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#1298: What to say to “I believe in science”? | Luke 7 | Job 36-37

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#1298: What to say to “I believe in science”? | Luke 7 | Job 36-37

So what do you say if someone says to you, “See, there’s an example of things that science now explains. I don’t need a God, because I believe in science, and someday we’ll be able to explain the other stuff we can’t explain today”?

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#1249: What’s the relationship of love and rules? | Mark 5 | Ezekiel 45.13-46:24 | Proverbs 10:12-17

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#1249: What’s the relationship of love and rules? | Mark 5 | Ezekiel 45.13-46:24 | Proverbs 10:12-17

It's popular to hear Christians sometimes say, "Christianity isn't about rule-following, it's about love." In a way that's true, but in a way it's not. Do you know why?

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#1248: What is most encouraging? | Mark 4 | Ezekiel 44-45:12

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#1248: What is most encouraging? | Mark 4 | Ezekiel 44-45:12

What is the most encouraging thing you can hang your hat on? In times of doubt, or dealing with doubters? Or when wrestling with a family member who started following someone with a skewed sense of the Gospel? What is the bedrock you can come back to?

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#1234: “Too big to fail?” | Revelation 10-11 | Ezekiel 29 | Proverbs 21:1-12

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#1234: “Too big to fail?” | Revelation 10-11 | Ezekiel 29 | Proverbs 21:1-12

Today you’re going hear going to get a little history, in this case about another country 2600 years who once thought that they were too big to fail. And you’ll get a biblical response to today’s focus question — How do we respond to the idea of “too big to fail?”

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#1231: What’s the nature of the “tribulation?" | Revelation 6 | Ezekiel 24-25 | Proverbs 20:20-23

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#1231: What’s the nature of the “tribulation?" | Revelation 6 | Ezekiel 24-25 | Proverbs 20:20-23

The book of Revelation is difficult to interpret exactly, but this much we know: there's something ugly between now and "the end" and Jesus wins. Today we catch an overview of what the tribulation will look like.

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#1230: Why three "holies?" | Revelation 4-5 | Ezekiel 23 | Proverbs 20:6-19

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#1230: Why three "holies?" | Revelation 4-5 | Ezekiel 23 | Proverbs 20:6-19

Just a warning as we get rolling today…Ezekiel 23 is, uh, not G-rated as it describes, again, the unfaithfulness of the people of Israel. But, before we get there, today we’re going to tackle two chapters of Revelation because they really go together, and I want you to get the sense of the whole scene. And while longtime listeners will know the answer to today’s focus question, it’s worth posting again…Why three “holies?” (as in “holy, holy, holy”).

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#1227: What is the “retribution principle?” | Revelation 1 | Ezekiel 17-18 | Psalm 93

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#1227: What is the “retribution principle?” | Revelation 1 | Ezekiel 17-18 | Psalm 93

The "retribution principle," simply speaking, is "an eye for an eye." But there's a twist of justice, injustice, and grace that is particular to Christianity...and we get to that in our Bottom Line segment today.

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#1226: What is biblical shame? | 3 John | Ezekiel 16

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#1226: What is biblical shame? | 3 John | Ezekiel 16

Ezekiel 16 is an allegory that is, frankly, graphic. And for good reason — God’s showing us in rather stark terms how it was He who blessed us, gave us all good things, and we cheated on him. Worse than that. And yet He continues to pursue….and to what end?

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#1225: What does it mean to repent? | 2 John | Ezekiel 13-15 | Psalm 92

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#1225: What does it mean to repent? | 2 John | Ezekiel 13-15 | Psalm 92

You might also remember that 1 John ended with the line, “keep yourself from idols,” and since idolatry is related to our recent “knowing God” theme, today’s focus question will riff off what we’ll read in Ezekiel as God gets in the business of Israel’s failed leaders — What does it mean to repent?

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#1223: What do you mean by that? | 1 John 3:11-4:6 | Ezekiel 9-11

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#1223: What do you mean by that? | 1 John 3:11-4:6 | Ezekiel 9-11

Last week in the book of John we talked about his exhortation to “test the spirits.” Today in 1 John we actually get to the place that he wrote that. And our focus question today is going to riff off that again, albeit from a different angle — a problem that we all face in testing the spirits and a deceptively simple solution you can use.

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