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Continue reading →: Inhabiting Parent-Child Relationships In Jesus
Colossians 3:20-21 Epistle Introductory / Intermediate6 Expository / Pastoral / Instructional1 ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon expounds on Colossians 3:20-21, urging families to inhabit their relationships in the “ascended Christ” rather than merely through earthly roles1. Pastor Tuuri argues that the…
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Continue reading →: The Ascended Husband
Colossians 3:19 Epistle Intermediate Expository / Pastoral ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon expounds on Colossians 3:19, commanding husbands to love their wives and specifically to avoid bitterness toward them. Tuuri frames the marriage relationship within the context of the “ascended” life…
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Continue reading →: The Crown Rights of King Jesus
Colossians 3:17-4:1 Epistle Intermediate Expository / Pastoral ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon establishes the “Crown Rights of King Jesus” over every aspect of life, using Colossians 3:17 as the central “preface” to the specific household commands that follow in the epistle1.…
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Continue reading →: Change Your Actions, Change Your Heart
Colossians 3:16 Epistle Intermediate Expository / Pastoral / Instructional ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon expounds on Colossians 3:15-17, emphasizing the relationship between external obedience and internal transformation. Tuuri argues against the modern tendency to rely on “sensation” or feelings to drive…
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Continue reading →: New Clothes for the New Year Part 2
Colossians 3:8-16 Epistle Intermediate Expository / Pastoral1 ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon continues the examination of Colossians 3, focusing on the “putting on” aspect of sanctification using the metaphor of clothing as Christian character1,2. Tuuri emphasizes that this process relies on…
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Continue reading →: New Clothes for the New Year
Colossians 3:8-16 Epistle Intermediate Pastoral / Instructional ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon focuses on the “putting off” aspect of sanctification, using the metaphor of changing clothes to describe the Christian’s duty to discard the “old man” and his sinful practices. Pastor…
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Continue reading →: Heavenly Minded
Colossians 3:1-7 Epistle Intermediate / Advanced Expository / Theological ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon expounds on Colossians 3:1-7, presenting the “astonishing fact” that believers are not only resurrected with Christ but have ascended with Him and are seated at the right…
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Continue reading →: Christ and the Fourth Word
Colossians 2:16 Epistle Intermediate/Advanced Expository / Polemical1 ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon expounds on Colossians 2:16-17, addressing the common objection that Paul abolishes the Fourth Commandment and the Lord’s Day by labeling Sabbaths a “shadow”1,2. Tuuri argues that the list “festivals,…
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Continue reading →: Thanksgiving in Colossians
Colossians 1:3,12; 3:15-17; 4:2 Epistle Intermediate Pastoral / Topical Thanksgiving ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon explores the theme of thanksgiving throughout the book of Colossians, arguing that gratitude is not merely a holiday tradition but a fundamental religious observance that must…
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Continue reading →: Walk In Him
Colossians 2:6-23 Epistle Intermediate19 Expository / Pastoral1 ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon expounds on Colossians 2:6-23, urging believers to continue their Christian walk exactly as they began it—by receiving Christ Jesus the Lord—rather than reverting to the “basic principles of the…
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Continue reading →: Suffering, Good Order, and Firmness
Colossians 1:24-2:5 Epistle Intermediate Expository / Pastoral ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon expounds on Colossians 1:24–2:5, addressing the necessity of suffering in the Christian life as a counter to “triumphalism”1,2. Pastor Tuuri explains that Paul’s “filling up what is lacking” in…
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Continue reading →: Christ: His Excellencies, His Mission and You
Colossians 1:15-23 Epistle Intermediate / Advanced Expository / Theological ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon expounds on the “hymn” of Colossians 1:15-23, presenting the supremacy and centrality of Jesus Christ as the “image of the invisible God” and the “firstborn over all…
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Continue reading →: Thanksgiving and Strengthening
Colossians 1:3-14 Epistle Intermediate Expository / Pastoral Thanksgiving ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon expounds on Colossians 1:3-14, framing Paul’s prayer for the church as consisting of two parts: thanksgiving and intercession1,2. Tuuri uses the metaphor of the “Genesis Device” from Star…
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Continue reading →: The State and Homosexuality Part II
Deuteronomy 4:5-9 Law Intermediate/Advanced (due to engagement with political theology and legal theory) Polemical / Instructional39 ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon argues that the civil government is obligated to base its laws on God’s law rather than on concepts of “common…
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Continue reading →: The Bible and Homosexuality
Leviticus 18:22 Law Intermediate Polemical / Instructional ► Listen to Sermon Dennis Tuuri – Reformation Covenant Church AI-GENERATED SUMMARY This sermon addresses the biblical stance on homosexuality, primarily using Leviticus 18:22 to argue that God’s law prohibits same-sex relations as an abomination that leads to societal judgment1,2. Tuuri “revalues” the…
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I’m Dennis Tuuri
I’ve been a pastor and Bible teacher for over forty years. My passion is helping Christians think biblically about all of life — work, rest, family, community, and our responsibilities as citizens.
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