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He Who Searches the Minds and Hearts
1. Series: God’s Message to the Church in Thyatira This is part of a series on the seven churches in Asia Minor (Revelation 2-3). This article covers the message to the church in Thyatira (Rev 2:18-29). The video messages of letters to churches in Ephesus (Rev 2:1-7), Smyrna (Rev 2:
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Back to the Jesus Way
1. Why Many Genuine People Stay Out of Church One of the reasons many genuine people stay out of the church is because the “church” has become an institutionalized organized religion – an environment in which many self-serving people thrive. How did Jesus counter this phenomenon? 2. True Moral Standards
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United in a Resurrection Like His
1. Hope of a Meaningful Life The gospel is God’s promise that our life, values, actions, the cross, death, and resurrection in some way will follow a pattern of Jesus’. Christ’s life/death/resurrection is the hope of a meaningful/purposeful life – along with Christ, in the current creation as well as
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The Calling: Living Great Things
1. Living Great Things “[we] are philosophers not in words, but in deeds; we exhibit our wisdom not by our dress, but by truth; we know virtues by their practice rather than through boasting of them; we do not speak great things but we live them” – Cyprian, Bishop of