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John 3:16-21 (ESV) For God So Loved the World 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchrist.com       

John 1:14-18 (ESV) 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) 16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchrist.com       

Exodus 5:1-9  (ESV) 5 Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” 2 But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”3 Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.” 4 But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.” 5 And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!” 6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, 7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 But the number of bri

Mark Sayers is the Senior Leader of Red Church in Melbourne, Australia. He provides visionary leadership and teaching for Red Church and is gifted in prophetically speaking into the intersection of faith and culture. Mark, his wife Trudi, and their three children live in Melbourne. Mark has written a number of books that speak directly into leadership, culture and identity. This year he released a book named Reappearing church: Reappearing Church: The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture that speaks to the topic we’re discussing today.   Mark's Recommendations: The Century of Self by Adam Curtis (BBC Documentary) Facing Leviathan by Sayers   Nick's Recommendations: In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen Making Sense of God by Tim Keller An Introduction to Christian Worldview: Pursuing God's Perspective in a Pluralistic World by Anderson, Clark & Naugle This Cultural Moment Podcast and sermons by Jon Tyson  &#

Proverbs 13:20 (ESV) 20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,     but the companion of fools will suffer harm. Proverbs 27:5-6 (ESV) 5 Better is open rebuke     than hidden love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend;     profuse are the kisses of an enemy. Proverbs 27:17 (ESV) 17 Iron sharpens iron,     and one man sharpens another. Proverbs 18:24 (ESV) 24 A man of many companions may come to ruin,     but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchrist.com       

Tomas Bogardus was born in Long Beach, California, and earned his BS in biology at UC San Diego, his MA in philosophy at Biola University, and his PhD in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He works mainly in metaphysics and epistemology, and is most interested in the mind-body problem and the rationality of religious belief. He lives with his wife and daughter in a small California hippie/hipster town, and his hobbies include woodworking, bodyboarding, surfing, and no gi jiu jitsu.   Tomas's Recommendations: Modern Times by Paul Johnson From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun On Christian Scholarship (essay and videos) by Alvin Plantinga Nick's Recommendations: In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen Making Sense of God by Tim Keller This Cultural Moment Podcast and Sermons by Jon Tyson       

Proverbs 5 (ESV) Warning Against Adultery 5 My son, be attentive to my wisdom;     incline your ear to my understanding, 2 that you may keep discretion,     and your lips may guard knowledge. 3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,     and her speech is smoother than oil, 4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,     sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death;     her steps follow the path to Sheol; 6 she does not ponder the path of life;     her ways wander, and she does not know it. 7 And now, O sons, listen to me,     and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 8 Keep your way far from her,     and do not go near the door of her house, 9 lest you give your honor to others     and your years to the merciless, 10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,     and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, 11 and at the end of your life you groan,     when your flesh and body are consumed, 12 and you say, “How I hated discipline,     and my heart despised reproof! 13 I did n

Proverbs 23:17-18 (ESV) 17 Let not your heart envy sinners,     but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day. 18 Surely there is a future,     and your hope will not be cut off. Proverbs 14:30 (ESV) 30 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh,     but envy makes the bones rot.   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com       

Jesse Bryan is the founding partner, CEO, and Chief Creative Officer at Belief Agency, a Seattle-based full-service creative agency. There, he has worked with some of the world's largest brands, including Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and The Seattle Seahawks. Jesse is also the co-host and founder of “You Are a Storyteller,” an award-winning podcast that helps people understand the way stories work and how to tell true stories that resonate. Jesse’s work as a creative director and filmmaker has had one common thread: telling compelling stories that move people to action.   Follow Jesse here: https://beliefagency.com/ https://twitter.com/jessebryan?land=en   Jesse's Recommendations: Invisible Ink by Brian McDonald Making Movies by Sidney Lumet You Are A Storyteller Podcast/Vodcast   Nick's Recommendations: Seeing Christ in the Old Testament by Christopher JH Wright (Unity) Mockingbird (Goodness) In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen (Histor

Proverbs 6:6-11 (ESV) 6 Go to the ant, O sluggard;     consider her ways, and be wise. 7 Without having any chief,     officer, or ruler, 8 she prepares her bread in summer     and gathers her food in harvest. 9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard?     When will you arise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber,     a little folding of the hands to rest, 11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,     and want like an armed man.   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com       

Proverbs 14:29-30 (ESV) 29 Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,     but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. 30 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh,     but envy makes the bones rot. Proverbs 16:32 (ESV) 32 Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,     and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. Proverbs 19:19 (ESV) 19 A man of great wrath will pay the penalty,     for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again. Proverbs 22:24-25 (ESV) 24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger,     nor go with a wrathful man, 25 lest you learn his ways     and entangle yourself in a snare.   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com       

Proverbs 21:5 (NIV) 5 The plans of the diligent lead to profit     as surely as haste leads to poverty. Proverbs 16:33 (NIV) 33 The lot is cast into the lap,     but its every decision is from the Lord. Proverbs 27:1 (NIV) 1 Do not boast about tomorrow,     for you do not know what a day may bring. Proverbs 15:22 (NIV) 22 Plans fail for lack of counsel,     but with many advisers they succeed. Proverbs 11:3 (NIV) 3 The integrity of the upright guides them,     but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity. Proverbs 16:3-4 (NIV) 3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do,     and he will establish your plans. 4 The Lord works out everything to its proper end—     even the wicked for a day of disaster.   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com       

Proverbs 18:21 (ESV) 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue,     and those who love it will eat its fruits. Proverbs 12:18 (ESV) 18 There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,     but the tongue of the wise brings healing.   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com       

John 16:33 (ESV) 33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com       

Proverbs 5:15-23 (ESV) 15 Drink water from your own cistern,     flowing water from your own well. 16 Should your springs be scattered abroad,     streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for yourself alone,     and not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed,     and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 19     a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;     be intoxicated[a] always in her love. 20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman     and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?[b] 21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord,     and he ponders[c] all his paths. 22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him,     and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. 23 He dies for lack of discipline,     and because of his great folly he is led astray.   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com       

Romans 11:33-12:8 (ESV) 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord,     or who has been his counselor?” 35 “Or who has given a gift to him     that he might be repaid?” 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. 12 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not

Isaiah 44:13-20 (ESV) 13 The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. 14 He cuts down cedars, or he chooses a cypress tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it. 15 Then it becomes fuel for a man. He takes a part of it and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also he makes a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and falls down before it. 16 Half of it he burns in the fire. Over the half he eats meat; he roasts it and is satisfied. Also he warms himself and says, “Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!” 17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!” 18 They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they

Exodus 20:1-6 (ESV) The Ten Commandments 20 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousandsof those who love me and keep my commandments.   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com       

Acts 17:22-25 (ESV) Paul Addresses the Areopagus 22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com       

Romans 5:2-5 (ESV) 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.   Sermons from Cross of Christ Church.  For more resources, go to www.crossofchristoc.com