{"id":55,"date":"2011-06-27T14:12:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T14:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aslchristians.org\/?p=55"},"modified":"2020-10-03T02:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T02:56:26","slug":"rev-dennis-konkel-a-deaf-pastor-sermon-the-bronze-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Dennis Konkel a deaf pastor sermon &#8220;The Bronze Snake&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing. \u00a0When trying to explain to many people why Jesus alone saves us not by our work. \u00a0It is the grace of our faith in Jesus Christ alone that saves us.<\/p>\n<p>But, often people say that Christians do not practice the Old Testament. \u00a0That is not true. \u00a0Christians do follow the Old Testament. \u00a0If we look at some great stories like the story of Moses\u00a0Numbers 21:4-9.<\/p>\n<p>We will remember how the New Testament will\u00a0fulfill\u00a0the Old Testament. \u00a0We can not live with one book. \u00a0We need them both because both were written by the inspiration of God. \u00a0 Below is a video blog made by\u00a0Rev. Dennis Konkel who is a deaf pastor. \u00a0I believe that he actually made a great video blog that helps us see something. \u00a0And, good news, it is captioned for the sign language impaired people.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0q2tkx9WjQA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Bible teaches\u00a0Ephesians 2:8-9\u00a0(NCV)\u00a08 I mean that you have been saved by grace through believing. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God.9 It was not the result of your own efforts, so you cannot brag about it.<\/p>\n<p>One thing we will find as we become a Christian. \u00a0 We will desire to know Jesus when we get saved. \u00a0Wouldn&#8217;t you want to know who he is because he loved you enough to allow you to work or not. \u00a0But, it is his work that works in your life when you accept him.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy the video blog. \u00a0And, hopefully soon ASL Christians will start using working on their own Video Blogs.<\/p>\n<p>In Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Dean &#8220;Rex&#8221; DeRusso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing. \u00a0When trying to explain to many people why Jesus alone saves us not by our work. \u00a0It is the grace of our faith in Jesus Christ alone that saves us. But, often people say that Christians do not practice the Old Testament. \u00a0That is not true. \u00a0Christians do follow the Old Testament. \u00a0If we look at some great stories like the story of Moses\u00a0Numbers 21:4-9. We will remember how the New Testament will\u00a0fulfill\u00a0the Old Testament. \u00a0We can not live with one book. \u00a0We need them both because both were written by the inspiration of God. \u00a0 Below is&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88731,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/88731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}