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![S8E01: Do You Know Jesus? (Camp Meeting 2019)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog651650/GC_Logo2TB_300x300.png)
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S8E01: Do You Know Jesus? (Camp Meeting 2019)
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Sermon #352
I can think of no better message to kick off the eighth season of Guerrilla Christianity than this message which was preached at the Pitman Grove Camp Meeting in 2019. Very few Christians today share their faith in Jesus Christ, and perhaps it is because we have no idea who Jesus is. The writer of the book of Hebrews offers us the foundational testimony toward building a solid Christology (the study of Christ and His nature) which is important because by knowing Christ, we can know what He has done for us, what He offers us, and how He rescued us from sin and death. Then we can truly appreciate the vast greatness of the gospel, which ought to inspire us to tell everyone the best good news in the history of the world.
{For the last two weeks in June, 2020, we will be posting messages that were given at the Pitman Grove Camp Meeting auditorium. This year the Camp Meeting is on hold until at least August, so please enjoy these messages from years gone by.}
Hebrews 1:1-4
Recorded at Pitman Grove Camp Meeting on August 25, 2019 (Originally Published July 3, 2020)
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![S12E05: Consider Jesus (Hebrews: In These Last Days, Part 5)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/651650/GC_Logo2_300x300.png)
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Sermon #613
Without a doubt, the greatest figure in the history of Israel was Moses. He was the one who led the people out of slavery. He was the one to whom God gave the law. He was the leader of the Hebrews in the wilderness for 40 years. And yet, the writer of Hebrews insists that we ought to consider Jesus as greater than Moses. After all, Moses delivered the law to Israel, but Jesus brought grace and truth to all the world. And so the writer is challenging contemporary Jewish thought that exalts Moses and says, consider Jesus, who was sent by God to be our high priest, to offer one sacrifice for sin for all time.
Hebrews 3:1-6
Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on June 30, 2024
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![S9E10: Building a House (Prophets & Kings pt. 7)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog651650/GC_Logo2TB_300x300.png)
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Sermon #454
Often in scripture, David is referred to as a man after God's own heart. We see that in today's reading as David expresses a desire to build a temple for God in Jerusalem. His desire is to put down roots for the nation of Israel, to establish the spiritual center of the family of Abraham. Yet God, in a play on words, says through the prophet Nathan that David will not build a house (temple) for God, but God will make David a house (dynasty). Here once more we see our covenant God initiating the blessings by giving His promise to a mere human agent, flaws and all. And it's because of His eternal promises that he never breaks that we can rely upon His promises for us today.
2 Samuel 7:1-14a
Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on July 18, 2021 (Originally published October 25, 2021)
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![Lectionary Readings for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost/Proper 11, Year B](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog651650/Bible_and_Key_Divination_300x300.jpg)
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July 21, 2024
Old Testament: 2 Samuel 7:1-14a
Psalter: Psalm 89:20-37
Epistle Lesson: Ephesians 2:11-22
Gospel Lesson: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
Scripture quotations from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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![S6E12: He Ascended (We Believe... pt. 8)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog651650/GC_Logo2TB_300x300.png)
Friday Jul 19, 2024
S6E12: He Ascended (We Believe... pt. 8)
Friday Jul 19, 2024
Friday Jul 19, 2024
Sermon #291
It is easy for us to slip quietly past this affirmation, but that would be a mistake. We are told so much in the Gospels about the earthly ministry of Christ and very little about the forty days after the resurrection, and less about the actual ascension (only Luke records his account in his Gospel and in the book of Acts). Yet the Ascension of Christ means three major things in the life of the Christian. It means that Easter is not over; it means that the incarnation is not over; and it means that we have a brother sitting at the right hand of God and interceding for us sinners. Indeed, affirming faith in the Ascension should be great joy for Christians everywhere.
Text: Luke 24:44-53
Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on July 22, 2018 (Originally published September 17, 2018)
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![S12E04: The Death of Death (Hebrews: In These Last Days, Part 4)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/651650/GC_Logo2_300x300.png)
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
S12E04: The Death of Death (Hebrews: In These Last Days, Part 4)
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Sermon #612
One of the primary motivating factors in life is, ironically, death, or rather the fear of death. The evolutionist would tell us that the two things that drive every species on the planet is the desire to survive and the desire to reproduce. In reality, God made us without death in the world, yet we brought death into the world when we separated ourselves from the Source of Life through sin. And so Jesus died our death for us, that we would live forever, and in dying, he put to death death itself. And since the sting of death has been removed from us, we can live our lives in peace knowing that God invites us to live with him for all eternity.
Hebrews 2:10-18
Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on June 23, 2024
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![S12E03: Pay Attention! (Hebrews: In These Last Days, Part 3)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/651650/GC_Logo2_300x300.png)
Monday Jul 15, 2024
S12E03: Pay Attention! (Hebrews: In These Last Days, Part 3)
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Sermon #611
As the writer of Hebrews begins to unpack the Psalms to identify the extraordinary nature of the Son of God (who has not yet been named in the epistle), he reminds us that we ought to pay attention to what is said, lest we drift away in our faith. The language used suggests mooring a ship to a dock lest it slide past the safety of the harbor. In reality, we can rely upon what scripture says about Jesus, because God's word is sure and foundational. Though the writer of Hebrews is pointing to the Old Testament, these are glimpses of things that have not been obvious, until the complete message is revealed in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 2:1-9
Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on June 16, 2024
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![Lectionary Readings for Eighth Sunday after Pentecost/Proper 10, Year B](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog651650/Bible_and_Key_Divination_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jul 14, 2024
Lectionary Readings for Eighth Sunday after Pentecost/Proper 10, Year B
Sunday Jul 14, 2024
Sunday Jul 14, 2024
July 14, 2024
Old Testament: 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19
Psalter: Psalm 24
Epistle Lesson: Ephesians 1:3-14
Gospel Lesson: Mark 6:14-29
Scripture quotations from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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![S9E09: God at the Center (Prophets & Kings pt. 6)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog651650/GC_Logo2TB_300x300.png)
Sunday Jul 14, 2024
S9E09: God at the Center (Prophets & Kings pt. 6)
Sunday Jul 14, 2024
Sunday Jul 14, 2024
Sermon #453
What should worship look like? Nowadays Christians are divided in their desire to worship the Lord in certain ways. Some prefer high church; some prefer a less rigid but still traditional service with a choir and pipe organ. Some prefer gospel music; some prefer contemporary christian music. Some prefer no music at all. When it comes down to it, worship does not need to be a certain format in order to glorify God; all that is required is that God is at the center of our worship. If our worship doesn't glorify God and point our hearts to Him, then it is worship that is more about us and our desires than about God and his glory.
2 Samuel 6:1-19
Recorded at Hudson UMC on July 11, 2021 (Originally published October 11, 2021)
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![S6E11: He Arose! (We Believe... pt. 7)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog651650/GC_Logo2TB_300x300.png)
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
S6E11: He Arose! (We Believe... pt. 7)
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Sermon #290
We come to the pivotal point in the Christology of the Apostles' Creed, and, as some might say, it's all uphill from here. Now, in the message today I make a strong assertion that to believe in the resurrection is nothing less than necessary for our salvation, and I stand by that statement (and back it up with Biblical text). Yet there are many in the church today, professing Christians, who either do not believe in the Biblical account of the resurrection or don't believe it happened at all. And if that is true, then we as a church, we as preachers of God's word, have failed in adequately emphasizing the importance of this one crucial aspect of the reality of Christ, that on the third day he rose from the dead.
Text: Matthew 28:1-10
Recorded at Hudson UMC on July 15, 2018 (Originally published September 14, 2018)
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