COV LIFE BLOG
Stand: 1st Peter Sermon Series
All across the world, believers in Jesus Christ are living amid challenges that are confronting both their claims of truthfulness and their willingness to stand against the cultural stream. This hostility which has been prevalent across the globe is now sweeping through our country, and the church finds herself asking complicated, multi-faceted, and difficult questions. […]
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1 Peter 1:6-9 – Reason to Rejoice in the Midst of Suffering
As he opens his letter, Peter gives us a past-present-future summary of God’s redemptive plan, but his interest is really in what God is doing right here, right now between Christ’s first and second comings. Of all of the words that he could use to describe what God is doing now, he selects these three: […]
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1 Peter 1:3-5 – A Living Hope Through the Gospel
For some of you things have been hard and in God’s kindness they will get better. They’ll get a little easier. And for some of you things have been bad and they’ll improve. But for others of us, they may get worse. But no matter where we are in those three categories that’s not where […]
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1 Peter 1:1-2 – Strangers and Exiles On Earth
All those who really have faith in Jesus Christ are ‘strangers’; scattered throughout the world, and dwelling dispersedly in an order of things to which they do not belong, ‘seeking a city which hath foundations.’ The word ‘strangers’ means, originally, persons for a time living in an alien city. And that is the idea that […]
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Ephesians – The Mission of CLC
Seven years ago, two families packed up all their belongings and made the journey from Wake Forest, NC down to Tampa. They moved to Tampa to pour themselves out serving this city for the praise of God’s name until their dying breath. With that singular purpose, it was their desire to start a church in […]
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Overview of Titus – Commissioning Service for Sending Out the Heights Church Plant
It is a fortunate man who knows who he is and why he is here. Such a man was Saul of Tarsus, the man better known as the apostle Paul. A persecutor of Christians an enemy of Christ, eh stood in support of the murder of the first Christian martyr, Stephen. Acts 7:58 says those […]
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Multiply – Biblically Faithful Churches Send Out Churches
In the biblical record, we constantly see churches sending people to other churches, starting churches, and checking on how churches are doing. Today, we have too many churches checking on churches but too few churches working together to send people out to plant. That’s what a heart set on multiplication does. That’s what Great Commission […]
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Jude 24-25 – Our Confidence in Contending for the Faith
Wonderful is the wisdom which he has displayed in his dealings with his people. Contemplate the plan of salvation through the incarnation and death of his only-begotten Son. What unfathomable depths of wisdom are here? Well is it called, “The wisdom of God in a mystery!” To contemplate that, will be the employment of eternity. […]
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Jude 17-23 – Remaining in the Love of God
“O beloved! I implore you by the love of God, and by the love of your own souls, be faithful unto death. Do you have difficulties? You must conquer them. Hannibal crossed the Alps, for his heart was full of fury against Rome; and you must cross the Alps of difficulty, for I trust your […]
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Jude 4-16 – The Holiness of God in Judging Sin
To be a human being who sins against God is not merely to make a mistake or to mess up. To sin against God is to willfully, knowingly declare independence from your Creator, to declare that you want God to be unthroned, to declare that you want to be god in his place, to commit […]
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