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I will pick up where Neil left off last week in 1 Peter. I will cover 1 Peter 3:8-12 about how we can love life and enjoy good days from God. This will be crucial to understand as we venture the following two weeks into the high call of suffering with Christ. Experiencing God’s blessing is essential for us to maximize the benefit of our seasons and moments of suffering.
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The statistics for bad marriages is not much better in the church than outside the church. Why is that? God’s design for husband and wife is not flawed but the two people that make up a marriage are. At the heart of marriage is the spiritual life of the individual and the couple. Following God’s design for marriage in God’s grace can restore marriage to its intended place of mirroring Christ’s love for his bride, the church.

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What does it mean for a Christian to submit to human authority? How must one respond to a leader he disagrees with? How should one follow a leader he agrees with? Such questions are not abstract. They are powerfully practical. Our text this week is about how we, under the rule of Christ, respond to our president, our bosses, our teachers, our law enforcement, and all whom God places in authority over us.
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As EAA’s AirVenture begins this week we will have the great privilege to hear from one of the missionaries attending the fly-in as a representative for MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship). Bill and Carole Clapp spent 20 years with MAF serving overseas as a missionary pilot throughout South and Central America. Mr. Clapp was directly involved in the recovery of Nate Saint’s aircraft in Ecuador.

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Sanctification (growing up spiritually) is not optional but mandatory for all who have received the benefit of justification before God by faith in Christ’s atonement (payment) for their sin. As Christ followers we must take seriously Jesus’ high standard for godly living when he declared, “You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48).

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Ever had to go somewhere or to do something you would rather not go or
do? Peter, in the first two verses, gives some solid theological
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