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Big Idea: Jesus has called sinners, and only sinners, to follow Him. Even the worst of the worst can be saved Salvation calls for Celebration Righteous people don’t need saving The beauty of the gospel of Jesus Christ should be evident this morning in our text as we see the event of Jesus calling Levi,…

Resurrection 23 The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, Jesus has just answered the question about paying taxes to Caesar for the Pharisees and later on that day gets cornered by the Sadducees. Now all three groups had challenged Jesus’…

Introduction—Lord’s Great Marriage Feast : several things need to be noted about this parable. The Great Marriage Feast, deals with the Kingdom of Heaven . This is important. Although the parable tells how God dealt with Israel and turned from Israel, its major point is God’s dealings with His new people,…

With Thanksgiving coming up this week, and with the changes of life and growing older, I guess I have gone a little nostalgic. I can remember the younger days of what Thanksgiving meant. Putting on warm clothes, getting a fire started to warm water, and turning the hogs into sausage, ham, pork chops…you…

The goal of the sermon is that the hearers will take seriously God’s offer of grace. — The problem is that we sometimes make God's gracious offer an excuse for sinning. — The means to the goal is that God invites all sinners and provides them with the needed garment. There are invitations we might be…

Respond to the invitation of your King with grateful & faith-filled obedience rather than entitlement!

Coming out of last week, Jesus was asked questions by the Sadducees about the law in relationship to the resurrection if someone had multiple husbands. They wanted to know whose wife she would be in heaven after the resurrection. What they were trying to do was get their point across that the resurrection…

Paying Taxes Now, we must remember that Jesus has spoken the third parable related to the wedding feast. In that parable Jesus is pretty blunt that “many are called”, but “few are chosen”. Does this mean God has already chosen those who will go to heaven? (Pre-destination?) Certainly not, what this eludes…

Matthew 22:1-14 Speaking of chosen - I think I regret choosing to preach on Mt 22:1-14 - I chose it because its complicated. And then - as I wrote my sermon I found myself getting more complicated. But here goes... My attention... Socks and Crocs If you know me well - you will know that I probably wouldn’t…

Wedding Clothes Now when the Pharisees 38 heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, 39 they assembled together. 40 And one of them, an expert in religious law, 41 asked him a question to test 42 him: “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 43 Jesus 44 said to him, “ ‘ Love 45 the Lord…

Introduction This morning, Isaiah prophecies a feast upon the mountain of the Lord, the Psalmist’s cup overflows, Paul commands us to rejoice, and Jesus tells a parable about a wedding. The common theme here is that a party is going on, so we should get on board. I hear from a few of you each week who…

1 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. 1 I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love! 17 The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will…

WWJD (What Would Jesus Do)?

Call to worship Welcome everyone! TITUS 2:11-14 “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our…

In His Presence Only the humble believe him and rejoice that God is so free and so marvelous that he does wonders where people despair, that he takes what is little and lowly and makes it marvelous. And that is the wonder of all wonders, that God loves the lowly…. God is not ashamed of the lowliness…

Eating together is an important feature of almost all cultures. But what makes it so important to share food with others? Is it the same for Christians, or does it have even more significance? Join us as we look at why eating together is so important, and how we can do it better.

Intro ; A couple of weeks ago I was told by a church member that I had skipped some scriptures while preaching through the Gospel of Mark. I told him I would be coming back to it after Easter, but I was thankful that someone noticed. So today we came back to that scripture found in Mark 13 . But before…

God patiently, passionately, and perfectly invites you to participate in the glory of the Son!

I. The robe of blue, 28:31-35. The robe described in these verses is one of six pieces that were custom made for the high priest. It was a woven work of one piece, made of blue. It was seamless, sleeveless and hung below the knees. It had an opening in the middle, reinforce by a binding of woven work,…

Introduction: As the title figure in the movie Father of the Bride, Steve Martin does everything he can think of to cut the cost of his daughter’s upcoming wedding: trying on the old tuxedo he’s outgrown, offering to be the backyard chef at a down-home barbecue reception, slashing the guest list down…

Sometimes, we are just not prepared to respond to an invitation. We often get invited to a party or even more special occasion, like a wedding or even a funeral and we might not know how to dress appropriately. Sometimes, we are given a range of formal or semi-formal attire, but unless someone demonstrates…

Introduction/ Welcome Good morning and welcome to First Community Church, where we worship God in Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time. We are so glad that each one of you have joined us this morning and our prayer is that God speaks to you, that you glean something today that you can practically…

Introduction/Welcome Good morning and welcome to FCC where we worship God in Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time. We are so glad that each one of you have joined us this morning, and I hope you are looking forward to what the Lord has to say. Thank you for your thoughts, prayers, and text messages…

Welcome Good morning and welcome to FCC! Thanks you for worshipping with us in Spirit and Truth, one verse at a time. Let us quickly dive into the text at hand because we are headed to about 105 degrees today. Prayer Review Jesus is still in the temple and he has fired off three parables in a row. All…

Welcome Good morning and welcome to First community Church, where we worship The Lord in Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time. What a beautiful week we had and what a beautiful day we are having already. This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. Are you glad? We have so…