Tag: Christmas
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Galatians 4:4-7
Here is the Heart of Paul’s word for us, the church. it is that we are the Gift the World is freed by, claimed by and saved through. The Christmas Gift: Jesus Gives us the gifts so we will
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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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Colossians 3:12-17 “Clothes for Christmas” 20151227 RSUMC Xmas1
94% of American’s celebrate Christmas (3). We have verbal and ideological battles with 6% of the population who don’t feel comfortable greeting each other this season by saying, “Merry Christmas.” It’s important to keep this in perspective. The number who keep a religious Christmas is about 70% with 29% celebrating some holiday during the same…
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Twas the “Real” Night Before Christmas
When all through the town, Folks were snuggled comfy and sound. All my night guests had checked in, And I was exhausted and tucked in my kin, When out at the door the I heard a swift rap, of the door knocker knocking interrupting my nap. I sprang up from my cot to see what…
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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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Galatians 4.4-7 “A Piece of Pie” RSUMC 20141228
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying,…
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Advent 4 20141220 Luke 1:39-55 “It’s That Time of Year” RSUMC
Mary’s news is to be shared at home and throughout the hill side with leaps of Joy. In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her…
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Advent3 Luke 3:7-18 “Do We Bring Fire?” RSUMC 20141213
John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones…
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Luke 3:1-6 “The King Is Coming Soon” RSUMC ADV: 2 20141206
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, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John…
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Advent 1 20141129 “Luke 21:25-36” Q: Is It Beginning to Look Like Advent? What is CHRISTmas suppose to look like?
“There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves. People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then they will…
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