Allen Jackson - Breaking Our Addiction To Easy - Part 2
It's a privilege to be with you today. We're continuing this discussion on "Let's Do Difficult". We did all the easy yesterday. The options in front of us, they're not as simple. But on the other side of difficult, there are the best things in life. So I want to encourage you to be willing to say yes to the Lord even when the challenge...
Allen Jackson - Breaking Our Addiction To Easy - Part 1
We're working through a little series under the general theme of "Let's Do Difficult". Thank you for that enthusiastic response. I know how much you like it. Several of you stopped and asked when we're gonna do a series on, "Let's Do Easy". We've done lots of those. In this particular session, the topic is "Breaking Our...
Allen Jackson - Hatred of God's People - Part 2
And then I brought you just a quick sampling. I think it's worth noting that, what Jesus told his friends about, they got to see. But I think it's extraordinarily naive and a very poor application of Biblical interpretation to suggest it was only a first century problem. If that's the case, then the Scripture's affording us very little guidance....
Allen Jackson - Hatred of God's People - Part 1
It's an honor to be with you today. We're walking through this series on learning to do difficult things in this session, we're gonna talk about the hatred of God's people. It's uncomfortable, it's unpleasant, but it's a reality of our world. Right now we're seeing fresh expressions of anti-Semitism. It's a fancy word for the hatred of the Jewish...
Allen Jackson - I Am Sending You - Part 2
So I'm going to take the balance of our time and I have a moment or two to walk with you around this idea of beginning to realign our thoughts as Christ followers. Kinda beyond church attenders, or joining a denomination, or believing what that group believes to take a biblical perspective and see if we could begin to order our thoughts in a way...
Allen Jackson - I Am Sending You - Part 1
It's a privilege to be with you today. We're continuing our study on, "Let's do Difficult". In this session, we're gonna explore, "I'm Sending You". I think we can agree that there are things in our world that need to be done, we need some changes. In almost any direction we look, politically, in the church, in business, in our...
Allen Jackson - Effort Required - Part 2
It's an honor to be with you again. We're continuing our discussion on "Let's do Difficult," and spoiler alert, in this session we're talking about, there's gonna be effort required. You know, for too long, I think we've had the imagination that the point of our faith is just to go to heaven, and that if God brings some blessings to us...
Allen Jackson - Effort Required - Part 1
We started a discussion last week. I want to continue it for the next few sessions. I want to focus on one aspect, and we started talking about some of the "Let us" statements that have helped shape our congregation, that are a part of Scripture, those calls to community action. We use that contraction, "let's". The Bible gives...
Allen Jackson - Let's Do Difficult - Part 2
Well, I wanna go to the Gospel of Mark since we're reading it together. And I thought maybe a simple way was just to simply start to move through the Gospel of Mark, we can't read the whole thing, that would take us a bit more time than our calendars allow. But we're gonna move through it starting in the 1 chapter, and I want you to help me...
Allen Jackson - Let's Do Difficult - Part 1
It's a privilege to be with you today. Our topic is "Let's Do Difficult". You know, there is an attitude that has taken root in contemporary American evangelicalism that our faith is intended to make life easy, that the goal of Almighty God, the Creator of heaven and Earth, is to make us happy pretty much 24/7. You get that notion if you...
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