTRODUCTION Please turn in your Bibles to Colossians 3:22-4:1. We are continuing our study of the letter to the Colossians. In verse 17 where Paul said that we are to do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, which means to do it in a manner that is influenced by the gospel of Jesus ...read more
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Love And Submission In Marriage
Contributed on Aug 19, 2009
Wives and husbands have the opportunity to draw attention to this good news of salvation in Jesus Christ by her submission and his love.
INTRODUCTION Please turn in your Bibles to Colossians 3:18-19. . Last week we learned from the apostle Paul that we are to ‘put on Christ’; that is, we are to put on the character of Christ if we belong to Christ by faith. His character was described for us with words like compassion, ...read more
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Putting On Christ
Contributed on Aug 19, 2009
Put on Christ is so that people can see Christ in us and give glory to him and his saving work on the cross.
INTRODUCTION Please turn in your Bibles to Colossians 3:1-11. Last week we examined verses 1-11 of this chapter which have to do with putting away or putting to death sin in our lives. This is something that we’ll want to do and that we’re called to do if we’ve really been raised to life with ...read more
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Book Of Colossians
Contributed on Aug 15, 2009
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Unplugging From The Matrix
Contributed on Dec 30, 2021
Have you ever wondered why sin has such an appeal, stranglehold and blindness quality to it? Trinity a character, heroine and Neo’s sidekick from the Matrix saga but in Matrix 4 she spends most of the movie stuck in the Matrix living as Tiffany, Neo is finally able to remind Trinity of who she ...read more
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But It Is Still Possible To Demonstrate ...
Contributed on Aug 19, 2009
But it is still possible to demonstrate submission even in those situations by the attitude with which she says no. John Piper describes it this way: “Even where a Christian wife may have to stand with Christ against the sinful will of her husband, she can still have a spirit of submission – a ...read more
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Look At Yourself As What You'll Be
Contributed on Aug 19, 2009
LOOK AT YOURSELF AS WHAT YOU'LL BE The Puritan Richard Sibbes offers encouragement along those lines in his book The Bruised Reed. He said, "Let us not therefore be discouraged at the small beginnings of grace, but look on ourselves as elected to be 'holy and without blame' ...read more
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What The Word "Dwelling In Us" Looks Like
Contributed on Aug 19, 2009
WHAT THE WORD "DWELLING IN US" LOOKS LIKE I think Sam Storms, in his book on Colossians, describes well what it looks like for the word of Christ to dwell in us. He talks about the Scriptures calling out to us. "Don’t just read me," they seem to say. "Feast on me! Meditate! Ruminate! Saturate ...read more
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Knowing The Father's Love
Contributed on Aug 19, 2009
KNOWING THE FATHER'S LOVE Consider an illustration of two children and two fathers. One child feels like he’s just a tenant in the house, a servant doing what he’s commanded to do. He doesn’t know his father very well or his father’s love. He just knows what he’s been commanded to do. The ...read more