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Treasure God’s Gifts

Sunday November 19, 2023 Text: Matthew 25:14-30 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Matthew 25:14-30

Verse 14 There are a number of these parables which begin with a master or a landowner, or a king leaving. These parables come near the end of Jesus ministry. Our current parable is spoken by Jesus after his entry into Jerusalem during the last week of before his death. Such parables anticipate Jesus’s ascension.

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Jesus Feeds the 5000

Tuesday November 14, 2023 Text: John 6:1-15; Luke 9:10-17; Mark 6:30-44; Matthew 14:13-21 Passages: John 6:1-15; Luke 9:10-17; Mark 6:30-44; Matthew 14:13-21

Jesus gives the people bread just as Moses did. The purpose was so that they would recognize Him as the one foretold and would look to Him to be saved.

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Check Your Faith

Sunday November 12, 2023 Text: Matthew 25:1-13 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Matthew 25:1-13

Some of you know we’ve been having problems with our van. Joe Brown helped us take it down to the Kia dealership. While I was talking to the guy at the service desk, I admitted that we sometimes go a couple hundred miles over before getting our oil changed. The man replied saying that was

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THE KINGDOM IS GRASPED BY FAITH

Sunday October 29, 2023 Text: Matthew 11:12-19 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Matthew 11:12-19

Matthew 11:12   12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. 1903 is considered the first successful flight of a powered airplane by the Wright brothers. Wilbur Wright died nine years later in 1912. Orville Wright lived another 45 years.

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Render!

Sunday October 22, 2023 Text: Matthew 22:15-22 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Matthew 22:15-22

The Jews hated Rome and because they hated Rome they despised the tax-collectors who served Rome. Throughout the Gospels we see evidence of this hatred in passages like Matthew 9:10.Matthew 9:10 Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with

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Christ is the Foundation of our Life

Sunday October 8, 2023 Text: Matthew 21:33-46 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Matthew 21:33-46

Matthew 21:33 “Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.  You are God’s vineyard. This parable begins with a detailed description of God’s love

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Jesus Turns the World Around

Sunday September 24, 2023 Text: Matthew 20:1-16 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Matthew 20:1-16

November 23, 2001, the day after thanksgiving.  I was home from college trying to sleep in when my mother woke me up at 7am. She wanted me to go to Best Buy to get a TV that was on sale. I tried to tell her that by the time I got there they would all

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At School with Christ: Learning to Stack

Sunday September 10, 2023 Text: Matthew 18:1-6 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Matthew 18:1-6

After Jonah was swallowed by a sea creature and spit back out. After Jonah preached to the city of Nineveh. He went and sat on a hill watching the city of Nineveh. He was sitting there hoping the city would get what it deserved. As he sat there God caused a tree to grow up

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A Vision of Death For Life

Sunday September 3, 2023 Text: Matthew 16:21-28 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Matthew 16:21-28

Last week we heard Peters confession “you are the Christ.” We saw how through this confession Peter became one who was built on the rock that is Christ. We all also with Abraham, Job, David, Peter and many others become children of God through this same confession. Having become children of God through faith, Jesus

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