Back to the Bible Canada with Dr. John Neufeld - The Heart of the Gospel: The Descent of Man
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Back to the Bible Canada with Dr. John Neufeld - The Heart of the Gospel: The Descent of Man

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 23, 202624 min
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With all our progress, is the human situation getting worse? Working through Romans 1:21–25, Dr. John Neufeld shows how failing to give God glory and thanks leads to futile thinking and idolatry, with gods remade in our own image. He explains what it means that God “gave them up”: a judgment that exposes how evil our hearts really are. Yet in this bad news comes the hope of the Gospel. The Heart of the Gospel: This 25-message series on Romans 1–4 presents us with Christianity 101. It is the basics of our faith, teaching us how we can know for certain t...

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Hi, this is Ben Lowell and this is Back to the Bible Canada with Dr. John Neufeld. We're continuing our series today, The Heart of the Gospel, with a message titled, The Descent of Man. So let's turn in our Bibles to Romans chapter 1, verses 21 to 25, as we join Dr. Neufeld

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now. I have entitled my words today, The Descent of Man, and if you think about it, it seems wrong and counterintuitive.

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I mean, we live in a day when it's quite natural to think of the human condition as always improving. Of course, we have every reason to think that way. Technology, we have reached dizzying heights.

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