An Insatiable Appetite for Growth (1 Peter 2:1-3)
South City Church
April 9, 2017
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Death as Absolute ‘Vanitizer,’ Except as Answered by Christ’s Resurrection
My question—that which at the age of fifty brought me to the verge of suicide—was the simplest of questions, lying in the soul of every man … a question without an answer to which one cannot live. It was: ‘What will come of what I am doing today or tomorrow? What will come of my whole life? Why should I live, why wish for anything, or do anything?’ It can also be expressed thus: Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?
—Leo Tolstoy (A Confession), channeling his inner Qohelet, Ecclesiastes.
The answer: no, nothing, futility, or, as the book of Ecclesiastes itself puts it, a mere “striving after wind.”
Death is the ultimate “vanitizer.” Nothing escapes its finalizing, universal stamp of “pointless.”
That is apart from resurrection.
Enter Jesus. Welcome, Easter.
Fear-Filled Foreigners (1 Peter 1:17-21)
Fear-Filled Foreigners (1 Peter 1:17-21)
South City Church
March 26, 2017
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Our Salvation – The Yearning of the Prophets; The Gawking of Angels (1 Peter 1:10-12)
Our Salvation — The Yearning of the Prophets; The Gawking of Angels (1 Peter 1:10-12)
South City Church
March 12, 2017
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Preservation by Mean of Perseverance (1 Peter 1:5)
Preservation by Mean of Perseverance (1 Peter 1:5)
South City Church
February 26, 2017
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