faith
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Acts 28: Share the Gospel
Our final sermon in the book of Acts. Acts chapter 28 is the conclusion of our only history of the early church — and it ends with a challenge: share the gospel. Continue reading
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Holding On to the Basics
We’re in the final week of our series on superstition and hyper-spiritualism. One of the greatest weapons we have against both is faithfulness to sound doctrine — and that starts with making your home in the basics. Continue reading
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Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
We are continuing our series dealing with superstition and what I like to call hyper spiritualism. We all roughly know what superstition is, but hyper spiritualism, as I call it, is a combination of mysticism, eastern religions, and new age thought. The problem is that those things, throughout all of the history of Christianity and… Continue reading
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Inside the Pastor’s Study: What 24 Pastors Told Me About Preaching
I asked 24 pastors five honest questions about how they prepare to preach. The answers were raw, funny, and deeply inspiring. Continue reading
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The Lord’s Prayer Explained: A Line-by-Line Guide to Praying Like Jesus (Matthew 6:9–13)
We are talking about prayer. Two weeks ago we saw that before Jesus gives us this structure — what is called the Lord’s Prayer — he gives us examples of how not to pray. You have to have your heart right in your prayer life with God. You are not praying for the wrong reasons.… Continue reading
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Acts 27 — God in Control in the Storm
And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a… Continue reading
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Almost Isn’t Enough: A Sermon on Acts 26:19-32
Acts 26:19-32 [19] “Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, [20] but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance. [21] For… Continue reading
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How Propaganda Attacks Orthodox Christianity
I see a problem. A problem, that has been around forever, but one I really started to notice in high school and college. I want to explore the impact of organized propaganda against the truth in traditional orthodox Christian circles. I am a former student of a small, Christian liberal arts college in southeast Tennessee.… Continue reading
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How the Devil’s Influence Hides in Plain Sight
Sometimes we are fooled into thinking that the devil’s attacks and influence are like something found in The Exorcist. Terrifying but obvious. While that might be the case sometimes, what seems to be more likely these days is that the enemy’s attacks and influence look more like a popular and related set of “values” dressed… Continue reading
Zachary Peters 