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If the Foundations Are Destroyed — What Can the Righteous Do?/Morals in an Immoral Age

July 3, 2026

Evening Sermons Faith in Action Christian Living Courage

A society can lose its moral foundations, but the righteous are not left without hope. Psalm 11 answers despair with a clear truth: God is still on His throne, He sees, He tests, and He will judge. Romans 1 explains how cultures collapse when they suppress truth and reject God’s light. The church must respond with biblical clarity, personal repentance, love for souls, and unwavering focus on the gospel mission.

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How to Divide the Word of God

July 3, 2026

Restoration Sermons Bible Authority Christian Living

The Bible must be divided rightly: the three dispensations are distinct, the New Testament is the law by which people living now will be judged, and within the New Testament there are two kinds of instruction — what God requires of sinners to be saved, and…

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A Time for Every Purpose

July 3, 2026

Authority of Scripture Ex Verbo Vitae Christian Living Humility

Content: Planning without God is arrogant boasting, and James calls it evil. Ecclesiastes reminds us that God appoints the times, and James warns that life is a vapor. The faithful alternative is humble submission: “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” This lesson calls us to repent of self-rule and bring every plan under the Lord’s authority.

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Judging from Appearances

July 3, 2026

Restoration Sermons Bible Authority Christian Living

Human judgment is persistently wrong when it operates from outward appearance alone — and six biblical cases demonstrate the pattern. God alone judges from the inside. Man’s judgment is often wrong. The instinct to assess a person, a situation, or a claim at a glance is…

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Seeming Defeat

July 3, 2026

Restoration Sermons Bible Authority Christian Living

What looks like defeat is often the path to victory in God’s kingdom: we lose life to save it, find it by losing it, gain by spending, live by dying, and conquer through the cross — for the way of the cross leads to life, and…

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Woman’s Work in the Church

July 3, 2026

Restoration Sermons Bible Authority Christian Living

The New Testament neither silences women nor makes them interchangeable with men in every function. It assigns them a specific, honorable, and demanding sphere — private instruction, domestic formation, and teaching younger women — while reserving public proclamation to qualified men. The grounding of this restriction…

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Church Discipline

July 3, 2026

Restoration Sermons Bible Authority Christian Living

Because the church is a body of members held to a standard of Christian conduct, it has both the right and the duty to discipline disorderly members — teaching and admonishing them toward repentance, withdrawing from the impenitent, and restoring the penitent — and the neglect…

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Christian Liberty

July 3, 2026

Restoration Sermons Bible Authority Christian Living

The word “Christian liberty” is used in two almost contradictory ways. One use invokes it as a shield against accountability — “I have liberty in Christ; don’t bind your traditions on me.” The other use names the profound freedom Christ actually purchased: freedom from the guilt…

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Use of “Ekklesia” in the New Testament

July 3, 2026

Restoration Sermons Bible Authority Christian Living

The Greek word ekklesia means “called out,” and a survey of its New Testament uses shows it applied to the local congregation (in several senses), to the one universal church, and to the household assembly — but never to a denomination. Doctrine often turns on a…

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When “Ministry” and “Missions” Become a Cloak for Innovation

July 3, 2026

Church and Institutionalism Biblical Authority Church Structure

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A church may preach the gospel, teach young people, and support preaching in other places without building separate ministry structures, branded sub-organizations, or institutional networks beyond the local church. The issue is not whether evangelism and discipleship are important, but whether the New Testament authorizes the structures modern churches use to carry out that work.

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