Category: Risk Taking Mission and Service
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Luke 12.13-22 Eat, Drink & See Mary 20160731 RSUMC
Even now, instead of seeing, hearing and experience Christ among us, we might settle for a crowd with generous pockets instead in place of visit with Jesus.
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Amos 8.1-12 “Final Fruit-Baskets?” 202160717 RSUMC
The question of the day: How long will the famine take? How many attacks can we stand? How many bodies left on the ground? How many reports of violence before we are numb?
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Luke 4.1-13 An Opportune Time 20160214 RSUMC
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son…
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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Reset: The Power of Love 20160131 RSUMC
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I…
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Luke 3.15-22 Wash Up for Jesus 20160110 RSUMC
As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals.…
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Colossians 3:12-17 “Clothes for Christmas” 20151227 RSUMC Xmas1
94% of American’s celebrate Christmas (3). We have verbal and ideological battles with 6% of the population who don’t feel comfortable greeting each other this season by saying, “Merry Christmas.” It’s important to keep this in perspective. The number who keep a religious Christmas is about 70% with 29% celebrating some holiday during the same…
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Luke 1.39-55 “Fruit of the Womb” 20151210 RSUMC
In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are…
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Mark 7.24-37 Racism: “How about them Dawgs” 20150905, Facetimed from COS to RSUMC
From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.Now…
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James 1:17-27 Jesus Wants Dewars 20150830 RSUMC
Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of…
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John 6:35, 41-51 “Hungry?” 20150809 RSUMC
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son…
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