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Resources From Each Harderwyk Preacher For the next four weeks, each of Harderwyk's three Teaching Pastors will be taking a break from our usual practice of sermons based on the same text to give each campus some time to focus on passages and issues unique to them.  Weekly resources on this page will take a different direction as a result. I. New For This Week What Was Martin Luther's Breakthrough? - On October 31 we will celebrate the 504th anniversary of the day Martin Luther made his 95 theses public. But what exactly was Luther’s breakthrough? What realization did he come to that set the Western world on a course that would break the stranglehold of Roman Catholic authorities, produce Bibles in languages people could read, raise literacy rates across Europe, and birth thousands of new Christian denominations?  CLICK HERE for the rest of the post from Jim Davis on TheGospelCoatition.org How Reinforcement of Our Social Identity Has Changed - Don't let the title put yo...

Resources For "Who Are We? - The Vision Series" From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Christian Aid Mission Workers Kidnapped For Ransom in Haiti - There is a lot to learn, ponder and pray for connected with this news event that is deeply related to today's sermons on the call to be "Following Christ."  Here are some links to get further information to that end: This organization and these missionaries are from the Anabaptist tradition; a Christian tradition that historically is pacifist.  For example, their statement of faith includes this:  24. We believe that Christians should live a nonresistant life style, without any acts of retaliation, demonstrating the love of Christ in our daily walk. (Matthew 5:39-46; John 18:36; Romans 12:19-21) - CLICK HERE for their complete Statement of Faith. CLICK HERE for their own updates on circumstances surrounding the kidnapping. It has been hard to find insightful reporting on these events in many news sourc...

Resources For "Who Are We? - The Vision Series" From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week Growing My Faith in the Face of Death -  I spent a lifetime counseling others before my diagnosis. Will I be able to take my own advice? writes Tim Keller.    CLICK HERE to view his story of how God is Forming his life even as he receives a deathly diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Celebration Sermon Outline - CLICK HERE for this Sunday's Sermon Outline. II. From The Commentaries On This Passage From Darrell Bock in his commentary on Ephesians (Tyndale New Testament Commentary) Writing on Ephesians 2:10: “The emphasis in the Greek word order at the start of the verse is literally, ‘His creation we are.’ ‘His creation’ is thrown forward to highlight that we are God’s work. In fact, believers are a creative product of the power of God. The term used, poiēma, often refers to God’s act in creating (Pss 64:9; 92:4; Rom. 1:20). There is often a note about something satisfying ab...

Resources For "Who Are We? - The Vision Series" From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week 3 Part Blog Series entitled “Reclaiming Identity” written by Pastor Aaron for LARK Part 1 - https://larksite.com/blog/reclaiming/identity/1 Part 2 - https://larksite.com/blog/reclaiming/identity/2 Part 3 - https://larksite.com/blog/reclaiming/identity/3 To Whom Do You Belong? - CLICK HERE for a book review of Alan Noble's You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World. Celebration Sermon Outline - CLICK HERE for this Sunday's Sermon Outline. II. From The Commentaries On This Passage Reflections from chapter 2 in Union with Christ by Rankin Wilbourne  “Paul actually invented new words to describe this new reality. The phrases “crucified with,” “raised with,” “buried with,” and “seated with” are each a single word in Greek beginning with the prefix syn, meaning “with.” Those words didn’t exist before Paul coined them. But something so unique had happened that ...

Resources For "Who Are We? - The Vision Series" From Each Harderwyk Preacher I. New For This Week From Tim Keller from Preaching in a Postmodern Climate:  “The gospel is not just for non-Christians, but also for Christians. This means the gospel is not just the A-B-C’s but the A to Z of the Christian life. It is not accurate to think ‘the gospel’ is what saves non-Christians, and then, what matures Christians is trying hard to live according to Biblical principles. It is more accurate, according to Scripture, to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our mind, heart, and life by believing the gospel more and more deeply as our life goes on.” Striving vs. Dying from the book:  Reclaim: Reclaiming the Church's Identity and Ministry as a Liberated People of Indiscriminate Grace - CLICK HERE for Amazon link. From Your Spiritual Journey  - CLICK HERE for link to their Resource Store. The Cross Chart - This concept and grap...