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These are the podcasts available from LifeSpring Community Church. Plainfield, IL
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3. Because Jesus is More Than the Modern Christian Package - Audio
In this sermon, Pastor Fran talks about how Jesus is more than the modern Christian package which he illustrates by distinguishing the difference between Christ, the Church and Christianity. He then encourages an honest and self reflective journey of the heart towards restoration and towards the life of freedom and wholeness.
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2. Because Wrestling with the Bible Didn't Shipwreck Me - Audio
These days more people are getting honest about the variety of things found in the Bible, and it's causing some people to abandon it. Today Pastor Fran unpacks some things we've been taught about the Bible, and how Jesus spoke about it in a way that allows us to accept the Bible as it is, love it even more, and let it point us to the finding of real life.
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1. Because Deep Still Calls to Deep - Audio
In this sermon, Pastor Fran talks about why he is still a Christian - even with the past events of questionable church credibility. When we come out into the deep with Jesus, our faith can remain unshaken - no matter the past or present hurt of churches who have lost the plot.
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8. Emerging from the Darkness - Audio
In this sermon, Pastor Fran touches on how we as humans tend to make identities for ourselves and wear our failures that shroud us in so much darkness. Because of Jesus, our identity is recreated and we don't have to wear our failures. We cling to hope that God is restoring all things in due time.
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7. Love is Stronger than Death - Audio
In today's message, Pastor Fran explores what it means that we have become one with Christ in his death, and consequently one with him and his resurrection. He also touches on the fascinating way the early Christians spoke about how God tricked death and the devil by getting them to swallow Christ and bring him inside their walls... and that they never saw coming what happened after that.
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6. Understanding the Sacrifice of Jesus Differently - Audio
Although we see Jesus sacrifice as the ultimate sacrifice, we've been taught to understand it in the same terms as the whole archaic concept of sacrifice. But in this sermon, Pastor Fran debunks that and shows that the Cross exposes all our scapegoating of other people and calls for an end to that, and to the new way of love.