Sermon by Michael Bailey for May 23, 2021.
Paul, who started this church, is now in prison and in a season of suffering. Yet in this letter, Paul writes some of the most famously joyful, grateful verses in the whole Bible. How does he do this? What can we learn from Paul about joy and gratitude that can carry us even on our worst days?
Today's passage gives us more insight into the answer: The pain of life, when we are with Jesus, becomes like birth pain.
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“The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.”
― George Mueller
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Sermon by Ant Frederick for May 16, 2021.
In this passage, Paul’s proper view of Jesus and His mission empowers him to view his entire life through making much of Him. The same is true for us. Valuing Jesus as our greatest treasure allows us to keep the "main thing" the "main thing," even through immense pain.
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We’re back this week to talk about the sermon from this week.
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We’re back this week with Pastor Michael Bailey to talk more about this week’s sermon.
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Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin by Cornelius Plantinga
Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ by Dallas Willard
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“Self-denial” must never be confused with self-rejection; nor is it to be thought of as a painful and strenuous act, perhaps repeated from time to time against great internal resistance. It is, rather, an overall, settled condition of life in the kingdom of God, better described as “death to self.” In this and in this alone lies the key to the soul’s restoration. Christian spiritual formation rests on this indispensable foundation of death to self and cannot proceed except insofar as that foundation is being firmly laid and sustained.
- Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart
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This week we’re joined by Midweek-staple Pastor Michael Bailey from Midtown Lexington.
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Almost 100 years ago, an Anglican bishop, J.C. Ryle wrote these words:
“Let me talk to you about true Christianity. There’s a vast quantity of religion current in the world that is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the real thing which was called Christianity 1800 years ago...There are thousands of men and women who go to chapels and churches every Sunday and call themselves Christians. Their names are in the baptismal register. They are reckoned Christians while they live. They are married with a Christian marriage service. They mean to be buried as Christians when they die. But you never see any ‘fight’ about their religion! Of spiritual strife, and exertion, and conflict, and self-denial, and watching, and warring they know literally nothing at all. ...The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict or fight. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a scanty round of formal religious services once or even twice a week, but the great spiritual warfare … its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests … of all this they appear to know nothing at all.
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This week we’re with Pastor Allen to talk more about Sunday’s sermon. Plus, the campaign begins for Columbia’s newest slogan! #ColumbiaSC #YoudRatherBeHere
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We’re back this week with Pastor Michael to talk more about this week’s sermon.
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We’re joined by pastor Michael Bailey from Midtown Lexington as we talk more about this week’s sermon.
“Where Harry Potter Characters Would Get Coffee in Columbia” by Soda City Podcast
“Things Too Wonderful for Me: The Book of Job and the Love Stronger than Death” by Samuel Wells
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