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September 12, 2025 · Southwest Christian Church

Christ and kirk: pastoral reflections

As a church, the elders have decided to help us all think through the assassination of Charlie Kirk from Scripture. We hope this serves you and your families well. The document is attached below.Grace and peace. Your bro...

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May 19, 2025 · Southwest Christian Church

God moves in a mysterious way

Singing TruthGod's providence is his meticulous sovereignty in the world as he works to unfold his purposes through, against, by, or without normal means (Westminister Confession). In Genesis 45, several times Joseph att...

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April 24, 2025 · Southwest Christian Church

Making friends with your brother's assassin

Consorting With the EnemyFew sermons are easy to remember. But illustrations are easy to remember. It is a rare gravity of some preacher's to paint such pictures of biblical truth, we cannot but think of them constantly....

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March 7, 2025 · Southwest Christian Church

is church membership biblical?

This Sheep Was Born [Again] ThereIt was the the Lord Jesus, the good shepherd (cf. Psalm 23) who says in John 10 that the "sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name," (John 10:3). Jesus Christ is Yahweh --...

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February 20, 2025 · Southwest Christian Church

A warning of worldliness

Do Not Love the WorldIt may sound confusing at first, but the Bible tells us to not love the world (1 John 2:15)...but doesn't John also write elsewhere that "God so loved the world" in John 3:16? The same author? The Ap...

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February 12, 2025 · Southwest Christian Church

10 quotes on prayer

The Throne of GraceIn Hebrews 4:16, we are told to come to the sovereign Lord's throne with boldness and access in prayer. And in a similar manner, James 4 promises that if we "draw near to God," our God will "draw near...

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February 11, 2025 · Southwest Christian Church

Don't waste your life

James 4:14b, "For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes." Probably one of the most impactful sermon of my Christian life. I can still remember watching this recorded sermon over a decade ago and...

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