Speaker Pastor Matthew Ude

Jesus Leads Us Through the Wilderness

Sunday March 9, 2025 Text: Luke 4:1-13 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Luke 4:1-13

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An Impossible Love Made Real

Sunday February 23, 2025 Text: Luke 6:27-38 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Luke 6:27-38

When I was around 12 or 13 years old, we went for a few days to help weed at a flower farm. I remember spending what I thought was a good long time weeding. I stopped and looked at how much farther I had to go just to finish one row, and after that rows

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You Are Blessed

Sunday February 16, 2025 Text: Luke 6:17-26 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Luke 6:17-26

The beatitudes when understood correctly are some of the greatest expressions of God’s gifts and blessings to sinful humans. When understood incorrectly they become weights chained to our souls dragging us down to depression. The key to understanding them correctly is to recognize them as God’s gifts in Christ not as something we earn or

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Cast Your Nets

Sunday February 9, 2025 Text: Luke 5:1-11 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Luke 5:1-11

The first rule of fishing is that you can’t catch anything if your line isn’t in the water. That is why my brother Aaron always brought his fishing pole even when we were supposed to be canoeing. He never caught anything, but he always had the line trailing behind the canoe just in case. Similarly,

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Jesus Heals Through the Ears

Sunday February 2, 2025 Text: Luke 4:16-30 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Luke 4:16-30

In Australia this last week 14 people were convicted of manslaughter. These people stood around a young diabetic girl, praying for days as she slowly died. They had the insulin she needed but didn’t give it to her because they wanted to see a miracle. They thought they were proving their faith, but faith in

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Jesus Manifests His Glory

Sunday January 26, 2025 Text: John 2:1-11 Speaker: Festival: Passages: John 2:1-11

Today we have the first of miracle, where Jesus changes water into wine. The evangelist John gives us a statement at the end of the account which summarizes the importance of this miracle. This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him. Jesus gives

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