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Title : Rebuilding Had a different message in mind last week, but after praying, felt led to let that sit and stew on a back burner for a while, let it marinate a while longer… and today we’re diving into the minor prophet, Haggai. Text : Haggai 1:1-11 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth…

Getting Excited for Christmas Dollar Store Bike Bag Wouldn’t that be the best & worst Christmas gift for a kid — a new bicycle. It would be awesome b/c its a new bike. It would be awful b/c you’d want to ride it right away — but it is winter: ice to slip on, salt to rust, sand to make dirty. In the Gospel…

“Blind in Bethsaida” Mark 8:22–25 (ESV) K. Adrian Scott December 29, 2024 Contextual Intro . Only Mark's Gospel account gives us this story. It is an anomaly because it is the only miraculous healing by Jesus that is done in stages; two stages to be exact. All of the previous healings for the most part…

Baptism: the door home Coming home in freezing rain. Relieved to get home. Didn’t feel like home till i got a hug from my sisters and a hug from my mom. followed by a slap Baptism lets us in. But its the filling of the Spirit that shows us we are home. It is the product of the life with God that is the…

The Trinity at Christmas Luke 1:35 “And the angel answered and said to her, “ The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. ” A young child once asked their parent, 'Why do we have…

25 Now some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is this not He whom they seek to kill? 26 But look! He speaks boldly, and they say nothing to Him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is truly the Christ? 27 However, we know where this Man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from.”…

Mark. 8.22-25 “Blind in Bethsaida” (Conclusion) K. Adrian Scott January 5, 2025 Contextual Introduction. Only Mark's Gospel account gives us this story. All the previous healings by Jesus, for the most part, were instantaneous, or as in the case of the ten lepers, the healings were progressive healings…

The Gospel reading for this Sunday, from John chapter 3, contains the best-known, and most quoted, and memorized scripture by Christians and unchristians alike, these words of Christ, 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Acts chapter 14. If you do not have a copy of God’s word slip up your hand and one of our church members is coming down the aisle now and would be glad to bring you one. God spoke creation into existence with a spoken…

It seems appropriate that we would look at gift giving - and the giver of all good gifts the first Sunday of Advent. And as of Friday, we begin hearing Christmas music everywhere. I have been listening to Christmas music for a month already but now the world forces us to listen to the dumb Christmas…

The Sample family has a lot of traditions around Christmas. Most fall under the heading of waiting. We would wake up Christmas morning and we couldn’t open our stockings until all the kids were awake. Which required some waiting. Because some of the us kids liked to sleep in. Then, once the parents woke…

As sons and daughters of God, we bear the Mark of God. The Old Covenant feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles represented an internal relationship with God from our hearts. · Romans 14:17 …for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.…

Turn to Romans 15 Looking back at the past two months - and trying to build off last week - it was a good time to look at what we’re doing and things that maybe need to shift, or tighten up, or even things that need to be let go. To be honest, this morning’s message, wrote up last Saturday when I was…

What is Matthew’s purpose in writing the birth narrative accounts in his gospel? Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus and Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus are very different? Why? They do not contradict each other. Rather they both emphasize different parts of Jesus’s birth. Why? We can learn…

John 6:1-14 1 After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 2 Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. 3 And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. 4 Now the Passover,…

What is Matthew’s purpose in writing the birth narrative accounts in his gospel? Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus and Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus are very different? Why? They do not contradict each other. Rather they both emphasize different parts of Jesus’s birth. Why? We can learn…

Christmas morning in our home consist of waking up, enjoying a fun breakfast of strawberry crepes, the reading of the Christmas story from Luke’s gospel, prayer and then the opening of gifts… Combined Emotions of: Expectation Excitement Discovery as the paper is torn back Wonder & Awe filled with gratitude…

7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves…

Nothing is impossible with God How many of you will throw leftovers or something in the microwave when you are in a hurry? You toss it in, press the buttons to turn it on, then you just stand there and wait for your food to finish. How many of you will watch the numbers count down, but feel like it is…

so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything. How would you describe a thriving church? Nice buildings?…

Unto thee, O Lord , do I lift up my soul. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, Let not mine enemies triumph over me. Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: Let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. Shew me thy ways, O Lord ; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach…

Jim Cymbala was on a full ride basketball scholarship, captain of the team, won a conference championship and played in the NCCA. On track for a major in sociology and a successful career, when he met his wife Carol who was a gifted organist and pianist, even though she had never been formally trained.…

Enough is as Good as a Feast Greed vs. Thanks One of the movies that has been seen many times in our home is Mary Poppins. The “practically perfect” nanny has a lot of great lines in the movie, and on of my favorite lines is “Enough is as good as a feast”. In this simple statement, Mary Poppins is explaining…

Intro. Advent is..... Chosen series is ending. Theme is love… light candle. The love we talk about today is horizontal love.... love for other people. The greatest vertical act of love was God, Jesus- coming to earth and dying in our place. What would be the greatest horizontal act of love we could do?…

But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. The people who walked in darkness have seen…