Future Church for the Future World | Future Church E8

John Mark Comer Teachings

Practicing the Way

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What gives you hope for the future? John Mark contrasts the negative news cycle of our age with the good news of Jesus: that he's overcome death and is returning that we might walk in his resurrection.

Key Scripture Passage: 1 Corinthians 15v1-28

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0:00.0	Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way.
0:05.0	This teaching was originally given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon
0:10.0	as a part of the future church series.
0:13.0	Please turn in your Bibles to 1 Corinthians 15.
0:20.0	1 Corinthians 15. 1 Corinthians 15.
0:23.3	1 Corinthians 15.
0:27.6	Any fellow news addicts in the room?
0:31.8	You know who you are, all three of you, which is more like 30, I'm guessing, in real life.
0:36.7	I grew up in a family of origin where reading the news on a daily basis was kind of a moral responsibility and prior to the pandemic I would limit
0:46.8	my news intake to a set amount and I would pay close attention to kind of the source to make sure
0:52.0	it's not click-by and not just you know
0:54.1	driving off of my fear and evolutionary survival instinct or whatever it is.
0:58.6	But when COVID hit all of that went out the window.
1:03.0	My like news addiction has become a problem,
1:06.0	like a full on obsessive compulsive kind of coping mechanism
1:10.0	to mitigate my body's anxiety.
1:12.9	You have one, reading the news is one of my many ones.
1:17.1	More on that in just a minute.
1:18.6	But while reading the news a few days ago,
1:20.9	an article in the economist caught my eye because the title was The God-shaped
1:24.8	whole. Of course, that's a play on the idea from the 17th century Polymath and French intellectual
1:30.6	ablaze Pascal that all human beings are born with an ache for God deep in the
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