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Three Assurances of God’s Abiding Love (v. 13-16a)What We Have From God - The Spirit (v. 13)What we confess about Christ - He is Savior (v. 14-15)How we live with God - living ...

Main Idea: When death exposes life's limitations, wisdom calls us to faith in God. Death has lingered throughout the book of Ecclesiastes up to this point. It has been in the shadows, it has loomed overhead, it has been observed from a dis...

Main Idea: Knowing what foolish worship looks like can help us worship wisely.  At this point in Ecclesiastes, Solomon turns his eyes upward toward God, more so than he has already. He directly commands his readers to be careful ...

The Vanity of Envy, Loneliness, and Politics will Weigh Down Your Ability to Enjoy God’s Gifts In this passage, Solomon is teaching on yet another three vexations that commonly weigh down man’s ability to enjoy the gifts of life his Cr...

Solomon once again reaches back into his memory bank to consider how he once processed the realities of Death and Injustice. In Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Solomon expressed his God-fearing conclusion about every day matters of life. The frustrations and ...

Solomon once again reaches back into his memory bank to consider how he once processed the realities of Death and Injustice. In Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Solomon expressed his God-fearing conclusion about every day matters of life. The frustrations and ...

For several years, Jared and Claire Millican have been praying about whether to move their family to the Czech Republic to partner with our Global Outreach Partners, Marcus and Amie Denny and the church in Kladno. Here...

Five insights into making God’s sovereignty the foundation of persistent joy. You can usually bet that when the season changes, the weather changes accordingly. Certain weather is appropriate and fitting for certain seasons. In Ecclesias...

In this passage Solomon turns from describing his pursuit of gain through wisdom and folly. Now he begins to explain what he learned through a deep evaluation of that pursuit. ‘What does he have to show for it?’ In other words, he’s still tr...

Main Idea: The purpose of Ecclesiastes is to teach us how to think rightly about a God-pleasing life that focuses on eternal things. In this message, we enter back in to the book of Ecclesiastes after 6 weeks away from it. The purpose is t...

If you were at church three weeks ago, you may recall a brief aside Dan had in his sermon about something called “Deconstruction” that has surfaced in the last few years. However, while the word “deconstruction” may be new to the ...

King Solomon has discovered that every surface upon which life can be enjoyed, every nook and cranny in which one might search for some new hidden gem of fulfillment, and any luxurious amenity life might have to offer for a man’s short stay on t...

‘Hevel…’ Vanity…Smoke…Mist…Breath… If these things represent the transience of life, and if they represent the transience of the experiences life has to offer, then Solomon wants to be sure we’re not chasing after the wron...

What’s the difference between unbelief and doubt? Unbelief is a resistance to unwanted truth; whereas doubt is belief under scrutiny. The main difference between the two is: unbelief doesn’t want help to believe, whereas doubt does want help t...

In this message we ‘deconstruct’ deconstruction. Deconstruction is a practice being promoted in some progressively Christian circles today. Believers are being encouraged to doubt what they’ve been taught, in order to organize a ‘faith of ...

Four things that are necessary to faithfully contend for the faith. Remember ‘them’ The Apostles’ wordsWho they spoke aboutGuard yourselfBuild yourselves up Pray in...

Main Idea: The Lord Will judge those whose teaching is ungodly.Jude 14-16 Sounds of ungodly teaching: 1. Grumbling and Complaining 2. Promoting sinful desires 3. Boasting 4. Favoritism to gain advan...

Main Idea: The irreverence of false teachers may be demonstrated by how they… 1. Make Claims of Authoritative Dreams (v.8) 2. Revile Divinity (v.8-9) 3. They are presumptuous and ignorant (v.10; 2 Pet. 2:10-13) 4....

At the launch of the school year Jared explains Doxa's mission statement: A loving community where collegians can learn to declare Jesus Christ with their lives....

As in Hebrews 3, Jude takes the tone of warning and exhortation in Jude 5-7 to admonish believers to remember how God had judged past unbelief. As believers we must regularly exhort one another so that we are not taken captive by disbelief or dece...

Those who have been called by God have been entrusted with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. We can take hope as we contend for the faith because we are loved by God, and will be guarded by him until the day of glory. Today, contending is as nece...

In the book of Jude we find a letter written to a small church, calling its members to contend for the faith. This ‘faith’ is the gospel ‘once for all delivered to the saints.’ Jude writes to warn of apostate false Christians who have made...

Dismantling nine arguments against the resurrection....

1. We as Christians have come to know him 2. Because Jesus’ time on earth met biblical requirements 3. Because the Old Testament predicted the nature of his life and death 4. Because he was visibly authenticated by the fath...

Main idea: Jesus has accomplished forgiveness as our prophet priest and king Luke 23:26-32 Our Prophet’s Pronouncement Luke 23:33-38 Our Priest’s Prayer Luke 23:39-43 Our King’s Promised Salvation...

A Summary of Dr. Nathan Busenitz’ research in Reasons We Believe: 50 Lines of Evidence That Confirm the Christian Faith...

The use of the term ‘grace’ is second nature in Christian language and thought. The frequency and ease with which we talk about ‘grace’ speaks to two observations: That ‘grace’ is fundamental to the theology which Scri...

Main Idea: The mission of the Gospel is for people from all nations to know and worship God. Points: The Mission of the Gospel in CreationThe Mission of the Gospel in the Covenants...

Outline: Review of Series’ 5 other MessagesExhortation to Convert and Commit in response to wisdom’s instruction....

Big Idea: Two things to ask God for so that we will desire riches rightly, in the fear of the LORD. 1. Spiritual Prosperity 2. Suitable Provisions...

Main Idea: Endure the world for the sake of your Lord.Five refrains for the Lord to endure five pains from the world: False saviors… I will not be led astray (v. 8) Terrors of war… I wi...

Five characteristics of the sluggard’s life which wisdom calls us to labor against in our own lives: The Sluggard is (1) Hinged to His Bed; (2) Happy With Excuses; (3) Hopeless at Completing Things; (4) Hungry for Fulfillment; (5) Haughty in his...

Main Idea: Christian, you are a temporary manager of God’s eternal investments. Introduction Everything we have in this life belongs ultimately to God, and we are stewards of what he has given...

I’m excited to give an update on what has been going on in Doxa College Ministry over the last few months. I’m thankful to be able to say that despite the adjustments in expectations and rearrangements of strategies that have been necessary be...

Sermon Notes: Main Idea: Misplaced fear will make you a hypocrite so keep it in one place Definition of Fear of God: To fear God is to serve and love him in response to a proper recognition of...