Identity in Christ
Why Do Christians Keep Struggling With Sin?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Flesh, Identity in Christ, Seeing is Believing
Topics: Sin
If we truly are righteous in Christ Jesus (see Earlier Post about our identity in Christ), why do we need to be reminded to live righteous lives? If we are new creations and have a…
Hungry Hearts
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ
Verse: John 10
What do all of the following behaviors have in common? • A couple with two kids purchases a bigger house than they need, even though it means they’ll both have to work more and see…
What’s the Purpose of Old Testament Law?
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ
Understanding the law in the Old Testament can prove difficult. For instance, Paul believed that the law is good and holy (Rom 7:12). However, he also said that it only serves to expose and even…
The Trap of Religious Idolatry
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Idolatry, Life in Christ
We live in a world that seems to be full of religious idols. These are beliefs, rituals, and behaviors from which religious people draw life. Religious idolaters of course don’t recognize their idols as such….
The Ultimate Goal of Life & What Stands in the Way of It
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Adam and Eve, Garden of Eden, Identity in Christ, Judgment, Shame
What is the point of it all? What is the highest good? What is the point of life? Greg addresses these huge question in this sermon clip, where he introduces the idea of the beautific…
Nothing but Christ Crucified
Category: General
Tags: Cross, Good News, Identity in Christ, Jesus
One of the most remarkable expressions of the all-encompassing nature of the cross is reflected in an incidental, but extremely important, comment that Paul made in his First Letter to the Corinthians. He noted that…
Our True Eternal Home
Category: General
Tags: Discipleship, Identity in Christ, Jesus
Topics: Following Jesus
In becoming our sin and bearing the death-consequences of sin, Christ has opened the way for us to participate in the fellowship of the triune God. Because of the cross, we are now free to…
Performance Christianity—Getting Over It
Category: General
Tags: Experiencing Jesus, Identity in Christ, Imaginative Prayer, Picture of God, Seeing is Believing
Image by Martijn Braat via Flickr Many Christians feel empty, tired, and apathetic, if not positively angry, though few express this out loud because it’s usually taboo to do so within Christian circles. These believers often fault…
9 Things That Are True of Us When We’re Saved
Category: General
Tags: Gifts, Identity in Christ, Jesus, New Humanity, Salvation
Topics: Following Jesus
Image by rAmmoRRison via Flickr The New Testament has many amazing things to say about who we are as believers because of what Christ has done for us. When the Lord saves us, he doesn’t just…
What is “The Flesh” or “The Sinful Nature”?
Category: General
Tags: Flesh, Identity in Christ, Seeing is Believing, Sinful Nature
What is “the flesh”? The New International Version of the Bible translates Paul’s words for flesh (sarx) as “sinful nature” (Gal. 5:16). [This is the NIV 1984 version of the Bible which sold more copies…
Sermon: We The Church
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Anabaptists, Church, Constantine, Identity in Christ, Woodland Hills Church
The Anabaptists saw that the building is not the Church. God wants to dwell on this Earth, but it is not in a building. It is in his people. In this brief clip, Greg traces…
Q&A: Already-Not-Yet
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Kingdom Living, Quantum Physics
Question: My question is regarding our “entanglement” with Christ that you spoke about a few weeks ago. In the sermon you noted how we are joined with Christ like those two particles that can be separated by light…
Sermon: Unveiling the Crypto-You
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Sermons
Last weekend Greg preached a sermon on living as your true self that God has declared you to be. You can download audio and video resources as well as supporting sermon materials by visiting the…
So, What Do You Do?
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ
Don’t ever let this question define you. Image by Victor Bezrukov. Sourced via Flickr.
The Deep Truth
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Sermons
In last weekend’s sermon at Woodland Hills Church, Greg talks about the deep truth of your life that is real, but sometimes difficult to experience as real. How do we live in this deep truth…
From the Sermon Archives: Stick & String
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Sermons
Since Greg didn’t preach this last Sunday, we thought we would feature something special from the Woodland Hills archives. God’s will for us is first and foremost about who we are and not what we do….