Larry Kirkpatrick

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Play it Safe?

2020-12-05

Thinking about Risk

Turn to Luke 21, because we’ll be going there in just a few minutes. But for the moment, follow this line of reasoning with me.

  1. Question: What is risk? Answer: The potential of something adverse happening

  2. Question: Can risk be eliminated? Answer: Risk cannot be completely eliminated; there is always some risk.

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RBR (Repent, be Baptized, Receive Holy Spirit)

2020-11-28

Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said to them, Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call (Acts 2:36-39).

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T in the Road

2020-11-14

Our passage is Acts 8:26-40. We are all familiar with the story of the meeting of the Ethiopian eunuch and Philip the evangelist.

So here is this important person, head over all the treasury of the queen of Ethiopia. He is returning to Ethiopia after worshiping God in Jerusalem. He is passing through a desert region. There is nothing but sand and sagebrush for miles. But he comes to a "T" in the road--a place where the the road he is on meets another road perpendicular to it. He has two choices. He has to decide.

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This Moment in Time

2020-11-07

This year (2020) has been jolting. The very ground has shifted under our feet. It is as though in each week decades of historical development are taking place. We are to be in this world but not of it. Unless we are awake, we will very soon find ourselves bowing down to the current idols side by side with other pagans. God’s law says “You shall have no other elohim [gods] before Me” (Exodus 20:3). Yet we are living in a time when, we have been told,

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God's Forgotten Gift to Every Person (for Covid)

2020-10-30

God sends rain on the evil and on the just (Matthew 5:45). He blesses all with air to breath and opportunity to live. His Holy Spirit works for the persuasion of all humans, and Jesus died for all people. Heaven's goal is to help us, redeem us, save us, give life. Humans may forget God, but God does not forget humans. His love is sent out in search of us.

Someone once said, "I love you, let me count the ways." Enumerating the ways someone loves someone might sound fanciful. But sometimes such lists can help us. We forget. We need to hear things from the list.

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The Political Trap

2020-10-03

What does America Need?

What does America need? But wait. The first question is, what does the church need? Why do we ask what America needs first? Too often, when we divide religion from the state, the state seems to become preeminently important and religion is left impotent, lurking in the shadows of unimportance.

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Sinbearer 5 (Isaiah 53:10-12)

2020-09-26

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When you make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

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