Tag: Faith
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Jer 31.33 “Lord I Want to Be Like Jesus, In My Heart” JUMC Easter 20130331
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people [Jeremiah 31:33, NRSV] Do you not know…
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Ephesians 2:10 “We are Here to serve God” JUMC 20130317
“We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 (NIV) In answering the question: What on Earth Am I here for? We have learned that we are here because God loves us, we are here for God’s pleasure God desires to…
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Isaiah 44:2a “What on Earth am I Doing Here” Week 1 JUMC 20130217
“I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born.” Isaiah 44:2a (CEV) If someone asked you life’s big questions: Why am I alive? Does my life matter? What is my purpose? What’s the point? Some days we might sound the prophet Jeremiah who asks, “Was I born to be a…
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1 Corinthians 12:1-11 “Gifts for Good” JUMC 20130120
12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. 3 Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Let…
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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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1 Thes 3:9-13 3 :It’s Not My Fault” JUMC 201221202
How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we feel before our God because of you? Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and restore whatever is lacking in your faith. Now may our God and Father himself and…
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Joel 2:28 / Col 3.1 / Matt 6.33 “Is Generosity, More or Less? Extravant?” JUMC 201201118
Joel 2:28. I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old mean shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. (NRSV) Colossians 3:1. Therefore if you were raised with Christ, look for the things that are above where Christ is sitting at God’s right…
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Matthew 4:1-2 “Driven into the Wilderness” A Reflection on Faith in the Wilderness
1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. [NRSV] In reflecting on this week of grieving and waking, working and waiting, talking and listening, preparing and planning. I have been carried to the fourth chapter…
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Mark 4.35-41 “Sofa Sleeping” JUMC 20120625
35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. 37 A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat,…
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