South Run Baptist Church episodes:

• March 28, 2022Victory in Jesus

  Psalm 129 is about the wounds of our enemies and the Lord’s desire and

  ability to defeat our foes. But who is my enemy and what is the victory?

  The New Testament answers this clearly when Paul says that our battle is

  not against flesh and blood but against the powers of darkness in this

  world, the very thing God comes to destroy through the cross. As we journey

  toward the cross during the Lenten season, let us remind ourselves of the

  victory found in it.

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• March 21, 2022Unless the Lord...

  The journey continues. The psalmist is reflecting on his future. On

  Israel’s future. As he does so, he reminds himself and those singing this

  song of an important fact: All of our strivings and efforts in this life

  are temporary and fleeting unless God is in them. This is not just

  spiritualized mumbo jumbo, it’s a hard fact of life. We are mortal and God

  is immortal. Whether it is 100 years from now or 1000 years from now, the

  earth will forget us. However, the immortal one to whom we look for life

  and purpose is able to give our strivings immortal worth and value. “Unless

  the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.”

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• March 14, 2022Lord, Help Me

  Today, our journey continues with Psalm 124. It’s a psalm about answered

  prayers, which is important because answered prayer is often too quickly

  overlooked and under-celebrated. Sure, we might find some relief or even

  short-lived joy at the news of an answered prayer. But how quickly are we

  back to, “God, what have you done for me lately?” Today, the psalmist

  teaches us how to celebrate the answered prayers of life. We all have much

  to learn.

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• March 07, 2022Follow Me

  The season of Lent is many things. It is a season of preparation, preparing

  our hearts for Easter. It is a season of repentance, bringing to the cross

  our sin and shame. It is a season of introspection, searching the depths of

  our hearts that we might root out all that keeps us from union with God.

  And while there are many ways to talk about these 40 days on the church

  calendar, we know that they are a journey that leads us to kneel before the

  cross of Christ on Good Friday, it leads us to an empty tomb on Easter

  Sunday, and it leads us into a world where resurrections are routine and

  the death of death is a reality and where all things are possible. Let us

  walk this journey together.

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• February 28, 2022Our Service

  In our final week of “Better Together,” we are talking about “Our Service.”

  In my years at South Run Baptist Church, the servant’s heart of this

  congregation has gripped me more than just about anything else I have

  experienced here. In this congregation, I have met some of the most amazing

  people who are willing to do just about anything in service of God and in

  service of one another. So as we approach this topic today, I come humbly.

  I come as someone who has not only learned much from the Word of God, but

  also as someone who has learned from the Word made flesh through you.

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• February 20, 2022Our Fellowship

  Fellowship is a good church word. We don’t hear it in other parts of the

  world, but in church we use it routinely. We have a fellowship ministry. We

  have a fellowship hall. We talk about the fellowship of the body. But what

  does it mean? And why is it significant to the life and practice of the

  church and the believers in the church? It is these questions and more that

  we turn to today as we hear the Word of the Lord about “Our Fellowship.”

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• February 14, 2022Our Worship

  We’re on the sixth week of Better Together, and today we’re talking about

  Worship. Worship is an essential part of every life, Christian and

  non-Christian. We all worship something, whether we realize it or not. If

  it is not God that we worship, then it’s probably self, or money, or power,

  or some other object in the universe. And this is one of the reasons why

  Sunday morning is vital to the Christian life. Weekly, corporate worship

  reorients our heart’s desires. It trains us. It reminds us that the true

  object of our worship is God, Let us worship together this morning.

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• February 07, 2022Our Sanctuary

  We are now in week five of our Better Together series, and our topic is Our

  Sanctuary. In my estimation, this value is one of the more “colorful”

  values that has the potential not only to tell us what is important to us,

  but to give direction and focus to our efforts. May we be a place of

  sanctuary and a sanctuary people, may we create a sanctuary in time, and

  may we be ever restless for the rest that is only found in our Creator.

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• January 31, 2022Our Family

  We are heading into week four of our series, Better Together, and there is

  nothing that says “Together” quite like “Family.” As a church, one of our

  core values is “Our Family: We are part of one vine with many branches.”

  Today, we explore this theme and recognize both the joys and struggles of

  family life. It takes work to make a family happen. And it requires a

  loyalty that is often missing in our individualistic world, especially when

  the family is one you have chosen and are not born into. But family also

  should come with a sense of belonging that is essential for life.

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• January 24, 2022Our Mission

  Today is the third week of our series, Better Together. We are looking at

  our church’s core values, and today we will be exploring “Our Mission.” The

  three values of “Grounding”, “Discipleship”, and “Mission” are inextricably

  tied together, one growing out of the next, much like the soil and tree

  analogy we have been using. Our Grounding in Christ leads to the need for

  Discipleship which produces the fruit of the Mission. The mission we

  participate in is the same mission God has been on throughout history — the

  redemption and reconciliation of the world. God has called us and sends us

  to participate in that mission with Him.

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