Explore God: Can I Know God Personally? Part 2
August 18, 2021
We started this message with the story of the blind man being partially healed. His return to full sight is a metaphor of the real spiritual healing that comes through faith in Christ and the cross, and also by picking up that cross ourselves.
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Here we answer the question "Can I know God personally?" Through the story of the healing of the blind man, we are are linking sight to knowing God. What does this miracle have for us today?
August 17, 2021
As we look at part two of the question "Is the Bible reliable?" we look at secular fake news about the Bible. We need to clear away the confusion and get to our goal of celebrating the Bible's reliability.
August 16, 2021
What God is saying here is that He desires this mercy, love, and faithfulness in us, and not sacrifice. What this means is that He doesn't want religious ritual. Today we tend to focus on our morality over grace. In reality, it is Christ who saves us and then empowers us to obedience.
August 15, 2021
There is a lot of religious fake news out there about the Bible. Today we ask "Is the Bible reliable?" We need to have a faith in the Bible that is credible.
August 13, 2021
Today we look at the question "Is Jesus really God?" Our story reflects a real life mess that the disciples got themselves into. When we feel like we're battling a headwind in life, we need to hear this good news in the person of Jesus.
August 12, 2021
Answering the question "Why does God allow pain and suffering?" is difficult. Christianity and the gospel have the answer to this question, and it is thrilling when we grasp it.
August 11, 2021
Explore God was a collaborative event held in Chicagoland and designed to blanket a city with opportunities for evangelism. One of the ways this took place was through sermons that address basic questions like today's: "Is There a God?"
August 10, 2021
It becomes part of the nature of a born-again Christian to forgive those around them because they have been forgiven so much themselves. That is what real Christians are like—forgiveness is in their nature now.
August 9, 2021
I was taught to define mercy like this: Grace is God giving us what we don't deserve; mercy is God not giving us what we do deserve. In this story, the tax collectors and the Pharisees energize the story as Jesus teaches about mercy.
August 8, 2021
It is ironic that the most practical part of the Lord's Prayer has become the most theoretically debated—praying for our daily bread. Jesus is modeling for us how to pray for our daily sustenance. Maybe we don't think it's literally about food because many of us don't have to worry about having enough to eat each day.
August 6, 2021
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One group says the Bible is a book about love, mercy, and kindness. They think of the story of the Good Samaritan and of Jesus telling us to turn the other cheek. So how could anyone think the Bible prevents a tolerant society? But for another group, the Bible is far from tolerant. There’s the conquest of Canaan. There’s Elijah killing Baal’s prophets by his own hand. And in the New Testament, Jesus talks often about hell. That’s not tolerant. What then can we say in answer to this question? Get your free resource and learn more today!