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Pastor Mark’s sermon for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost:
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– Thanks to drantoniohowell.com, for the photo.
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Author Archives: theoldadam
Discipleship Paradigms
This clears it up and shows us the simple way to be a disciple of Christ Jesus:
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Listen to > https://theoldadam.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/what-does-god-really-care-about.mp3
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Thank you, Pastor Mark.
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The Role of the Holy Spirit in your Sanctification
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This is a must hear:
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Thank you, Pastor Mark.
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The Legal Scheme vs. The Gospel
Pastor Mark Anderson
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Pastor Mark is teaching from Steven Paulson’s book, “Lutheran Theology”:
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Listen >
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Your Conscience…and Your Baptism
1st Peter says is quite well and quite clearly. So does Romans. And in Galatians. In fact, it’s all over the New Testament.
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Faith comes by hearing (and we are kept in faith by hearing, and the sacraments)…so give it a whirl:
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Pastor Mark teaches from Steven Paulson’s book:
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click > http://theoldadam.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/chapter-5.mp3
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Good Friday
Listen to Pastor Mark’s Good Friday, 2014 sermon:
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Holy Thursday
Maundy Thursday message:
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Listen to this Word
Usually Pastor Mark writes the daily devotionals that are posted on this blog.
But I wanted to post this audio message delivered by Pastor Mark.
Of course it’s longer than a minute, but it needs to be heard. So please click on the link and listen, if you are at all able to:
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Click on link below
http://theoldadam.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/i-believe-that-i-cannot-believe.mp3
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Thanks to flickr and amras_de, for the photo.
2 Corinthians 6
“We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.”
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We live in a world that is uncertain and unstable and this critical situation can become defining of everything. But neither the challenging world or our broken lives are the last reality. We do not have to spend ourselves in endless efforts to remain in control. Jesus tried hard to impress this on His hearers. He still does.
When Jesus reduced all the commandments to the simple and concrete love of God and the neighbor, He pointed us to a Kingdom within the darkened world, the light of which addresses universally the true hopes and aspirations of all people. The Kingdom of God, therefore, most passionately proclaimed through the Cross of Jesus, appeals to us to live in the freedom which creates the capacity to live within the sobriety of God’s kingdom – the kingdom for others – a kingdom at odds with the world, superior to it and destined to prevail.
If you find the Christian life perplexing, unsatisfying or even boring, the solution may not be as difficult to come by as you think. For, the Christian life is not about self protectionism, lived primarily inwardly. The Christian life is lived outwardly (for the sake of others). This is the great freedom of the Christian: that we may live without any self-consciousness, trusting in God’s grace alone, expecting nothing, yet having everything.
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“May the peace of God that passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
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