The Painted Door Church - Chicago
The Painted Door Church is church family that gathers in Chicago, IL. We are a people who share the same story; we are sinner, saved by grace. We draw our name from the Exodus account in the Hebrew Scriptures, when God spared his people from judgement, passing over all homes that had the blood of a spotless lamb painted across their doorways. Jesus is the new spotless lamb, his death on a Roman cross sparing the people of God from judgment once for all. He reconnects us to our Maker and to each other and invites us to participate in his grand work of restoring all things.
Episodes
204 episodes
Ash Wednesday Full Service / Genesis 3:19
Ash Wednesday Service - The Final Gathering of The Painted Door Church
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The Lamb / John 1:29-42
At the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry, God began to openly reveal the true identity of his Son. He spoke to John the Baptist of who this man Jesus of Nazareth truly was. And John testified of his identity: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who tak...
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34:06
I Am Well Pleased / Matthew 3:13-17
We were made to be approved. When God first formed humanity from the dust, he pronounced us very good. And in that pronouncement, we have life. But our first parents, and all of us after them, have stepped away from God’s free approval to go...
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The Victorious Christian Life/ 2 Corinthians 4:7-11
Epiphany is the day in the historic Christian Church Calendar when we celebrate the manifestation of God as man on earth. Jesus is God-in-the-flesh and so was the first real “jar of clay” containing the inestimable treasure of Divine Life. P...
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Made Lord, Made Christ / Acts 2:36-39
The Apostle Peter knew what it was to betray Jesus. He denied the Lord three times in an attempt to save himself from the agony of the cross. But after Jesus died and rose, Peter was filled an other-wordly courage. For he saw not only that Jesu...
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Know Jesus, Know Peace/ 2 Peter 3:17-18
The Apostle Peter calls the readers of his second letter “beloved.” This word, which occurs four times, is in New Testament Greek, agapetos. It denotes Divine Love, characteristic of the indwelling Christ and that is experienced ...
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Count His Patience as Salvation/ 2 Peter 3:14-16
In waiting for Jesus to return, we are waiting for a new heavens and a new earth. But we are not only waiting. We are also receiving manifestations of that new creation right now. In fact, we are becoming manifestations of it. The Apostle Pe...
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Where Righteousness Dwells/ 2 Peter 3:11-13
In our present age, all people are infected with an insatiable desire to be right and feel wronged. And so we labor to prove that our way of life is right and that we are victims of those whose way is wrong. We believe that if we succeed in pro...
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When the Fire Comes/ 2 Peter 3:8-10
The scriptures speak of the return of Christ in harrowing terms. He is said to be coming like a thief, like one who will steal our most precious possessions without warning. Indeed, the promise of Christ’s return is a promise that God will f...
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Is the King Coming? / 2 Peter 3:1-7
The first century church was not so different from the church of our time. As it was then, so too now, the desire to hold onto sin is what compels people to scoff at the doctrines of God. First century scoffers denied that Jesus would come back...
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39:46
Step Away from the Vomit/ 2 Peter 2:18-22
When the body senses that some harmful element has entered it, an involuntary retching takes place. And the toxin is expelled. This physiological reality mirrors a spiritual one. When people learn of Christ and see something of his value, th...
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Waterless Springs/ 2 Peter 2:10b-17
The Apostle Peter writes the letter we know as 2 Peter to root Christians in their faith, to warn them against dangers that would lead them astray. False teachers loom large among those dangers. And so Peter seeks to expose their motivations an...
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The Great Deceptions/ 2 Peter 2:1-10a
The prophets of God who pointed to the coming of Christ were not speculating. They were inspired by the Spirit to see and speak the truth. By contrast, false prophets trade exclusively in speculation. They reject authority and so do not yiel...
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The Pleasure of the Father / 2 Peter 1:16-21
God made us to participate in his life with him. But we chose to go searching for life on our own. We found none. Nevertheless, God didn’t leave us wandering in death. He sent his Son into that death to rescue us from it. Jesus lived a human li...
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Make Every Effort/ 2 Peter 1:5-15
To know Jesus is to experience his transforming power. He rescues us from our slavery to self-reliance and invites us into the mystery of life in God. In knowing him, we become fully alive, partakers of the divine nature. So then, what bette...
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Partakers of Divine Nature/ 2 Peter 1:1-4
We are all born into corruption, full of disordered desire. But God made us for something far sweeter. He made us to desire what is pure and true and beautiful. He made us for life to the full. So how is it that we are to move from the effec...
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Do you love me?/ John 21:15-18
Peter rebuked Jesus for prophesying of the cross. He drew his sword and sought to keep Jesus from the cross by way of violence. Finally, he abandoned and denied Jesus when the cross became inevitable. At every turn, Peter resisted the march ...
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One Spirit, One Body/ 1 Corinthians 12:12-27
To become a Christian is to become a body part of Jesus. All people who put their faith in Christ become hands and feet and ears and eyes of his spiritual body. That means that everything happening in our lives is also happening in the life of ...
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The Surpassing Worth of Knowing Christ/ Philippians 3:8-11
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? What does it profit a woman to have reputation and family and health and forfeit her very purpose of being? What does it profit anyone to gain anything if they do not ga...
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The Mystery of Compassion/ Psalm 22:1-2
At times some may diminish the life and passion (suffering) of Christ in light of emphasizing his death. Christ did, indeed, die on our behalf, and that allows us to proclaim with joy that he has redeemed and reconciled us. But what we often fo...
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To Obtain Mercy/ Acts 3:17-21
God has promised that he will meet every confession of sin with forgiveness and cleansing. But how do we know when we have truly confessed? Is a verbal acknowledgement of sin always a confession? Hardly. True confession proves itself only in ob...
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From Appeasers to Reconcilers/ 2 Corinthians 5:11-21
God has dealt with sin. He has gutted its power to separate humanity from him. Therefore, all people can be reconciled to God and experience the peace of communion with him. That true peace is very different than the false peace that comes f...
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36:18
Made Together/ 1 John 1:5-10
Becoming a whole person is not an individual project. Nor is it a team project. It is a relational project. We become whole in relationship, because perfect relationship is wholeness. And what is perfect relationship? It is knowing God and one ...
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