South Run Baptist Church episodes:

• June 01, 2021Sanctuary Series: Made to Worship

  In our Scripture reading today from Revelation, we find a large group

  gathered around the throne of God in heaven worshiping. Heaven is the

  domain of God, and because of this, heaven should be understood as the

  sanctuary of all sanctuaries—the place where God is most fully present. To

  find that worship goes hand-in-hand with sanctuary comes as an important

  revelation. Today we continue our sanctuary series with a sermon titled,

  “Made to Worship.” It is my contention that we are designed for worship,

  but worship means far more than we often think. Let’s dive in.

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• May 24, 2021Sanctuary Series: Sanctuary

  We will spend the coming weeks drilling deep down into what it means for

  our church to value sanctuary. In Scripture a sanctuary is a place where

  one meets God. The tabernacle and the temple are examples of sanctuaries

  where Israel experienced the presence of God. However, sanctuary is more

  than a place. In the New Testament, it is a person—Jesus Christ. Jesus is

  the new temple in whom the full presence of God dwells. And yet there’s

  still more! Paul doesn’t stop there. He says that you and I are temples

  too! That God dwells in us and others can find God when they're with us.

  There’s a lot to unpack here, which is why we will take some time with this

  topic. Today we will start at the bookends of the Bible, Eden and The New

  Jerusalem, two places where God and humanity live together in perfect

  peace.

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• May 17, 2021Jesus is __________. Series: Jesus is Calling.

  It is our seventh and final week of our “Jesus Is” series, and we conclude

  today with a passage that brings us full circle. Back to the cross. Back to

  the resurrection. Back to the identity of Jesus, the one who gave himself

  for us that we might be redeemed. “Whoever would save his life will lose

  it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.”

  Jesus draws us into himself when we renounce the ways of the world and seek

  the face of Christ. In so doing, he uncovers our lost humanity and shows us

  God’s design for who we were meant to be—both in this life and the life to

  come.

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• May 10, 2021Jesus is __________. Series: Jesus is the Image of the Invisible God.

  The theme of the image of God found throughout Scripture has tremendous

  theological significance. It should inform the way we think about both God

  and humanity. Page 1 of the Bible tells us that humans are made in God’s

  image, and this is good news for us! Furthermore, when Paul says that

  Christ is the “image of the invisible God,” he is saying something both

  similar to and different from what is stated in Genesis. As we explore

  Christ as the image-bearer of God, we are simultaneously exploring our own

  identity and meaning in this world. All of this should point us back to the

  eternal God who created all things and through whom all things find their

  true meaning. Let’s dive in!

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• May 03, 2021Jesus is __________. Series: Jesus is the Savior

  This Sunday we continue our ongoing series entitled Jesus Is _____. Perhaps

  one of the most significant themes in Scripture is that of salvation.

  “Salvation by grace through faith” is a bedrock component to most

  protestant teachings about the person and work of Jesus. To get at its

  significance, we must answer a few questions. What are we saved from? And

  for what are we saved? How does the Old Testament speak of salvation? And

  how does Jesus tie together the promises of salvation in the Old Testament

  to the promises in the New Testament? We will tackle these and many more

  questions in this week’s sermon: Jesus is the Savior.

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• April 26, 2021Jesus is __________. Series: Jesus is the Son of God.

  As we continue to think about the person and work of Jesus, we turn to one

  of the most important titles given to him. Together we confess that Jesus

  is the Son of God. As with the titles we have explored in previous

  weeks—Lord, Christ, Risen One—we find that there is a lot to unpack. There

  are lots of assumptions about what the Son of God means. There is hidden

  significance that we never knew was there. And so today we examine just

  what it means to call Jesus the Son of God.

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• April 19, 2021Jesus is __________. Series: Jesus is the Christ.

  We are now in the third week of Eastertide, and we continue our study of

  the person and work of Jesus. It’s possible that you mentally tripped over

  “the” in the title of today’s sermon, “Jesus is the Christ.” Christ is not

  originally a name, and certainly not a last name for Jesus, but a title.

  Like “the CEO” or “the janitor” or “the principal.” It implies a job

  description and tells us much about his actions, goals, and the work he was

  sent to accomplish. Perhaps you’ve not given it much thought, but today we

  dig into what it means for Jesus to be “the Christ.” Let’s go!

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• April 12, 2021Jesus is __________. Series: Jesus is Lord.

  The phrase, “Jesus is Lord,” is most likely the oldest Christian creed ever

  used. Long before the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed, people would

  say, “Jesus is Lord,” as a short-hand faith statement. It was often used at

  the moment of baptism as one is dying to the world and being raised with

  Christ. It is a declaration of service to Jesus. You are willingly becoming

  a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. And while all of this might, from the

  outside, look overly serious or inhibiting to one’s freedom, for those of

  us who confess Jesus as Lord, we know it is actually filled with joy

  unspeakable, and it is the most freeing thing a person can do.

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• April 05, 2021Jesus is __________. Series: Jesus is RISEN!

  It is Easter and new life is around every corner! Quite literally. The

  trees with their blossoms and buds tells us that life will not be stopped.

  The daffodils have broken through the soil and are singing the first song

  of spring. But just the first. There are more songs yet to be sung. Each

  flower, in its turn, joins the symphony of life that has been unleashed

  upon the world in this season. And as the chorus grows, the power of God’s

  life-giving Spirit grows increasingly loud. Can you hear it? … But we do

  not gather today because of a season of the year. We gather because we

  remember a day that forever changed history. A day in which Christ was

  risen, death was defeated, life won out, and you and I were invited into

  the banquet of eternal life.

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• March 22, 2021Lent: The Road to the Cross: The Movements of Faith

  As Jesus turns the corner on his journey to Jerusalem, he meets a blind man

  begging for help on the outskirts of Jericho. But is he begging, or is he

  seeking, and is there a difference? Is he blind, or is he one of the few

  that can see Jesus clearly? There is, no doubt, a deep irony at play in

  this encounter. How the blind beggar knows he can trust Jesus, we do not

  know. Why he trusts Jesus, we do not know. But that he has faith is plain

  to see in his insistence, and his shouting, and his passionate pursuit of

  Jesus. Jesus tells him that it is his faith that saves him. He is not,

  however, the only one changed by this encounter. The whole town ends up

  praising God, their faith in the Almighty renewed.

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