Scripture: Matthew

How Do We Respond?

15 through 21. When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, what if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him? So they sent word to Joseph saying, your father left these instructions before he died. This is what you…

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How We Live Together

For the church. Now, before you even think about this as not a miracle, bear in mind, we are not the best building blocks that God could have used for the church. We are sinners, we argue, we fight, we have interpersonal problems, and guess what? If Jesus didn’t give us a path…

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When Mom Calls for Help

And our New Testament lesson from Matthew 15, we’ll start with verses 10 and go all the way to verse 28. On Pew Bible page 791. Hear God’s word. Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, listen and understand, it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but…

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All the Faith Until…..

life to take it away he said go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord for the Lord is about to pass by now there was a great wind so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord but the Lord was not in the…

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When Jesus does Math

He doesn’t raise a friend or a little girl from the dead. All he does is feed 5,000 people. Even saying, all he does, just seems like I’m diminishing this miracle. And it can’t be diminished, because it’s one of those great things he does. So it’s kind of like what I would call a…

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All the Equipment and None of the Will

A mustard seed, yeast, a pearl of great price, a dragnet, are all things that Jesus likens to the Kingdom of Heaven. Now, it might seem like all these images are a little bit different, and they can be grouped into pairings, or at least some closer to the other. Yeast and…

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When God Gardens

Today, I’m going to be reading Isaiah chapter 44, verses 6 through 8. Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts, I am the first and I am the last. Besides me there is no God. Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare…

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Rejection and an Invitation

in the garage and building a yoke for all of you to try on. But I wasn’t gonna go into the garage and do woodworking in 100 degree heat. Now, when Jesus begins, he talks about a bit of a contrarian attitude of the leadership around Israel. The leaders of Judah, the religious leaders, the…

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The Lord Will Provide

Our first reading today is from the book of Genesis, chapter 22, verses 1 through 14, on page 15 in your Bible. The Command to Sacrifice Isaac. After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, Abraham, and he said, Here I am. He said, Take your son, your only son Isaac,…

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Disciple Beware

Today’s Old Testament reading is from Jeremiah, chapter 20, verses 7 to 13, Bible page 623. O Lord, you have enticed me, and I was enticed. You have empowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long. Everyone mocks me. For whenever I speak, I must cry out,…

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Courage and Trust

He’s fulfilling particular roles as he goes. He’s teaching, he’s preaching, and he’s healing. It’s like he’s on his own little tour, so to speak. Now, when I think of these roles or offices, they’re fairly common to us. When we think of Jesus teaching, healing, and preaching, this is Jesus at his…

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Don’t Miss This Meeting

Recording in progress. Perfect, doesn’t get much better than this. So this morning we’ll be reading from the Old Testament, Psalm 8, on your page 435 in your pew Bible. I’m reading from a slightly different Bible so my words might not match yours. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name…

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