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Strangers and Exiles: Longing for a Better Country

by | Mar 13, 2013 | Bible, Church, Preaching

Yesterday, we faced the fact that the Christian life is filled with disappointment, suffering, and sacrifice. Abraham and countless other saints with him never actually lived long enough to see the fulfillment of God’s promises, so that they lived their entire...

Strangers and Exiles: Sacrifices in Life and Death

by | Mar 12, 2013 | Bible, Church, Preaching

Now, it would be easy to give a romanticized, rah-rah sermon about how we can move from rags to riches, grave to glory, valley to mountaintop by faith based on Hebrews 11:8-12, which we looked at yesterday. But Hebrews 11:13 stops us dead in our tracks, reminding us...

Strangers and Exiles: Obedience by Promise

by | Mar 11, 2013 | Bible, Church, Preaching

Abraham is the patriarch of faith. The author of Hebrews does mention other people before coming to Abraham in chapter 11 (Abel, Enoch, and Noah), but Abraham has a unique role in blazing the trail of faith for following in his footsteps to become strangers and exiles...

Lamentations and Good Friday

by | Apr 22, 2011 | Bible, Preaching

Mark’s account of Jesus’ crucifixion deliberately alludes to book of Lamentations, which is a collection of poems (dirges, really) to “lament” and mourn the destruction of Jerusalem. Particularly, Mark draws from Lamentations 2:15-16 to...

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