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The Compass | Light in Confusing Times - Part 5
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Chris and Bruce talk about the parallels between 1st century Gnosticism and those today who also seek to have power over believers.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Light in Confusing Times - Part 5: The Public Secret
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To us, a "mystery" is something that we don't know, a riddle for us to solve. It's a secret. And this is what some Church leaders in Colossae claimed to have. But it was simply all about control. Paul reverses that and says the "mystery" isn't a secret at all: it's a person. The mystery is that He lives IN US.…
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The Compass | Light in Confusing Times - Part 4
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Bruce and Chris dive deeper into what it means to experience Christ versus just knowing about him.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Light in Confusing Times - Part 4: Experiencing Christ
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How do we go from "knowing about Jesus" to "knowing and experiencing Him?" Something happened in history that must happen in YOUR history, and it's a once-and-for-all event that produces a now-and-forever relationship.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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The Compass | Light in Confusing Times - Part 3
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Bruce and Chris discuss how we can know that Jesus is real, and what that means for how we live.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Light in Confusing Times - Part 3: Who Jesus Is
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Colossians 1 includes one of the most powerful, beautiful pictures of Jesus in the entire New Testament. His identity and His accomplishment are tied together. Especially in the world of Gnosticism, this was the core issue that Paul would address. How can you love a Jesus that isn't the REAL Jesus?Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Light in Confusing Times - Part 2: Light of the Good News
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As we pick up some background on the Church at Colosse, we'll see that the life-altering nature of the Gospel, the LIGHT of CHRIST, enabled them to produce fruit in the midst of troubled circumstances, just as the lighthouse enables a ship to progress in midst of troubled seas.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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The Compass | Light in Confusing Times - Part 1
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Chris and Bruce talk about how Paul's letter to the Colossians connects with Holy Week and the Resurrection. Holy Thursday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8udH2vlHMIAutor: FBC Midlothian
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Light in Confusing Times - Part 1: Easter
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Easter is the day of remembrance of the core of Christian faith: that Jesus rose from the dead. However astonishing that is, it means very little if we don't understand its significance. It might be surprising to some that we can find an explanation is Paul's letter to the Colossians. More than that, we can learn why this event can change our entir…
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Bruce recounts the "ah-ha" moment he had approaching this year's Palm Sunday, and how that affected his world view, Sunday's message, and the outlook as we get ready for Easter.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Holy Week is well known as the week that leads to the celebration of the resurrection. It begins with Palm Sunday: a celebration of Jesus' triumphal entry to Jerusalem. But we need to look at the context and ask this question: Why is Palm Sunday so important?Autor: FBC Midlothian
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The Compass | Stress Into Strength - Part 8
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Bruce and Chris talk about whether God causes or allows suffering, and what the redemption of suffering looks like.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Stress Into Strength - Part 8: Celebrating the Finish
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Stresses and trials are what prove your is faith genuine. They refine it and make it beautiful so that you may receive praise, glory, and honor from Jesus on the day he returns. The end result is what we live for.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Stress Into Strength - Part 7: Setting Course
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In sailing, indecision means death. You can't just stay in one place, waffling in the waves. You have to set a course, and GO.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Stress Into Strength - Part 6: Batten the Hatches
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Sometimes in life, the storm is so great, the winds and rain so overwhelming, that there's nothing you can do. It's time to go below deck, batten the hatches, secure what you can, and trust that God will preserve you.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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The Compass | Stress Into Strength - Part 5
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"Comparison is the thief of joy." Chris and Bruce get into the ways we fall into the comparison trap... and how we can stop.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Stress Into Strength - Part 5: Bigger, Better Boats
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There will always be a bigger, better boat than yours. There will be people who are more successful, more financially set. And one of the greatest ways to address that stress is to CONQUER the COMPARISONS in your heart.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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The Compass | Stress Into Strength - Part 4
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Chris and Bruce get into different practices and disciplines that help them to maintain a healthy spiritual walk.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Stress Into Strength - Part 4: Caring for the Keel
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The keel is a part of the boat that extends from the bottom down into the water. It stabilizes the boat and keeps it upright, preventing it from being tipped over by wind and waves. Our lives are full of wind and waves. What serves as the keel of our life?Autor: FBC Midlothian
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The Compass | Stress Into Strength - Part 3
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Chris and Bruce discuss how mentors can make a difference in your life.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Stress Into Strength - Part 3: Bigger Crew
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The larger the waves, the larger the boat you'll need. And the larger the boat, the larger the crew you'll need. We must learn to lean on mentors and ask for help to know how to steer the ship through rough waters. What does that help look like? And how do we ask?Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Stress Into Strength - Part 2: Ripped Sails
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Failure is a part of life. When we fail, we feel the stress of the consequences of that failure. However, failure won't have complete power over our lives if we allow it to be redeemed!Autor: FBC Midlothian
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The Compass | Stress Into Strength - Part 1
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Bruce and Chris discuss the concept of harnessing stressful situations for improving ourselves and our outlook on life, using examples from the Bible and from everyday life.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Stress Into Strength - Part 1: Headwinds
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Life is an ocean of opportunities and challenges. With each wave comes the chance to rise above and sail forward. Though the winds may be strong and the waters rough, if you lean into God and stay true to the course He provides, you will find the strength to navigate any storm.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Sunday we talked about how giving of our "first fruits" shows what is most important to us. Today, Bruce and Chris go deep into what that looks like in our finances.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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God gives us all giftings, and when we use those giftings, they bear fruit. What we do with those FIRST fruits says EVERYTHING about what's most important to us!Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Bruce and Chris get more into what Kingdom living looks like and how that changes our priorities.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Jesus' good news to the world was not how to get us into Heaven, but how to get Heaven into US. The Kingdom of Heaven is not just some distant future to hope for, it is a way to live HERE and NOW. As CURRENT citizens of that Kingdom, how does that change our priorities?Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Chris and Bruce discuss the first part of the series "First" series, about Jesus' call to the Israelites to return to their "first love."Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Many people begin the new year by recommitting to habits or goals they failed to continue pursuing the year before. What might be more prudent though is to reevaluate and recommit to WHY. God's first law says to love God with all your heart, and it becomes the why at the foundation of our faith in action. That's why Jesus called people to return to…
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When we begin a new year, we often take a moment to reflect on the lessons of the past year, and we decide to make an effort to do better and be wiser as we look forward to the next year. But what about after that? What about after we finish this life? What does the Bible say we should do differently as we look forward to eternity?…
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After centuries of waiting, after pages and pages of prophecy, after supernatural visitation, after months of anticipation... the ARRIVAL finally came. Tonight we celebrate the MEANING of the birth of our Savior.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Israel lived in hope for a savior that, generation after generation, they did not receive. That hope has now been fulfilled for all of us, and we can live in light of that. Can we now also live in hope for God's promises that we may not get to see fulfilled in our lifetimes?Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Arrival - Part 2: Too Late, Too Early
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Luke's Gospel account begins with a contrast of two births: one that seemed as if it came far too late, and one that seemed far too early. But as prophecy began to unfold and be fulfilled, it turns out that God's timing was the right timing.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Arrival - Part 1: Planned and Predicted
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Mary's pregnancy with the savior of the world certainly wasn't one she had planned or predicted, but the arrival of the Messiah had been predicted many, many times centuries earlier in the Hebrew Bible. The prophecies are the measuring stick by which we can know that Jesus is who He says He is.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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When we thank God for all He has blessed us with, do we pray with a heart of repentance... or of pride?Autor: FBC Midlothian
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We've heard the message again and again: Be strong! Don't lose faith! Don't go back to the old you! We all want to do it... but when the going gets tough we find we don't actually know HOW. In Paul's second letter to Timothy, we see the same message... but we also get the HOW.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Axis - Part 6: The Gospel Creates Community
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Acts 2 gives us a picture of what happens when people make Jesus their Axis: community forms. This template of that community includes a practice that we have continued for 2000 years in the Lord's Supper. Today as we observe this practice, let us take time to think about what it means to be part of this community. Not to try to be the greatest, bu…
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This week we returned to talking about the Gospel as the Axis around which not just our faith, but our lives revolve around, and what that looks like put into action.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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It's important for us to understand exactly what the Axis is that our lives revolve around. So today let's deal with the questions that will help us define a Gospel-centered life: Why did He need to do something for us? What exactly did He do? How do we experience that? What difference does it make?Autor: FBC Midlothian
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A lot of conflict with fellow believers and nonbelievers alike has to do with where we stand on social and political issues and how we identify ourselves by those beliefs and how they relate to our faith. Ultimately, a person's heart must matter more to us than their agreement with our opinions.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Thanks in large part to social media, our culture is now riddled with division fostered by unhealthy interpersonal conflict. The Bible gives us very specific, and very wise, templates on how to deal with conflict with believers and non-believers. When we make Jesus our Axis, conflict resolution becomes about pointing people to HIM instead of gettin…
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Last week we talked about one of the ways we make God the axis of our lives: we live and make decisions based around the mission that Jesus gave us. Jesus gave us our mission because He had a mission to fulfill. What exactly is that mission?Autor: FBC Midlothian
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When we make Jesus the axis of our lives, we find God has placed us in the path of people who also need Him. What do we do with that? How can we shift our perspective from living our faith in the context of church to living it everywhere to everyone?Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Axis - Part 2: The Missionary Mindset
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God placed the promised land at a crossroads of the ancient world. He did this so that they could have an impact on all the nations around them. When we make Jesus our axis, we find our place has a purpose. The Gospel isn't only for you, it's for everyone in your sphere of influence, and beyond.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Sunday we began a new series all about what, and who, we put at the center of our lives.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Axis - Part 1: The Heart of the Gospel
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In the 16th century, a man named Copernicus dared to defy centuries of law and belief when he claimed that Earth was not the center of the universe, but that that it was in fact the sun that was the axis around which the planets move. We also like to make ourselves the center of OUR universe, but Jesus wants us to make HIM the axis of our lives, an…
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The Compass | Counterfeit Truth - Part 8
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"You do you" is one of the most pervasive counterfeit truths in our culture. On this episode of The Compass, we ask what it looks like to live a "You do you" kind of life, what consequences we see when we do that, and what it looks like to live for Jesus instead.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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Counterfeit Truth - Part 8: You Do You
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It is perhaps the most pervasive lie in our culture today: that happiness comes from being yourself, from accepting yourself as you are now. You do you! It sounds great... but it's a counterfeit. Jesus said the life worth living can only be found in HIM, and allowing Him to transform us into a new version of ourselves... not to leave us as we are.…
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The Compass | Counterfeit Truth - Part 7
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On Sunday, we heard about how business, whether that's with things of the world or with serving the Church, takes us away from spending time WITH Christ. Jesus didn't call us to say yes to everything, He called us to say yes to HIM. What's the difference? Let's explore that.Autor: FBC Midlothian
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