Retaliation

https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Retaliation.mp3 Text: Romans 12:17-21   I.         When someone strikes you, what is the first impulse?             A.        Why, to strike back             B.        It has been with us since childhood. “I’ll get even!”                         1.         Therein is the core. We want to strike back because we feel justice has not be carried out             C.        But I’ve noticed that it is never an equal…

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Is the “Cancel Culture” something Christians should be involved in?

Question: Jeff, I’ve heard some refer to “Cancel Culture” and I have read things online but I am in need of what the meaning is from a Christian’s view and what the Bible says about it. Can you help me out with this? Answer: “Cancel Culture”  refers to withdrawing support for a person or company…

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Abigail’s Shadow

https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019Fall5Abigails-Shadow.mp3 by Andy Cantrell Finding Our Purpose from the Past

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Actions and Reactions

https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ActionsAndReactions.mp3 by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Luke 6:20-36   I.         How should you act? How should you react?             A.        We live in a “me first” age. People demand their rights. They seek to get even when wronged.             B.        But let me tell you about a radical view of life II.        Actions – Luke 6:27-28             A.        Love your enemies                         1.         The root…

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Should someone who fails to give a greeting be ignored?

Question: My brother complained to me about a girl who knows him very well. She came to his workplace but did not greet him. He was not happy because it showed disrespect in his opinion. (The lady is younger than him.) He also said that if he is in a position to offer assistance to…

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I thought God was vengeful and intolerant

Question: Hello, I am 46 and have prayed to God most of my life. Things have happened to me that can be explained as God answering my prayers, or things working out on their own. My Mom informed me of God and Jesus as I grew up, but whenever I messed up in her eyes…

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I want to do something bad to the people who cost me my job

Question: Good day, I have lost my job, and I can’t stop thinking about doing something bad to the people who cost me my job. This thing is always on my mind, but I want to move forward, forget about it, and have faith in God that everything happens for reason. This situation is making…

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Dealing with Hostility

https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/DealingWithHostility.mp3 by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Acts 16:16-40   I.         You know you ought to say something, but you also know it isn’t going to go over well.             A.        They just won’t understand, so they will turn on you – I Peter 4:4             B.        They are going to hate you for standing for righteousness – Psalms 69:4             C.        Instead…

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If you are to love your enemies, why did David kill Goliath?

Question: I was listening to a sermon about how to be a man after God’s heart. He was speaking about love, and he said David loved Saul even when Saul tried to kill him and searched for him for years. Even if Saul became David’s enemy, David would never do the same against Saul. He loved Saul and he’d never become his enemy. Then…

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Vengeance

by Keith Sharp via Truth Magazine XXIII: 34, pp. 554-556, August 31, 1979 “Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other…

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Notes on Vengeance

Matthew 5:38-39 Luke 6:27-29 Romans 12:17-21 Hebrews 10:30 I Peter 3:9 see Anger see Patience

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