Playlist: Principled Living (sermon series)
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Principled Living (Part One): Imitating Christ
Follow Me: The High Cost of DiscipleshipFollowing Jesus requires absolute commitment, often involving sacrifice and discomfort. We must be willing to give up family and societal ties for God's sake.
Principled Living (Part Two): Conquering Sin
Declaring Total War on SinChrist warns that we must do everything possible to annihilate sin - surgically going right to the heart or mind: the level of thought and imagination.
Principled Living (Part Three): Growing in Righteousness
Our Cooperative Effort With GodGod's law—the unleavened bread of righteousness—needs to be ingested into our minds as we purge sin, resulting in righteous thoughts, words, and deeds.
Principled Living (Part Four): Giving of Ourselves
Being Living SacrificesAs Christ sacrificed for us, we are called to sacrifice for others. Love is an action, a behavior, rather than an emotion, described in I Corinthians 13.
Principled Living (Part Five): Witnessing of God
'You Are My Witnesses'Our best witness is often through our unspoken behavior; what we do speaks volumes. God gives us a charge to bear His name with dignity in all our actions.
Principled Living (Part Six): Becoming Holy
Dare To Be Different!Pentecost forces us to stand out from the crowd, separated as firstfruits for sanctification and holiness. God has called us to be different.
Principled Living (Part Seven): Enduring to the End
Courageous ResistanceLike a marathoner or a soldier fighting a battle, we are admonished to endure to the end, standing firm, holding our ground, and resisting assaults.