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Introduction: Have you ever been sent on an important errand and forgot what you were sent to do? It happens to me all of the time. I will have something from the store that I am supposed to pick up or something that I was supposed to take care of in town. It can be frustrating, especially to the one…

Prayer Let’s pray. Preamble When considering what to bring out of the Christmas story I had one word that kept coming back to me again and again. I had no idea how I would deal with it, but of all the words I could have chosen to focus on, this seemed the most important and is at the very heart of what…

What is your mission? What has God called you to do? Has he called you to marriage? Has He called you raise a family? Has He called you to serve Him and His church? Has He called you to all the above? What is your mission? What is your purpose? Are you drawn with magnetic appeal to a specific calling…

It is an absolute joy to worship with you this morning. Today is a great day of celebration as we declare the Lord Jesus Christ has risen from the grave. There is nothing that has happened in the entire history of the world more important than the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I have…

Where there's no obedience, there's no miracles!

A Few Opening Questions... How many of you know the first and middle names of your grandparents? Great-grandparents? How do you know their names? Here’s the key to this line of questioning…and it is not to make you feel bad, but if you think about it, unless you have done a study of your genealogy, you…

Last week we looked at Luke 9 where Jesus asked His disciples who people thought He was. Then He turned the question and asked them, “Who do you say that I am?” Peter spoke up for the group. Do you remember His response? Jesus then gives the apostles and us a challenge: Show Me. Today I want to revisit…

It had been almost 3 ½ years since the day he’d dropped everything he’d ever known to step out into a life he knew nothing about. He could still remember Jesus’ whisper loud enough for only him to hear amidst the crowd. “Come and follow me.” Peter knew very little of what he was getting into but something…

Private Appearances of Jesus In the Gospel of Mark , once the resurrection has happened, and the women go tell the disciples, who can’t fathom what’s going on, the gospel ends so abruptly that later editors added just a bit to explain Jesus’ continued work for and through the disciples. Matthew is also…

Introduction: I would like to begin today’s message with a poem I found online this week. This poem reminds us of the mountains we sometime face in our lives. It speaks of despair and sorrow, as well as courage. It talks of trouble and of blessings. It speaks of weakness and strength. So it is with life.…

Jesus’ mission is the Operation Freedom. Freedom from the bondage of sin. Freedom from the bondage of suffering. Freedom from the bondage of blindness or ignorance. Freedom from the bondage of purposelessness or meaninglessness. Freedom to set others free—that means freedom to forgive and let go. When you forgive others, you also set yourself free. So, this is our mission. Jesus came to set us free and commissioned us to set others free. We are in the mission of Operation Freedom.

What do eating a taco and experiencing God's grace have in common?

1 Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you. 2 We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. 3 We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted…

God Open Our Eyes to See Oconee Duct Tape was the greatest invention created for humanity. With it MacGyver could fix anything and save the world. Almost every American owns at least one role. Its uses and purpose seem endless, but duct tape doesn’t even do what it was designed to do - seal ducts - no…

La Misión de Jesús según el evangelio de Lucas, según Is.61:1-2 o 58:6 (LXX)

God has called us to go and preach the good news to all the ends of the Earth... are we?

ME Today is the third Sunday of Advent, and Advent means Coming or Arrival of Jesus Christ from heaven to earth as the son of God, and in the historical Christian calendar, there is a four week countdown until the season of Christmas. During this waiting of his coming (though he has already come 2,000…

Introduction We are coming into one of the teachings of Jesus that is widely ignored by today’s pastors and churches, but one that every person should read and study until they understand everything Jesus is conveying through this parable. Before we look at that passage, I want to take a moment and revisit…

The church has been sending out missionaries since the beginning, therefore, mission work must be priority for the contemporary church.

Copyright October 2, 2022 by Rev. Bruce Goettsche One of my pet peeves when going to a movie (apart from the ridiculous price of popcorn) are all the movie trailers you have to watch before you finally get to the actual movie. I feel a little like I am held hostage to what amounts to a bunch of commercials.…

Joshua is commissioned by God to go on a conquest of entering the promised land. God has also commissioned us to conquest the land around us in the PNWest.

The more I have studied Jesus in his historical setting, the more it has become clear to me that this prayer sums up fully and accurately, albeit in a very condensed fashion, the way in which he read and responded to the signs of the times, the way in which he understood his own vocation and mission…