Category: Putting God First
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Romans 6.13b “You Were Planned for God’s Pleasure: JUMC 20130224
WORSHIP WOEAIHF: WK2 “Give yourselves completely to God since you have been given new life.” Romans 6:13b (NLT) Central to the message of scripture is a call for us to worship. The Sabbath is set as a one-of-seven opportunities to practice the one thing we were created to do from the very beginning. Worship is…
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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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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…
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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. 2 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 am…
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Mt 2:1-12. Why were the wise men wise? 20130106
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2 asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.” 3 When King Herod…
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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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Ephesians 4:1-16 “A Time to Grow Up” JUMC 20120805
1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit,…
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Ephesians 4:1-16 “A Time to Grow Up” JUMC 20120805
1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit,…
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2 Corinthians 8:7-15 “Is it a Genuine?” JUMC 20120701 Communion VBS
7 Now as you excel in everything–in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in utmost eagerness, and in our love for you–so we want you to excel also in this generous undertaking. 8 I do not say this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love against the earnestness of others. 9…
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Mark 4.35-41 “Sofa Sleeping” JUMC 20120625
35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. 37 A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat,…
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