Category: Suffering

• Romans 8:12-25 Worth Groaning

  

  We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. For in hope we were saved.

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  July 22, 2017

  #2017, #holyspirit, #presentage, Extravagant Generosity, Family, Holy Spirit, Relationship, Resurrection People, Salvation, Spiritual Growth, Suffering, Trust

• 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

• 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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  January 22, 2017

  #2017, #cross, 5 Practices, Christian LIving, Disicpleship, Forgiveness, Hope, Jesus, Politics, Preparation, Prophets, Sacrifice, Service, Suffering, Trust, Witness

  Cross, Jesus, power

• Luke 4.1-13 An Opportune Time 20160214 RSUMC

  Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son…

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  February 13, 2016

  #2016, Boldness, Christian LIving, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Salvation, Spiritual, Suffering

  brokenness, evil, hope, Jesus, power, prepare, Scripture, sin, spirit, spiritual training, temptation, word

• Psalm 84 Claiming A Place with God 20160207 RSUMC

  

  How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your…

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  February 7, 2016

  #findingJesus, #innkeeper, #relationship, #rsumc, #sermons, All Saints, Christian LIving, Disicpleship, Epiphany C, Fellowship, Joy, Meaning, Ministry, Missions, Racism, Radical Hospitality, Relationship, Suffering, Worship

  at one with God, belonging, doorway, home, Jesus, open door, peace, safety, struggle, Weeping, Witness

• 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

• James 1:17-27 Jesus Wants Dewars 20150830 RSUMC

  Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of…

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  August 29, 2015

  #forgive, #jesus, #mysundaysermons, #relationship, 5 Practices, Boldness, Christian LIving, Extravagant Generosity, Forgiveness, God, grace, Meaning, Putting God First, Radical Hospitality, Relationship, Risk Taking Mission and Service, Scripture, Spiritual, Spiritual Growth, Suffering, Trust, Witness

  action, dewars, do, hear, living witness, proof is in the action not the thinking, relevant

• John 6:24-35 Which Tank is Filled? 20150802 RSUMC

  So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, you are…

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  August 1, 2015

  #jesus, #mysundaysermons, #rsumc, Boldness, Christian LIving, Communion, Meaning, Passionate Worship, Prayers, Sacrifice, Suffering, Worship

  #gas, #spirituallyfull, #tank, food, peace, Purpose, spirit, wholeness

• John 1.1-16 The Word Moved In With Us RSUMC 20150104

    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the…

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  January 3, 2015

  Christmas, Generosity, Grief and Loss, holiday, Salvation, Sin, Suffering, Uncategorized

  broken, Christmas, Gifts, Lost, move, moved in, moving, pack, treasure, unpack, wholeness

• Matthew 14:22-33 “Keep Me Out of Trouble?” RSUMC 20140810

  Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but by this time the boat, battered by the waves,…

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  August 10, 2014

  Disicpleship, Faith, Holy Spirit, Spiritual Growth, Suffering, Witness

  belief, but, Christ, connection, Discipleship, doubt, eye, eyes, Faith, fear, God, Jesus, Life, love, Salvation, sea, spirit, Spiritual, Stewardship, storm, trouble, Trust