Category: Salvation
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Acts 16.16-34 JUMC 20130512 Go for the Whole Family
From the book of Acts: 16 One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. 17 While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the…
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Jer 31.33 “Lord I Want to Be Like Jesus, In My Heart” JUMC Easter 20130331
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people [Jeremiah 31:33, NRSV] Do you not know…
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Romans 8.28 Created to Become Like Christ JUMC 20130310
Romans 8.28 “In all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” [NIV] What on Earth are we here for? We are created to become like Christ. Review: We are.. YOU MATTER TO GOD. Created for God’s Pleasure; GOD MEETS US IN WORSHIP. Created…
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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 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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Luke 3.1-5 “Who has the Powerful Word?” JUMC 20121209
‘” 1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God…
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Luke 22:15-20 “I have eagerly desired to eat with you” World Communion Sunday JUMC 20121007
15 And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.” 17 After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among…
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Ephesians 5:15-20 Make the Most of Your Days JUMC 20120819
15 Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, 16 making the most of the time, because the days are evil. 17 So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, 19…
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Psalms 23 “Why is it so Beloved?” JUMC 20120722
1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; 3 he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff— they comfort…
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John 20:1-18 I Have Seen the Lord! Easter JUMC 21020408:1100
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the…
