Browse published sermons from Jeff Harrington in Dove Creek Bible Church's Podcast.
Jul 17, 2022 2:53 PM America/Chicago
In this text, we examine our attitude toward work and the workplace whether we are employers or employees. Just as our relationship with Christ transforms our families so too should our workplace be impacted.
Jul 17, 2022 2:31 PM America/Chicago
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Jul 9, 2022 6:01 AM America/Chicago
In this text, Paul turns his attention to husbands and cautions them not to be harsh with their wives. The ancient world emphasized a husband's rights but the Bible emphasizes a husband's responsibility. For all the criticism leveled against Christianity'
Jun 28, 2022 6:01 AM America/Chicago
Paul tells the wives to submit to their husbands in Colossians 3:18. What does he have in mind exactly? Is the husband supposed to make all the family decisions? What if a husband tells his wife to do something she considers unwise or unhealthy? What if a
Jun 13, 2022 8:25 AM America/Chicago
The church in Colossae had people around them suggesting that their place in God’s family was not secure. Paul counters this teaching by assuring this church that their identity and connection to God through Christ is rock solid…not only are they real
Jun 13, 2022 5:35 AM America/Chicago
Are people like Frosted Mini-Wheats? You know the cereal where one side of the mini-wheat is frosted with sugar and the other side is plain. Are you composed of two natures? Do you have a sweet side that wants to honor God and an unsweet side that wants t
Jun 3, 2022 3:33 PM America/Chicago
In what sense is our life now hidden in Christ? What does it mean that I died and Jesus is my life? These are the questions Paul answers in this text.
May 28, 2022 9:40 AM America/Chicago
As Americans, we will fight for liberty over tyranny in almost every area of life save one - our Christian Liberty. In some misguided notion of “going along to get along,” we often allow legalists to infiltrate our churches and take them over. Wheneve
May 28, 2022 9:28 AM America/Chicago
The heretics in Colosse spoke of hidden spiritual treasures which could only be revealed by deciphering cryptic codes, learning secret phrases, and undergoing elaborate rituals. This intrigued and appealed to some just like the serpent’s suggestion that
May 17, 2022 7:33 AM America/Chicago
Some Christians have a dyslexic interpretation of one of Jesus’ final statements on the cross because they behave as if He didn’t say, “It is finished!”, but rather as though He had asked, “Is it finished?” Now the distinction could not be gre
May 12, 2022 12:09 PM America/Chicago
Any kind of deception has real consequences but spiritual consequences that can last for all of eternity. Paul’s concern today is that the church at Colossae avoids being taken captive by false human tradition-based philosophies.
Apr 30, 2022 5:26 PM America/Chicago
The word "reconcile" is one of five keywords used in the New Testament to describe what happens at the time of salvation. The others are "justification, redemption, forgiveness, and adoption." Reconciliation is a relationship term. It brings to mind enemi
Apr 23, 2022 5:30 PM America/Chicago
Imagine being the only disciple who did not get to see the risen Lord Jesus on Easter. While the other disciples are overjoyed and waxing eloquent about having spent time with Jesus you have no such point of reference. To him, Jesus is still crucified and
Apr 15, 2022 7:10 AM America/Chicago
So we see these pre-Gnostic sects believed in a supreme being, the need for salvation, and spirit beings, but they also believed that the brand of Christianity preached by Paul was a crude and primitive interpretation of spiritual reality. To counteract a
Apr 1, 2022 6:44 PM America/Chicago
We live at a time when much pressure is brought to bear upon churches to modify and modernize their traditional Christian beliefs and practices. Some churches bend to the pressure by way of cultural accommodation and appeasement so that their beliefs and
Mar 11, 2022 12:33 PM America/Chicago
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Mar 1, 2022 12:55 PM America/Chicago
Jacob and Esau are on a collision course as we have already observed. The question is…who is having a more difficult journey at this point as they approach one another? Esau, who must forgive the scheming conniving brother of his, or Jacob, the scheming
Feb 16, 2022 3:16 PM America/Chicago
Everyone experiencing pain and heartache must eventually answer the same questions. Will I trust God with my pain and heartache…my doubts…my fears or will I turn away in bitter confusion? Today we find fear gripping Jacob’s heart…how will his fait
Feb 14, 2022 1:08 PM America/Chicago
In the 1970’s it was popular for a while for Christian guys to give their Christian girlfriend’s Mizpah Coin necklaces. The Mizpah Coin was split in two with the idea being your girlfriend would wear one-half of the coin on her necklace and then you w
Jan 31, 2022 11:11 AM America/Chicago
In the movie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Lawrence Jamieson, played by Michael Caine, is a cultivated, suave master con artist who operates in the deluxe hotels along the French Riviera. Steve Martin plays small-time American hustler, Freddy Benson, who inva
Jan 25, 2022 5:18 AM America/Chicago
Is sibling rivalry more pronounced among brothers or sisters? Studies show that sibling rivalry is caused by a great many different things, but having said that, gender does seem to play a role in the severity and nature of sibling rivalry. Still, these s
Jan 18, 2022 7:51 AM America/Chicago
We tend to like poetic justice: We like to see liars lied to, we like to see con men get conned, we like to see bullies bullied, and so on and so forth. We like to think that the scales of cosmic justice somehow hang in balance…that there is a reaction
Jan 10, 2022 10:53 AM America/Chicago
Jacob is a manipulative schemer who has had to flee his family home because of the mistrust, secrecy, and manipulative deception going on. His understandably angry brother, Esau, wants to kill him and yet in His grace, God has a plan to work in Jacob’s
Jan 4, 2022 11:50 AM America/Chicago
In this story we discover four extremely self-willed people…each is determined to do things their own way and each learns a lesson that there is a price to pay when we do things our way. The story begins with the conspiracy between Isaac and Esau to ave