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Wise Men Still Seek Him (Matthew 2:1-11)

Christmas Unwrapped Unwrapping the Gifts of the Wise Men Introduction: This morning we are going to continue our teaching series “Christmas Unwrapped” I want to begin today by asking a simple question.... Maybe it was something unexpected, something deeply personal, or even something that changed the…

Luke 2. 8-11 “Joy To the World” K. Adrian Scott Second Sunday of Advent December 15, 2024 Introduction . St. Luke is the historian for the birth of John the Baptizer, the Old Testament Prophet whose story appears early in the Gospels in between the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament,…

5 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.” 6 For to us a child is born, to…

This is the last year in 2023, another year will soon behind us. It’s hard to believe! This church will have been going for 168 years old this April. I am currently the 28th pastor, including one pastor returning I came in December of 2019, and have now been here for four years. We made it through a…

Tonight I’m going to take a few minutes to consider several different perspectives from the characters we see in our Christmas story. Because chances are you know the story, but I want us to put ourselves in the story and to consider some of the things we don’t always think about. So we’re going to start…

(S1) — Favorite Christmas Movies Every Christmas movie has a character who’s only goal is to wreck Christmas. It’s a Wonderful Life (Mr Potter)/The (Grinch) Who Stole Christmas/Home Alone (Harry/Marv) Even your beloved Hallmark movies…t here is always a villain, someone whose chief goal is to make others…

We have discussed many different religions throughout this series and we have come to what I desire to be the last one. That is, how to evangelize Jewish people. 1 Now when Jesus was born in Beth-lehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2…

Review Tanakh Brit Eber (ebur) I AM (grafted) He appeared will have life Brit Chadashah: ( John 4:3-14 ) Brit Chadashah Second Coming/ Tribulation A New Moon Anani Tribulation Evil Inclination/ And He went Out Grafted Introduction Torah Summary 4 And he commanded them, saying, “Speak thus to my lord…

Matthew 2:1-12 My family watched the movie Unsung Heroes again the other day. It’s a true story about the Smallbone family. At a difficult time in their lives, the Smallbones—who would one day become the family behind the Christian band For King & Country—were struggling financially. Christmas was approaching,…

TEXT: MATTHEW 2:1-10 | WHEN YOU DON’T SEE THE STAR ME ILLUSTRATION : I had already gotten my first elk, and we had prepared it to come back and pack it out this next day with a horse. Tressa’s dad and I were looping our way around to camp, when suddenly Joe dropped to his knee and pulled the trigger.…

The Purpose Fascination - Discovery - Identity - Authenticity One day, Napoleon was speaking of the Divinity of Christ; when General Bertrand said:— “I can not conceive, sire, how a great man like you can believe that the Supreme Being ever exhibited himself to men under a human form, with a body, a…

We have discussed many different religions throughout this series and we have come to what I desire to be the last one. That is, how to evangelize Jewish people. 1 Now when Jesus was born in Beth-lehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2…

A couple weeks ago, I introduced the sermon by discussing the problem with doing something for the first time. Do you remember that? I said the problem with doing something for the first time is that you can never repeat the event. You can do the exact same things in the exact same order, but it will…

Coral service 22 Decmeber 24

Who Were The Wise Men? Matthew chapter two tells us the story of Jesus a short time after He was born. Up to two years after He was born He was still in Bethlehem and emissaries from the east arrived looking for Him. These are who we call the “wise men”. This week let’s look at this fascinating episode…

Luke 2:1-7 Well we come to the birth of Jesus in our verse by verse look at the Gospel of Luke. We arrive about 8-10 weeks early for the perfect paring of the Christmas season. But we should remember this wonderful story all year, not just in December. For four centuries, the Jewish people had awaited…

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.” When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem…

TEXT: MATTHEW 2:1-11 | THE COST OF THE JOURNEY ME INTRODUCTION: HOW DO I STRUGGLE WITH THIS? God puts opposites together so many times. And that is true for Tressa and I. I am the spender in our family. How many of you are like me and you enjoy life, and having fun, and buying things? And I married a…

We have discussed many different religions throughout this series and we have come to what I desire to be the last one. That is, how to evangelize Jewish people. 1 Now when Jesus was born in Beth-lehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2…

Walking Through the second chapter of Matthew. We weren’t able to record the first chapter.

We are all searching for something. The ads have told us so. Maybe we have been poked and prodded to “make a list”. Our politicians tell us we are searching for their leadership. May I ask this evening, “what are you searching for?” Our world is hurting. We have drugs, disease, division and pain all…

1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count…

Becoming a GOAT We all want greatness and our world can pressure us to be a GOAT, or Greatest Of All Time. This desire is not necessarily bad but can be confusing. Who defines greatness? If we want to be great, and I am not opposed to it, then we must ask who gets to define greatness. Christmas gives…

The grasshopper played through summer’s glow, While the ant worked hard in the fields below. “Come dance!” cried the grasshopper, full of delight, But the ant pressed on from morn to night. “Why waste your time on food and care? The sun is shining; the weather is fair!” The grasshopper laughed, his heart…