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Messages from Pleasant City Church
Bryan's Charge to the Church
Bryan Glisson's final charge to the church upon his retirement
2025-08-24
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Messages from Pleasant City Church
The Working Relationship
The workplace has the potential to build or destroy a person’s testimony. Paul in the passage today is instructing us in how we are to conduct ourselves in the workplace. He begins with God’s expectations of employees and then he moves to God’s expectations of employers.
2025-08-17
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Family Bonds - Parents & Children
Introduction: The biggest deterrents to dysfunction in the home are love, honor, and respect. The fruits of love, honor and respect are obedience and discipline.
2025-08-10
00 min
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Marriage 101
Marriage should resemble the relationship between Christ and the Church. God’s plan for marriage is that two become one. (Matthew 19:6)
2025-08-03
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Walk Wisely
The way you walk Determines your Destination. One wrong step can make the difference between life and death.
2025-07-27
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Fleeing The Darkness
The Church in America is rapidly losing its influence. Many have speculated that it is because the light of the Church is diminishing. Simply put, there is a dark world but a dimly lit Church. The world needs a Church—made up of God’s people—that reflects the brilliance of His light.
2025-07-20
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The Transformed Imitator
Paul continues his narrative of taking off and putting on. Here in this passage, he starts with what needs to be put on and ends with what needs to be taken off. It appears that Paul is taking us on a journey to find the true meaning of love and its counterfeit sexual sin.
2025-07-13
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The Byproducts of a Transformed Life
Jesus guaranteed the potential for a transformed life through His death, burial, and resurrection. The Holy Spirit provides what is necessary to live a transformed life—through a process called sanctification. Sanctification is the process of taking off what needs to be taken off and putting on what needs to be put on.
2025-07-06
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A Transformed Life
Paul in these verses is challenging those of us who are “in Christ” to live a transformed life which should be radically different from our previous tragic life.
2025-06-29
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Unity in the Gifting
Paul is exhorting us to unity that we may fulfill the calling of our life to minister to others and reach the lost with the gospel with our gifts through the local Church.
2025-06-22
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Unity In Him For Him
The “calling” represents when we trusted Jesus as Savior and Lord. We received by faith through repentance what Jesus provided through the cross. At that time, we are placed “in Christ” with others who have done the same. From this point we then begin to live together (in unity) the life He intends for us to live—not only in Him but also for Him.
2025-06-15
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A Paramount Prayer
Paul concludes the theological chapters of Ephesians (1-3) with a prayer for us who are “in Christ”—that we would fully understand who we are “in Christ.”
2025-06-08
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Made For A Mission
2025-06-01
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Hopeless to Hopeful
Paul shows us in this passage that racism and division have no place in the church. Because of Jesus, the two enemies have become friends.
2025-05-25
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You Were...But God
The new spiritual realities that have been provided for you (1:3-14) can only be realized when you discover the true crisis of your soul and then receive the cure provided by Christ. In the passage today Paul is describing the act and process of salvation or as he puts it being “in Christ.”
2025-05-18
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The Authentic Pursuit
Once we understand: 1) that our identity is Christ-based, 2) that we are “in Him” (meaning we are living in the new spiritual realities Christ has provided) then we can begin to pursue the life He has for us.
2025-05-11
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A New Identity - Part 2
When we begin to understand who we are “in Christ” then we begin to know our true identity, our privileges, and our purpose.
2025-05-04
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Introduction to Ephesians
Most scholars agree that excluding the book of Romans; the letter to the Ephesians is the most detailed written presentation of Christian Theology of all of the epistles.
2025-04-30
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A New Identity - Part 1
Many scholars have written that Ephesians 1:3-14 are some of the most powerful verses in the entire Bible. They clearly describe who we are “in Christ” and the new identity in which we can now live.
2025-04-27
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Out of the Grave
Christianity in its very essence is a resurrection religion. (Matthew 28:1-10) If there is no resurrection there is no salvation. (1 Corinthians 15:1-7) The resurrection provides forgiveness, freedom and victory for those who follow Jesus.
2025-04-20
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On The Cross
The brutality of Jesus’ last hours was horrific. It was a scene that was predicted in the OT, recorded in the gospels, and explained in the epistles to bring salvation to mankind.
2025-04-13
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In The Garden
The last days of Jesus has been described as the week of passion. The word passion not only means strong emotion or strong desire; it also means extreme suffering and distress. Jesus’ anguish would extent into the night before the cross in the garden of Gethsemane.
2025-04-06
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Now & Next Review
2025-03-30
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Spiritual Parent
God’s desire is for your next move to be one of faithful consistency in making disciples.
2025-03-23
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Spiritual Young Adult
God’s desire for your Next move is to Spiritually Reproduce.
2025-03-16
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Spiritual Child
2025-03-09
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Spiritual Infant
Every single person, including YOU, begins their spiritual Life as a spiritual Infant, but you don’t have to stay there. God’s desire is for your next move to be one of maturing. Will you stay at What’s Now or move to What’s Next?
2025-03-02
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Spiritually Dead
Every single person on earth can be found in a Spiritual Stage of life. The forward progression through these stages is called Discipleship. Before you can go to what’s Next you must know where you are Now.
2025-02-23
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Joseph's Forged Heart - Part 3
2025-02-16
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Joseph's Forged Heart - Part 2
Reasons you do not forgive: the one who hurt you does not deserve forgiveness; the one who hurt you has not suffered enough; and lastly, to forgive them will make you feel vulnerable.
2025-02-09
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Joseph's Forged Heart - Part 1
Hurt is hurt; but its impact and depth are determined by the closeness of the relationship with the offender.
2025-02-02
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Joseph's Sovereign God
“Life is not fair” is a common theme in the present day but how can it be fair? We live in a fallen world around fallen people. But there is One who can make sense of it all because He is sovereign. He has the power to orchestrate the events of our life even in a fallen world. This is clearly seen in the life of Joseph as his prison experience led to victory.
2025-01-26
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Joseph's Victory Over Temptation
Doing the right thing does not necessarily guarantee good short-term outcomes. This principle is clearly seen in this part of Joseph’s life. However, Joseph stood firm, overcame temptation and trusted that God was providentially directing his life through his trials.
2025-01-19
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Joseph's Dysfunctional Family - Part 2
Like many, Joseph had to overcome the reality of a dysfunctional family. Dysfunction in a home is a consequence of a practice or behavioral pattern that undermines the stability of an individual or family. Just as Joseph, one can overcome the effects of a dysfunctional home by realizing and then changing the destructive patterns that create the dysfunction.
2025-01-12
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Joseph's Dysfunctional Family
2025-01-05
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Know the Love - Show the Love
Paul’s desire when he arrived in Athens was to share the Good News with the people. He arrived in this great city not as a sightseer -- but as a soul seeker.
2024-12-29
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Child of Heaven
Jesus’ life echoes throughout eternity. But what would have happened and would be happening now, if this Child of Heaven had not come?
2024-12-22
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Mary's Story
Mary was a common Jewish girl who was humbled that God would bestow His favor upon her. However, Mary’s role, in God’s salvation for us through Jesus, has become a story of controversy and misunderstanding for many.
2024-12-15
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Immanuel (God with us) - Joseph's Story
For many the Christmas Season is the loneliest time of the year. Loneliness is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation. It is more than the feeling of wanting the company of others. It is a feeling of being cut off, disconnected and alienated from others.
2024-12-08
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Most High - Zacharias' Story
For many, there have been and are doubts surrounding the Christmas Story including the characters of the story. The first doubts came from Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist.
2024-12-01
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A Follower of Jesus and a Fisher of Men
Whose you Are identifies Who you Are and What you Do
2024-11-17
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I Identify As...A Child of God
There are two statements that relate to our identity: Who you Are identifies What you Do. What you Do identifies Who you Are
2024-11-10
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I Identify as...a Christian and a Disciple
There are two statements that relate to our identity: Who you Are identifies What you Do. What you Do identifies Who you Are.
2024-11-03
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Responding To The Vision Before Us
How do we respond to the vision God has placed before us? By remembering the sacrifice before us, rejecting the complacency among us, receiving the gifts He has given us, and releasing afflictions within us, and then responding to the vision God has given us.
2024-10-27
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Respond - Neil Perry
2024-10-20
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Releasing Tradition & Embracing Transformation
Under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, our methods, creativity, and presentation of the Gospel require us at times to reach beyond our traditions for the greater cause of lives being transformed by a never changing message.
2024-10-13
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An Encouraging Church Consists of Encouraging People - Mike Morris
Mike Morris (Youth Pastor 1982-1989) speaks
2024-10-06
00 min
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Receiving and Using Our Gifting
The Spiritual Gifts listed in Romans 12 are classified as motivational gifts. God, through the work of the Holy Spirit, has given every follower of Jesus at least one of the seven motivational gifts to carry out the work of the ministry.
2024-09-29
00 min
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Remember - Mark Canipe
Our former Associate Pastor - Mark Canipe - speaks
2024-09-15
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Remember - Celebration
Definition of Spiritual Momentum: A move of the Holy Spirit in the life of a church family that is awakening to, rallying around, and fulfilling the vision of the Great Commission.
2024-09-08
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Shepherd The Flock
These four verses are very significant when we look at the context of church history. The church today needs a clear vision of how Christ wants His church to be organized and to function.
2024-09-01
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A Follower Thriving In Suffering
Suffering is in general part of the human condition and as followers of Jesus it can come at us from many different outlets—consequences, persecution, attacks from the enemy and even testing from God.
2024-08-25
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A Follower's Survival
Peter is giving survival instructions to those who make up the Church. He is basically instructing us not to be overcome by the dark days and circumstances in which we live but to stay focused on what we have been called to do.
2024-08-18
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Don't Waste Your Life
Peter says a lot about time and gives us wisdom on using our time. If we really believe in eternity and if we really believe what we read in God’s Word, we will make the best use of our time. (Psalm 90:12)
2024-08-11
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Responding God's Way
Following steadfast after Christ even when persecuted (ridiculed) involves these things.
2024-08-04
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Loving Life & Seeing Good Days
Good days can be found not just at a resort, on a beach, or on a mountaintop, but in everyday Routines and Relationships.
2024-07-28
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A Follower's Relationships
Right in the middle of Peter’s letter he addresses the important issue of marriage. It is interesting to note that most all ancient writings do not address how husbands and wives are to interact nor what the relationship should look like. Yet God esteems marriage as the highest of all human relationships. In this letter Peter addresses the wives (3:1-6) and then the husbands (3:7).
2024-07-21
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Privileges Available
When we place our faith in Jesus Christ there are certain privileges that come with our new reality.
2024-07-07
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Instructions For Living
These days are filled with negativity, distrust, and hurt. But God’s Word tells us we can live beyond these realities by living the realities of His instruction.
2024-06-30
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Living Beyond Reality - Part 2
The purpose of 1st Peter is to encourage followers of Jesus that they can survive and thrive even in suffering.
2024-06-23
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Jesus' Salvation
The purpose of 1st Peter is to encourage followers of Jesus that they can survive and thrive even in suffering.
2024-06-09
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Peter's Progression
Peter, the author of 1st Peter, is one of the most complex characters in the Bible. He is a great example of what it means to “survive and thrive” in Christ.
2024-06-02
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Greed
2024-05-26
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Profanity
We all have blind spots, character flaws, or certain “Respectable Sins” that seem to go unnoticed in our lives. Often, these “subtle sins” are never dealt with. We can become so preoccupied with the major sins of society that we can lose sight of the need to deal with our own more subtle sins. (Ephesians 4:29)
2024-05-19
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Jealousy
2024-05-12
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Impatience
We all have blind spots, character flaws, or certain “Respectable Sins” that seem to go unnoticed in our lives. We can become so Preoccupied with the “major” sins of society that we lose sight of the need to deal with our Own sin.
2024-05-05
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Selfishness - It's all about Me
We all have blind spots, character flaws, or certain “Respectable Sins” that seem to go unnoticed in our lives. Often, these “subtle sins” are never dealt with. We can become so preoccupied with the major sins of society that we can lose sight of the need to deal with our own more subtle sins.
2024-04-28
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Antagonist to Evangelist
Can anyone, regardless of their past accept Christ as their Lord and Savior and experience a changed life through the power of the Holy Spirit? The answer is “yes”. In fact, some of the worst sinners turn out to be some of the most passionate saints. One of the greatest transformations in the entire Bible is seen in the life of the apostle Paul.
2024-04-21
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Called, Restored, Empowered
The Biblical account of Peter’s restoration gives the reader one of the clearest pictures of a transformed life.
2024-04-14
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Religion to Relationship
The challenge for most people is to move from a system of religion and rituals into a relationship with God who loves them.
2024-04-07
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Final Words of Jesus After the Cross
The time between Jesus first appearance after His resurrection and His ascension (His return to Heaven) is forty days. During this forty-day period He appears to many with messages of hope and instruction.
2024-03-31
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Final Words of Jesus on the Cross
Jesus' final words on the cross were very calculated, and revealed much about who He was and is and His purpose and mission.
2024-03-24
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Final Words of Jesus' Accusers
In the gospel accounts of Jesus’ ministry, we read that He had many accusers, as well as admirers. His accusers ranged from surprisingly the religious who maliciously demanded His execution to the political leaders who found no fault in Him, yet still yielded to pressures to execute Him. Jesus’ accusers were blinded by their misplaced expectations, their delusional egos, and their envious spirit.
2024-03-17
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Final Words of Jesus' Admirers
In the gospel accounts of Jesus’ ministry, we read that He had many accusers, as well as admirers. Many totally misunderstood Jesus’ mission and purpose and even who He was; including many of His admirers even up to the last events and last words just before He was placed on the cross.
2024-03-10
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Student Takeover 2024
2024-03-03
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Hitting A Wall
What happens when it feels like your prayers are hitting a wall?
2024-02-25
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Aligning & Asking
When was the last time you prayed? Is it a forgotten conversation in your life?
2024-02-18
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Reaching Heaven
The importance of Prayer in our lives.
2024-02-11
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The Opportunities of The Better Place
Many have speculated and wondered what Heaven will be like: Will it be boring? Will we work? Will we learn? What will be the opportunities in Heaven?
2024-02-04
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The People of the Better Place
The Scriptures indicate that everyone who has ever lived will be resurrected and will live for eternity—either in Heaven or Hell.
2024-01-28
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The Throne of the Better Place
In these chapters the scene is in Heaven at the Throne of God. The Throne of God is the central part of the universe.
2024-01-21
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Descriptions of The Better Place
How does the Bible describe Heaven? The first question should be, “which phase or juncture of Heaven?”
2024-01-14
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Journey To The Better Place
The only way to escape the sin, suffering, and hopelessness of this world is to follow Jesus to another—a place of perfection and paradise God calls Heaven.
2024-01-07
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Simeon & Anna
Simeon & Anna's faith allowed them to have a special part in the Christmas Story.
2023-12-31
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Made Possible Thru Jesus' Birth
Christmas was made possible through Jesus' Birth
2023-12-24
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Joseph
Joseph’s invitation was made possible by his obedience—he was a willing participant.
2023-12-17
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Vision 2024 & Beyond for PCC
2023-12-03
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Encounter at the Temple Mount Steps
It is amazing to think that the transformation God desires for you can replace your shame and guilt with His grace and forgiveness. But it only occurs when you encounter Him.
2023-11-26
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Encounter on the Sea of Galilee
2023-11-19
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Encounter at the Tombs of Gersa
2023-11-12
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Encounter At The Pool Of Bethesda
When you Encounter Jesus, it Requires you to… Answer Who Jesus is Adjust Who You are
2023-11-05
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Encounter At Jacob's Well
When you Encounter Jesus, it Requires you to… Answer Who Jesus is Adjust Who You are
2023-10-29
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Encounter at Caesarea Philippi
When you encounter Jesus, it requires you to answer Who He is and adjust who you are.
2023-10-22
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Armed & Dangerous—Helmet of Salvation & Sword of the Spirit
The helmet and the sword of the soldier were both very important in a first century battle. The helmet protected the abilities of the soldier while the sword enabled the soldier to have victory over their opponent.
2023-10-15
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Dee-Fence!!! - The Shield of Faith
Faith in God is the only protection for those who are vulnerable and under attack from the enemy. Without faith in God, the follower of Jesus does not stand a chance against the enemy. Faith must be placed, developed, and exercised in the Jesus follower to be able to withstand the weaponry (darts) of the enemy.
2023-10-08
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Nice Kicks - The Shoes of the Gospel of Peace
There are two main ideas as it relates to “the shoes of the gospel of peace.” First is the idea of taking the gospel to those who need the gospel of peace; second is the idea of living daily in what the gospel of peace has provided us as follower of Jesus.
2023-10-01
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Rock Hard Abs - The Breastplate of Righteousness
Righteousness is about the prospect of being right and in fellowship with God. Many even in the church have a misunderstanding as to what is means to be righteous or right before God. Matter of fact, how a person views righteousness determines their eternal destination.
2023-09-24
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Tighten Your Belt
The foundational truth in the Bible is that there is one God, who has revealed truth and one can know Him. However, western culture has rejected God’s truth and has created lies that have produced great deception.
2023-09-17
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Why We Need Spiritual Armor
Someone has said, "The Christian Life is not a playground but a battleground."
2023-09-10
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Intentional, Joyful Giving
The joy that can be found in giving.
2023-09-03
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