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Sanctity of Life Sunday 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Introduction Read 1 Peter 1:3-12 (ESV) When I was a teenager, I wanted to get a tattoo… “You want to be different from everybody else by doing the same thing everybody…

Unexpected Blessing We’ve been following Jacob in this series about identity. Jacob struggled with a bit of an identity crisis from before the time he was born. His brother, Esau, didn’t put much stock in his identity and actually sold his own birth right as first born son for a bowl of beans. Last week…

Intro Week four Looking at Identity and who we are in Christ Who we are is determined not by the stuff of the world, but by God in Christ. Week one - We looked at how our identities are found in beholding Christ Spending time with God, acknowledging his grandeur and beauty, develops our familiarity with…

Jesus is God’s Beloved At his baptism, before his major work - God gave him his identity, Beloved, Son of God! You are Beloved. Last week we discussed how God loves you! He gives you your identity. He gets to define you, not anything else sets that stage. We live knowing and operating out of that truth…

Life is puzzling. We do not have answers for many things, or at least I do not. I still do not know exactly why there is a war going on in Ukraine, but I understand the devastation. I do not fully comprehend why abuse happens, though I know the results. Yes, I know the real answer is “sin” and I am not…

49:1-3 - The Servant’s identity called from the womb - identity comes from God (what are the sources we look to for our identity?) - this calling is connected to speaking for God, words that will act as a sword or an arrow, driving God’s words home into the hearts of those that hear Him Jesus’ identity…

The ancient Greeks developed theater in remarkable ways that have influenced Western civilization up to the present. One of the genres they are credited with creating is called “tragedy.” The three authors—Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles— lived four hundred years before Christ, yet they influenced…

I assume that everyone here has been around little kids at Christmas time. I know, we just went through easter, so we really shouldn’t be talking about Christmas. However, it fits, just go with me. All those presents are under the Christmas tree. The kids have been itching to open them. Finally, the…

His Obedience our Salvation Isaiah 50:4–11 (ESV) 4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. 5 The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not…

Last week we began a series called Choose Joy. How many think it’s time… it’s time for some joy. You don’t see a lot of joy out in the world right now. Everyone is angry about something. In the prophecy of Jesus hundreds of years before he came, Isaiah described our time. 3 To console those who mourn…

Southwest Airline commercials, “wanna get away?” Have you ever felt so exposed and ashamed that you wanted to leave town? Wouldn’t you like to live a life free from shame? Wouldn’t you like to be able to say that you are making a habit of doing the right thing, not perfectly, but growing in purity? Out…

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, Explain catfishing… the process of luring someone into a relationship by means of a fictional, unreal online persona… It is pretending to be someone or something other than a person really is. Misrepresenting…

Take Your Seat Bo had a lot going on in life. His legs were lame. That’s not a very significant thing today. But back then, it was. It shaped everything about Bo’s life. He didn’t have a job, occasionally he got some money from strangers when he ask for it, some people call it begging. He lived with…

INTRODUCTION Let’s take a look at these postcards people put on a site called PostSecret Funny/Silly Secrets Recycling Dog Treats No beat Weddings are expensive Serious Secrets Unhappy career Secretively hurting Planning Divorce Can’t forgive teen pregnancy And then there are these... Running for stillborn…

Fellowship with Jesus & His Community is key to understanding Scripture and growing faith.

Sin isolates, Jesus unites; yet, moments of rest and solitude with God remain essential.

This is a year of Entrance Entrance Gate, Door, Treasure Chest You are My Key, and you are My Entrance. You are still in the time of being etched and shaped. My identity and your identity are being discovered, seen, and experienced by the guiding of My hands. You will now be walking into a fresh purpose…

Intro: Female emu attacked me in breeding season in Manhattan Zoo because I got in the way of who she wanted to mate with. Paul believed in an unseen spiritual realm, and Jesus did too. In fact, Jesus spent a large portion of his ministry in direct conflict with the demonic forces and setting captives…

NOTE: This is a manuscript, and not a transcript of this message. The actual presentation of the message differed from the manuscript through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely that there is material in this manuscript that was not included in the live presentation…

Intro Galadriel, the elf queen in Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings, is at the top echelon of creatures in the Tolkien universe. She is one of the three leaders of the three elven kingdoms in the books. But she stands alone in power and potential. During one scene in the second book (and movie) The Two Towers,…

How many of us made a New Year’s Resolution? According to goskills.com, millions of people will make resolutions this year, but over half those who make resolutions will fail. So, why do we do it? Well, maybe we want to lose weight, save money, exercise more, learn a new hobby or skill, travel more,…

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…

Secret Identities Can you name the alternate identities of the following people? · Clark Kent – (Superman) · Bruce Wayne – (Batman) · Steven Rogers – (Captain America) · Matthew Michael Murdock – (Daredevil) · Arthur Curry – (Aquaman) · Mile Peterson – (BibleMan) (make this funny) Why are we fascinated…

Leaving It All Behind On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he…