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    God's Remedy for Anxiety

    August 22, 2016 | Topic:
    Author: James Hein

    This week we’ll be talking HOW THE GOSPEL OVERWHELMS ANXIETY. Many Christians can summarize the basics of the gospel, but are much less accustomed to working the gospel into the corners of their lives as a resource for navigating a big, scary, fallen world. The gospel is the perfect tool for reducing anxiety.
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    God's Remedy for Depression

    August 22, 2016 | Topic:
    Author: James Hein

    This week, we’ll be talking GOD’S REMEDY TO OUR DEPRESSION. Many of us have heard Christians make somewhat insensitive comments about depression being merely a lack of faith. Then again, many of us have heard others make comments about depression being merely a chemical issue, when there clearly seems to be some lack of trust in God present. So what is it? The Bible’s take might surprise you.
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    Design of Love: Sex

    July 29, 2016 | Topic:
    Author: James Hein

    What were the prevalent views about sex in New Testament times? How do they relate to us today? What did God really invent sex for? What happens if we use sex other than the way He designed... or if we actually do use it the way He designed?
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    Design of Love: Singleness

    July 25, 2016 | Topic:
    Author: James Hein

    Why are many of your parents constantly badgering you about finding a spouse? Is singleness a worse or better state than being married? How did Christianity revolutionize the world’s view of being single (because it most definitely did)? What about dating (or marrying) a non-believer? God’s design will help with all of this. 
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    The MISSION of Marriage

    July 18, 2016 | Topic:
    Author: James Hein

    This week we’re looking at the The MISSION of Marriage. Why does God give husbands and wives different commands? What happens if we don’t follow that design? What is God trying to accomplish in us through marriage? God’s design will help with all of this. 

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    The ESSENCE of Marriage

    July 6, 2016 | Topic:
    Author: James Hein

    What’s at the heart of this "covenant relationship" thing? Do you really need a little “piece of paper” to love someone? How do you turn around a bad marriage? God’s design will help with all of this. 

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    Reimagining Popular Parables: Parable of the Wedding Banquet.

    June 21, 2016 | Topic:
    Author: James Hein

     

    This week, as we continue our series Reimagining Popular Parables, we’re looking at the "Parable of the Wedding Banquet." The “wedding banquet” is a metaphor used throughout Scripture to describe eternal life. We’ll be looking at who gets into the banquet, why, and what alone would cause someone to get kicked out. It’s not at all the way the world thinks. Tune in to find out.

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    Reimagining Popular Parables: Parable of the Talents

    June 21, 2016 | Topic:
    Author: James Hein

     

    This week, in our series Reimagining Popular Parables, we’re looking at the "Parable of the Talents." If you think the parable is primarily about how we should become empowered to discover our “hidden talents,” that sounds nice, but is not what the parable is really about. So what’s at the heart of this thing? Tune in to find out.

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    From Triunity to Community

    May 13, 2016 | Topic:
    Author: James Hein

     

    A Triune God is inherently relational. God never intended Christians to try to do their faith alone. Christ established the Church so that we’d primarily express our faith through community.

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    The Idols We Never Knew We Had Week 8

    April 26, 2016 | Topic: IdolsWeNeverKnewWeHad
    Author: James Hein

     

    The gospel of Jesus Christ is neither religion nor irreligion. Christ compels us to repent of both younger brother sins AND elder brother sins. See how Jesus' revolutionary parable teaches that uptight moralism is just as much an affront to the gospel as wild immorality as we look at The Idol of Religion

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