Category: Lent A
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Hebrews 10:4-10 A Body of Offering
Our work is faith, God’s work is Grace under, before and because of our faith.
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John 4:10-14 Spiritual Thirst
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get…
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John 3:1-17 Spirit Born, Spirit Living
God works to save us not condemn us, but our sins can stifle to spirit with us.
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Matthew 4:1-11 Get Away from Sin
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It…
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2 Corinthians 5.16-21 LENT: Your Jesus is Showing 20160306 RSUMC
From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!…
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Luke 13.1-9 Lent3 Bearing Fruit Let’s Get Figgy 20160228
At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all…
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Romans 4.13-25 “I Reckon” RSUMC 20150301
For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath; but…
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Good Friday Readings 2011 Jackson UMC
1. Father forgive them, for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34). 2. Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43). 3. Woman, behold your son: behold your mother (John 19:26-27). 4. My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?, (Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34). 5.…
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Matthew 21:1-11 “Jesus Got on His Ass” How about us? JUMC 04172011
When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you,…