This was originally an introduction to Pastor Josh’s series “Jesus and the Psalms” preached at Red Door during the early part of 2024. You can listen to those messages here. When I was in seminary one of my favorite things about that whole experience was listening to my professors pray. Many of them were pastors […]
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The following blog entry is a sermon transcript from Easter Sunday, 2024 at Red Door Church. The Scripture passage was Acts 2:1-36. We are coming into Spring and not only does that mean warmer weather, it means baseball. Any baseball fans out there? I love baseball and I played it for many years. Now I’m
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“He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!’ And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two
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Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship (proskyneō) the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” Luke 4:8 Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship (proskyneō) the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” Matthew 4:10 The idea that there is one God and that He
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Could God sin? If God has the potential to sin, then he would not be essentially or necessarily good. But God is necessarily or essentially good. He cannot be otherwise. This means that it is impossible for God to commit acts of evil and therefore God cannot even be tempted to do wrong just as
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A couple of weeks ago we looked at who wrote the Gospel of Mark, and before that we looked at who wrote Matthew’s Gospel. Now we will take up Luke’s Gospel. Who wrote Luke? Was the person in a position to record what he recorded? Can we know anything about this author? Did this person
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