Category: Commitment
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Joel 2:28 / Col 3.1 / Matt 6.33 “Is Generosity, More or Less? Extravant?” JUMC 201201118
Joel 2:28. I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old mean shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. (NRSV) Colossians 3:1. Therefore if you were raised with Christ, look for the things that are above where Christ is sitting at God’s right…
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Matthew 6:24 “Extravagance” JUMC Stewardship 20121104
MT:6.24 No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. The 5 Core Practices of Making Disciples for the Transformation of the World Radical Hospitality, Passionate Worship, Intentional Spiritual Growth,…
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Acts 4.5-12. “Member Since 1974” Jumc 20120429
The next day their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. When they had made the prisoners stand in their midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” Then Peter, filled with…
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2Cor. 8.24 Extravagance and Commitment JUMC 20111113
2 Corinthians 8 (New Revised Standard) 1 We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia; 2 for during a severe ordeal of affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. 3…
