In the end, what the gospel is really all about.

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The gospel.

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It’s not about our security, or our wants and desires, or our material blessings, or the good and bad in our lives.

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click > After all else…what the gospel is finally all about.

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and Livingword2012, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What is ‘worship’?

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We’ve got Mary. We’ve got Judas. We’ve got poor people. We’ve got very expensive perfume. And we’ve got Jesus.

What does all of that have to do with worship?

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Listen in and see:

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click > What does worship look like?

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and magdalena 67, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What Repentance is really all about

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Is it about being able to stop from committing particular sins?

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Is it about cleaning up your act so that God will make everything in your life work?

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Is is “dipsticking”?  Checking your brother or sister to see if they are properly living out their Christian lives?

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Listen in to Pastor Mark as he gives us his take on what repentance really is all about:

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 click> What Repentance is really all about

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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 And thanks to sarahmelnychuk.blogspot.com, for the photo.

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Turning the church into a “Christian Boot Camp”

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Gerhard Forde once said that “the gospel of Jesus Christ is not a movement from vice to virtue…but a movement from virtue to grace.”

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Pastor Mark explains that statement and expands on it:

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 click > Turning the church into a ‘Christian Boot Camp’

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks also to flickr and ATOMIC Hot Links, for the photo.

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Bible Study…Luke 13. Listen to it as a matter of life and death.

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If you don’t hear the Bible as a matter of life and death then it will just end up being “religious noise”…and will morph into “principles for daily living”…which won’t do you a bit of good when it’s your turn before the Living God.

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click>  6 1/2 minute preview of the class

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Thanks to Pastor Mark for teaching this clarifying and edifying class on Luke 13:

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listen to entire class > Bible Study…Luke 13

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Thanks to flicker and marsmet543, for the photo.

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The past, present, and future aspects of the Lord’s Supper

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Pastor Mark’s children’s sermon, and adult version, of just what the Lord’s Supper is, and what it means for us:

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click > The Lord’s Supper…what is it…what does it mean for us.

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to ats.chapel, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oh how He yearns to gather us…

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He grieves over our rebellion, yet persists in His great love and desire to make us His own;

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click> How He yearns to gather us as a hen gathers her chicks

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and piratetuba, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Freedom from having to worry about yourself where God is concerned

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Freedom from all of that inward stuff…and then free to love and live life outward.

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 click > What the freedom of the Christian life results in 

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Thanks, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and lindes, for the photo. 

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Satan attacks Jesus’ identity…and now…

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… he is going after us.

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Pastor Mark’s sermon for the 1st Sunday in Lent, 2013:

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 click > The devil attacks Jesus’ identity

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and A.Currell, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The meaning of Lent, to us… and ‘cat theology’

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Listen in to Pastor Mark’s Ash Wednesday sermon for 2013:

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 > The meaning of Lent, for us… and cat theology

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Thanks, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and Eleanor Bricetti, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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