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Introduction Welcome and good morning. It is so good to come and see you all. Welcome to you online as well. We are glad you are here with us today. We have been going through Ephesians and learning about Practical Advice for Christian Living. The last couple of weeks Paul has been teaching about this…

Imitating Christ

Intro: My childhood epilepsy caused me to have a strange aura. (Mom and Dad in a shouting match with dad cussing.) You’ve probably heard the saying, like father like son. It is a saying that really is a description of sons that take on many of the traits of their father. This is not an uncommon thing…

Introduction We’re moving right along in our look through the book of Ephesians. Last we saw Paul encouraging his readers and us to put on new clothes, or new behavior, since were new creations in Christ. Because of who we are in Christ means that we should act differently from those who are not Christians…

Commercials fascinate me in so many ways. They have somewhere between 15 and 60 seconds to tell you, a. There’s a problem. b. There’s a solution to your problem. c. This is the answer. It doesn’t take a prophet to recognize there is a lot of division in our country and our world. And it’s not just varying…

Quarterly Business meeting next week A very short Finance team meeting after service today INTRODUCTION This morning we will be continuing in our series through Matthew and we will be learning about “Discipleship is imitating Jesus”. Many people have their own idea of what it means to follow Christ,…

Good Imitations: Sharpening & Pruning Imitating God Created In His Image- Genesis 1:26-27 Forgiveness & Love- Ephesians 4:32-5:2 Why Imitate God? God Says Science Says History Says What Does Imitation Do? It Changes Us- Ephesians 4:20-24 How? Sharpening Pruning We Need To Be Sharpened Iron sharpens iron,…

Imitating the faith practice of mature Christians is not fake; it's faith.

As He was going out of the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, behold what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another which will not be torn down.” As He was sitting on the Mount of…

On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you…

Title : John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he wasn’t following us.” “Don’t stop him,” said Jesus, “because there is no one who will perform a miracle in my name who can soon afterward speak evil of me. For whoever is not against…

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…

One of the scribes approached. When he heard them debating and saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, “Which command is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all…

Then they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road. And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” And many…

And Jesus, looking around, said to His disciples, “How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!” And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! “It is easier for a camel to go…

While Jesus was teaching in the temple, he asked, “How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the son of David? David himself says by the Holy Spirit: The Lord declared to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.’ David himself calls him ‘Lord.’ How, then, can he be his…

And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?” Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; answer…

Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says…

James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, came up to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask of You.” And He said to them, “What do you want Me to do for you?” They said to Him, “Grant that we may sit, one on Your right and one on Your left, in Your glory.” But Jesus said to…

And as He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and began asking Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone. “You know the commandments, ‘ DO NOT MURDER , DO NOT COMMIT…

Mark 10:1-12 And standing up, He went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds gathered around Him again, and, according to His custom, He once more began to teach them. And some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man…

Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him; for they were saying, “Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the people.” While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper,…

And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk. And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone’s opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to…

And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.…

And they were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking on ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were fearful. And again He took the twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to Him: “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will…