TRINITY 1 SERMON “There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen…” Well, there you have the beginning of a good story and we shall see several more before the fall. For the next 17 Sundays, that would be till September 30th, which is the 17th Sunday after Trinity, 12 [...]
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STORY & THE WORD OF GOD
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HAVE YOU BEEN BORN AGAIN?
“Jesus answered, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born [...]
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HOW GOD MAKES CHRISTIANS II.2
A THEOLOGY OF HORTICULTURE II Therefore the only question remaining is “How do we get ourselves attached to this new Vine of Christ?” The answer is that we have to be grafted in. That means that we have to be broken off the old Vine of Adam and grafted into the New Vine of Christ, [...]
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HOW GOD MAKES CHRISTIANS II.1
A THEOLOGY OF HORTICULTURE I.I We are all born as branches upon the same Vine, Adam, the father of us all, who disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. The Bible says that when Adam disobeyed God he died spiritually, he was deprived of the supernatural grace of God in the person of the Holy [...]
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