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When the Lord saved his people from Egyptian slavery, he saved them to sing. This Sunday we will hear a song preached, the first song of redemption from Exodus 15. This song was written by Moses and his sister, Miriam, and it was sung by the Israelites on the occasion of their deliverance through the Red Sea. This beautiful song which recounts God’s personal and powerful deliverance of his people is for us too. Just as surely as the Lord has powerfully dealt with sin and death in the cross, so he will powerfully bring us all the way home. This sermon will be part of a series we’ll title, Redemption Songs. We’ll return to this series from time to time as we work our way through the Bible’s songs of redemption.

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Colossians is a letter which Paul wrote to a little church 2,000 years ago—a little church which was being told that they needed to experience something in addition to Jesus. That kind of message continues to crop up today: “You need something else. You’re deficient unless you’ve done [fill in the blank].” As the Colossians needed to hear Paul’s answer, we need to hear it as well.

At the beginning of his sermon, Pastor Abe Stratton will recite the book of Colossians by memory, something he does for us from time to time.

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What does Good Friday do? What does Resurrection Sunday do? Christians down the ages have confessed faith in the crucified and risen Christ. We believe that the death and resurrection happened and that this truth is precious. But when the Apostle Peter speaks of these events, he speaks to those who already believe them. Why then does he write? He writes to show how the death and resurrection of Christ change all of life and our life together as a church. In this short series we consider two passages from 1 Peter 1 in order to live in light of the death and resurrection of Christ.

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This is a two-part series in which we focus our attention on God’s global purposes for the nations. Paul writes to the Romans because he wants them to share in his passion for reaching the unreached with the gospel. He wants to be sure that, in preparation for his coming to them and partnering with them, they are a gospel driven congregation. What does that look like? This is true when the spread of the gospel among the nations is our primary ambition as a church. We want to see churches established among those who have limited or no access to the gospel. We want to see those churches led by their own people and replicating without outside help. We will then, like Paul, mangify the mercy of God. 

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In Mark 8, the Apostle Peter correctly identifies Jesus with the famous words, “You are the Christ” (8:29). Peter believed Jesus was the Christ promised in the Old Testament Scriptures. But Peter did not fully understand the mission of the Messiah, who would come to suffer for his people. In this short series, we draw from Old Testament Scriptures to explore the fullness of that confession, a confession on which the church of the Lord Jesus is built.

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