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Guest Preacher Jeff Cornett (Refuge Dayton)
BIG IDEA: The Holy Spirit prepares the soil of the heart to receive the gospel message. Those who the Spirit does not prepare to receive the gospel are hardened to the gospel. Those who by the Spirit's power hear and accept the gospel will bear an abundance of good fruit.
BIG IDEA: God is forming a new family centered on Jesus Christ.
BIG IDEA: The rejected King brings his joy to his dejected people.
BIG IDEA: The gospel creates undeniable, identifiable church members who devote themselves to this newly created life.
BIG IDEA: Jesus warns against a hard hearted rejection of the Spirit’s testimony concerning him.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis; Commentaries on Mark by James Edwards, Mark Strauss, and RT France; The Unpardonable Sin: An Essay by Andy Naselli; What Is the Unforgivable Sin? by Jonathan Pennington; The Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit by William Combs; What Is the Unforgivable Sin? Hope For Those Feeling Too Far Gone by David Mathis; What Is Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit? by Rick Phillips
Pastor Garrison Greene
BIG IDEA: Jesus calls us to be his new covenant community.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; ESV Study Bible; Commentaries by Daniel Akin, James Edwards, & Mark Strauss; The Cross At a Distance by Peter Bolt; Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels by Richard Hays
Pastor Garrison Greene
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Commentaries by Danny Akin, Mark Strauss, and James Edwards; Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels by Richard Hays; The Cross from a Distance by Peter Bolt; King’s Cross by Tim Keller; Lord of the Sabbath by Kevin DeYoung
Pastor Garrison Greene
BIG IDEA: Jesus’s coming changes everything.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Commentaries by Daniel Akin, James Edwards, & Mark Strauss; The Cross At a Distance by Peter Bolt; Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels by Richard Hays
Pastor Garrison Greene
BIG IDEA: Jesus came to save sinners.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Mark Commentaries by RT France, James Edwards, and JC Ryle; Parents, Tell Your Kids They Are Sinners by Mike McGarry
Pastor Garrison Greene
BIG IDEA: Jesus’s authoritative word grants our need for forgiveness.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Mark Commentaries by Brooks, Strauss, and Ryle; The King’s Cross by Tim Keller; The King’s Pardon by Vaughn Roberts; The Strange Persistence of Guilt by Wilfred McClay