St. John's Franklin Podcast

Kenny Benge preached a sermon entitled “The Anchor of Our Hope” based on Romans 8:26-39 on July 30, 2011. Material hardship, the ongoing ache of living in a fallen world, and pressure and hostility from the world are the common lot of those who determine to follow Christ and embrace the Gospel. The Gospel is our anchor of hope through the storms of life.

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Kenny Benge preached a sermon entitled “Both Anguish and Joy Are the Experience of the Christian In This Life” based on Romans 8:18-25 on July 23, 2011. When you stubbornly expect the world itself to be something different from what it is—whether lesser or greater—the result is rarely a happy one.  To follow Christ and participate in what He is doing in the world involves anguish as well as joy. 

 

 

 

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Kenny Benge preached a sermon entitled “The Highest Privilege” based on Romans 8:12-17 on July 16, 2011. Our adoption as sons and daughters of God is the highest privilege the Gospel offers. God made us to flourish—to receive life from outside of ourselves, creating vitality within us, and producing blessing beyond ourselves.  Our adoption by the Father as His sons and daughters in Christ through the Spirit is at the very heart of a Christian vision of human flourishing.

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Kenny Benge preached a sermon entitled “He Breaks the Power of Cancelled Sin” based on Romans 8:1-13 on July 9, 2011. The Gospel is a living power, for it is the action of God the Father in Jesus Christ His Son, through the Holy Spirit, to unite us with Himself, and by doing so He both cancels and pardons our sin and breaks its power in our lives.

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Kenny Benge preached a sermon entitled “The Easy Yoke, the Restful Burden” based on Matthew 11:28-30 on July 2, 2011. Jesus offers us a yoke that is fitting to our humanity—to our creatureliness—and bids us to enter into a Christian vision of human flourishing. 

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