Whether or not you realize it, there has been a monumental shift within the modern church in the last century or so. Particularly in the last half of the last century, events and attitudes that perhaps seemed almost imperceptible at first have quickly gained a momentum and coalesced into a movement that has brought about sweeping changes throughout the church. I would like to say that all these changes have been good. After all, there were some movements in the past such as the Reformation that swept through Europe and into America that changed the church for the better. But

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If you were here last week then you will remember that we looked at the conversion of Zaccheus in the beginning of this chapter. Zaccheus was a man of small stature, but great faith. Although he had been a man that employed wicked, evil business practices before his conversion, after he met Jesus he was transformed into a man that used his unrighteous wealth for the kingdom of God. Jesus said about Zaccheus that salvation had come to his house, because he too was a son of Abraham. Now last week I explained that Jesus used the phrase “son of

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If you have been with us very often during these last two years that we have been preaching through the book of Luke, then you will recall that the reoccurring theme of Jesus’ ministry was the preaching of the kingdom of God; what it means, what are the requirements and how to enter it. And one of the major components of entering the kingdom of God is that a person must be desperate. They must have reached the point of being sick of their sin, the point of mourning over their sin, and desperately hungering and thirsting for righteousness. They

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On the 17th of March, 2010, a SEAL team 6 squadron of special operators were attempting to take out an enemy that was barricaded inside a compound in Afghanistan. Among the special operators involved in the mission was Adam Brown, a man that had overcome tremendous obstacles in his life such as drug addiction as the result of accepting Jesus as his Savior. In the years following his conversion, he had continued an uphill battle against all sorts of difficulties and physical impairments in order to eventually be accepted as a member of one of the most elite fighting forces

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