SERMONS
At Veritas we are committed to preaching and teaching each week from the Bible about Jesus. Each week we post our sermons online for those of us who are unable to attend our weekly gatherings.
In this sermon we see James introduce topics that that are hard and perplexing for many of us: faith, trials, and temptation. In James 1:2-18 we will see that our faith will be tested, that trials actually come from God, and yet temptation never does.
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This week we begin our study of James and ask the questions:
Who is James?
What happened in his life that made himself as a servant rather than a brother of Jesus?
Why did James write this letter?
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During this gathering we had the honor and privilege to welcome Shane Shaddix, a pastor at one of our fellow Acts 29 Churches in Raleigh, to preach from John 3. Join us as we explore one of the most perplexing teachings of Jesus from the Gospel of John where Jesus says, “you must be born again.”
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Often the events of our lives seem meaningless and irrelevant, but we learn through Scripture that God is training us in grace and godliness. Even suffering is a means of grace in the hands of God.
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God made us to love him and to love others. We become the people we were meant to be in serving others, but how does that happen and how is it a grace God gives us to reinforce our faith?
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From the very beginning, God has existed in and been a part of community with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We see in the gospel that when Jesus began his ministry, he went and found 12 guys and told them to follow him. Placing them into community. As followers of Jesus, we are brought into biblical community with God, and according to the Bible, there is no part of life that we should be doing on our own.
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What is the purpose of prayer and why do so many of us find it so difficult? The disciples ask a similar question to Jesus and understanding his answer will change our approach in and understanding of prayer.
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What is the purpose of prayer and why do so many of us find it so difficult? The disciples ask a similar question to Jesus and understanding his answer will change our approach in and understanding of prayer.
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The Word of God is the primary means by which God changes us. It speaks liberating truth to our enslaved hearts as we read it ourselves and as we speak it to others. How does that happen and how does God reinforce our faith through this grace?
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Leadership is important and the Bible has a lot to say about it. We looked at 1 Timothy 3 where leadership in Jesus' church is most clearly defined. Leadership is for the good of God's people and flourishing of the gospel.
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Conflict is something we all experience (regularly), but often handle in very fleshly ways. The gospel gives us a pattern and a means to healthy conflict resolution.
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The gospel that works in us always works through us. It shows its power in our relationships and actions. One key way this happens is when we forgive others biblically.
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The gospel is simultaneously at work in us and through us. Inwardly, our desires and motives are being changed as we repent and believe the gospel. As we experience Christ’s love in this way, we are compelled to engage those around us with the same kind of redemptive love. God’s grace brings renewal everywhere, in us and through us.
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Following Jesus means preferring him to everything else. If we love something Jesus provides for us more than we love him then we are idolaters! Idolatry means we’ve made an idol out of something - we prefer it to Jesus. If we are to address the idols of our heart we are going to have to come to grips with our own weaknesses and we will have to expose to others.
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Today we look at repentance. In our culture, this usually sounds like a bad thing, but repentance is the norm for gospel-centered living. Becoming more aware of God’s holiness and our sinfulness leads us to repent and believe the gospel of Jesus. Biblical repentance frees us from our own devices and makes a way for the power of the gospel to bear fruit in our lives.
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We are continuing to think about how the gospel interacts with our lives, but now we turn to consider the gospel’s relationship to the law. What is the law? Does God expect me to obey it? What is the purpose of the law? How does the law help me to believe the gospel? How does the gospel help me to obey the law? These are the questions we’ll dive into today.
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The Gospel-Centered Life series is intended to help Christians understand how the gospel shapes every aspect of life and conduct. Colossians 1:6 says that the gospel is “continually bearing fruit and increasing” in and among us, even after we first believe it. How does that happen? Why is a continual rediscovery and application of the gospel so important? How will our personal growth and missional life be stunted if we don’t grasp the gospel deeply? These are the questions that we are seeking to answer with this series and the resulting study in Community Groups.
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Each of us tends to “shrink the cross,” which is to say that something is lacking in our understanding, appreciation, or application of Jesus’ sacrifice for our sin. This manifests itself in two main ways: pretending and performing. Pretending minimizes sin by making ourselves out to be something we are not. Performing minimizes God’s holiness by reducing his standard to something we can meet, thereby meriting his favor. Both are rooted in an inadequate view of God’s holiness and our identity.
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If the gospel is constantly “bearing fruit and growing” (Col. 1:6), then everything has to do with the gospel—God, humanity, salvation, worship, relationships, shopping, recreation, work, personality...everything! The objective of this first part of the series is to establish a framework for talking about the gospel. This framework will get worked out in greater detail over the next two weeks, so this lesson is designed to help us understand the concepts and begin exploring how they relate to actual life.
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