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God With Us: The Friendly Church vs. the Loving Church
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Thursday, March 25, 2010. The Friendly Church vs. the Loving Church. 8220;Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.” (. Turns their members into idols and spends too much time serving their desires and too little time serving Christ. For the sake of “friendship with the world” many churches would rather be social clubs than call sinners to repentance in order to save their souls. 8220;You desire and do not h...
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God With Us: June 2014
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Perfect Love Drives Out All Fear. By Pastor Paul Wolff. Jesus and the Little Children. From Emmanuel Lutheran Church. You may have heard people say, “Fear is a great motivator.” Few, however, are honest enough to complete that thought. If someone ever tells you that “Fear is a great motivator” you can be sure that they are trying (or will try) to manipulate you to do something which will benefit them, but will not necessarily benefit you. Creation and the Fall into Sin. Ve about s...
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God With Us: October 2014
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Monday, October 27, 2014. By Pastor Paul Wolff. Jesus taught the truth at Nazareth. There is an understanding among faithful Christian scholars that there are two ways to fall into heresy (i.e. false teaching or false belief). The first is the chosen heresy, and the second is the exact opposite teaching. This is counter-intuitive, but it has been shown in history to be true time and again. But why is this so? What is going on? How can the opposite of a false teaching also be false, and not true? To illus...
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God With Us: The Seductive Danger of Lies
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Thursday, January 31, 2013. The Seductive Danger of Lies. By Pastor Paul Wolff. Jesus called the devil the “father of lies”. And did not fall for the temptations. Christians” are very practiced liars. They all pretend to have special. 8221; like speaking in tongues, or hearing God talk to them, in order to make others think. That they are closer to God. They claim this comes from the Holy Spirit, but that is a lie. Many charismatics will not think twice about contradicti ng. Fe el in their heart. The tem...
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God With Us: January 2014
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Saturday, January 25, 2014. Can You Forgive Yourself? By Pastor Paul Wolff. Can you forgive yourself. These are the questions that everyone should be asking when someone says that you have to forgive yourself. Few people, however, ask these important questions. Forgiving yourself sounds like a good idea, so people take it for granted that it actually is a good thing. The answer is that the Holy Scriptures nowhere. Tell us that this is something that we ought to do. In fact, it says quite the opposite.
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God With Us: The Real Homophobia
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Monday, July 14, 2014. By Pastor Paul Wolff. The Flight to Egypt. Is often portrayed as being one of the greatest ills in our society. At least, that is what the homosexual lobby and their sympathizing friends in the media would like you to believe. The fiction of homophobia. Is that all who are opposed to homosexual practice are somehow fearful of homosexuality. Our neighbors who promote the idea of homophobia. It would seem that homophobia. Is, in fact, something that is greatly desired. To speak out a...
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God With Us: Perfect Love Drives Out All Fear
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Perfect Love Drives Out All Fear. By Pastor Paul Wolff. Jesus and the Little Children. From Emmanuel Lutheran Church. You may have heard people say, “Fear is a great motivator.” Few, however, are honest enough to complete that thought. If someone ever tells you that “Fear is a great motivator” you can be sure that they are trying (or will try) to manipulate you to do something which will benefit them, but will not necessarily benefit you. Creation and the Fall into Sin. Ve about s...
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God With Us: Does Jesus Sing?
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Thursday, December 25, 2014. By Pastor Paul Wolff. Enter His gates with thanksgiving. Notice that I didn’t ask, “Did Jesus sing? 8220;And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.”. Matthew 26:30; Mark 14:26). David playing the Harp. From Holy Cross Lutheran Church. It has been said that the Christian church is a singing church. This has been true even since ancient times in the Old Testament. Consider these verses in the Old Testament:. Sing praises to the. Sing to God, sing prais...
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God With Us: The Sovereignty of God
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Sunday, July 19, 2015. The Sovereignty of God. By Pastor Paul Wolff. The Crown of Life. From Zion Lutheran Church, Columbus, Ohio. The Sovereignty of God is the Biblical teaching that God rules as King and there is no one above Him that He must answer to. This is one of the key attributes of God as the Holy Scriptures clearly show in many passages. One example of this is Deuteronomy 10:17 which says, “. God humbled Himself to be born of the Virgin Mary. Jesus humbled Himself and did not succumb. What thi...
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