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Sunday, November 8Hope Church

Sunday Worship (9:00am Service)

Paul's confession that he is what he is only by the grace of God becomes the sermon's pattern for gratitude: grace converts, grace keeps training, and grace leaves no one owing their past. The pastor sets Paul's pedigree and his persecution of the church side by side to show that neither earned nor blocked the grace he received.

What was preached

• 1 Corinthians 15:10
• Philippians 3:4–9
• Acts 22:3
• Acts 5:34
• 1 Timothy 1:15
• Ephesians 1:7
• Ephesians 2:8–9
• Titus 2:11–12

• Why did Paul count his pedigree and religious credentials as loss once he had Christ?
• How did the man who approved of Stephen's stoning become the apostle who wrote that grace overflowed to him?
• What does it mean that grace teaches and trains a person rather than only forgiving them?

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1. Sunday, November 1

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2. Sunday, October 25

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3. Sunday, October 18

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4. Sunday, October 11

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5. Sunday, October 4

   Serving: The Gift That Confronts Our Selfishness

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6. Sunday, September 27

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8. Sunday, September 13

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9. Sunday, September 6

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10. Sunday, August 30

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