Category: Uncategorized
-
Matthew 24:36-44, Romans 13.11-14, Psalm 122.1-9 Just When Is Christmas This Year?
36 “But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and…
-
2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Work for the Night is Coming JUMC 11142010
Theme: We have work to do, What are you sitting here with so much to be done. 6 Now we command you, beloved, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from believers who are living in idleness and not according to the tradition that they received from us. 7 For you…
-
Luke 20:27-38 11072010 JUMC
We are people of the resurrection. Jesus, even prior to his death on the cross teaches about power and purpose of the resurrection. First, the resurrection is the affirmation that life is not limited by this life in these bodies. Second, the life we are living now is the life we will continue to live……
-
Luke 20:27-38 11072010 JUMC
We are people of the resurrection. Jesus, even prior to his death on the cross teaches about power and purpose of the resurrection. First, the resurrection is the affirmation that life is not limited by this life in these bodies. Second, the life we are living now is the life we will continue to live……
-
JUMC 10/24/2010 “Lawd Hav’ Mercy” Luke 18:9-14
Audience: Trust in themselves and those who regard others with contempt Parable: Pharisee vs Tax Collector As people with a strong work ethic it is hard to get to the heard of this passage. • We celebrate those who pull themselves up by their own boot straps • We value those folks who follow the…
-
10312010 JUMC Hiding in the Pews to See Jesus Luke 19.1-10
19He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was rich. 3He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. 4So he ran ahead and climbed a sycomore tree to…
-
JUMC 5 Practices: Risk-Taking Mission & Service 101010
Jesus Walks on the Water 22 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 23And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, 24but by this time…
-
Luke 14:25-33 Key: Cost of Discipleship, Selfless Di$ciple$hip 09-06-2010
Now large crowds were travelling with him; and he turned and said to them, 26‘Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. 27Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28For which…
-
Luke 14:4-14 Move’n On Up JUMC 09292010 Hospitality
Luke 14:4-14 Move’n On Up JUMC 09292010 Hospitality 7 When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. 8‘When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by your…
-
Luke 13:10-17 “I work on Sunday, how about you?” JUMC August 22, 2010
Luke 13:10-17 10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11 And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and…
