Category: Sin

• 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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  March 4, 2017

  #2017, #jesus, #repent, #rsumc, #sermons, Jesus, Lent A, Lent B, Lent C, Putting God First, Repentance, Salvation, Scripture, Sin, Suffering, Trust

  #devilmademedoit, #getaway, #getawayfromme, #temptations

• Matthew 5:21-37 “People of a New Heart”

  We are people of the New Life in Christ, Protect the heart of God within you and do not trade it for the world.

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  February 11, 2017

  Church, grace, Jesus, Love, Marriage, new life, Putting God First, Relationship, Service, Sin, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, Trust, Truth, Valentine’s Day

• Hebrews 2:14-18 “For Folks Like Us.”

  Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.

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  February 4, 2017

  #2017, #conversation, #cross, #freshstart, #goodness, #jesus, #relationship, #resurreciton, #sacrifice, Communion, creation, God, holy communion, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Love, Relationship, Sacrifice, Salvation, Sin, sinner, Trust

• Micah 6:1-8 A New People, Yes or No?

  

  Let us find God’s foolishness our new way together and walk together in grace, humility and seeing the justice God has shown us all.

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  January 28, 2017

  #2017, #forgiveness, #humility, #lovelikejesus, #newlife, #sermons, 5 Practices, atonement, Christian LIving, Disicpleship, Hope, Jesus, justice, law, Patriotism, Sacrifice, Salvation, Sin, sinner, Wisdom

• Isaiah 12:1-6 “God Be in Me” 20161113

  

  God be in my head, and in my understanding; God be in mine eyes, and in my looking; God be in my mouth, and in my speaking; God be in my heart, and in my thinking; God be at mine end, and at my departing.

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  November 13, 2016

  Citizenship, God, government, Grief and Loss, Patriotism, Putting God First, Sin, sinner, Spiritual, Trust, Witness

  #postelection

• 1 Timothy 1:12-17 Best Sinner Make the Best Saints 20160911 RSUMC

  

  The corrective message to be able to reclaim this motto Paul shares with Timothy and the church is this: Where ever we find sin, is the place to look for and share the living, loving, life-change grace of Jesus Christ.

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  September 11, 2016

  #2016, #freshstart, #goldmedal, Forgiveness, grace, new life, Repentance, Sin, sinner, Spiritual, Thanksgiving

• 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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  March 6, 2016

  #gotell, #humility, #jesus, #sermons, 5 Practices, Boldness, Church, Communion, God, Lent A, Lent B, Lent C, Love, Ministry, Politics, Relationship, Salvation, Sin, Spiritual, Truth

  Ambassadors, Faith, Jesus, reconciliation, show them Christ

• 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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  January 30, 2016

  #2016, #jesus, #loveneverwins, #marriage, #sacrifice, #umc, 5 Practices, Christmas, Extravagant Generosity, Faith, Forgiveness, Generosity, God, holiday, Holy Spirit, Intentional Spiritual Growth, Love, Marriage, Passionate Worship, Prophets, Putting God First, Radical Hospitality, Relationship, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Sacrifice, Service, Sin, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, Truth, Wisdom, Witness

  Christmas, love, The Power of Love, valentines, vulnerable

• Luke 9.38-50 Avoiding Firey Worms RSUMC 20150927

  John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.…

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  September 27, 2015

  #sermons, Boldness, Christian LIving, Church, Disicpleship, Fellowship, Intentional Spiritual Growth, Politics, Radical Hospitality, Service, Sin, state, Witness

  #pope;

• Mark 7.24-37 Racism: “How about them Dawgs” 20150905, Facetimed from COS to RSUMC

  From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.Now…

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  September 4, 2015

  Extravagant Generosity, Politics, Racism, Radical Hospitality, Relationship, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Scripture, Sin, Spiritual Growth, Suffering

  #racism, Church, Jesus, racial slur, sin, wholeness