The Eighth Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:10-24 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does...
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The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:1-8 3 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it...
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The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: 1 John 1:5-2:6 Light and Darkness, Sin and Forgiveness 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to...
Read moreThe Fifth Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: Mark 4:35-41 Jesus Calms the Storm 35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” 36 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as...
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The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13 34 Then Samuel left for Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.35 Until the day Samuel died, he did not go to see Saul again, though Samuel mourned...
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The Second Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:5-11, 16-18 5 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out...
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Sitting with Barsabbas – Scripture Reading: Acts 1:15-26 15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty) 16 and said, “Brothers and sisters,[a] the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which...
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A God of Surprises – Scripture Reading: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 25 As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence.26 But Peter made him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.” 34 Then...
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Philip and the Ethiopian – Scripture Reading: Acts 8:26-40 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian[a]...
Read moreSermon The Third Sunday After Easter April 22, 2018 “Responsible Love” 1 John 3:11-24 Some of you know that playing board games isn’t high up on my list of things to do. In fact, if that list had a basement, I’d bury board games a few miles...
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Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King – Scripture Reading: Mark 11:1-11 11 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you...
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Jesus Appears to His Disciples Scripture Reading: John 20:19-29 19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said...
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