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  <title>Gospel Community</title>
  <description>Gospel Community is an integral part of what God is doing, beginning at Pentecost.  The same Holy Spirit that drew people to faith, led them to repentance and baptism also placed them in vibrant Gospel Community.  We dare not separate community from that central work of the Father's grace as if it were merely an option or something to be considered later.  </description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:46:16 GMT</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The Vision Series</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Grace and Truth</title>
  <description>John begins his gospel by making clear that the Jesus he is writing about is Fully God, Fully human and Full of Grace and Truth.  This is the Jesus that is at work transforming us, and reaching out through us to the community He has come to rescue.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:45:53 GMT</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The Vision Series</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Transformed</title>
  <description>&quot;Be Metamorphosized&quot; Paul says here.  This verse is the  hinge between the Gospel explained in chapters 1-11 and then applied in the chapters to follow.  How does the gospel work the metamorphosizing change in our real lives.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:02:47 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Vision and Gospel Perspective</title>
  <description>Biblical vision is about &quot;information from the outside&quot; about &quot;activity from the outside.&quot;  We need to beware thinking about vision from a perspective of &quot;moralistic, therapeutic deism&quot; that makes us think vision is about us or implemented by us.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The Vision Series</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>The Only Way?</title>
  <description>Research shows that the idea that Jesus is the only way to have a relationship with God is increasingly less affirmed, even by evangelical Christians.  How important is this conviction, and what does it mean.  Pastor Bill compares the Gospel of grace with performance based systems of religion - including &quot;Churchianity.&quot;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:07:06 GMT</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The Uniqueness of Jesus</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Mary: The Cost of Trusting</title>
  <description>Mary hears from God through His angel and trusts Him, even at great cost.  Does God still speak?  How can we more clearly hear His voice in our lives?  What does He want to say to us today?  The first 4 minutes of this audio were not recorded, so it begins abruptly with reflections on Psalm 126:5 as Pastor Bill tells the story of Horatio Spafford, author of the hymn &quot;It Is Well With My Soul.&quot;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:18:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Characters Around the Manger - Advent 2009</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Joseph: Our Story in His Story</title>
  <description>God's great story of salvation comes to a new chapter at the birth of Jesus.  Here the angels declare: &quot;Unto us is born a savior!&quot;  Jesus was born as a savior, not just a judge or sin or teacher of good behavior.  Joseph's small life is remembered because it intersects with this great story of God's love and salvation.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:54:27 GMT</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Characters Around the Manger - Advent 2009</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Eyes Fixed on Jesus: Lessons from the Pilgrims</title>
  <description>The Pilgrims were motivated by an abiding desire to reform their lives in light of God's Word.  Their journey to Plymouth and survival of their first New England winter against all odds set the backdrop for their own time of Thanksgiving - a celebration that we carry on even today.  They are an inspiring example of life lived with eyes fixed on Jesus.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:39:10 GMT</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>The Pilgrims were motivated by an abiding desire to reform their lives in light of God's Word.  Their journey to Plymouth and survival of their first New England winter against all odds set the backdrop for their own time of Thanksgiving - a ...</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Hope in the Midst of Suffering</title>
  <description>Job finds realistic hope in the midst of his suffering by pursuing God's presence and in his startling glimpse of the resurrection: &quot;You will long for the creature Your hands have made.&quot;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:52:24 GMT</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Job: Navigating the Storm of Suffering</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>The Hurt In Our Midst: Domestic Violence</title>
  <description>Domestic violence is a pervasive problem in our society and churches.  One out of four women will experience abuse from an intimate partner in the course of their life time.  The heart-changing power of the Gospel can break this cycle.  Women finding strength to step out of the cycle.  Men finding freedom from the expression of anger.  See how Paul was set free from legalistic heart that led him to persecute the church as a model for real freedom ni life.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:58:41 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Domestic violence is a pervasive problem in our society and churches.  One out of four women will experience abuse from an intimate partner in the course of their life time.  The heart-changing power of the Gospel can break this cycle.  Women finding ...</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>How To Hurt Your Friends</title>
  <description>In the midst of his suffering, Job has 4 friends who travel to be with him.  For seven days they sit together in silent sympathy.  Job speaks from his pain, and his friends begin to speak.  That is when they become &quot;miserable comforters.&quot;  Learn how not to further hurt people in pain.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:13:14 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Job: Navigating the Storm of Suffering</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>The War On Love</title>
  <description>&quot;Remove the benefits of his love for God, and Job will turn from God,&quot; says Job's cynical accuser.  Suffering follows and puts this accusation to the test.  While we cannot settle for simplistic answers to the question of why bad things happen to good people, we can find courage knowing that &quot;Love Wins.&quot;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:32:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Job: Navigating the Storm of Suffering</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>The Big Question</title>
  <description>In the epic story of Job, we face the oldest question of humanity: Why do even the righteous suffer in this world?</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:02:59 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Job: Navigating the Storm of Suffering</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Grace: Why We No Longer Fear A Fearsome God</title>
  <description>What does the younger brother expect o find when he returns home to his Father?  An angry Dad, and rightly so.  But something has changed.  The expected anger has been transformed into love and acceptance.  The anger of God, while qualitatively different than human anger is both real and important, for it undergirds the reality of justice.  At the cross though, Jesus met the demands of holy justice, paid the price for human sin, and the deserved anger of God is transformed into love and acceptance.  God is fearsome, but not feared, for the perfect love of the cross casts out all fear and punishment.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:04:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>What does the younger brother expect o find when he returns home to his Father?  An angry Dad, and rightly so.  But something has changed.  The expected anger has been transformed into love and acceptance.  The anger of God, while qualitatively ...</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>We Have Met The Elder Brother, And He Is Us!</title>
  <description>Each son in the Parable of the Two Sons in Luke 15,shows us a different way to be alienated God: self-indulgence or self-righteousness.  Understanding the self-righteousness of the Elder Brother helps us recognize the prevelance of those same attitudes in the church.  Research compiled in the book &quot;unChristian: What a New Generation Thinks About the Church and Why It Matters&quot; further clarify the problem.  The Father's love pursues Elder Brothers - even those in the church - and invites them into the Feast of Gospel Love.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:18:49 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Each son in the Parable of the Two Sons in Luke 15,shows us a different way to be alienated God: self-indulgence or self-righteousness.  Understanding the self-righteousness of the Elder Brother helps us recognize the prevelance of those same ...</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Grace and Obedience</title>
  <description>Everyone is serving something, but the Gospel is the invitation to trust and obey One who is loving and trustworthy.  Obedience flows from whatever our heart has placed it's trust in.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:06:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Everyone is serving something, but the Gospel is the invitation to trust and obey One who is loving and trustworthy.  Obedience flows from whatever our heart has placed it's trust in.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>The Tale of Three Sons</title>
  <description>&quot;There was a man with two sons.  .  .&quot; begins Jesus as he tells this well-known and loved parable to a crowd of sinners and Pharisees.  He then shows two sons who in their own way each only want their father for what he can give them.  Jesus, Himself a Son, is our model of hope.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:13:39 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>&quot;There was a man with two sons.  .  .&quot; begins Jesus as he tells this well-known and loved parable to a crowd of sinners and Pharisees.  He then shows two sons who in their own way each only want their father for what he can give them.  ...</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>God's Promises: Pregnant with Reality</title>
  <description>God makes wonderful and certain promises to His people, but these promises are pregnant with time, hardship and contradiction.  They are meant to build Gospel-based trust into our hearts rather than serve as &quot;holy credit cards&quot; that get us what we want when we want it.  God's promises don't keep us from hard times, they get us through hard times.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:52:42 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>God makes wonderful and certain promises to His people, but these promises are pregnant with time, hardship and contradiction.  They are meant to build Gospel-based trust into our hearts rather than serve as &quot;holy credit cards&quot; that get us ...</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Not The God We Would Choose</title>
  <description>We make idols of the heart whenever we think that our performance means God will do for us whatever we want.  While we no longer make wooden statues, we will tithe to get God's prosperity or attend church in hopes that God will give us family stability.  Instead, the Living God challenges our sin like no idol would, but also reaches out to us with grace like no god of our own making could.  Sermon included Rob Bell's Nooma video: Lump.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:27:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>We make idols of the heart whenever we think that our performance means God will do for us whatever we want.  While we no longer make wooden statues, we will tithe to get God's prosperity or attend church in hopes that God will give us family ...</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>The Exchanged Life</title>
  <description>Many believers have an understanding and experience of God's forgiveness, but only a vague idea about the blessing of being &quot;the righteousness of God in Christ&quot;  that comes through grace.  We can be set free from the &quot;Performance See-Saw&quot; when we understand that maturity comes by grace, just as our forgiveness does</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:26:09 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Many believers have an understanding and experience of God's forgiveness, but only a vague idea about the blessing of being &quot;the righteousness of God in Christ&quot;  that comes through grace.  We can be set free from the &quot;Performance ...</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Little Orphan Christianity</title>
  <description>The Father has given us the Spirit of Adoption. Often we listen to the orphan voice in our hearts rather than the Spirit who cries out, &quot;Daddy!.&quot;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:28:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>The Father has given us the Spirit of Adoption. Often we listen to the orphan voice in our hearts rather than the Spirit who cries out, &quot;Daddy!.&quot;</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>Our Father's Right Hand</title>
  <description>There is something broken deep in our hearts.  Pastor Bill uses an illustration of the hands: God's reaching hand, our withdrawn fist, our trembling hand, the Father's gripping hand of security - to show the reason for our fears - and the answer of the Gospel for them.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:46:50 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>There is something broken deep in our hearts.  Pastor Bill uses an illustration of the hands: God's reaching hand, our withdrawn fist, our trembling hand, the Father's gripping hand of security - to show the reason for our fears - and the answer of ...</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>fear,gospel,isaiah</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>26:13</itunes:duration>
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  <title>ServantHeart: Personal Style</title>
  <description>Get a Sample of Christ Covenant's ServantHeart Ministry.  This message looks at Psalm 139 as the foundation of the idea of Personal Style or personality.  The Father has uniquely made you and you will serve in His Kingdom best if you serve consistent with that.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/servantheart-personal-style</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:27:50 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Get a Sample of Christ Covenant's ServantHeart Ministry.  This message looks at Psalm 139 as the foundation of the idea of Personal Style or personality.  The Father has uniquely made you and you will serve in His Kingdom best if you serve consistent ...</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>personal_style,servantheart,unique</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>22:59</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Because He Laid Down His Life</title>
  <description>Do we obey God out of a desire to earn his love or out of confidence that he already loves us?</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/because-he-laid-down-his-life</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:59:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Do we obey God out of a desire to earn his love or out of confidence that he already loves us?</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>25:25</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Is Pleasure Enough</title>
  <description>You know that new car smell?  It won't last.  That new TV, is gonna get smuged.  That new computer?  Its outdated already.  And the new furniture is going to get messed up.  Whatever it is your seeking to satisfy yourself with, whatever it is you take joy in, it won't last... unless its Jesus!</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/is-pleasure-enough</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 02:02:22 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Scott Allan</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>You know that new car smell?  It won't last.  That new TV, is gonna get smuged.  That new computer?  Its outdated already.  And the new furniture is going to get messed up.  Whatever it is your seeking to satisfy yourself with, whatever it is you ...</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>rejoice,joy,suffering,satsifaction,trouble</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>29:00</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Hearing the Voice of God</title>
  <description>Have you ever heard the voice of God?  In this sermon David Everts explains several qualities that will help us to be able to hear the voice of God clearly when he speaks to us.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/hearing-the-voice-of-god</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 12:54:09 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>David Everts</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Have you ever heard the voice of God?  In this sermon David Everts explains several qualities that will help us to be able to hear the voice of God clearly when he speaks to us.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>repentance,obedience,voice_of_god,voice,god,fellowship,community,saul,paul</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>24:53</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Fighting from Victory</title>
  <description>We are at war!  No, not with Iraq, not with human terrorists.  We are at war with spiritual forces, angelic terrorists.  If we would fight the good fight we must be properly equiped.  In this sermon we learn about the weapons of our warfare for this fight.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/fighting-from-victory</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:32:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>David Everts</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>We are at war!  No, not with Iraq, not with human terrorists.  We are at war with spiritual forces, angelic terrorists.  If we would fight the good fight we must be properly equiped.  In this sermon we learn about the weapons of our warfare for this ...</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>devil,demons,angels,armor,shield,sword,breastplate,battle,prayer,word_of_god,word,gospel</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>36:35</itunes:duration>
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  <title>The Road to the Cross</title>
  <description>What does Palm Sunday mean?  It was just another day in 33AD when Jesus road into town on a donkey and created a stir.  But today we remember it as the day the King of creation came to town to die for the sins of the world.  Learn how this humble king can deliver you from death today.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/the-road-to-the-cross</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:36:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Ken Priddy</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>What does Palm Sunday mean?  It was just another day in 33AD when Jesus road into town on a donkey and created a stir.  But today we remember it as the day the King of creation came to town to die for the sins of the world.  Learn how this humble ...</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>palm_sunday,donkey,triumphal_entry,cross,tb,hosanna</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>35:28</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Spiritual Maturity: What is the Target?</title>
  <description>How do you define spiritual maturity?  Is it by external conformation or by internal transformation?  In this sermon Bill Linder explains how a deepening recognition of our sin, God's holiness, and the efficacy of the cross are the measures of spiritual maturity.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/spiritual-maturity-what-is-the-target</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:29:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>How do you define spiritual maturity?  Is it by external conformation or by internal transformation?  In this sermon Bill Linder explains how a deepening recognition of our sin, God's holiness, and the efficacy of the cross are the measures of ...</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>maturity,holiness,sin,cross,conformity,externals,law,gospel,rules</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>34:45</itunes:duration>
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  <title>A Prologue to the Decalogue</title>
  <description>What are the Ten Commandments?  How do they relate, if at all, to the New Testament Christian's life?  Are they just commands to follow so God will be happy with us?  Are they just rules given to spoil our fun?  No!  As we find in this sermon, they are &quot;a father's loving hand to keep us from banging our head on the table.&quot;  Curious?  Listen on!</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/a-prologue-to-the-decalogue</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:56:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Ken Priddy</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>The Ten Commandments</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>10_commandments,ten_commandments,commandments,father,daughter,table</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>47:00</itunes:duration>
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  <title>The Prayer of Jabez</title>
  <description>Can a simple prayer change your life?  Learn how the four parts of the prayer of Jabez can stimulate your prayer life and benefit your life.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/the-prayer-of-jabez</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>David Everts</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Can a simple prayer change your life?  Learn how the four parts of the prayer of Jabez can stimulate your prayer life and benefit your life.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>jabez,prayer</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>30:03</itunes:duration>
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  <title>You've Lost That Loving Feeling</title>
  <description>Is a love that is assumed true love?  Love that that is not actively expressed is in grave danger of dying.  This was the situation in Ephesus and it is often the case in our own lives.  this sermon looks at how we loose that lovin' feeling, how we can get it back, and why it is so important.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/youve-lost-that-loving-feeling</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:36:38 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>David Fischer</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Rev 1-3</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>love,ephesus,revelation,church,piper,desiring_god</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>43:03</itunes:duration>
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  <title>The Promised Land</title>
  <description>After a life of faithful service, Moses was refused entry into the Promised Land because of one sin.  Does that seem fair?  A look at this unsettling story offers an alternative view of God's dealings with us.  Even in his discipline God is abundantly loving, caring for us in unexpectedly intimate ways.  We learn here to seek our highest treasure in God, not in some self-conceived Utopia.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/the-promised-land</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:06:40 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Pete Bowell</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>After a life of faithful service, Moses was refused entry into the Promised Land because of one sin.  Does that seem fair?  A look at this unsettling story offers an alternative view of God's dealings with us.  Even in his discipline God is ...</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>promised_land,utopia,moses,expectency,discipline</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>36:56</itunes:duration>
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  <title>The Cost of Caring</title>
  <description>From the parable of the good samaritan we learn what it means to be a neighbor, and the high cost of caring for ours.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/the-cost-of-caring</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:30:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Ken Priddy</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>From the parable of the good samaritan we learn what it means to be a neighbor, and the high cost of caring for ours.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>good_samaritan,servant,great_commandment,neighbor,cost</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>41:36</itunes:duration>
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  <title>The Miracle of Presence</title>
  <description>What if God gave you a sign in the heavens to prove he was there?  Would it be enough?  Wouldn't we explain it away, at least in time, as we have so many other things?  What we need isn't a sign in the heavens, what we need is faith in the Gospel message.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/the-miracle-of-presence</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:59:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Pete Bowell</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>What if God gave you a sign in the heavens to prove he was there?  Would it be enough?  Wouldn't we explain it away, at least in time, as we have so many other things?  What we need isn't a sign in the heavens, what we need is faith in the Gospel message.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>angels,shephereds,advent,stars,signs,wonders,proof,faith</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>20:15</itunes:duration>
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  <title>The Promise of Faith</title>
  <description>Celebrating the arrival of Christ to save us by grace alone through faith faith alone.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/the-promise-of-faith</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:36:39 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Ken Priddy</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Celebrating the arrival of Christ to save us by grace alone through faith faith alone.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>sola_fide,faith,salvation,alone,thanksgiving,advent,hope</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>39:56</itunes:duration>
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  <title>The Desirability of Christ</title>
  <description>Our Prayers reveal our desires, and our desires reveal our hearts.  Christ should be our greatest desire, because Christ is most desirable.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/the-desirability-of-christ</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:53:14 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>David Everts</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Our Prayers reveal our desires, and our desires reveal our hearts.  Christ should be our greatest desire, because Christ is most desirable.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>desire,christ,god,prayer</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>33:59</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Search and Rescue: The Mission Of Jesus</title>
  <description>Our mission as a church must be the same as that of Jesus Christ - to seek and save the lost.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/search-and-rescue-the-mission-of-jesus</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:12:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Ken Priddy</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Our mission as a church must be the same as that of Jesus Christ - to seek and save the lost.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>zacchaeus,lost,found,seek,save,evangelism,outreach,love,mercy,grace</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>35:52</itunes:duration>
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  <title>How Firm A Foundation</title>
  <description>Grace to you and peace... In the face to difficulty and uncertainty we all desire and need grace and peace.  But what are they, where do they come from, how do we get them, and what are they for?  Rev 1:4-8 shows us.  May they be yours today.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/how-firm-a-foundation</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:42:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>David Fischer</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Rev 1-3</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>preist,missions,evangelism,christ,trinity,peace,grace</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>41:38</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Getting In SHAPE</title>
  <description>Employing our gifts for the kingdom of God.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/getting-in-shape</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:42:29 GMT</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Employing our gifts for the kingdom of God.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>60:48</itunes:duration>
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  <title>Testing And Grace</title>
  <description>Story of Abraham and Isaac</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/testing-and-grace</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:15:51 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>Bill Lindner</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Story of Abraham and Isaac</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:keywords>testing,grace,sacrifice,abraham,isaac</itunes:keywords>
  <itunes:duration>35:05</itunes:duration>
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  <title>A Prescription For Perseverance</title>
  <description>Remaining faithful in uncertain and difficult times.</description>
  <link>http://www.sermoncloud.com/christ-covenant/a-prescription-for-perseverance</link>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:59:59 GMT</pubDate>
  <itunes:author>David Fischer</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>Rev 1-3</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>32:43</itunes:duration>
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