Category: Stewardship
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Matthew 6:24 “Extravagance” JUMC Stewardship 20121104
MT:6.24 No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. The 5 Core Practices of Making Disciples for the Transformation of the World Radical Hospitality, Passionate Worship, Intentional Spiritual Growth,…
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Psalm 145:1-7 “Generation to Generation” JUMC 20120909
Psalm 145 I will praise you, my God and King, and always honor your name. 2 I will praise you each day and always honor your name. 3 You are wonderful, Lord, and you deserve all praise, because you are much greater than anyone can understand. 4 Each generation will announce to the next your wonderful…
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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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1 Samuel 8:4-20 “We Want a King, like the other nations.” JUMC 20120610
8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, 5 and said to him, “You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.” 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king…
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2Cor. 8.24 Extravagance and Commitment JUMC 20111113
2 Corinthians 8 (New Revised Standard) 1 We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia; 2 for during a severe ordeal of affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. 3…
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Deuteronomy 34:1-12 “Don’t know much about Geography” JUMC 20111030
34:1 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and the LORD showed him the whole land: Gilead as far as Dan, 2 all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea,…
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Tax Questions, Matthew 22 , JUMC, 20111023
Tax Questions, Matthew 22 , JUMC, 20111023 15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. 16 So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to…
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Deuteronomy 8.7-18 “Who Dealt This Hand?” JUMC 20111016
7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills, 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 9 a land where you…
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Matthew 22.1-10. Another Invitation. jUMC. 20111008
Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: 2‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. 3He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come. 4Again he sent other slaves, saying, “Tell those…
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Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 “The Big Ten” Who’s on First JUMC 20111003
1 Then God spoke all these words: 2 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that…
