LIVING AND SHARING THE GOSPEL
The Real Footstep in the Hallway Hebrews 9:11-15 Kids are consummate imitators. They are wonderfully, sometimes manically creative, but they also very much enjoy “being like mommy and daddy.” Costumes of a police officer or a firefighter or a soldier are universally popular in toy stores. If you look at ancient toys from millennia […]
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The theme for this week is … FAITHFUL RESPONSES. Related Passages … The call to worship psalm — Psalm 34:1-3,4-8,19-22 — forms a response of faith in a God who rescues the needy upon hearing their humble prayers. In Job 42:1-6,10-15,16-17, we read about Job’s final response to God as a penitent expression of faith
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Permanent, Perfect and Promised High Priest Hebrews 7:23-28 (NRSV) 23 Furthermore, the former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office; 24 but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. 25 Consequently he is able for all time to save those who approach God through him, since he always lives to
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Identity in Christ Dear GCI Family and Friends, Identity comes from the combination of qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person (or group) who they are. There are many driving forces that influence humans toward these markers. Os Guinness in his book The Call says this: Thus Marxists interpret us by categories of
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.The theme for this week is God Made Low — the creator of the universe becoming a humble servant. In Psalm 104:1-9,1-4, 5-9, the almighty God is portrayed as “wrapped in light.” In Job 38:1-7, 34-41, 38-41, we glimpse the frightening depths of God’s power in creation. In Mark 10, Jesus explains that the greatest
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The High Priest Made Low Hebrews 5:1-10 ESV “Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes” is a well-worn cliché about reserving judgment on people. Well-worn enough to have a joke made out of it, “…that way, when you judge him, you’ll be a mile away and you’ll have his shoes!”
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WE BELIEVE Introduction Welcome to We Believe — a resource that assists adults and older teens in studying the core beliefs of our Christian faith. We Believe is grounded in the Holy Scriptures and expressive of GCI’s statement of beliefs and incarnational Trinitarian theology. We Believe draws on similar documents from other Christian denominations and
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