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This Week’s Theme: Steadfastness in Suffering Word for the Week is Suffering: It is the experience of pain or distress, both physical and emotional. Scripture is thoroughly realistic about the place of suffering in the world and in the lives of believers. To become a Christian is not to escape from suffering,…

31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right…

Sheep and Goats “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his…

Our Scriptures today come from Isaiah, Psalms, and Matthew 25 . I’m beginning a series on Matthew 25 . Our Opening Scripture comes from Isaiah 58:1-11 . “Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they…

Introduction: Can you feel it? Christmas is upon us. What was the longest you’ve ever had to wait for a present? Paintball Gun - Waited what seemed like forever only to be told they were sold out and my parents couldn’t get it for me for Christmas. Transition: Today we are going to look at the first…

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall…

Matthew 25:31-40 “ When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep…

We are continuing through our series on the fruit of the Spirit. And we began with a stark contrast between works and fruit. The works of the flesh; and the fruit of the Spirit. Clearly they are two very different things and they contrast one another in an abundance of ways. In our journey we’ve noted…

INTRODUCTION So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Freedom of choice, but not the negative consequences…

A boy entered a grocery store one morning and asked the grocer for a box of Tide detergent. The grocer was puzzled and asked why he wanted a box of Tide. The boy said that he was going to wash his cat. The grocer said, "Young man, you shouldn’t wash your cat with this kind of soap." However, the boy…

We have so much to celebrate here at Mission Woods, and for the past couple of weeks we’ve been looking at the results of our survey and our call as a church. The church in itself has always been an interesting organization in that its primary call is to those that are not members. One could contend…

Today is Christ the King Sunday. This Sunday is one of my favorite Sundays to preach because the preacher has one job this morning, and that is to talk about the kingship of Jesus Christ. A few weeks ago I preached about the end of the biblical story, which is not disembodied life up among the clouds…

Live with your wife... shared life and partnership sharing life, not merely duties …in an understanding way the essence of “gnosis”- e.g. “Amyology” naked and unashamed Gen 2:24-25 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the…

Introduction Fun Girl Names Clotilde = famous in battle Etiennette = woman with a crown Avriel = to open the flowers of spring Eugenie = noble Names have meaning, and in the Bible, the meaning of a person’s name was significant. Prophet Hosea’s name means “salvation” One of Hosea’s sons was named Jezreel,…

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.”…

Attributes of Jesus 14 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation. Knowledge of Jesus 15 “ ‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! Question- how many times…

The Gospel of John records the words written above the cross on which Jesus died. It read: “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this sign…but the chief Priests protested to Pilate: “Do not write “the King of the Jews, but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.” Pilate…

Larry King was once asked: "If you could select any one person across all of history to interview, who would it be?" Mr. King's answer was that he would like to interview Jesus Christ. When the questioner followed with, "And what would you like to ask him?" King replied, "I would like to ask him if he…

New series for 2021 - Jesus is In! The doctor is “in” - Lucy in Peanuts - psychiatric help for 5 cents Want to be part of the “in” crowd? Jesus is In! “He Is” goes through the books of the Bible highlighting things about Jesus, the Messiah. “In Genesis, He's the breath of life.” We see the Messiah throughout…

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats…

Two major issues: speech and power. They sometimes go hand in hand and sometimes they do not. We are fortunate we have, at least right now, the freedom of speech. Yet, it is not uncommon for those in power to try and restrict speech and conversation. Lord Acton: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute…

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in…

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…