Tag: Giving
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Mark 12:38-44 “Put More in the Treasury” 20151108 RSUMC
As he taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They…
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John 3:1-17 God Loves us Sooo Much RSUMC 20150531
Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” Jesus answered him, “Very…
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Luke 19:1-10 “Trying to $ee Jesus” JUMC 20131101
He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree…
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Genesis 32:22-31 “Welcome to Strugglesville” JUMC
32:22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 32:23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 32:24 Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.…
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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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“The Giving Continues” Matthew 25:31-46 JUMC 20120101
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33 and he…
