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| | Sparkle with God's Glory by Erlo Stegen
Topic: Purity Scripture(s): Matthew 5:14-16 | | Description: This world is pitch dark. There’s so-called family planning where teenagers get "the pill" to prevent them from falling pregnant outside of wedlock. They forsake good traditions of being pure and exchange it for bad western ways. Boys have girlfriends and girls boyfriends while still at school. Things are rotten around us. Paul says, "I want to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ" (2Cor 11:2). The importance of purity has been lost these days. Children are born out of wedlock, or girls murder their children through abortion.
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| | Salt and Light by Dick Woodward
Topic: Discipleship Scripture(s): Matthew 5:14-16 | | Description: Salt is a preservative that keeps meat from spoiling, and Christians with the attitudes of Jesus are like salt to the world. When disciples with Christ-like attitudes are rubbed into the people of the world as salt is rubbed into meat, their influence will keep the world from total corruption. They become a valuable commodity Jesus uses to revolutionize the culture. The second metaphor indicates that Christians are the only source of light for multitudes living in darkness. As with the first metaphor, Jesus words literally mean that you and you alone are salt and light. If His disciples do not fulfill their role as salt and light, no one else is left to fulfill it. The people who have Jesus attitudes are sent into the world as Gods solution in order to shine for all to see.
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| | Persecuted Peacemakers and Promises, Promises by Dick Woodward
Topic: Peacemakers Scripture(s): Matthew 5:10 | | Description: There is a reason the beatitude about peacemakers is followed by a beatitude about persecution. Those who become ministers of reconciliation often suffer painful consequences because they have identified themselves with Jesus Christ. Being a peacemaker may put Jesus disciples in the middle of dangerous fighting. Sometimes they even lose their lives. The disciple who has thebeautiful attitudes confronts people with a model of what they should be. When people in theworld are confronted with a true disciple, they can acknowledge that this is how they should live, or they can attack the disciple who is like Jesus. Very often, they do the latter.
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| | Ministers of Reconciliation by Dick Woodward
Topic: Reconciliation Scripture(s): Matthew 5:9 | | Description: Mankind is alienated from God. Thats why those who are disciples of Christhave been to the top of the mountainmust come back down with a purpose. If we have been reconciled with Godmade right in our relationship with Himit makes sense that God would use us to help others be reconciled with Him. He will also help us find reconciliation in our own relationships and use us to help others find reconciliation in theirs. The seventh beatitude speaks to the mission of those who are part of Gods solution.
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| | The Blood, the Call, the Promise by David Smith
Topic: Gospel Scripture(s): Matthew 11:25-27 | | Description: A very clear presentation of the Gospel. Brother David wants to leave no doubt, but that everyone under the sound of his voice gets a simple understanding of the blood of Jesus, the power of the call and the promise that is ours, as we respond.
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| | Channels of Love and The Catheterized Heart by Dick Woodward
Topic: Love Scripture(s): Matthew 5:7-8 | | Description: The word mercy means unconditional love. When David writes in Psalm 23:6 that mercy will follow him all the days of his life, the word he uses for follow actually means pursue. Gods unconditional love will pursue David all of his life. This is the kind of love for others that we must have too, if we are to be like God.
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