LIVING AND SHARING THE GOSPEL
SERMON REVERB Our Seating Doesn’t Determine Our Standing Luke 14:1-14 (NRSV) Our text today presents us with yet another story of Jesus around a meal table. Why do so many stories of Jesus involve eating and tables? The stories abound. One of the first attacks on Jesus had to do with him […]
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT This week’s theme is God’s abilities. In the call to worship Psalm, the psalmist makes his appeal to God’s ability to save him from the wicked.  Psalm 71:1-6  In You, O Lord, I put my trust; Let me never be put to shame. 2 Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape;  Incline
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Food For Thought This week’s theme is healing judgement. The call to worship Psalm is a call for Israel’s restoration who is likened to a ravished vine that was once flourishing. Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19  Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You who dwell between the cherubim, shine forth! 2 Before Ephraim,
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Food For Thought The theme for this week is seeing the invisible God by faith. In Psalm 50, the psalmist sees God in the beauty of creation. Psalm 50:1-8, 22-23  The Mighty One, God the Lord, Has spoken and called the earth From the rising of the sun to its going down.  2 Out of Zion, the perfection
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT This week’s theme is restorative love. The call to worship Psalm is a psalm of thanksgiving that provides a moving portrait of God’s steadfast love. Psalm 107:1-7,8-9,43  Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His [a]mercy endures forever. 2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,Â
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Faith is Not Enough Participating in the Love Avenue doesn’t make us right with God — it shows we already are.  I spent most of my life studying the Bible in an effort to get right with God. I studied the Old Testament so I could be faithful to some of the law, statutes, and
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