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I would like to thank everyone for being here this Sunday. You had many choices in front of you for the day but you choose to worship with us at Concord UMC. I am honored and grateful for you making that decision. I cannot believe that we are moving into our second part of our Bedrock Series as we begin…

Haggai, Malachi ((1) Call for Repentance (3:7)) The problem was that Judah failed to recognize that they had strayed from the divine path. Although they had noticed the absence of God’s blessings (1:2; 2:13–14, 17; 3:14–15), they had not noticed the absence of their God. They were like the stereotypical…

Does God Exist? The question of the existence of God in the scope of human history is not a new one, but it is not particularly old either. When one examines cultures throughout history there seems to have always been a “something greater” that is in control of it all. For instance in school we studied…

“Be Reconciled to God” Root of Fruit Sin addressed “Unbelief, Pride, Selfishness” Gathering Hand Out-Catechism - Reading Plan Call to Worship 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 All things were created through him, and…

Often we think that we are the ones who approach God; in fact, it is God who approaches us. How does your life form a response to God?

1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we…

Philippians 1:19-26 19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified…

Intro: Questions! We all have them! Much of the time we value them because we were created with a desire to know. If you have a 2 or 3 year old all the questions can be annoying. Answers to our questions give us the opportunity to make adjustments and shape our lives. We can get with reality, or choose…

How do we handle pain, suffering and the evil around us? This is the question we have been exploring the past couple weeks. I am hoping to wrap up by the beginning of November our series on suffering. Joseph experienced a lot of pain and suffering. Some of this was because of his choices and many times…

My God, My God, Why? There was an emergency room doctor in Kentucky that told this true story... A guy came into the ER after being in a car accident and the guy had burns all the way around his neck. The doctor looked and said, “ How in the world did you get burns around your neck after a car accident?…

Good Morning. Turn in your Bible with me to Psalm Chapter 15. Steve has already read this for us today, but now I want you to see this passage and what the Psalmist wants us to truly know? Here in Psalm 15 we see that David is earnestly crying out to the Lord. We see here in his brief prayer that he…

We are continuing our series this morning Our House. When you ask someone what they think about the church, be prepared for any response. What they say may inspire feelings of anger, sadness, joy, or hope, depending on what they have experienced in their dealings with believers. This four-week series…

Secular - An American man visits the Holy Land with his wife and mother-in-law. Sadly the mother-in-law died. When seeing the local Israeli undertaker, it was explained that they could ship the body home for $5,000. But if they buried her locally it would cost only $150. The man said to the undertaker…

We are starting a new series this morning. Titled When God Doesn’t. A study in the book of Habakkuk. if you have your bible go ahead and turn to Habakkuk 1 . If you know were it is. Habakkuk is a small book so it might be hard to find. It is found in the Old Test. a couple of book after Jonah and before…

Have your Bibles ready this morning because we will be looking at the Bible as whole this morning and not really camping in one location of the Bible. What we are going to discussing in this series of messages is Does your God match with the God of Holy Scripture? Confronting your God vs. the God of…

Summary: Voluntary Slavery Slavery in Paul’s day was very different in many ways than the slavery we think of. Paul is using a certain type of slavery in his day as a limited illustration. There was voluntary slavery in the Roman empire in Paul’s day that was beneficial for the poor. This is the type…

Habakkuk is a picture of simple interaction between God and a man who is commited to God. It is a simple presentation of the impact of one’s faith in the wake of distress, change, and the unraveling of life as one know’s it. Habakkuk asks God the questions that every child of God, at one time or another…

Genesis 1:1 “Call me Ishmael.” This well-known opening line to the classic novel, Moby Dick , captures our imagination, builds our anticipation for the rest of the story, and say a lot of things by itself. Other well-known opening lines do the same thing: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”…

Last week, focused on the turning points of life. These turning points can become a crisis in our life. Crisis meaning decision or judgment. The main point of these crises are will we follow, or not? This week focuses on the adjustments we must make in life. The book makes this comment “You cannot stay…

Responding to the Government This is another significant area of Christian response. We’ve considered how Christians should respond to others (12:14-16), to evil (12:17-21), and now to the government. This is in tune with discerning the good, acceptable, perfect will of God (12:2), and in tune with relating…

Seeking Truth in a World of Counterfeits Two weeks ago now, during the fourth of July weekend we began a sermon series I’m calling: Seeking Truth in a World of Counterfeits. We remembered Jesus saying, “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” and that started us on this journey. What…

Acts 1:12-26 When I was younger and people would ask me what I was going to do with my life one of my chief responses was that I wanted to “find God’s will for my life.” I am sure that many of you can relate to this desire to discover what God’s Will for your life is. What does God have in store for…

God’s Design As I told you all last week, for the next three weeks we are going to be taking a journey around how we can best share our faith with others. I don’t know about you, but for many believers sharing their faith can be difficult. It can be overwhelming. Questions arise in our minds like, “What…

1 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord . He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish.…

God’s people have always sought to listen for the voice of God; seeing how the Word of God shows up from the Old Testament into the New Testament helps us understand the voice of God in our world today.