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[When the Rubber Meets the Road](null): ...; Read Now 02/3/2010 by Jack High

Gifts and Discipleship: This sermon attempts to show the relationship between real trust and love in the body and the outflow of spiritual gifts,using Philippians 2:1-11 as the text. Real love must flow out of trust, because it makes a person vulnerable. Gifts develop out of the shared needs and relationships of the body as we share joys and sorrows, confess sins, teach, serve, give, share hospitality. Scandinavian stoicism and reserve is merely away of avoiding intimacy. If people do not share what is going on in their lives, the gifts of the Spirit will not manifest in the body.; Read Now 08/27/2009 by Jack High

Ancient Boundary Stones vs. Old Wine Skins: This sermon is an introduction to the theme of our All Church Leadership Retreat on September 11-13. Old Boundary Stones refer to the stones Joshua laid that established the division of land between the tribes. Repeatedly, God tells Israel not the remove the stones, since land provided life to the people of Israel. Likewise, there are things that we are not to change -- Ten Commandments, the Gospel, marriage between one man and one woman, etc. The old wine skins refer to the containers of the wine, which Jesus speaks of as becoming brittle with age. Because the wine of Christ's life-transforming presence is always fermenting, old wine-skins after a period become inflexible and we need to replace them with new ones.; Read Now 08/20/2009 by Jack High

Unity in the Spirit: This sermon attempts from Scripture to describe what it means to be one or in unity with the Holy Spirit. This unity is not superficial -- it may include many different kinds of races, temperaments, personalities, both genders, people with different abilities and talents. However, being one in the Spirit means that they share a certain character from believing in one God, sharing one Lord and Savior, and belonging to one body, the body of Christ, the church.; Read Now 06/10/2009 by Jack High

BURNING BUT NOT CONSUMED: This sermon delivered on Pentecost Sunday, May 29, 2009, comes from Acts 2 -- the story of the Holy Spirit giving birth to the Christian Church, and from the text of Exodus 3:2 when the angel of the Lord appeared to Moses as a bush on fire yet it was not burning up. The theme of the sermon is that the burning bush is a symbol of the presence of God, and that in the same way we can see the presence of the Holy Spirit in a person as a fire that burns brightly but does not burn them up. That fire is a zeal for the Lord, a passion for the kingdom of God.; Read Now 06/8/2009 by Jack High

THE HOLY SPIRIT AS MOTHER IN THE TRINITY: This Mother's Day sermon, based on the premise that both men and women are created in the image of God, attempts to show that the image of the Trinitarian God in man is the family that that the wife and mother in the family is based on the role of the Holy Spirit in the Trinity. This sermon was given on May 10, 2009.; Read Now 06/8/2009 by Jack High

The Cross: From Son to Savior: This sermon describes God's accomplishment through the incarnation and atonement on the Cross in revealing Himself and changing the basis of his relationship to man.; Read Now 03/7/2009 by Jack High

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Resurrected Body Life: The Scripture reading today is from Acts 2: 41-47. If the miracle of Pentecost and the preaching of Peter might be seen as God’s act by which He gave birth to the church, through the repentance of about 3,000 persons that heard that sermon – then we have here the earliest description of the church. If we remember that the apostles spoke of the church as of Christ’s body after His bodily ascension into heaven, and that the same Spirit who rose Jesus from the dead dwells in our mortal bodies (that is, the mortal bodies of believers), then it is fair to call the church the resurrected body life of Jesus Christ. So our text today takes up at the end of Peter’s sermon.; Read Now 05/31/2007 by Jack High

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