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9 Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. 36 “Abba, Father,” he cried out, “everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.” 16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever…

32 Then they came to a place which was named Gethsemane; and He said to His disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 And He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He began to be troubled and deeply distressed. 34 Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch.”…

Into Rock and a hard place? Stuck in a situation where any solution is as inaccessible as every other one. Such was the case for Aaron Ralston. He was an outdoor enthusiast and loved mountaineering. One trip near Canyonlands National Park in UT he was repelling down into a narrow canyon. In his maneuvering,…

Text : Mark 14:26-31 Betrayed: Prophecy of Denial Type thesis statement here Introduction : (Insert Introduction Statements, Illustration) - Brief Explanation of Text Problem to be addressed Solution/Restate Thesis Point I: And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Explain…

Palm Sunday 2024 Good Morning Church! This morning in recognition of Palm Sunday we are doing something that we have never done here. As you know I have invited you all to join me in a fast this week as we approach Resurrection Day, to prepare our hearts and minds to celebrate the most important day…

Welcome to Heartland Christian Church. Thanks for joining us for our first ever Good Friday Service. This service will be different then our normal service. We'll sing some songs, take communion and read some scriptures, but there will be no sermon. The focus of this service is on the death of our Lord…

Introduction When is the last time you had to pull an all nighter? I have not done so in quite a while and was never really good at it. I’ve gone to bed really late and I’ve had to get up really early, but at least I got a little sleep. I just don’t do well without sleep. I’m not unusual. That’s the…

(S1)—SERIES Experiencing Lent; a wilderness journey; 40 days, we are to reflect on our own faith journey. How is your wilderness journey going? Seeing blessing: give God praise. Struggling; find mercy and forgiveness—Give thanks. We began by looking at Jesus' baptism...sent into the wilderness— A place…

What A Fool Believes 27 There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, Controversy. it is loaded in Luke 20 . The Jews question Jesus’ authority. Jesus has told the parable of the master of the vineyard, where the father sends servants to the vineyard and finally sends…

Before I preach, I want to take a moment to talk about our opportunity to help some of our family in the body of Christ, particularly to the west of us in Fort Myers, Naples, and other places that were impacted by Hurrican Ian. There are about 11 C&MA churches in the areas that had the most devastation.…

In 2018 a member of the Cathedral small group Richard and I led suffered a sudden brain aneurysm when she was out visiting a friend. She was fit and healthy, with two young adult children. We had prayed for our small group members to deepen in intimacy with Jesus and our friend was growing in faith.…

Introduction What Humility is Not A pretense of being unaware of your strengths There is nothing more prideful than mock humility Dangerous during a job interview Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? I am a better…

Introduction: Good morning, If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Mark chapter 11. We are going to begin reading with part of the passage that we covered last week and then we will continue on to our new text for study this morning. If its your first time here this…

The phrase “the darkest day” or “darkest hour” has been used throughout history describing a time when bad events are at their worst. Some darkest days in history were; The early period of World War II, from the mid-1940 to mid-1941, when it was certain that Britain would be invaded by Germany [ Churchill…

Introduction: Two reasons make this message timely. One, this is the season when many begin to ponder the sacrifice of Christ. Two, we are participating in communion tonight and in doing so, we are told to remember something very specific. I. Pressure II. Prayer III. Possibilities

Understanding who is He ? 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 13 Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.…

5 For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.

Every person will come to several forks in the road of life. When we are at these forks, we must make a decision of which path to take. And that choice will lead us to another fork and another to where we will have determined our life’s goal and plans. These forks in the road include choices of friends,…

Our Father’s Kingdom Introduction On June 11, 2001, twenty years ago, Timothy McVeigh was executed. You might not know who that is, but he was the American terrorist who bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building, killing 168 people, including 19 children. On the day of his execution, he ate 2 pints of…

Not My Will For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. This weekend we remember the great exchange that Him who know no sin for those who knew sin but did not know him! The reality was that we were…

Introduction Good morning! Please open your Bibles with me to Mark 14 , Mark 14 . In our passage today, we see something we don’t see in any other time throughout the entirety of the scriptures. With the exception of parallel passages recording these events found in Matthew and Luke, nowhere in scripture…

Let us pray…Gracious and Loving God, as we come before you this day, our hearts are full of love for you and the life of your Son, our minds are full of the things that we need to do yet today and in this coming week, and our eyes cannot escape all that flashes before them as we scan the TV, computer,…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, as we come before you today, we pray for hearts focused on you, for ears trained to your still speaking voice, and eyes to see clearly the path you have laid before us, Amen. The Invitation I know in the last year this does not or has not happened much but think back…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, as we move further away from your Son’s birth, help us in this day to remember the glow, the excitement, and the joy that came from celebrating his birth. As we come before you today in this time of reflection, open our hearts, minds, and spirits to your still speaking…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…