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  • Empowered to Live your Pupose on Purpose with Travis Hamm | 10.11.26

    Empowered to Live your Pupose on Purpose with Travis Hamm | 10.11.26
    Oct 14 2026

    Sunday October, 2026

    2 Corinthians 5:14-21

    Travis Hamm

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    39 min
  • Romans 8 Part 10 with Athol Barnes| 10.04.26

    Romans 8 Part 10 with Athol Barnes| 10.04.26
    Oct 7 2026
    God's Everlasting LoveDo you feel loved today? Loved by God? I have one impossible goal in this email: to show you how much God loves you. His is not a fickle love that fades if we don't do our part, but a deep, enveloping love that never wavers. But first, a question. Do you love God? We are commanded to. Jesus called it the greatest commandment (see Luke 10:27), drawn from the Shema in Deuteronomy 6. Yet it is a bit of a trick question, because we can only love God by the power of the Holy Spirit. Ultimately, we love Him because He first loved us (see 1 John 4:19). As we conclude our series on Romans 8, Paul brings us to the most comforting passage in the Bible. He asks five questions that have no answer. If God Is For Us "If God is for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31). If Paul had simply asked, “who can be against us”, we would have a long list: tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, danger, sword (v. 35). We face opposition from Satan, the world, our own weak flesh, and sometimes even other believers. It can be overwhelming. But notice the little word "if." This is a conditional promise. If you are a child of God, led by the Spirit, adopted, predestined and justified, then nothing in all creation, including the powers of hell, will prevail against you. We may suffer setbacks, sickness, and loss, but they are temporary. God works all things for our good and His glory. The Gift of the Son Verse 32 asks, "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?" Many of you live paycheck to paycheck. Many raise support for ministry, trusting the Lord with the future. When the bills are due and the pressure is on, doubt creeps in (see Philippians 4:19). Paul removes the doubt by pointing to the cross. God didn't write a check from His eternal bank account to pay for our salvation; He gave everything. Having given His Son, how will He not also give us what we need? The cross is the guarantee of His continuing generosity. Accused but Not Condemned The next two questions sound alike but are different. "Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies" (v. 33). "Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died... who indeed is interceding for us" (v. 34). The name Satan means "accuser." An accusation claims that someone did wrong; condemnation is the final verdict and sentence. Imagine standing in court, charged with the sins of your past. The prosecutor makes his case, and every time, our Advocate stands and says, "I paid for that already, and I have the receipts." The accusers are many: our past, our own minds, enemies who delight in pointing out our flaws. But none of it stands in light of our position in Christ (see Isaiah 50:8-9). And condemnation? Satan whispers, "You haven't done enough, given enough, or loved your family well enough." But he has no authority to judge. Only Jesus judges our lives, and his Word says, "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1). Who is there to condemn? There is no answer. Who Shall Separate Us? The final question is the best of all. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" (v. 35). Paul lists seven threats, then quotes the psalmist: "For your sake we are being killed all the day long" (v. 36). “For your sake.” Believers knew their suffering came from following Jesus. Don't let anyone tell you the Christian life is one of ease; that is a lie from hell. Jesus promised trouble (see John 16:33). Today, more Christians are being killed for their faith than at any time in history. In Nigeria alone, no fewer than 3,083 Christians were killed between January and August this year. Then comes verse 37: "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us." More than conquerors! We don't merely endure; we conquer. How? Through Him who loved us. Paul closes with a crescendo: "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord" (vv. 38-39). The Sun Behind the Clouds "I am sure," says Paul. Are you? Our confidence is not in our love for Him or our good works, but in what He has done and promised. Think of the sun. It rises every day, shining on the just and the unjust, whether we notice or not. Then the clouds roll in, and in a strong storm, it may feel like the sun is gone. But it is still there, still burning, still holding the solar system together. The clouds don't stop the sun; they only block your view. God's love is like that. In storms of discouragement, guilt, grief, sickness, or loss, it can feel as though His love is distant or conditional. But feelings don't change facts. Not even your own doubt can separate you from His love. It doesn't flicker like a candle; it ...
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  • Romans 8 Part 9 with Athol Barnes| 09.27.26

    Romans 8 Part 9 with Athol Barnes| 09.27.26
    Sep 30 2026
    What if I told you that you do not know how to pray?Not that you should pray more, but that, on your own, you cannot pray.Romans 8 has been teaching us this all along, that the Christian life is lived by the power of the Holy Spirit, not our own effort. Verse 26 begins with "likewise," tying everything we've seen together. And nowhere is our dependence on the Spirit clearer than in the area of prayer.Two IntercessorsIn verse 15 we read that we've "…received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, 'Abba! Father!'" We come to the Father by the Spirit, through the finished work of the Son. John Murray puts it well: “believers have two divine intercessors — Christ pleads for us in the courts of heaven, while the Spirit intercedes in the theatre of our own hearts.”Verse 26 says the Spirit "intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words,” better translated wordless longings. This connects back to verses 22–23, where creation groans and believers groan, desperate for Jesus to return.John Stott asks why we don't know what to pray for. Maybe because we're never quite sure whether to ask for deliverance from suffering or strength to endure it. Even Jesus groaned at the suffering sin caused in this world (see Mark 7:34), his was not a sigh of weariness, but a deep groan of pain. Today the Spirit groans with us. He feels our weakness. And he does more than groan, he intercedes, so that we're led into the will of God even when we don't know how to pray. He shares the burden.A Promise, Not a Band-AidThen we come to verse 28 — one of the best-known verses in the Bible, and one of the most taken out of its context: "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose."How many times have you heard this verse quoted to someone in the middle of tragedy, an accident, an illness, or financial ruin? Never pat someone on the back mid-crisis and quote this verse to them. It will hurt and not heal.This verse isn't a band-aid to make us feel better in the moment. It's a promise to hold onto in the darkest night. Paul begins with "we know" — not that we always understand what God is doing, and not that we welcome it when it's painful. Cancer isn't good, loss isn’t good, but God, in His sovereignty, takes the calamities of life and works them together for our good and His glory.And what is our ultimate good? Our eternal salvation. As Paul already told us in verse 18, "the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us." The very things that made Jesus groan, and that make us groan, refine us, and drive us deeper into dependence on the Spirit.Five AffirmationsVerses 29–30 trace God's purpose through five steps: those He foreknew, He predestined; those predestined, He called; those called, He justified; those justified, He glorified. These are big words, and they've caused a lot of division in the Body of Christ. "Foreknowledge" doesn't just mean God knowing facts about you ahead of time. It is the same language used of God choosing Israel before He created them. If you follow Jesus, God has loved you from before time began.Predestination is where the followers of Calvinism and Arminianism disagree, two labels that have been at war for 500 years, going back to two men who barely overlapped in life. Here's my frustration with all of it: the Gospel is 2,000 years old, and its’s the message of salvation. These doctrines are 500 years old, and they've never saved anyone. Let's not let a secondary doctrine; one that has split churches and done real damage, define our faith.Scripture is clear that believers are chosen in love(see Ephesians 1:4). Does that mean some are predestined for hell? No. Predestination applies only to the elect. No one is condemned because God predestined it; people are condemned because they reject Christ (see John 3:18). Peter calls his readers "elect exiles" in 1 Peter 1:1, not because they earned it, but because God chose them.God is sovereign. He didn't ask our permission to create this world, and He has every right to plan its future. Knowing man would choose sin, He planned a path to salvation through faith in Christ. I refuse to wear a doctrinal label that divides the body of Christ. Scripture also promises that God will save all who come to Him (see John 6:37). One day in heaven, I believe we'll find we were all partly right, and none of us had the whole picture.As Dr. J. Vernon McGee wrote, "All of these great concepts are on God's side of the fence, and none of us can come up with a final explanation." This doctrine should produce humility in us, not arrogance.Justified, Not Yet GlorifiedThe chain ends with the best news of all: those called, He justified. That is to be made right with God, not by our effort, but by the blood of Jesus. And those He justified, He will glorify.Right now, we live in the in-between; justified, but not yet ...
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