Afleveringen
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After speaking at length about wisdom, the Teacher turns to the idea of worship as the foundation of true wisdom. We are tempted to speak in ways that sway others to think better of us. With God, word and deed are the same, and so it should be for us. Let us be careful about making promises and let us honor each promise as we honor a God who does the same.
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The previous chapter ended with the idea that one of the greatest blessings in life is to enjoy one's work. Today's passage lists five ways that we can guarantee that we will not enjoy our work, five rotten rungs on the ladder to worldly success. Avoiding these pitfalls might just lead to true joy in the work that God gives us to do!
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Our wisdom is so limited without God's input. Without God's wisdom, we can hardly make sense of the diversity and complexity of God's world, with a season for everything. But as we receive each moment as a gift from God, we might come to enjoy each moment for what it is, without having to make it more than it is.
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Sermon #2 of Highrock's summer sermon series ("Dual Citizens: Living Between Two Kingdoms") from 1 Peter 2:9-12 NIV
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Can wisdom and work provide meaning where pleasure and possesions fail? Despite their greater worth, wisdom and work still do not outlast death. But even simple pleasures like food and drink can be meaningful if they connect us in gratitude to the One who transcends the grave.
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What will bring happiness and satisfaction in life? The first part of the royal experiment is to test the most common pursuits. Maybe pleasure, projects, and possessions can deliver the happiness that they promise? But no, each is just another way to chase the wind. Even worse, placing our hopes in any of these things as an ultimate goal risks the loss of gratitude and even the possibility of love.
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The Teacher, presumably Solomon, asks us to consider the meaning of our lives. Is it found in the pursuit of pleasure, or power, or even the pursuit of wisdom? He calls these all meaningless "chasing the wind" -- they cannot satisfy and indeed can lead to even more pain. Then what are we to pursue? That question is the central question the Teacher invites us to ask!
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Sermon #1 of Highrock's summer sermon series ("Dual Citizens: Living Between Two Kingdoms") from Jeremiah 29:4-7, 10-13 NIV
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Without grace, conflict can be merciless. Without trust, peace is just an illusion. Jesus comes to us full of both grace and truth, and sometimes that truth can shatter the false peace in our lives and relationships. Like a physician who reluctantly causes pain in order to bring healing, God uses the truth, even painful truths, to bring healing.
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Jesus' disciples continued to crave power and authority while Jesus was trying to teach them a new way of servanthood and love. One of the greatest challenges in being a spiritual adult is to see our power as an opportunity to bless others rather than serve ourselves. It took nothing less than the cross and resurrection to prove to them and to us that Jesus' way is the only way to life!
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It is easy to lose heart when confronting the world's problems. Paradoxically, part of being a spiritual adult is to hold onto a child-like faith, knowing that Jesus is not only with us, but present in each of the people we serve. As we do to the "least" of people, we do to Jesus. How might today be different if we believe this?
Pastor Meghan's sermon:
https://youtu.be/pIxxcBsolyg
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We protect children from the unclean influences of the world, but what happens when we become adults? When the bleeding woman touched Jesus in faith, her uncleanness did not infect Jesus. Instead, his cleanness, his health "infected" her. In becoming spiritual adults, we are invited to participate with Jesus in bringing his infectious spiritual health into the world.
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Devotionals will resume on Tuesday, 5/28, after the Memorial Day Holiday
God gives us great freedom in choosing whether to marry and whom to marry. So why is God so insistent that we marry only another Jesus-follower? As we seek an answer to this question, we will discover that this restriction is not about judgment, but about God's love for us.
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Marriage is a tender subject, and divorce even moreso. In responding to a question from the Pharisees, Jesus speaks against a casual attitude toward either. Instead, Jesus reminds us that even if divorce is sometimes the least bad option in a broken situation, God intended something much better for us.
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Following Jesus' lead, Paul raises up the importance of both marriage and singleness, while highlighting the even-greater freedom to serve Jesus that is available to singles. We are all single for at least some time. How might God be inviting you to use that time of freedom to find life in giving life to others?
Pastor Walt's message on "Marriage + Singleness":
https://youtu.be/Gcfu3BHXGC4
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Jesus speaks about marriage as high calling in which we covenant to serve God by serving others, rather than serving ourselves. The way that Jesus spoke about marriage scared them! We can only imagine what they thought of his next words about serving God through a commitment to singleness! Indeed, what will our reaction be to the call of Jesus?
Pastor Walt's message on "Marriage + Singleness":
https://youtu.be/Gcfu3BHXGC4
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Tragically, this passage has sometimes been read as a call to subjugate woman. As we look closely at the grammar, structure, and context, we instead see a beautiful picture of mutual submission that arises out of a reverence for Christ. Indeed, it was the call for husbands to submit to their wives that would have shocked the original audience, and perhaps today's hearers as well.
Pastor Walt's message on "Marriage + Singleness":
https://youtu.be/Gcfu3BHXGC4
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Sermon #7 of Highrock's spring sermon series ("Deep: Moving Beyond Shallow Spirituality") from 1 Corinthians 7:1-10 NIV
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When is it time to rest? God answers this question with a command, but one intended to compel us to remember who we are and why we matter. We matter more to God than our work, and we all should matter more to one another than the work that we do. These are essential truths that we might easily forget if we should forget to honor God's Sabbath.
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The people before the time of the Pharisees and Jesus had ignored the Sabbath in very harmful ways but the Pharisees made the opposite error of being too obsessive about the rules. In their zeal, they missed the point of the rules, which is to honor human beings and God. And what could be more true to the spirit of Sabbath than to satisfy your hunger both for food and for God as the disciples were doing with Jesus?
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