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Mark 14:32-41 INTRODUCTION: As we join Jesus and His men once again, they are in the midst of an eventful night. They have just finished the Instituting of the Lord’s Supper, vv. 12-26 . They left the room and made their way from Jerusalem down through the Kidron Valley to A Place Called Gethsemane .…

When we left Jesus last week He was correcting the Pharisees…telling them that you do not fast when the bridegroom is present you rejoice! And a parable about new cloth on old clothes and new wine in old wine skins. Both of these parables are making the same point. He is not an add on to the religion…

Our door to door evangelism yesterday Josh Buddhist couple Tyler Brandon Halie kim Caroline Gary Kadence Day & Dillion Naja Shannon Lindas family Julie and Ray Kylie VBS We are looking at possibly doing a VBS at the end of July I have spoken with Salem and they may join in with us so we can do it together…

Sabbath, God's gift to us, is a time set apart to rest from work, worship God, tend to our soul, and bless others.

Limit #2: Your Body Attention Getter: Manic Monday by The Bangles 1986 Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine And if I had an airplane, I still couldn't make it on time 'Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear Blame it on the train, but the boss is already there…

4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works” ; 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” 6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because…

Today, we’re taking a pause between two different sermon series. We completed a series last week and next week we will be beginning a new series, so it’s time to take a pause. Do you take time to rest? When you go on vacation do you plan extended times to rest or do you plan every moment so that when…

Intro: I was a wired and strung-out kid. I did not know how to rest. It ended up being part of both epilepsy and ADHD. I could not sleep. Still a struggle at times. God, knowing the tendency of the human heart is self-reliance and not taking pause. God put into place a design to put the brakes on our…

What to do about the Sabbath As promised last week, this week we will be looking at the fourth commandment, and this one, perhaps more than any of the others, is a source of misunderstanding or contention, because the Church generally does not practice the keeping of the commandment the same way a Jew…

Jesus' Perfect Work of Salvation for Us Enables us to Honor Him and the Day Set Apart for Him. During our Wednesday evening gatherings our attention is directed to the Ten Commandments, where Luther famously explains each command with, “We should fear and love God so that...” It is only the First Commandment…

The fourth commandment is about more than just a day for church; it is about a pattern of sabbath rest which sets our hearts upon God in all our days.

Biblical rest is modeled and granted as an act of God's completion, not the remedy for exhaustion.

Good morning saints. It is so good to be together today. Today is resurrection Sunday! Today we celebrate that day in history that Jesus defeated death and the grave - for our sake. This is a big day for us. As the story goes - two thousand years or so ago, a group of religious people got together to…

Priorities. Priorities are what makes the world work. We all have our priorities. Yours are different than mine. Mine are different than yours. Sometimes things come along that force us to rearrange our priorities. That happened to me this week, when I went in for a tooth evaluation and ended up with…

Introduction “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your…

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is…

The rest God has for you. · As a young boy I played various sports—baseball, basketball….I was proof that a child could not be any good and still play…or at least, practice. I remember running laps, doing drills. I remember very clearly, when doing those laps and drills, that we had to continue and could…

1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 3 For we who…

Mothers and their many responsibilities. 1. This mother knew where to go in her time of need, 2 Kings 4:1 . Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord ; and the creditor has come to…

Interesting piece of historical information, before our modern interstate system. The majority of our highways and roads were built on existing, well known paths that people followed. In Europe the paths were trodden by individuals or groups searching for food, shelter, or traveling between communities.…

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always…

John 6:16-40 After feeding the 5000

Learning to Lean on Jesus Cast your cares - 1 Peter 5:6-11 “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a…

Weariness plagues us all This is why rest is one of the first questions in counseling What causes weariness? Most do not become weary of success Loss, betrayal, hardship, and sin Lamentations 1:1–5 (ESV) How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great…

Recap: Queen Esther finds favor in the sight of the king. Queen Esther makes her Pre-request to the king…she seeks for the king and Haman to join her in a banquet that she has prepared. Haman is on cloud 9 at this point…thinking that the king and queen desire to honor him He walks away gloating about…