Tag: 2020
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Formed by Following • Part 1
Rev. Randy Martin II Timothy 3:10-17 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. 12 Indeed,…
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The Consecrated and the Corrupt
Rev. Randy Martin II Timothy 2:20-3:9 Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. 21 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy,…
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Learning to Live by Preparing to Die
Rev. Randy Martin II Timothy 2:8-21 8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, 9 for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! 10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that…
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For The Shepherds and Those They Serve
Rev. Randy Martin II Timothy 1:15-2:7 15 You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains, 17 but when he arrived in…
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Replete Guilt and Resolved Grace, Part 3: Restoration Through Faithful Shepherding
Rev. Jerrard Heard Micah 7:14-20 14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. 15 As in the days when you came out of the land…
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Replete Guilt and Resolved Grace, Part 2: Association by Common Hope
Rev. Jerrard Heard Micah 7:8-13 8 Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. 9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment…
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Replete Guilt and Resolved Grace, Part I: Isolation and Personal Trust
Rev. Jerrard Heard Micah 7:1-7 Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires. 2 The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among…
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The Grace of the Gospel
Rev. Randy Martin II Timothy 1:8-14 8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, 9 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his…
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Biographical Theology
Rev. Randy Martin II Timothy 1:1-7 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus, 2 To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 I thank God whom I serve,…
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The God of the Man of God
Rev. Randy Martin I Timothy 6:13-16 13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, 14 to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15…