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Apr 2025
Palm Sunday 2025 Rev. Dr. Chris Hensley Based on Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 & Luke 19:28-40 Presented to Sardis Baptist Church April 13, 2025 There is much going on in our passages for this morning. Primarily it is worship of God in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Testament. The Psalm is actually a royal song of thanksgiving and one of the most frequently quoted psalms within the Christian Testament. The 118th Psalm follows the anointed one of God as they process into the Temple and testifies upon arrival in the......
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30
Mar 2025
Salvation Realized A Sermon by Chris Hensley Based on Joshua 5:9-12 & Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 Presented to Sardis Baptist Church March 30, 2025 I have got some friends who run a printing and embroidering company who printed some merchandise for a local sports team. When I say local in this context, I mean to them. The sports team was not doing well financially and there were signs on the wall of a looming bankruptcy. My friends saw the signs and worked out a payment plan for an order which they fulfilled for......
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16
Mar 2025
Forms of Salvation A Sermon by Chris Hensley Based on Psalm 27 & Luke 9:37 – 43 Presented to Sardis Baptist Church March 16, 2025 During this season of Lent we are taking up the idea of salvation and exploring it in different ways with specific emphasis on the idea of salvation within the here and now, remembering and recognizing that the Kin-dom of God which Jesus spoke of is now, not some distant and far off thing. Salvation is not something for which we wait as though we are merely......
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21
Jul 2019
Saving Space Bob Stillerman A Sermon for Sardis Baptist Church 7-21-2019 Isaiah 40:1-5; 52:7-10 The Space to be Saved — Isaiah 40.1-5 and 52.7-10 7-21-2019 Years ago, I bought a book by Mary Donovan Turner about the images of God in the Old Testament. The book offered dozens of short vignettes that detailed names and imagery of God, some familiar, some not. One of those vignettes has had a profound impact of my understanding of God. Donovan Turner writes that God is our space. And I’d read you the exact description, but......
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