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Listen along as we continue our journey through Philippians. Notes//Quotes: Philippians 2:12-18 - Kim Working It Out “The doctrine of justification concerns God’s gracious judicial verdict in advance of the day of judgment, pronouncing guilty sinners, who turn in self-despairing trust to Jesus Christ, forgiven, acquitted of all charges and declared morally upright in God’s sight.” - Philip Eveson...

Listen along as we continue our time in the letter of Philippians. Notes//Quotes: Philippians 2:1-11 When salvation has taken place in the life of someone under the sovereign hand of God, they are set free from the penalty of sin and its power. In a body without the Spirit, sin is an unshakable king under whose dominion no man can flee. The entire body, with its members, affections, and mind all w...

Listen along as we continue through Philippians. Notes//Quotes: Philippians 1:19-30 An important clue is that Paul’s words, "this will turn out for my salvation," are an exact quotation of Job 13:16 in the Greek Bible. Here Paul’s unmarked quotation evokes clear analogies between the apostle’s present situation and the former plight of Job. In Job 13, Job defends himself against the accusatory arr...

Listen along as we continue our journey through the book of Philippians. Notes//Quotes: Philippians 1:12-18 - Kim   The Sweet Sovereignty of God   “Rather than detail the hardships he faced, Paul took a divine perspective.” — Richard Malick   “Paul has a definition of life that enables him to face anything. In this passage he is teaching that its not the circumstances of your life, its not whether...

Listen along as we continue our series through Philippians. Notes//Quotes: Philippians 1:3-11 - Karen Every other ethical system calls us to the costly effort of becoming what we are not. But in the full salvation already bequeathed to us in Christ, the new nature is already ours, waiting for expression, poised for growth, until its potential is triggered by our obedience to the word of God - Alec...

Listen along as we begin our time in the book of Philippians. Notes//Quotes: Linda - Philippians 1:1-2   “How is leadership to be exercised? What is the relationship between leaders and led? The one word with provides the answer: ‘… the saints’, writes Paul, ‘… with the bishops and deacons.’ The strong natural leader chooses the easy path of being out front, taking it for granted that all will fol...

Listen in as we wrap up our series through the book of Hebrews. Notes//Quotes: Hebrews 13:20-25 “The author wants believers to live out God’s will in light of the work of Christ.” - George Guthrie Here is the sea, great and wide,
 which teems with creatures innumerable,
 living things both small and great. There go the ships,
 and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it. These all look to you,
...

Listen along as we near the close of the book of Hebrews. Notes//Quotes: Hebrews 13:1-19 In friendship, we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept...

Listen along as we continue our journey through the book of Hebrews. Notes//Quotes: “Although the author of Hebrews never mentions Sinai by name, he clearly has that mountain in view in his poetic comments in these verses. He draws his depiction of the desert wanderers’ encounter of God at Mount Sinai from the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy (e.g., Ex. 19:16–22; 20:18–21; Deut. 4:11–12; 5:23–27)....

Listen along as we continue our series through Hebrews. Notes//Quotes: Hebrews 12:1-17 “It is not so much they who look at us as we who look to them—for encouragement.” - FF Bruce “In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through—all that bloodshed! So don’t feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Hebrews. Notes//Quotes: Hebrews 11:32-40 -Faith reading    Roll Call Part 4   Slides Roll Call Part 4   Slide 1   Big Idea Whether we clearly win or appear to lose, we’re all called to a life of faith.   1) The obvious winners   2) The apparent losers   3) The surprising inclusion     Slide 2   “Notably, most of the individuals mentioned f...

Listen along as we continue our journey through the hall of faith. Notes//Quotes: “Faith is not something passive, not something private, not an esoteric interest kept in a corner, brought down, as it were, to be put on display every so often, but actual biblical faith, a decisive decision, and a sustained attitude. Beginning as a man or a woman gives up all dependence upon himself or herself in o...