1 Peter 2:21-25; 3:18
March 27, 2016
Easter Sunday
preached by Pastor Don Willeman
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Romans 11:33-12:2
April 26, 2015
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Selections from 1 John
June 23, 2013
Preached by Pastor Don Willeman
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“Question: What is sin?
Answer: Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.”
~Westminster Shorter Catechism, Question 14 (1647)
Selections from 1 John
June 16, 2013
Preached by Pastor Don Willeman
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“It’s obvious humanity is craving…People aren’t feeling fulfilled by how many cars they own or the size of their stock portfolio. Even the addicts are saying, ‘It doesn’t matter how many drugs I take, I’m not fulfilled. This isn’t satisfying.’ There’s a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don’t feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will.”
~Alice Cooper, infamous rock star persona
Selections from 1 John
June 9, 2013
preached by Pastor Don Willeman
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“The only way to get rid of sin is to admit it, for without honest repentance, forgiveness and grace are impossible. The Christian does not go around all the time feeling guilty. For him sin is a burden he can lay down for he can admit it, repent and be forgiven. It is the unfortunate creature who denies the existence of sin in general and his own in particular who must go on carrying it. The way to freedom consists in honest confession and repentance that can open our hearts to the Comforter.”
~Joy Davidman (1915-1960) in Smoke on the Mountain
Selections from 1 John
June 2, 2013
preached by Pastor Don Willeman.
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“You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.”
“Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.”
“An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.”
~Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), social philosopher
1 John 3
May 19, 2013
preached by Pastor Don Willmean
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“You must get used to the idea that it is one thing to do the works of the law and quite another to fulfill it…. [T]o fulfill the law means to do its work eagerly, lovingly and freely, without the constraint of the law; it means to live well and in a manner pleasing to God, as though there were no law or punishment.”
“Faith is a work of God in us, which changes us and…makes us completely different people in heart, mind, senses, and all our powers, and brings the Holy Spirit with it. What a living, creative, active powerful thing is faith! It is impossible that faith ever stops doing good. Faith doesn’t ask whether good works are to be done, but, before it is asked, it has done them. It is always active. Whoever doesn’t do such works is without faith…”
~Martin Luther (1483-1546) from Preface to His Commentary on Romans
Selections from 1 John
May 12, 2013
preached by Pastor Don Willeman
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“Men cannot get off from the notion, that it is for some goodness or service of their own, either done or expected to be done, that God accepts and receives them into favor.”
~Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) in his sermon
“Pardon for the Greatest Sinners” (Psalm 25:11)
Selections from 1 John & Colossians 3:1-5
May 5, 2013
preached by Pastor Don Willeman
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“Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.”
~Marcus Aurelius (121-180),
Roman Emperor and stoic philosopher
1 John 4:10-5:5
April, 28, 2013
preached by Pastor Don Willeman
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“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”
~John Lennon (1940-1980)
