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Sermon Application | Week of 040422

by Alex Villasana | Apr 4, 2022 | Discipleship, Sermon, Sermon Commentary

Alex’s Commentary. Paul’s writings have two characteristics that “jump out of the page” honesty and thoroughness. When the Apostle calls us to rejoice in the LORD, he is not writing out of a hypothetical philosophical framework, some academic...

Sermon Application | Week of 032822

by Alex Villasana | Mar 28, 2022 | Discipleship, Sermon Commentary

Alex’s Commentary Considering the context of Isaiah 12, we can conclude that the purpose of this chapter is to give God’s people comfort and hope; one can easily see Israel asking “What about us?” after hearing about the approaching day of...

Sermon Application | Week of 032022

by Alex Villasana | Mar 22, 2022 | Discipleship, Sermon Commentary

Alex’s Commentary – Luke 13:6-9 The story is outrageous on purpose; the Lord Jesus Christ uses exaggeration in his telling of the fruitless tree to emphasize his main point: there is something fundamentally wrong with the human heart (sin), and only the Triune...

Why me, LORD?

by Alex Villasana | Oct 22, 2020 | Archive, Discipleship

Public Discipleship. Post 102220 Photo by Trym Nilsen on Unsplash Why me, God? Why would you Condescend to make me know Your Person & Work? Why would you show me, clearly, Your Beauty through the family, the church you have given me? Why would...

My Heart is Hostile Toward Kindness

by Alex Villasana | Sep 5, 2020 | Discipleship, Sermon Commentary, To Share

Photo by Wade Austin Ellis on Unsplash Public Discipleship. Post #4 No one would mistake me for a kind person, in my younger years. Early in my life I was more of a controlled-anger kind of individual. And kindness is still something difficult for me to express, even...

Discipline to die more.

by Alex Villasana | Aug 27, 2020 | Discipleship, To See

Public Discipleship. Post #3 I really wanted to preach about hell and eternal damnation, that Sunday. It was not the topic of my original sermon, but knowing the rumors about me a small group of individuals were spreading among our congregation, I believed it to be...