The Bible is not a tragedy. Sin and brokenness are barely established before God promises rescue from them. David lived out the consequences of sin, but he also experienced a foretaste of the redemption that we get to experience in full.

The great and pervasive brokenness that the Bible calls sin slowly turned King David from a pro-active and just person into someone who was passive, envious and willing to take things that didn’t belong to him. Even the “man after God’s own heart” wasn’t immune from this moral decay—and neither are we.

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Because we encourage our Community Groups to hold social events instead of regular meetings and sermon discussions for the month of August, there is no sermon discussion guide for this week’s sermon.

As we approach the end of our series on the book of 1 John as a guide to the character and personality of God, Glenn Hoburg leads us through what it means to know a true and living God. Unlike many modern understandings of faith as a private narrative you can tell yourself for comfort, John does not leave room to conform a faith to you. Instead, true faith in the true God changes you. And in the process, it delivers you from the fatality, force and foolishness of sin.

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