Category: Witness
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Acts 5:27-32 “Breaking the Rules” JUMC 20130407
When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you are determined to bring this man’s blood on us.” But Peter and the apostles answered,…
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Matthew 21.1-17 Fan or Follower? Palms or Power? JUMC 20130324
1 When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says…
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Romans 6.13b “You Were Planned for God’s Pleasure: JUMC 20130224
WORSHIP WOEAIHF: WK2 “Give yourselves completely to God since you have been given new life.” Romans 6:13b (NLT) Central to the message of scripture is a call for us to worship. The Sabbath is set as a one-of-seven opportunities to practice the one thing we were created to do from the very beginning. Worship is…
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2 Cor 3.12-4.2 “Act with Great Boldness” A Transfiguration Call to Witness JUMC 20130210
Mt Tabor: Mount of the Transfiguration of our Lord NRSV Lectionary Readings for Transfiguration Sunday Exodus 34:29-35 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been…
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Luke 4.14-22 “Unroll the Scrolls” JUMC 20130127
Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day,…
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Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 “Baptized with Spirit” JUMC 20130113
3:15 As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, 16 John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of…
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Titus 3.4-7, Matthew 1.18-25 “So I Was Told” JUMC 20121230
Titus 3:4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. 6 This Spirit he poured out on us richly…
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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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Mark 9:30-37 “Like You’d Love a Child” JUMC 20120923
They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” But they did not understand…
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