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Mar 2025
Repentance Revisited A Sermon by Chris Hensley Based on Isaiah 55:1-9 and Luke 13:1 – 9 Presented to Sardis Baptist Church March 23, 2025 I am a pastor’s kid, or a PK in some circles. Now, my father always served more moderate leaning congregations within the Baptist tradition, or that was his aim as that was where he found himself. This meant that, when the topic of repentance came about, I never heard him specifically utter any of the following phrases which I have heard and seen in certain circles of Christianity.......
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Jan 2017
Repent. No Really. Repent. Matthew 4.12-23 1-22-2017 Repent. No Really. Repent. A Sermon for Sardis Baptist Church Bob Stillerman Matthew 4:12-23 January 22, 2017 I want to ask you to do something, and it might be a hard ask, but I’ll ask it nonetheless. I want you to hear this phrase, really hear it: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” For too long, our American Protestant heritage has betrayed us – it has prevented us from hearing this phrase in its proper context. Four hundred years ago John Winthrop......
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