North Avenue Church Podcast

2024 Election Reflections

How should Christians think and pray the day after this major election?

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The Government's Role: Abortion, Marriage, and Religious Liberty

Here are the three points of the message:

1. Governments should protect innocent life
2. Governments shoud protect marriage, family, and fruitfulness
3. Governments should preserve religious liberty

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Infant Baptism vs. Believer's Baptism | Week 1

We have officially returned to the Progressive Covenantalism series from before the summer. Here we are dealing with Covenant Theology.

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Walk in Love, as Christ Loved Us | Ephesians 5:1-10

Thomas and Jared joined the panel to start Ephesians 5!

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How Should Christians Vote? [Sermon]

How can Christians think about politics and voting from a biblical perspective this election season?

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How to Live in Christ: Put Off & Put On | Ephesians 4:17-24

We must put off the old man and put on the new man in Christ!

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The Authority of Caesar and God | Matthew 22:15-22

Here are six implications from this passage:

1. The pagan state is a legitimate state
2. The Church is transnational, not a theocratic nation
3. Christians should be good citizens and give Caesar his due
4. Caesar’s realm is not above or beside but within God’s realm
5. Civil disobedience is sometimes necessary
6. We must give ourselves entirely to God

(Mark adapted points from Kevin DeYoung and Mark Dever.)

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Natural Law and the Government

This is our last week on church and state issues in Sunday school. In this last message we attempt to show that natural law is how governments are to find their moral norms if they are not to be explicitly Christian.

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Living in a Pagan Culture | Daniel 1

On Monday, Greg gave a message to college students at our church for a BCM event. He discussed from Daniel 1 how to live in a pagan culture, as Daniel and his three friends experienced in the Bablyonian exile.

Equip the Saints for the Work of Ministry | Ephesians 4:11-16

When Christ ascended to heaven He gave gifts to the church for the building up of the saints.

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God, Government, and the Christian | Genesis 8:20-9:17 [Sermon]

Scripture roots human government in a post-fall, post-flood world through the Noachic Covenant.

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Walk in a Manner Worthy of Your Calling | Ephesians 4:1-10

Paul urges us to walk, that is live our lives, in a manner worthy of the calling we have recieved in Christ. This is the turning point in Ephesians where the indicatives of chapters 1-3 give way to the imperatives of chapters 4-6.

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A Critique of Stephen Wolfe & Doug Wilson on Christian Nationalism | Part 2

This week we continue the critique of Christian Nationalism from last week as presented by Wolfe and Wilson.

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The Parable of the Wedding Feast | Matthew 22:1-14

Main idea: We are all invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb. How your heart is responding — even today! — to this gracious invitation of our great God and King is of eternal importance.

1. Two Gracious Invitations and Two Unworthy Responses (vv. 1-8)
2. An Expanded Invitation and a Third Unworthy Response (vv. 9-14)

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Paul's Powerful Prayer for the Ephesians | Ephesians 3:14-21

This week the teaching team walked through Paul's second prayer in the book of Ephesians. There is much here to fuel our hearts and prayer lives!

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