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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Wed, 30 May 2012 22:03:32 GMT--><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Sermons</title><link>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/</link><description></description><lastBuildDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 19:40:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright></copyright><language>en-US</language><generator>Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</generator><item><title>Labor of Love</title><dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 19:38:54 +0000</pubDate><link>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/2012/5/29/labor-of-love.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">922129:10732762:16486205</guid><description><![CDATA[Serving God is sometimes very hard work, but it is always a work. While every Christian is called to employment in ministering to Christ, those who are appointed to specific works and offices become engaged in labors of love that emphasize the value of their effort, regardless of material repayment.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/rss-comments-entry-16486205.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Learn to Be Still</title><category>Discipleship</category><category>Godhood</category><category>Women</category><dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 18:58:10 +0000</pubDate><link>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/2012/5/23/learn-to-be-still.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">922129:10732762:16413885</guid><description><![CDATA[We live in such a noisy world. Many of us, when confronted with an empty, silent house, will instinctively turn on the television just to fill the void, even if we ignore the program. There are very few truly quiet moments in our days anymore, but quietness has value in allowing us to hear God better and to adopt a manner that exudes gentleness and meekness.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/rss-comments-entry-16413885.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Greater Sin</title><category>Apostasy</category><category>Discipleship</category><category>Judgment</category><category>Worldliness</category><dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:47:41 +0000</pubDate><link>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/2012/5/18/greater-sin.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">922129:10732762:16330740</guid><description><![CDATA[People have long had the tendency to grade sins on a sliding scale, often with murder and a few other heinous behaviors at the sinister end of the continuum, and a litany of transgressions randomly placed along the way. Perceptions of heinousness tend to vary from person to person, from culture to culture, and era to era. There is nothing standard or particularly objective about them. To some degree, the Law of Moses, as a combined moral and civil code contributed to this understanding by making certain offenses capital ones and rendering others subject only to fines or chastening. Do we, under the New Testament, labor under the same kind of sliding scale?]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/rss-comments-entry-16330740.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Slaves of Righteousness</title><category>Discipleship</category><category>Worldliness</category><dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 20:38:22 +0000</pubDate><link>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/2012/5/8/slaves-of-righteousness.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">922129:10732762:16179080</guid><description><![CDATA[Slavery was something with which first century Christians were very familiar. It was not necessarily the same kind of slavery that mars American history, but a form that defied race and often resulted from severe economic hardship. Still, from Jews' knowledge of the Law of Moses and the Gentiles' experience in their own economy, compulsory servitude and the forfeiture of personal freedoms were circumstances that were all too common. Christ's doctrine spelled the end of such enslavement, but the devil's goal has always been to bend people's will to his own, making them servants of their own doom.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/rss-comments-entry-16179080.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Counted Worthy</title><category>Discipleship</category><category>Judgment</category><dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:20:46 +0000</pubDate><link>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/2012/5/2/counted-worthy.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">922129:10732762:16096837</guid><description><![CDATA[Except for the very proud, most of us probably feel rather unworthy of the gospel and a savior who not only lived perfectly, but also went to the cross for us. When we consider our own sinfulness, and even our meager attempts at righteous living since our conversion, it is probably easy to feel unworthy. To a certain degree, that overpowering humility is both logical and productive, but it is not the purpose of God that we should feel like failures and as if our doom is practically assured because we cannot manage to live sinlessly. There is another sense throughout the New Testament in which a worthy lifestyle is recommended to the believer, certainly making it at least a possibility.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/rss-comments-entry-16096837.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Though You Knew</title><category>Apostasy</category><category>Conversion</category><category>Discipleship</category><category>Worldliness</category><dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:00:12 +0000</pubDate><link>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/2012/4/24/though-you-knew.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">922129:10732762:15979442</guid><description><![CDATA[The old saying about ignorance being bliss has been proven and disproven many times in different arenas. Sometimes, when there is no physical or spiritual harm, it is good to be ignorant, even as harmless and innocent as a dove. At other times, however, being ignorant of vital and essential, life-saving or soul-redeeming information is surely fatal. What of those times that seem to be a bit in between, the times when someone should have been aware of something, or really was but chose to feign ignorance to avoid accountability? There is no bliss there, either.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/rss-comments-entry-15979442.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Hard-Faced</title><category>Discipleship</category><category>Fellowship</category><dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:32:39 +0000</pubDate><link>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/2012/4/18/hard-faced.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">922129:10732762:15901086</guid><description><![CDATA[It is not often that we refer to the book of Deuteronomy, the second giving of the Law of Moses before the great man's death. Moses warned the people of God that if they disobeyed the Law, they were going to be punished with, among other things, invasion and re-enslavement to a nation from afar. It is the character of this hypothetical, prophetic nation that interests us today.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/rss-comments-entry-15901086.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Original Confidence</title><category>Discipleship</category><category>Evangelism</category><category>Worldliness</category><dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:07:26 +0000</pubDate><link>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/2012/4/11/original-confidence.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">922129:10732762:15805159</guid><description><![CDATA[Someone has observed that confidence is ninety percent preparation. There is much truth to that – whether you are stepping in to bat against a fireballing left-hander, climbing into the pulpit to preach, or sitting down to take the test of your life. Confidence in achieving success is built on many things, but they all diminish in comparison to pure preparation – hitting the batting cage, reading until your eyes ache, studying until your brain is full. In another sense, however, confidence, even when constructed on preparation, is ultimately futile if it belongs to the flesh rather than faith in God. The essence of our confidence about life’s greatest challenge is entirely attached to a trusting relationship with the one who made us, saves us, and will judge us.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/rss-comments-entry-15805159.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Jars of Clay</title><category>Authority</category><category>Conversion</category><category>Discipleship</category><category>Jesus Christ</category><category>Worship</category><dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:29:29 +0000</pubDate><link>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/2012/4/3/jars-of-clay.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">922129:10732762:15708008</guid><description><![CDATA[One of the themes of the Old Testament, including the Psalms, was the goal of believers to give glory to God. Immediately, our minds probably think about a worship service, perhaps especially a hymn or spiritual song. While that is definitely part of giving glory to the one who deserves it, there is more to it – many more and practical opportunities to shift glory away from self and onto the Lord.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/rss-comments-entry-15708008.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Great Calm</title><category>Discipleship</category><category>Jesus Christ</category><category>Worldliness</category><dc:creator>Jeff Smith</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:52:57 +0000</pubDate><link>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/2012/3/23/great-calm.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">922129:10732762:15562906</guid><description><![CDATA[What was Jesus trying to teach his disciples on this occasion? He had just told one that he would have to forsake all others and follow after him and now he uses the opportunity afforded by this storm on the lake to teach others about a trusting faith, even when a tempest puts that faith in peril.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://electronicgospel.com/sermons/rss-comments-entry-15562906.xml</wfw:commentRss></item></channel></rss>
