Speaker Pastor Matthew Ude

GOD’S GIFTS TO GO

Saturday June 6, 2026 Text: 2 corinthians 13:14 Speaker: Festival: Passages: 2 corinthians 13:14

When Jesus was born, he received three very special gifts, gold, frankincense and myrrh. These were very expensive and precious gifts. It seems likely that Mary and Joseph kept those gifts and used them well. How precious are the gifts that you have received? The gifts of knowledge, skills, understanding and others. How well will

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A LIMITLESS LIFE

Saturday May 30, 2026 Text: Matthew 28:16-20 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Matthew 28:16-20

All Authority has been given to me We very often make promises. We often make promises with every good intention Unfortunately we are limited. We are limited in ability. We are limited in strength. We are limited by our sinfulness.  No matter how much we might want to fulfill our promises sometimes we simply aren’t

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FULL OF LIFE – Pentecost Sunday

Saturday May 23, 2026 Text: Acts 2:1-21 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Acts 2:1-21

We have come to the festival of Pentecost, to the outpouring the Spirit, to the fellowship of the Church and the giving of the ministry of reconciliation. This day we have received the fullness of the word. And yet for many people all they can think of is speaking in tongues and miracles of healing.

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MAY THE LORD OPEN YOUR HEART

Saturday May 16, 2026 Text: 1 chronicles 28:9,20 Speaker: Festival: Passages: 1 chronicles 28:9,20

When I was eight or nine, I had the perfect plan. Across the road from our house was a park and in that park was a glorious machine that dispensed soda. Although we had some of our own money we weren’t allowed to spend it on soda. But this day was Father’s Day, and I

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Tuned To Christ

Thursday May 14, 2026 Text: Luke 24:44-53 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Luke 24:44-53

My father once told us the story of his music teacher. She took a tuning fork and struck it, “That’s middle C.” she said, “It was middle C a thousand years ago. It will be middle C a thousand years from now, no matter how flat you sing. So, Ude get in tune with it

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His Loving Service

Sunday May 10, 2026 Text: John 14:15-21 Speaker: Festival: Passages: John 14:15-21

Verse 15 — 15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.  Love is revealed in service. This isn’t so much a command from Jesus as it is a simple statement of fact. If you love me, the result will be that you will keep my commandments. Love is revealed in service. A mother’s love is

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The Lord Prepares You to Die

Saturday May 2, 2026 Text: Acts 7:51-60 Speaker: Festival: Passages: Acts 7:51-60

It can be very shocking when a main character dies in a movie or in a book. Especially when it is a character you identify with. You always expect the hero to come back. You always expect the author to find some way to bring them back. Sometimes, however, even in stories they don’t come

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The Good Shepherd Opens the Way Through the Wall of Our Sin

Saturday April 25, 2026 Text: John 10:1-10 Speaker: Festival: Passages: John 10:1-10

I had a first as a father this week. My daughter Kaylee and I were playing IN the parking lot. She loves to play a very slow version of tag. I walk away and she pushes her wheelchair to come get me. We have been playing it for a couple years without any problems. Last

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The Privilege of Sons

Saturday April 18, 2026 Text: 1 peter 1:17-25 Speaker: Festival: Passages: 1 peter 1:17-25

In college when I delivered furniture, I once delivered a brand-new sofa and love seat to a customer’s house. Before we could drop off the new stuff we moved their old couch down to the basement. Their old couch was a filthy disgusting, uncomfortable thing. They now had a new clean sofa set. About a

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