Tag: Lent
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Lent: Day 11 What Have the Children Seen Us Doing?
Read: Numbers 14.33 (NRSV) God expresses frustration over the Hebrews lack of faith in the wilderness. God pronounces a taste of their own words and actions. The punishment given by God is that none of the first generation that left Egypt would enter the Promised Land. Their children would be shepherded in the dessert to…
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Day 10 Spies Like Us
Read: Numbers 13:25 (NRSV) Moses sends a reconnaissance party to spy on those who are living in the Promised Land. Most likely the Hebrews assumed that the land flowing with milk and honey would be uninhabited and ready for them to walk into without effort. This is not the case. We see the fruit of…
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John 12.1-8. “The Price of Worship” 20160313
Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet,…
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Luke 13.31-35 Casting Evil and Curing Relationships 20160221 RSUMC
At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” He said to them, “Go and tell that fox for me, “Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my work. Yet today,…
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Ephesians 2.1-10 “Saved by Grace” RSUMC 201503015
You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the…
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Exodus 20:1-17 “The Original Top Ten List” 20150308 RSUMC
Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or…
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Romans 4.13-25 “I Reckon” RSUMC 20150301
For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath; but…
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1 Peter 3:13-22 “For Our Sins” 20150222 RSUMC
Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense…
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John 4:5-42 Dehydration JUMC 20140323
So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Give…
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Good Friday Readings 2011 Jackson UMC
1. Father forgive them, for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34). 2. Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43). 3. Woman, behold your son: behold your mother (John 19:26-27). 4. My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?, (Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34). 5.…
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