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Today we are wrapping up this series. For the last few weeks we have been talking about staying positive in a negative world. Negativity is all around us, there is so much negativity everywhere. Unfortunately, for many of us, most of the negativity we face comes from ourselves. You may really want to…

You Are A New Person As the text for the last regular Sunday of the Lenten season, this will be heard by Christians preparing to join the Palm Sunday crowd in their shouts of welcome and praise, but only to experience a few short days later how shouts of praise are drowned out by cries of “Crucify him!”…

Major Posts from the Minor Prophets: Hosea: God is God of 2nd chances — It’s never too late. Joel: God is God of unstoppable Grace — It’s never too much Amos: God is God of Restoration — It’s never lost Obadiah: God is Your God — It’s never not for you Jonah: God is Your Salvation — It’s never not available…

Today we resolve conflicts in the bible. How do we work through the challenge of Christ with the challenge of life? This passage presents the concern at hand. Jesus is doing an ordinary thing - walking to Jerusalem and this seems to forfeit the extraordinary thing of Conversions and miracles. But the…

(S1) Singing a song—How well do you pay attention to the words? Rock N’Roll Days Words of the Psalms are songs of the heart—They come from most intimate, conflicted, trying, thoughtful, delicate, deep places of the human spirit. In them, one can hear the rolling unpredictable seas of human emotion, along…

Series Values to Live By Today we want to talk about honesty. We all say that we value honesty and when asked what we want our kids to be, honest is always at the top. Survey’s have shown that 90% of Americans lie regularly . How can you even trust the survey? There are opportunities every day for you…

Intro; Last week when we looked at “The Olivet Discourse” , I mentioned what David Jeremiah called six critical signs that Jesus mentioned concerning His Second Coming. Deception of false Christs [ v. 4-5 ] Wars and rumors of war among the nations [ v.6-7a ] Famines, pestilences and earthquakes worldwide…

The Hesitant Warrior Let me start off today by telling you about a Minnesota couple... A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier. Because of their hectic schedules,…

(SI)— What does it mean to be united as a nation, as americans, as a people? One nation under God , indivisible, with liberty and justice for all... Pledge of Allegiance was ”written in 1885 by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union Army officer in the Civil War who later became auditor of the New York…

Snakes & Roaches Or those glass cases at the zoo where they say there is a snake and you look for hours until you are convinced you should tell someone - the snake has escaped. As we read Mark’s gospel - I want us to notice how early in the story we are. Already in chapter 1: John the Baptist Temptation…

We’ve been talking about values to live by. I remember when I used to do youth ministry in schools. We would do these values exercises. We would give you a scenerio that puts you in a rubber raft with a friend… a set of flares… enough food for a week… 5 gallons of water… You can’t make it to land without…

Colossians 3:10–17 (CSB) You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator. In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all. Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and dearly loved, put on…

This past few weeks we have been at Isaiah 42 , one of 4 “Servant Songs” in the writings of the prophet Isaiah. Each of these servant songs points to Jesus, and in Isaiah 42 , as we have studied it so far, we have seen that the Lord’s servant is somewhat described, not physically, but as to His authority…

All Saints We’re a week out from Halloween - or ‘All Halo’s Eve’ and ‘All Saints Day’. Like most of the strange Christian things that people do the traditions are often forgotten. All Souls - or All Halo’s reminds us of teh promise - or the problem of death for all of us. And we scare each other with…

INTRODUCTION: Merriam-Webster defines folly as this: lack of good sense or normal prudence and foresight Criminally or tragically foolish actions or conduct a foolish act or idea an excessively costly or unprofitable undertaking an often extravagant picturesque building erected to suit a fanciful taste…

READ 1 Sam 14:24-46 Saul: a raging king wants credit for the victory crushes his allies under his lust for conquest hides his insecurities (15:17) under abuse of authority The wrath of man 24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, 25 lest you learn his ways and entangle…

Pastor Paul's testimony about a troubled trip.

42 Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘ The stone which the builders rejected , This became the chief corner stone; This came about from the Lord , And it is marvelous in our eyes ’? Rejection expresses itself in different ways Rejection can cause: Overreact to a situation You…

Jeremiah’s Call & Our Calling Has God put words in our mouths? Will we share them? Calling: not just for ministers, for allof us who follow Jesus Doesn’t amtter if you’re 18 or 80 We’re not all called to be Jeremiah, but we’re all called. And there is an echo of our call in Jeremiah’s call. Call to be…

Good morning... Introduce self... This morning we are going to do something a little different. We had a team go to Logan Utah on a scout trip. We are going to give that team the majority of our time this morning. How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe…

Illustration Jason—at a young age he was taken by social services out of his home, where his mother was addicted to heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. Tossed from one foster care house to another, he finally found a home—a Christian home. He went to church to please his new parents, but never had a genuine…

Today we want to look at the questions people are asking. When people come to us with a request, we often try to determine where their heart is coming from. Again this week we had a request to buy food for a lady and her son. Out of compassion, our church as a policy on how we deal with these requests.…

While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a…

The Biblical Building Blocks for Motherhood A Christian Witness to Mother’s Day Prov 30:31 Titus 2:3-8 · Woman o Relationship with God comes before Marriage and Motherhood o Loving God Completely (Greatest Commandment) § Matt 22:37-40 o Loving Ourselves Correctly (Sense of Security in who I am and whose…

28 A man without self-control is as defenseless as a city with broken-down walls. Anything that’s uncontrolled eventually will destroy you. It can be eating, drinking, sex, television, chocolate, spending, pecan pie… anything that’s not controlled will eventually destroy you. So we have been looking…