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Sermon Recap

Recaps of recent messages from Lakewood Family Church, including the Defending the Faith series, so you can catch up or revisit a message.

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Does God Exist? What To Do With Your Honest Doubts

Doubt is not the opposite of faith, it is often the doorway into a deeper one. Here is what Dr. Vorce actually says to the honest question of whether God is real.

Jonathan Vorce
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If God Is Good, Why Do Bad Things Still Happen?

This week at Lakewood Family Church, Dr. Vorce continued the Defending the Faith series by taking on the hardest question believers ask, why a good God still allows so much pain.

Jonathan Vorce
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Who Do You Say That Jesus Is?

Jesus never asked the crowd to win an argument about him. He asked one man a direct question, and it is the same question he is still asking you.

Jonathan Vorce
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You Don't Have to Win the Argument to Defend Your Faith

Defending what you believe was never supposed to feel like a debate to win. This week at Lakewood Family Church, Dr. Vorce opened a new series on why, and how, we defend our faith without losing our gentleness in the process.

Jonathan Vorce
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Just Sitting in Church Won't Save You.

This week at Lakewood Family Church, Dr. Vorce closed out the Sermon on the Mount with a hard truth: hearing the Word and doing the Word are not the same thing, and only one of them survives the storm.

Jonathan Vorce
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"Judge Not, That Ye Be Not Judged" Probably Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means

That verse gets used as a conversation ender more than almost any other line in the Bible. Sunday's teaching from Matthew 7 shows there is far more to it than a shield against accountability.

Jonathan Vorce
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