Sermon podcast feed for King's Cross Church in Moscow, ID. Featuring Pastor Toby Sumpter. Visit our website at https://kingscrossmoscow.com.
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Convulsions & Antifragile Maturity | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #26)
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We live in world full of petty divisions and many foolish alliances. Maturity means growing up into a deep commitment to the truth as well as being able to tell the difference between gnats and camels. Unity at all costs will always lead to compromise, and certain wooden ideologies create brittle men and communities. We are seeking to build an anti…
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The Good Samaritan | Zach Wilke
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Sermon Text: Luke 10:25-37 King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. Visit our website at https://kingscrossmoscow.com. Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/kingscrossmoscow.Oleh King's Cross Church (Moscow, ID)
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What Grace Looks Like | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #25)
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The decision of the Jerusalem Council illustrates a principle that Christians have always struggled with: grace has a backbone. True grace really is radically free, and because it is so free, it is potent and transformative. Grace welcomes and instructs. Grace rests and works. King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. …
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God the Heart-Knower | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #24)
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Christian warfare always consists of multiple fronts: external, domestic, and internal. The fact that we see this in the first century should give us hope and reassurance that we are not facing something profoundly new or different. This dynamic is also part of the ‘continuing adventures of Jesus.’ Our task is to walk by faith before God, the ‘Know…
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Resurrection Hope | Toby Sumpter (Easter Sunday)
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Far too many people in the church are not truly converted to God. They are religious or maybe conservative, but they do not know Christ and the power of His resurrection. They know about Christ, and perhaps they know about the Bible and catechism answers. But they do not know Christ, and this is obvious because sin still has power over them. They a…
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True Authority | Toby Sumpter (Palm Sunday 2024)
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Our modern world pits authority against friendship, falsely insisting that friendship can only exist be- tween complete equals. But in that case, a complete equal has nothing to offer, nothing to contribute. True friendship exists in relations of inequality and hierarchy, where different parties have different skills and responsibilities. Ultimatel…
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Availing Prayer | Shawn Paterson
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THE TEXT: James 5:16–18 King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. Visit our website at https://kingscrossmoscow.com. Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/kingscrossmoscow.Oleh King's Cross Church (Moscow, ID)
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Reformed Politics | Toby Sumpter (What is Reformed Anyway #6)
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One of the marks of the Reformed faith was a great political reformation. This is why it is sometimes called the “Magisterial Reformation.” The Pope and Roman church had slowly claimed political power, but the Reformers insisted that Scripture clearly taught that all power was given to Jesus Christ and therefore, directly and delegated to magistrat…
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Reformational Family | Toby Sumpter (What is "Reformed" Anyway? #5)
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We live in a world that says you can be anything you want, anything at all – the more bizarre and perverse the better, just don’t be an ordinary, faithful man who marries an ordinary faithful woman, and have a pile of happy, ordinary kids and love and serve the Lord together. Anything but that. And the mischievous Tom Sawyer inside you should grin …
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The Severe Grace of Church Discipline | Shawn Paterson
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As a young church, we have not yet experienced a public church discipline case. While the elders have been active in encouraging, admonishing, and occasionally suspending individuals from the Lord’s Supper privately, we have not yet reached the point of needing to go through the formal process of excommunication. But if we are a faithful church, a …
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Reformed Worship | Toby Sumpter (What is “Reformed” Anyway? #4)
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The 16th Century Reformation was a reformation of worship. Worship is at the center of human life, and therefore, we believe it is the most important thing we do as Christians. How we think about worship and offer our worship flows into all of life. In the beginning, God placed Adam in the Garden Sanctuary where Adam had direct communion with God, …
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Covenant Peanut Butter & Jelly | Toby Sumpter | (What is “Reformed” Anyway? Part 3)
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One of the great recoveries of the Reformation was the notion of covenant. The doctrine of the covenant steers a biblical “middle way” between sacerdotal mysticism on the one hand and subjective mysticism on the other. God’s covenant is His objective personal relationship with human beings in history, with attendant blessings and curses. And becaus…
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Chestertonian Calvinism | Toby Sumpter (What is “Reformed” Anyway? #2)
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Pastor Wilson has used this phrase “Chestertonian Calvinism” for a number of years to describe the flavor of Calvinism we are aiming for. It’s a riff on something C.S. Lewis once said about the Puritans: “On many questions, and specially in their view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party; if we may without disrespect so use th…
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The Majesty of God | Toby Sumpter | (What is “Reformed” Anyway? #1)
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As a newer congregation with many newer folks, I want to spend the next few weeks going over some of the basics of what mean when we say we are “Reformed.” Historically, this name goes back to the Protestant Reformation of the 16thcentury, but it is fundamentally based on the supremacy of God, revealed in Scripture, as the perfect Word of God. To s…
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Wrestling With God | Jared Longshore
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Scripture says that we Christians are more than conquerors. And that is one of our beloved verses. But, if we are conquerors, that means there are things standing in our way. This truth, the one about looming obstacles, can weigh down the spirit if we let it. But, there really is no need for soul troubles. We are victors after all. And what good ar…
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Biblical Sexuality Sunday 2024: The Pride of Women & Cowardice of Men | Toby Sumpter
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In January 2022, the Canadian government enacted Bill C-4, effectively criminalizing Christian preaching, teaching, and counseling that upholds Biblical morality for human sexuality. Many pastors in Canada have determined to preach messages annually until the law is repealed and have invited American pastors to join them in proclaiming God’s truth …
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A Marriage Tune Up | Toby Sumpter
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As we begin a new year, it’s worth reviewing some of the most basic assignments we have in our marriages. The central paradigm is the gospel, and the central duties are love and respect. But as with many of these things that we hear often, it is incredibly important that we determine by God’s grace not to be merely hearers of the Word but doers. Ki…
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State of the Church 2024 - On Hard Work & Holy Ambition | Toby Sumpter
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In our day, it is commonplace to hear messages on the need for work/life balance, the need for “me time,” and the dangers of workaholics, ambition, and stress. And I am convinced that 99% of it is a siren song for laziness, apathy, selfishness, and cowardice. The Lord created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day, and our Lord Jesus r…
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Have Yourself A Covenantal Christmas | Toby Sumpter (Advent Grab Bag #4)
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The birth of Christ is the fulfillment of God’s covenant with Adam, renewed with Noah and Abraham and David. And the overarching promise is a promise of mercy and the remission of our sins, which is like the sun coming up after a long dark night. King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. Visit our website at https://ki…
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Deck Your Idols | Toby Sumpter (Advent Grab Bag #3)
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There is great confusion in the modern church over the doctrine of repentance – over the fact that the good news of the gospel includes the command to turn from sin and idols. This command, just the like the command to “believe,” is a command in which Christ gives what He commands. And what He gives is Himself. Therefore, repentance is entirely gra…
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A Theology of Stuff | Toby Sumpter (Advent Grab Bag #2)
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One of the more puzzling lines in the Definition of Chalcedon is where it says, “as regards his manhood begotten, for us men and for our salvation, of Mary the virgin, the God-bearer.” What does it mean to confess that Mary is the “God-bearer?” We should note that this title is carefully qualified by the phrase “as regards his manhood,” which comes…
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The Politics of Christmas | Toby Sumpter (Advent Grab Bag #1)
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As is our custom, we began using the Definition of Chalcedon this morning for our Creed, which was adopted and published in 451 A.D. The purpose of the Definition was to further defend the full divinity and humanity of Christ from several heresies, while preserving the Creator-creature distinction. All non-Christian societies are fundamentally what…
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Holidays & Militant Contentment | Toby Sumpter
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Holidays are challenging times for many reasons: routines are off, people in our houses, being in other peoples’ houses, challenging people, missing loved ones, or the things that aren’t right or good, and simmering beneath it all, you’re a corrupt sinner. Sometimes another contributing factor is the contrast of really good things and really hard t…
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Anxiety & Thanksgiving | Toby Sumpter
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We live in a world full of anxiety and stress. And far too often, Christians default to unbelieving assumptions, diagnosing their problems as circumstances, environment, diet, or chemicals. While sometimes material changes can help, God’s Word says our central need is Christ. In Him is a peace that passes all understanding, a peace that is a fortre…
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God’s Open Doors | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #23)
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Acts is about the continuing work of Jesus through His Spirit bringing the gospel from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. Not only is Jesus doing this, but what we find is that He has also prepared the world for this: synagogues functioned as open doors for the gospel, but the Gentiles were also being prepared for faith. And Jesus continues to wor…
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Salvation Belongs to the Lord | Dr. Joe Rigney
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A Universal Song from A Particular Situation Psalm 3 in Light of 2 Samuel 14-19 King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. Visit our website at https://kingscrossmoscow.com. Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/kingscrossmoscow.Oleh King's Cross Church (Moscow, ID)
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The Word of No Condemnation | Doug Wilson
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As we mark and celebrate the great work of the Spirit that we call the Protestant Reformation, we need to be mindful of remembering two things. The first is that we must recall the gospel of liberating grace, the gospel that is perennial good news, always good news. Sinners always need to able to hear the message of “no condemnation.” Secondly, we …
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What Conquest Looks Like | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #22)
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God’s way of conquest is not what we would have thought up. One of His central plays is provoking people to jealousy through His extravagant blessings. Sometimes this provocation turns angry and violent, but ultimately, the plan is for the ends of the earth to be saved. King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. Visit o…
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Hearts Assured Before Him | Shawn Paterson
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THE TEXT: 1 John 3:19–24 King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. Visit our website at https://kingscrossmoscow.com. Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/kingscrossmoscow.Oleh King's Cross Church (Moscow, ID)
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The Sure Mercies of David | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #21)
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We commonly sing and repeat that glorious refrain from Psalm 136 (and others) that the mercies of the Lord endure forever, and this is certainly true in a general way. But as we see here in Paul’s first recorded sermon, there is a particular meaning of that phrase and application in the covenant that God made with King David that was fulfilled in J…
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The Holy Spirit Leads, Rebukes, & Saves | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #20)
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The Holy Spirit is the personal Spirit of the Father and the Son. He is not an impersonal force. He leads the Church in fierce and zealous obedience. He is God’s fiery love and fellowship, and the center of His power is in the Word. King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. Visit our website at https://kingscrossmoscow…
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Angels and a Prison Break | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #19)
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When we began this series, we said that Acts is the continuing adventures of Jesus, that Acts is a book of action and adventure driven by the Spirit of God, and here we see that point in high relief. Walking with God is the greatest adventure. King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. Visit our website at https://kings…
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The King’s People | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #18)
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After the resurrection, Jesus said that since all authority had been given to Him, the apostles were to “therefore, go” disciple all the nations of the world. The center and most essential point of this mission is the regeneration of individual hearts. But the Bible teaches that this ordinarily happens through public and private, national and indiv…
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He is Lord of All | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #17)
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One of the great lies of the Devil, embraced by modernity, is the inevitability of history – that time is like a stream, and you can’t stop it, you can’t reverse it, and everything that has come before is rushing down upon us. We see this in the victim-mentality of many: blaming childhood, parents, income level, minority status, abuse, addictions, …
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Honesty, Cheating, & Lies | Toby Sumpter (Workbench of Practical Christianity)
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Satan is the “father of lies,” and this why those under his sway speak lies and murder with their words and deeds (Jn. 8:44). This is also why Christians are frequently attacked here by the Devil, just like the woman in the Garden in the beginning. The fundamental lie is about the goodness of God and His Word. But if we repudiate that lie, we will …
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Giving Your Testimony & Sharing the Gospel | Toby Sumpter (Workbench of Practical Christianity)
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I don’t remember a time when I did not love Jesus. One of my earliest memories is being interviewed for membership in an OPC church by a couple of elders when I was four years old. I was baptized and became a communicant member shortly thereafter. I’ve always loved singing worship songs and hymns. Part of how I’ve always known the presence of the H…
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Fearing God & Honoring Parents | Toby Sumpter (Workbench of Practical Christianity)
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We live in a land that has no fear of God before their eyes, and right on schedule, neither do we honor our parents. If it is not going well for us in the land, this is one of the main things we must recover: the fifth commandment is the first command with a promise of blessing. The fear of the Lord and true justice go together (Ps. 19:9). King's C…
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The Nations are Clean | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #16)
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In many ways, this passage is the hinge of the book of Acts. The whole book describes the continuing work of Jesus, and just as He promised, the goal is a mission from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. Everything has been pointing to this: all the languages at Pentecost, Stephen’s message that God is not bound to one place, the conversion of the …
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Birth Control & Dominion | Toby Sumpter (Exhortation)
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One of the things that is very striking and obvious if you look around on a Sunday morning is that we love children. The Bible teaches that children are the inheritance of the Lord, a great reward, and faithfully raised children are a central part of our warfare against all unbelief. And because of these things, someone might be forgiven for assumi…
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Feminine Modesty | Shawn Paterson (Exhortation)
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A call to modesty is a call to glory. This is a call to all women and young ladies to true beauty. The Apostle Peter says that this beauty is the incorruptible kind which is precious in the sight of God. In a sin-soaked culture that is saturated and darkened by immodesty, true modest beauty shines all the brighter, and points people away from self …
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How the Church Grows | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #15)
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Frequently, part of the difficulty we have in understanding and applying the Bible to our lives is that we do not understand the characters involved. One such character is the Church. The word for “church” can simply refer to a generic human assembly, like the Elks Club or a political party’s convention. But part of the message of the Bible is that…
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Christ is Lord of Saul | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #14)
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The Lordship of Jesus Christ means the submission and surrender and obedience of all. And this is good news because He died and rose again for our sins, and He knows what He’s doing – He is a gracious Lord. He rules for our happiness. But this may be one of the most hated Christian doctrines. The lies of our flesh, the world, and the Devil say that…
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Christ Saves the African Eunuch | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #13)
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Having invaded the land of Samaria with His grace, Christ now sends an advance unit to Africa. And in so doing, Christ teaches us that the tip of the spear is the Word of God by which He comes to us and directs us where we should go and fills us with rejoicing. The Text: “And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the…
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Christ for the Cults & Prodigals | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #12)
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Here we see the continuing conquest of Christ extending to the Samaritans. Colliding with their centuries of idolatry and syncretism, the Holy Spirit gets the victory and the Word goes forth with power. The message for us is to trust Him, trust His word, and not lose heart. The Text: “And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there w…
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The First Witness | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #11)
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Today we consider Stephen’s martyrdom and his message to the Jewish leaders, that might be boiled down to the simple quotation from Isaiah: “Heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool, what house will you build me?” (Acts 7:49, Is. 66:1-2) The Jewish leaders hated God, and this means that they used fastidious religious traditions to attempt to k…
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Dobbs Celebration Message | Toby Sumpter
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On June 24, 2022 the landmark Supreme Court ruling was handed down in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, declaring that there is no federal, constitutional right to abortion and returned the matter of abortion to the States. Since Roe v. Wade in 1973, around 65 million abortions have been performed in America. We have determined to celeb…
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Ministries of Word & Table | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #10)
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When God is at work, challenges arise from within and from without. Just as Jesus directed His disciples to feed the crowds that followed Him (Mk. 6:37), so too His Spirit leads His apostles to appoint men to address the needs of widows in the early church so that the Word can continue to multiply. The Text: “And in those days, when the number of t…
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1 Samuel 11:1-7 King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. Visit our website at https://kingscrossmoscow.com. Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/kingscrossmoscow.Oleh King's Cross Church (Moscow, ID)
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Fighting Against God | Toby Sumpter (The Continuing Adventures of Jesus #9)
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Remember, Acts is the story of what Jesus continues to do by His Spirit in the Church. Consistently over history, this has provoked many to resent this powerful work and seek to destroy it, and every time, God foils their plans. The Text: “Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were …
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Pentecostal Waters | Dr. Jared Longshore (Pentecost 2023)
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As we commemorate the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, we not only remember that the Spirit was given to us. We also remember that the Spirit is given through us. The Spirit flows out from us to heal all of the sick places. King's Cross Church is a member congregation of the CREC in Moscow, ID. Visit our website at https://kingscrossmoscow.c…
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