LIVING AND SHARING THE GOSPEL
TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:12-17  NRSV Updated Edition  12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are obligated, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh — 13 for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all […]
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CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING COMMENTS Today is the first Sunday in Easter Preparation, a period of reflection and preparation for Easter celebration. For many people, this season is associated with a period of giving up something we enjoy for 40 days. This practice can create room within ourselves so that we might be transformed,
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TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:5-11  NRSV Updated Edition  5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit[e] set their minds on the things of the Spirit.[f]  6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind
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OPENING COMMENTS Today is the last Sunday in the season of Epiphany. It is also the last Sunday before the Lenten (Easter Preparation) season begins on Ash Wednesday. Today is also known as Transfigurartion Sunday, which reminds us of a time when the disciples saw Jesus in his true glory, which is
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TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 8:1-5  NRSV Updated Edition  1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit[a] of life in Christ Jesus has set you[b] free from the law of sin and of death.  3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could
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OPENING COMMENTS We continue in the season of Epiphany, a time of revealing or making Jesus known. Our theme for the Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany is doing what Jesus did. This theme is reflected in our call to worship, Psalm 37, which encourages us to “refrain from anger, and forsake wrath. Do not
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TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 7:14-25  NRSV Updated Edition  14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.[a]  15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.  16 Now if I do what I
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WELCOME … THANKS … OPENING COMMENTS The theme for this week is HOPE. Our two messages for today remind us that we must ground our hope for the future in the resurrection of Christ. OPENING SONG OPENING PRAYER FIRST READING 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 Now I want you to understand, brothers and sisters, the
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TONIGHT’S TEXT Romans 7:1-13  NRSV Updated Edition  1 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters — for I am speaking to those who know the law — that the law is binding on a person only during that person’s lifetime? 2 Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as
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CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING COMMENTS  Today is the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany The theme for this week is FAITH. The text for our sermon today, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, outlines the gospel message that Paul reminds us to put our trust in. OPENING SONG(S) SCRIPTURE READING 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Now I
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