Our Savior's @ Mccall Podcast Featuring Dr. Robin Dugall

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Honest Repentance: Purification. Our topic this week in our Honest Repentance series isn’t one that is talked about much – purification. A few weeks ago we explored the theme of water throughout the Bible. This week, we thought about fire and how it’s used by God – and specifically how He uses it to purify us. We looked at "fire" from two different perspectives both which help us along the path of the cross. Don't miss this interesting and challenging message.  

Honest Repentance: Repentance. This is a core Sunday in this series because we talked very directly about “Repentance” – Honest Repentance! To get there, we took a look at the account of the prophet Jonah when God commanded him to go to the city of Ninevah, a city of great wickedness, darkness, and evil, and call them to repentance. Jonah wasn’t thrilled about it but, without giving too many spoilers, it is amazing and even miraculous what God can do in the hearts of any and all people!

Honest Repentance: Faith. Pastor Glen's message this week is about Abraham and the unthinkable command that God gave to him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. As Abraham, by faith, trusted God and obeyed what He commanded him, God stopped Abraham from actually killing his son, this act of faith became the foundation from which faith is talked about throughout the rest of Scripture. How does that continue to speak into our lives yet today? As we continue our Lenten series, Honest Repentance, we're looking at how faith is such an integral component to living lives of honest repentance. 

Honest Repentance: Chaos. Throughout the season of Lent, we are thinking about Honest Repentance. On this Sunday, we considered the chaos that life so often brings – chaos all around us as well as chaos within us. As part of our consideration, we looked at all the metaphors connected to water that we find throughout the Bible. God uses this to convey some powerful, helpful, and even healing truths. 

Epiphanization at its Best! As we wrapped up the Epiphany season with Transfiguration Sunday, we’re reminded in no uncertain terms that it’s always about Jesus. The Transfiguration event in Matthew 17 was all about Jesus – pointing to Him, the presence of Moses and Elijah giving clarity about Jesus and who He truly is, the glowing/shining and then the words of affirmation from the Father/the voice from the cloud, it’s all about Jesus! 2 Peter 1 appropriately exalts Jesus even further, as Peter speaks of what he personally saw and experienced on that mountaintop. We went to the mountaintop this Sunday to “see” what Peter saw, along with James and John, and add our worship and praise to the shining light of Jesus.

Epiphanized to Live. The Scriptures we explored this Sunday are beautiful and powerful expressions of LIFE and what the Lord very clearly puts in front of us. He gives us choices and His ultimate desire is that we listen to Him, obey Him, and follow Him. As we continue our Epiphany series, Epiphanized!, these choices are significant when it comes to what we shine and how we shine as children of God.

Epiphanized with Foolishness. We continue our Epiphany series, Epiphanized!, thinking about how we as God’s people are being looked upon as being more foolish every day. This is good because it’s a testimony that we represent the Light of Christ. We hold dear the message of the cross, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is life-giving and life-sustaining.  Pastor Greg Hafeman is our guest preacher for the day!  

Darkness, Light, and the Kingdom. We continue our Epiphany series, Epiphanized!, continuing to talk about darkness and light. Today, we looked at these realities in the context of living in the Kingdom of God. Jesus had some things to say about Kingdom-living and they relate pretty directly to what we hear throughout God’s Word and some of the challenges we’re up against as Epiphanized children of God.