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series: He Said, She Said...But I Say...
The law had been twisted and turned. The people had nothing to go by, except what they were being told. What God once intended for His people, was now a tool in the hands of the manipulative. Until Jesus came along...and set the record straight.
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- 02.22.2009 :: Be What?
Week 11 - Pastor Chip Monck
59 weeks...414 days...9,936 hours of studying one chapter...only to run into this? "Therefore, be perfect." Be what? Perfect? How am I going to pull that one off? Well, believe it or not, it is actually quite an encouraging and invigorating possibility!
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- 02.15.2009 :: Love Who?
Week 10 - Pastor Chip Monck
Valentine's Day has arrived, and love is in the air. But while the teaching of the day encourages me to love my neighbor...it frees me to hate my enemy. Unfortunately, that is the same teaching that existed in Jesus' day, and it was quite contrary to His teaching. You might be surprised at who He tells us to love.
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- 02.08.2009 :: Not Me...But Him
Week 9 - Pastor Chip Monck
Lose your life to gain it? Be last to be first? Die to live? It is all very confusing...but seems to point to the same thing - not me, but Him. Together we explore the freedom that awaits us when we put "self" on the shelf.
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- 02.01.2009 :: A Coat for the Extra Mile
Week 8 - Pastor Chip Monck
Turn the other cheek? Give up my coat? Go the extra mile? Hand my stuff over to the poor? You're kidding right? Actually, it is a little more complicated than that. Let's explore together what Jesus had to say about my attitude towards myself.
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- 01.25.2009 :: Working with Interchangeable Parts
Week 7 - Pastor Chip Monck
Sounds simple enough. You take out my eye...I take out yours. You cut off my hand...I cut off yours. Even Steven. But what if it is about more than that. What if it is about...me...and my attitude about...me? Now that might complicate things.
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- 01.18.2009 :: Cross My Heart...Hope to Die...
Week 6 - Pastor Chip Monck
I said it, and I didn't believe my friends until they said it to. "Cross my heart, hope to die, stick a thousand needles...", well, you remember it. From an early age we have been taught that without an oath, no word can be trusted. But you have to wonder if that is how it is supposed to be...cross my heart!
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- 01.11.2009 :: Dealing with Divorce
Week 5 - Pastor Chip Monck
What would Jesus do...with divorce? Moses had the law. The Pharisees had their spin. Jesus had the truth. Let's see if we can learn from Him, and see God's application of grace and love to such a hurtful part of so many lives.
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- 12.07.2008 :: Man, This is Gonna Hurt!
Week 4 - Pastor Chip Monck
Poke out my eye? Chop off my hand? Seems like a fairly radical approach to something as harmless as lust. That would really hurt! How extreme do I have to get with sin? Or maybe a better question is, how extreme am I willing to get to eradicate the influence of sin from my life?
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- 11.30.2008 :: Sin is So...Sinful
Week 3 - Pastor Chip Monck
Sin. Three little letters, one destructive force. With a subtle ability to move deep into our lives, it begins to twist and turn our hearts as it leads us down a path of desperation. What do you believe about sin? Because that belief influences more than you might think.
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- 11.23.2008 :: If Looks Could Kill
Week 2 - Pastor Chip Monck
Heart sang it in the '80s. People have said it for decades..."If looks could kill..." What if they could? What if there were actually more ways to commit murder than simply inflicting physical death on someone. What if the spirit of the law actually confronts us with a greater responsibility than simply the criminal laws of our day?
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- 11.16.2008 :: He Said, She Said...But I Say...
Week 1 - Pastor Chip Monck
Ever played the telephone game? What is said at the start is rarely what comes out at the end. Imagine the same thing happening with the law...God's law! The time had come for Jesus to remind the people of the truth and put an end to the legal hearsay of the day.
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