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Sermons, devotionals and weekly bulletins from Clarity Church in Brooklyn Park.
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Is love a feeling or a choice? 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 describes a love we choose: patient, kind and others-centered. The secret to winning at love is losing.
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Jesus says what defiles us comes from the heart (Matthew 15:1-20). Dr. Russ Berg on why emotional maturity is the clearest evidence of spiritual maturity.
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Mark 12:28-31 on spiritual maturity: loving God with heart, soul and strength, not just the mind, and ten symptoms of emotionally unhealthy spirituality.
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Faithfulness, a fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:16-23: faith is trust in a person, not certainty, and God stays faithful even when we are not.
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Gentleness is strength under control, not weakness. This fruit of the Spirit sermon on Galatians 5:16-23 shows how it grows through humility.
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Another church within our network of churches has this in their description of their mission and vision – and I think it’s the perfect intro for what I want to communicate in this email. In Jeremiah 29:7, God commands His people who have been exiled in Babylon to “work for the peace and prosperity of…
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Why do joy and peace feel so elusive? As fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:16-23, they come from believing the gospel, not from our own doing.
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We love because he first loved us. This Easter sermon on 1 John 4:7-11, 19 shows how God’s love in sending his Son commissions us to love one another.
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Why did Jesus cry, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Mark 15:33-41 shows he was abandoned by God so that we could be adopted by God.
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What does it mean to be born again? In John 3:1-21 Jesus tells Nicodemus he must be born of water and the Spirit, a new heart promised in Ezekiel 36.
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What does it mean to bear your cross? Luke 14:25-35 on Jesus’ words about hating family, and why a cross is a sacrificial choice, not ordinary hardship.
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What did Jesus mean by a camel through the eye of a needle? Mark 10:17-31 and the rich young man: we find we are enough when we let God be enough.