Author: Justin Knight
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Manufactured Religion: pt. 4
Question 3: Is God Pleased With Just Any Goodness? Perhaps the greatest misunderstanding the world applies to Christianity is that it’s a system of hierarchical control to make people behave a certain way. So they buck against that perceived authority and go to great lengths to prove that they can…
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Manufactured Religion: pt. 3
Question 2: Is God Pleased With Just Any Worship? Because of the king’s leadership, the people of the northern kingdom of Israel had broken faith with Yahweh and He was displeased with their worship. Often in the Old Testament, God says that the worship of the people displeased Him. Some…
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Manufactured Religion: pt. 2
Question 1: Is God Pleased With Just Any Faith? In the very successful Alcoholics Anonymous program, subjects must put their faith in a “higher power” to properly advance through the 12 steps. Is this level of belief in anything higher than ourselves acceptable to God? Is He pleased that we…
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Manufactured Religion: pt. 1
This is a sermon manuscript in 4 parts from a message I preached on Sunday, July 30, 2023. Hosea 8:1-7 – Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law. To…
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Chasing Worship
What a powerful moment it can be when the right melody and lyrics strike a chord in our hearts and we feel a powerful sense of God’s presence in our worship services. We might leave that gathering saying that God was really present or that we could really feel Him…
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Can I Balance The Scale?
“All a man’s ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the LORD.” – Proverbs 16:2 “I’ve done a lot of good things,” is the argument I usually hear when I talk to people about sin. We can’t seem to get over the fact that our good deeds…
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The 5-Sentence Gospel
There’s probably no better place to start writing about Jesus than to explain the basics of how we come to know Him as Savior and Lord. We often use the phrase “they got saved” to mean that someone has given their life to Jesus Christ. It’s a beautiful pictures of…
Between The Ditches 