Tag Archives: Expository Teaching

Spiritual Nuggets 10/06/2023

Connecting Historical Dots Biblical lists can be annoying, but they’re also a testament to God’s faithfulness. It’s a true gift when someone in a faith community records the history of the group and their work—particularly when God has answered prayers. … Continue reading

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Ambassadors For Christ Jesus – 4

Scripture References: 2 Corinthians 5:14-20 The Christian is no longer a slave of the patterns of the world and society around him but has a fresh and independent and personal moral insight: he or she wants to be more “Christlike.” … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 10/05/2023

Dysfunctional Problem-Solving When I locate a problem, I often fixate on it. I think that if I analyze it enough, I can solve it. This is a problem when I come to difficult issues that require someone else’s expertise. Stubbornly, … Continue reading

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Ambassadors For Christ Jesus – 3

Scripture References: 2 Corinthians 5:14-20 From last lesson: Because of the redeeming mercy of God in Jesus Christ, we are now free to “present [offer] our bodies a living sacrifice” to God. What did Paul mean by this claim of … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 10/04/2023

Small Starts In Paul’s qualifications for overseers, he mentions a necessary trait for anyone who wants to lead in a community: “He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not … Continue reading

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Ambassadors For Christ Jesus – 2

Scripture References: 2 Corinthians 5:14-20 Being reconciled to God implies the responsibility to demonstrate the righteousness or justice of God to others by way of a new life of love and respect for others. Paul is particularly concerned about our … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 10/03/2023

A Sense of History When I was in sixth grade, my teacher assigned our class a family genealogy and history project. At first it was frustrating. It seemed like unnecessary work. But eventually I became obsessive over it as I … Continue reading

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Ambassadors For Christ Jesus – 1

Scripture References: 2 Corinthians 5:14-20 The apostle Paul regards every believer in Jesus Christ as a new creation, as a being who has been transformed by his or her faith in Christ! In verse 15 he explains that such believers … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 10/02/2023

Shipwrecked “I am setting before you this instruction, Timothy my child, in accordance with the prophecies spoken long ago about you, in order that by them you may fight the good fight, having faith and a good conscience, which some, … Continue reading

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God Gives a Song

Scripture Reference: Exodus 15:1-21 Deliverance always leads to praise! God’s people praise Him because He has redeemed them; worthy of all praise as our Creator, He is especially to be worshipped as our Redeemer and Savior. The display of God’s … Continue reading

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Faith From The Beginning 9/30/2023

God’s Permissive Will – 2 COME with me to another scene, even to Calvary, for the greatest example of the truth here discussed. See there, hanging upon the Cross of Calvary, the Creator of the universe, sinless, spotless, impeccable. There … Continue reading

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Jesus, the Bread of Life – 2

Scripture Reference: John 6:25-59 At verse 41 is the point in the discussion in which the Jewish objections came to the forefront. The sticking point was I am the bread which came down from heaven. They could not reconcile this … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 9/29/2023

The Bible in the Developed World In our developed world, we don’t consider famines very often. If there were a famine in our lands, we could navigate through it because of our importing infrastructure. This isn’t the case for the … Continue reading

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Jesus, the Bread of Life – 1

Scripture Reference: John 6:25-59 Those who followed after Jesus had just experienced the miracle of Jesus feeding the five-thousand and the following day, they went looking for Jesus who was not present. When they found Him they were baffled as … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 9/28/2023

Being Good at What Matters Though prayer is important, it’s an area of our faith lives that we often neglect. But people of great faith in the Bible relied on prayer—and not just for difficult situations. From general direction to … Continue reading

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The Infinitely Celestial Christ – 4

Scripture References: John 1:1-8; Colossians 1:15-17 Christ’s Relationship to the Natural Order – Continued In 1962 our nation was well into the space program. President Kennedy had predicted that we would land men on the moon by the end of … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 9/27/2023

Old, Wise, and Desperately in Need of God Sometimes we expect that we’ll naturally grow in faith as we grow older. We tend to see elderly people as those who have been molded and shaped by life—rock-solid in their faith … Continue reading

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The Infinitely Celestial Christ – 3

Scripture References: John 1:1-8; Colossians 1:15-17 Christ’s Relationship to the Natural Order John 1:3 reads, “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” What this is literally stating is that, “Every single thing … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 9/26/2023

Success Deceives When leaders come to power, there are always people who become insistent on stopping them. It’s incredible how easy it is for people to justify envy or hatred for authority figures. Most of us have made the offhand … Continue reading

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The Infinitely Celestial Christ – 2

Scripture References: John 1:1-8; Colossians 1:15-17 Christ’s Relationship to/with God “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” “In the beginning,” whenever that was. Remember, since the Bible relates to man … Continue reading

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