Category: Faith
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Luke 10:38-42 Distracted Driving JUMC 20130721
Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and…
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Luke 7:1-10 “Go, Come, Do” JUMC 20130602
After Jesus had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly, and who was ill and close to death. When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave. When they came to…
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John 21.1-19 “Back to Church” JUMC 20130414
1 After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and he showed himself in this way. 2 Gathered there together were Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples. 3 Simon Peter said to…
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Acts 5:27-32 “Breaking the Rules” JUMC 20130407
When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you are determined to bring this man’s blood on us.” But Peter and the apostles answered,…
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Isaiah 44:2a “What on Earth am I Doing Here” Week 1 JUMC 20130217
“I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born.” Isaiah 44:2a (CEV) If someone asked you life’s big questions: Why am I alive? Does my life matter? What is my purpose? What’s the point? Some days we might sound the prophet Jeremiah who asks, “Was I born to be a…
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Luke 4.14-22 “Unroll the Scrolls” JUMC 20130127
Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day,…
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1 Corinthians 12:1-11 “Gifts for Good” JUMC 20130120
12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. 3 Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Let…
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Titus 3.4-7, Matthew 1.18-25 “So I Was Told” JUMC 20121230
Titus 3:4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. 6 This Spirit he poured out on us richly…
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Luke 12:54-56 “1000 Years, Mayan Calendar or Just Bad Weather and Wars?” 20121216 JUMC
Luke 12:49 “I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 52 From now…
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Matthew 4:1-2 “Driven into the Wilderness” A Reflection on Faith in the Wilderness
1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. [NRSV] In reflecting on this week of grieving and waking, working and waiting, talking and listening, preparing and planning. I have been carried to the fourth chapter…
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