St. Timothy Lutheran Church » Salvation http://www.sainttimothy.org Sharing the Joy! Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 2006-2008 hiddenvorlon@msn.com (St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church) hiddenvorlon@msn.com (St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church) posts 1440 Religion, Jesus, Life, church, Christianity, Spirituality, Christ, God St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church: Sharing the Joy! A member of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lombard Illinois Podcast. This podcast contains sermons from our worship services. St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church St. Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church hiddenvorlon@msn.com No no http://www.sainttimothy.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg St. Timothy Lutheran Church http://www.sainttimothy.org 144 144 Rescued From This Present Evil Age http://www.sainttimothy.org/2010/06/03/rescued-from-this-present-evil-age/ http://www.sainttimothy.org/2010/06/03/rescued-from-this-present-evil-age/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:13:13 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.sainttimothy.org/?p=345 This Sunday we begin a series of six lessons from the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians.  The Galatian churches were those to whom Paul had brought the saving gospel of Christ during his second missionary journey.  These were the cities like Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe.

Paul had brought them the good news of what Christ had done to save them from the eternal judgment that dooms sinners.  He pointed them to Christ atoning life, death and resurrection as the only hope for sinners rather than any obedience or sacrifice that we could offer.  Our hope of salvation doesn’t depend upon our having kept the law, but on Christ’s righteous life and his sacrificial death and victorious resurrection. 

It all depends on Christ.  HE is the one who saved us from this evil; age of the world.
But now come some apparently well-meaning teachers with the message that salvation depended upon a proper obedience to the laws of Moses.  Undoubtedly they said many things that were true, but the thrust of their teaching was to make salvation conditional on something we would do.  In the final analysis, such faith is not faith in Christ but in self, and a return to the present evil age from which Jesus saved us.

As we go through these lessons we will learn how important it is to cling to the absolute truth of Scripture because even a “little” error can destroy faith and lead to damnation.  We will also learn that in every way our hope is in Christ and not in our obedience to the law.  In fact our obedience, imperfect though it may be, is a result of our being rescued from this present evil age and is a result of the same saving power that brings us to spiritual life and faith.

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  1. A terribly undervalued gift.
  2. A gift that is already ours.
  3. A gift we can give away and still keep

     

 

 

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When I ask people what religion is about I usually get one of two answers.  1) It’s about morality, about being good, about prohibiting bad behavior.  Some say it is repression. 2)  It’s about social service, helping the poor, and achieving justice.

By contrast, consider what the Bible says in John 3:17 “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”  Christ’s purpose in coming was to bring forgiveness rather than condemnation, rather than judgment, and life rather than death.  All of this is because of God’s grace, His unmerited love toward us.

The reason “religion” is all about morality and judgment in the popular mind is that grace is not.  The human heart knows the law and sin and judgment, but cannot know that at a certain time and place God entered into this world as a real human being in order to redeem us.  That is a matter of history, not something we are born knowing.

So what does this mean for us?  While we surely uphold what is right and reject what is wrong, the most important thing is the forgiveness of sins.

]]> http://www.sainttimothy.org/2009/10/01/what-is-religion-about/feed/ 0 Despair for the “Righteous”, Hope for Sinners http://www.sainttimothy.org/2009/08/24/despair-for-the-%e2%80%9crighteous%e2%80%9d-hope-for-sinners/ http://www.sainttimothy.org/2009/08/24/despair-for-the-%e2%80%9crighteous%e2%80%9d-hope-for-sinners/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:19:50 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.sainttimothy.org/?p=276  

Despair for the “Righteous”, Hope for Sinners

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A video from our VBS wrap-up concert.  This is just one of many songs the kids learned and sang.  Enjoy!

  

 

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Please join us for our Fall Schedule Kick-Off on Sunday September 13.  There are a lot of great opportunities to better know your Savior!

Lombard Church

Sunday Morning Bible Class & Sunday School

Something for all ages!  Kids have songs and crafts and Bible Stories.  Adults are studying the history behind the letters of the New Testament and the beginning of the church.  Sundays at 9:00 AM

Search the Scripture Hour

Classes meet Thursday evenings at 7 PM in a pleasant informal atmosphere in the Church library.  Classes start with an introductory session on Thursday, September 17, at 7pm.
 

Wednesday Bible Fellowship

Join us for an evening of good fellowship as we go over the key events in Biblical history that tell us how God promised the Savior, preserved the promise, fullfilled in, and brought the promise to the world.  Wednesdays at 7pm at the Parsonage, beginning September 16.

 


Youth Bible Fellowship

We gather for good fellowship and take some time to examine the challenges to our faith in the light of God’s word.  For high school and college students.

 

 

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THE VALUE OF WHAT WAS LOST

By guest preacher – Rev. Dr. A. Andrew Das.

 

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AN INVASION PLAN TO CONQUER AND SAVE

I. The Sword of the Spirit – God’s Word
II. Fighting on a Foreign Field
III. Where Victory Gives Comfort to the Vanquished
 

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Bono: You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics—in physical laws—every action is met by an equal or an opposite one. …  And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that “as you reap, so you will sow” stuff. Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I’ve done a lot of stupid stuff.

Assayas: I’d be interested to hear that.

Bono: That’s between me and God. But I’d be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge…It doesn’t excuse my mistakes, but I’m holding out for Grace. I’m holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don’t have to depend on my own religiosity.

Assayas: The Son of God who takes away the sins of the world. I wish I could believe in that.

Bono: But I love the idea of the Sacrificial Lamb. I love the idea that God says: Look, you cretins, there are certain results to the way we are, to selfishness, and there’s a mortality as part of your very sinful nature, and, let’s face it, you’re not living a very good life, are you? There are consequences to actions. The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. That’s the point. It should keep us humbled … It’s not our own good works that get us through the gates of heaven

]]> http://www.sainttimothy.org/2009/05/01/where-is-your-hope/feed/ 0 Sermon 04-19-09 http://www.sainttimothy.org/2009/04/21/sermon-04-19-09/ http://www.sainttimothy.org/2009/04/21/sermon-04-19-09/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:56:53 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.sainttimothy.org/?p=237 THE CHURCH RESPONDS TO THE RESURRECTION

I. Rejoice
II. Tell
III. Forgive
IV. Doubt
V. Believe

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