Category: Prophets
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1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Divided? Power in the Cross
When we have come clinging to the power of the death and resurrection as our only hope and salvation, then we have a place to reflect on our differences.
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Hebrews 11:(12-16) A Better Country 20160807 RSUMC
People would see our commitment to the citizenship we hold highest is in the heart of God…Seek a better country…People would see our commitment to the citizenship we hold highest is in the heart of God.
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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 13.31-35 Casting Evil and Curing Relationships 20160221 RSUMC
At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” He said to them, “Go and tell that fox for me, “Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my work. Yet today,…
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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 3:7-18 “So What Do We Do?” 20151213 RSUMC
John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones…
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Isaiah 58.1-12 “Repair the Streets” JUMC 20140209
Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of…
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Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 “Oh Little Town of Jackson, GA” JUMC 20130811
1:1 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 1:11 What to me is the…
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2 Cor 3.12-4.2 “Act with Great Boldness” A Transfiguration Call to Witness JUMC 20130210
Mt Tabor: Mount of the Transfiguration of our Lord NRSV Lectionary Readings for Transfiguration Sunday Exodus 34:29-35 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been…