LIVING AND SHARING THE GOSPEL
OPENING SONG OPENING PRAYER OPENING COMMENTS Today is the first Sunday of this Christmas season. Our focus will be on how God enters human history with compassion and solidarity. The selected readings — as per the RCL — are listed below … Our call to worship psalm, Psalm 148:1–14, is a call to all […]
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To believe the Gospel is to believe that the problem (between God and Man) has been solved, in Christ. However, to believe the Gospel involves believing that Jesus of Nazareth was God — that Jesus of Nazareth was indeed Emmanuel (God with Us). That was the point Apostle John was making in
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OPENING COMMENTS Today is Christmas, a day we celebrate God becoming flesh, the nativity of our Lord. We also refer to this day as the celebration of the Incarnation — when the Son of God took on human form to become fully human and fully divine. As the apostle John wrote, he took on
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A CONVERSATION Why are you here? You are all special to me and, in some cases, special to someone close to me. As we approach the end of a year … we start looking ahead to the new year, hoping it will be better. That often involves looking back at the year that
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OPENING COMMENTS Today is Advent 4. As we continue through this season of waiting for the coming of the Lord, we realize everything God does is done in love — including the “three comings” of Jesus. These include his arrival in history as the babe born of the virgin Mary, his glorious return at
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OPENING COMMENTS In this session, I want to look at two genealogies and two encounters But, first … a recap (in the form of an audio recording) RECAP Intro to the theme of Luke’s Gospel … and the concept of the Memra in John’s Gospel … Three things about the Memra (Aramaic for the
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Should Believers Be Baptized? Is baptism essential to the Christian life? Should people be baptized again if they change churches or denominations? Is it essential to be baptized in a specific way, such as sprinkling, pouring or immersion? On the first Pentecost after Jesus’ resurrection, Peter exhorted his listeners: “Repent and be baptized, every one
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OPENING COMMENTS As we continue through this season of waiting for the coming of the Lord, we come today to Advent 3. Advent focuses on three “comings” — Jesus’ arrival in history as the babe born of the virgin Mary, his glorious return at the end of the age, and his intermediate entrance into and
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The Gospel is fairly easy to understand … even if it’s hard to believe. The Gospel, in a nutshell, is that … Man had a problem (with God) that he couldn’t solve. God sent His Son to solve Man’s problem. The Son (Jesus) solved the problem. To believe the Gospel is to believe that
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A Message from Our Home Office The theme for this week is Jesus offers true peace. In our call to worship psalm, David shares that our hope for true peace comes from the king of righteousness, “who alone does wonderous things.” Psalm 72:1–7, 18–19 The prophet Isaiah talks about the shoot of Jesse, a
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