Church Matters: What The Church Doesn’t Talk About

Occasionally a pastor will address an uncomfortable issue in one of three ways:

1) A passing reference so as to remove any possible offense to sensitive ears.

2) An overbearing, haranguing, suffocating set of rules and restrictions.

3) Complete misinformation with little to no relevance.

Since many pastors (including myself) are easily driven by guilt, fear, shame, self-loathing, uncertainty, and insecurity, this is magnified when we reach a sticky topic that might still be a personal struggle. This results in a wide silence over the topic or an unhealthy fixation.

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Finishing Your Faith: Sermon Series on 2 Peter



The five part sermon series on 2 Peter is completely posted on the podcast!

Finishing Your Faith: Peter’s final exhortation to finish well.
An expository series that goes verse by verse through the book of 2 Peter.


2 Peter 1:1-15 – Pursuing The Joyful Struggle

2 Peter 1:1-15. God loves us before we took a single breath. Part 1. “The pre-qualification of God’s Love, always having game with God, stuck in Flex-To-Impress Mode, and the One Constant in the universe.” Dec. 2, 2011


2 Peter 1:16-21, 2:1-3 – Second Nature Jesus

2 Peter 1:16-21, 2:1-3. When Jesus is a reflex. Part 2. “The absolute hardest part about following Jesus, the Five Fails of Peter and his Two Names, and when Jesus is one more thing on your busy schedule.” Dec. 9th, 2011


2 Peter 2:1-12 – The Lies We Love, Part One

2 Peter 2:1-12. How idols cheat on us. Part 3. “The college professor venting his ideology, reading Noah and Lot like cute symbolic metaphors, and how God’s love rips you out of yourself.” 1-20-12


2 Peter 2:12-22 – The Lies We Love, Part Two

2 Peter 2:12-22. Exposing the ridiculous. Part 4. “A movie (supposedly) based on a true story, breaking up with someone over text, the Problem of Pain versus Pleasure, the religion of celebrities, and a culture of collision.” 1-27-12


2 Peter 3 – The Final Word: The Most Important Truth

2 Peter 3. The Bible’s conclusion. Part 5. “The token prophet who declares doom in the ghost-disaster-conspiracy movie, the problem with Jesus’ miracles, breaking in the Kingdom of God today, and Jesus the cannibal.” 2-3-12






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