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  1. 2d ago

    Romans - Week 24: Romans 14:1-15:13

    This week Pastor Mel preached Romans 14:1-15:13, where Paul addresses a very specific dispute in the Roman church. Jewish believers returning to Rome after their expulsion found that the Gentile believers had dropped many of their customs, and the church divided over food and holy days. Paul's answer is unity: "Accept other believers who are weak in the faith and don't argue with them about what they think is right or wrong." Mel explains that weak here means immature, not inferior, and that the mature are the ones called to give grace. Paul then sets a higher standard for Christian freedom. The question is not only whether something is allowed, but whether it will cause another believer to stumble. A mature believer lays down what they have the right to do for the good of others, because "Right relationship is greater than being right." Paul closes by calling the church to accept each other just as Christ accepted us, and Mel connects it to Jesus' prayer in John 17 that His people would be one, so the world would know God's love.

    Romans - Week 24: Romans 14:1-15:13

  2. Sep 27

    Romans - Week 23: Romans 13:8-14

    This week Pastor Mel preached Romans 13:8-14, where Paul turns from governing authority to the people inside the church. His call to a divided church is love — not a starry-eyed feeling but a sacrificial practice. It's the only debt worth carrying. Paul sums up the commandments against adultery, murder, stealing, and coveting in one line from Leviticus 19:18, "Love your neighbor as yourself," and Mel shows why love is the antidote: it is hard to sin against someone you truly love. He is clear that this is "not this call to like each other. It's a call to love each other," even when we disagree fiercely. Then Paul adds urgency — time is running out. We must throw off dark deeds like dirty clothes, including quarreling, jealousy, and gossip, and clothe ourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, making no provision for the flesh.

    Romans - Week 23: Romans 13:8-14

  3. Sep 25

    BACK40 E130 - One Side of Hell, Wielding Power

    In this episode we start with hell: whether part of its suffering will be the final realization of how much God loved us, why hell is better understood as the natural end we were all headed toward than as a punishment God adds, and why a good God is the one who stepped in to save us from it. Next we talk about power. If God grants us authority over other people, what is the most God honoring way to use it? We look at Jesus' words in Matthew 20, why the higher you go the more you have to serve, and the difference between leaders people fear and leaders people love. From there we ask how to correct sin without driving someone into secrecy, starting from Solzhenitsyn's picture of prisoners in the Gulag who learned to hide everything to survive. We finish on cheap grace, mercy that looks the other way without calling for repentance, and on the difference between shame and conviction.

    BACK40 E130 - One Side of Hell, Wielding Power

  4. Sep 20

    Romans - Week 22: Romans 13:1-7

    Pastor Mel preached Romans 13:1-7, the passage on how a Christian relates to governing authority. He makes the case that believers are called to submit to the authorities God places over them — even the ones they did not vote for. Submission to authority is godly, wise, and fair. But he is equally clear that the state's authority is not absolute: there is a place for civil disobedience when a government commands what God forbids or forbids what God commands. Our conscience both compels obedience and sets its limit. Underneath it all is one steadying conviction — God is in charge of who is in charge — so our worship, and our peace, belong to Him alone, and not to any party or leader.

    Romans - Week 22: Romans 13:1-7

  5. Sep 17

    Bible Study E14 - Genesis 6:1-10

    This study moves into Genesis 6:1-10 and the events leading up to the Flood. As humanity multiplies, so does its corruption — the sons of God (Seth's godly line) take wives from the daughters of man (the apostate line of Cain), and godliness mixes with godlessness. We examine why the Lord declares that His Spirit will not strive with man forever, limiting human life to 120 years as both a judgment and a merciful reprieve. We learn about the Nephilim — the "mighty men of renown" who reveal what unchecked power does to the human heart. As wickedness grows until every thought of man is "only evil continually," Scripture says God was grieved in His heart and resolved to blot out what He had made. Yet Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord — righteous by grace, walking with God in the midst of a fully corrupt generation.

    Bible Study E14 - Genesis 6:1-10

  6. Sep 13

    Romans - Week 21: Romans 12:9-21

    Pastor Mel preached Romans 12:9-21, the final movement of Romans chapter 12. After eleven chapters of doctrine, Paul turns to the practical shape of life in a divided church. His prescription for unity is genuine love — costly, sacrificial, and possible only by the power of the Holy Spirit. Mel walks the passage command by command: really love rather than pretend, and hate what is wrong; take delight in honoring one another; never be lazy but serve the Lord enthusiastically, confronting what he calls the church's "spiritual obesity" of endless consuming without spiritual exercise. We rejoice in hope, we're patient in trouble, and we keep praying. Christians should be ready to help and eager for hospitality, blessing those who persecute us. We rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. We live in harmony, never taking revenge but leaving room for God's justice. We conquer evil with good.

    Romans - Week 21: Romans 12:9-21

  7. Sep 11

    Leadership Night - Lessons from Jack Welch

    Pastor Mel draws six leadership lessons from Jack Welch, the legendary CEO who grew General Electric many times over. Control your destiny, or someone else will. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. Be candid, honest "to the last ten percent," because clarity is a kindness. Don't manage, lead (and know the difference). Change before you have to, the cautionary tales of Kodak, Blackberry, and Blockbuster. And if you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. Q&A follows.

    Leadership Night - Lessons from Jack Welch

  8. Sep 11

    BACK40 E129 - Predicting A.I., Contagious Sin, Equally Yoked

    In this episode we start with artificial intelligence: how these systems are climbing from narrow tools toward something far more general. We talk about the "alignment problem", then we pivot to a hopeful call for writing true, useful material a means of influencing the future of thought. Next we talk about sin as something contagious: Paul's picture of a little yeast working through the whole batch of dough, how sin now spreads by ideas and crowds more than by geography, and the difference between a faith that is simply immature and one that was never really our own. We finish on marriage and the dangers of being unequally yoked. We discuss why it matters for a believer to marry a believer, why the warning is so hard to hear once two hearts are already joined, and why marriage was never meant to complete us, but to make us holy.

    BACK40 E129 - Predicting A.I., Contagious Sin, Equally Yoked
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