Category: Risk Taking Mission and Service

• 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.

  myoikos

  July 30, 2016

  #2016, #benotafraid, #cross, #jesus, #ourbarnsarefull, #sermons, 5 Practices, Church, Jesus, Ministry, Missions, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Witness

  Barns, enough, full, Jesus

• 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?

  myoikos

  July 16, 2016

  #2016, #askseekknock, #findingJesus, #gotell, #jesus, #relationship, #weareprophets, 5 Practices, Boldness, Citizenship, Extravagant Generosity, Intentional Spiritual Growth, Meaning, Passionate Worship, Preparation, Prophets, Putting God First, Radical Hospitality, Resurrection People, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Spiritual Growth, Trust, Truth, Witness

  basket, emptiness, famine, fruit, fullness, hearing the word of God, sharing the word of God

• 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…

  myoikos

  February 13, 2016

  #2016, Boldness, Christian LIving, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Salvation, Spiritual, Suffering

  brokenness, evil, hope, Jesus, power, prepare, Scripture, sin, spirit, spiritual training, temptation, word

• 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…

  myoikos

  January 30, 2016

  #2016, #jesus, #loveneverwins, #marriage, #sacrifice, #umc, 5 Practices, Christmas, Extravagant Generosity, Faith, Forgiveness, Generosity, God, holiday, Holy Spirit, Intentional Spiritual Growth, Love, Marriage, Passionate Worship, Prophets, Putting God First, Radical Hospitality, Relationship, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Sacrifice, Service, Sin, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, Truth, Wisdom, Witness

  Christmas, love, The Power of Love, valentines, vulnerable

• 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.…

  myoikos

  January 9, 2016

  #findingJesus, #jesus, #savealife, #turnaround, Baptism, Christian LIving, Epiphany A, Extravagant Generosity, Meaning, Ministry, Missions, Radical Hospitality, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Witness

  Baptism, Jesus, ministry, Purpose, Salvation

• 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…

  myoikos

  December 26, 2015

  #sermons, 5 Practices, Christian LIving, Christmas C, Extravagant Generosity, Forgiveness, Generosity, holiday, Intentional Spiritual Growth, Joy, Missions, Passionate Worship, Radical Hospitality, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Spiritual Growth

  barna group, Christian nation, Christmas, clothes, clothing, Jesus, love, merry Christmas, retail, Statistics

• 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…

  myoikos

  December 20, 2015

  #jesus, #marriage, 5 Practices, Advent C, Christian LIving, Christmas, Disicpleship, Extravagant Generosity, Intentional Spiritual Growth, Passionate Worship, Preparation, Radical Hospitality, Relationship, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Salvation, Scripture, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, Trust, Witness

• 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…

  myoikos

  September 4, 2015

  Extravagant Generosity, Politics, Racism, Radical Hospitality, Relationship, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Scripture, Sin, Spiritual Growth, Suffering

  #racism, Church, Jesus, racial slur, sin, wholeness

• 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…

  myoikos

  August 29, 2015

  #forgive, #jesus, #mysundaysermons, #relationship, 5 Practices, Boldness, Christian LIving, Extravagant Generosity, Forgiveness, God, grace, Meaning, Putting God First, Radical Hospitality, Relationship, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Scripture, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, Suffering, Trust, Witness

  action, dewars, do, hear, living witness, proof is in the action not the thinking, relevant

• 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…

  myoikos

  August 9, 2015

  Communion, Love, Ministry, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Service

  #breadoflife, #faithsharing, #feedme, bread, Communion, hunger