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An Unconventional, No-Apologies Exposition of God’s Grace from an Evangelical-Methodist Point of View
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Sunday Sep 18, 2022
Sunday Sep 18, 2022
September 18, 2022
Old Testament: Jeremiah 8:18-9:1
Psalter: Psalm 79:1-9
Epistle Lesson: 1 Timothy 2:1-7
Gospel Lesson: Luke 16:1-13
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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Friday Sep 16, 2022
Friday Sep 16, 2022
Sermon #355
(This series from 2019 has previously not been published)
When we are in a time of chaos - a natural disaster, some financial crisis - it's hard to imagine anything good coming from it. Yet time and time again we see that destruction is not the final word for God. Where some may see an end, God sees a beginning. It was that way in Jeremiah's time, when the Babylonian armies were about to sweep in and destroy Jerusalem and Judah, taking the Israelites away to exile. Yet God promised through Jeremiah that out of the chaos would come a new creation. We see this happening in our own lives as well, and God will continue to bring creation out of chaos again.
Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28
Recorded at Hudson UMC on September 15, 2019 (Previously unpublished)
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Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Sermon #354
(This series from 2019 has previously not been published)
In today's reading from Jeremiah, God leads Jeremiah to the potter's house where he witnesses the potter smashing a pot that displeased him and remaking it into something else. It's a picture of how God transforms us through a process called Sanctification. God is our creator, and just like the pot cannot complain to the potter, so we cannot complain to our creator when he demands of us loyalty and faith. Yet we continue in our sin to separate ourselves from him, and all the time he continues to call to us to turn from our sin and return to him, in an action called repentance.
Jeremiah 18:1-11
Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on September 8, 2019 (Previously unpublished)
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Sermon #353
(This series from 2019 has previously not been published)
We're beginning a new series based in Jeremiah called "Season of Creation." As the Summer winds down and we begin to slip comfortably into Fall, we are reminded of our own mortality and our estrangement from God. Indeed, Jeremiah reminds the people (by way of God's word) that they have been trying to do things on their own rather than relying upon God, and that is a very bad plan indeed. God calls all of creation to testify and judge the people of Judah, and in the end they are found wanting. Let this be a reminder to us that God is the source of living water, and we ought not to rely upon cracked cisterns of our own making to quench our spiritual thirst.
Jeremiah 2:4-13
Recorded at Hudson UMC on September 1, 2019 (Previously unpublished)
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Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Sermon #515
As we continue to look at what discipleship demands of us, we come to the realization that as disciples, we are commissioned to make other disciples. And part of that commission is knowing that the world is lost, that everywhere we look there are lost souls in need of being found. Jesus told three parables in Luke 15 that describe lost things that are found. But what lies at the root of this truth is, all of us are lost without God, and none of us are seeking him - it is God that seeks us, and we, the church, are his lamp to draw the lost out of darkness.
Luke 15:1-10
Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on September 11, 2022
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Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
September 11, 2022
Old Testament: Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28
Psalter: Psalm 14
Epistle Lesson: 1 Timothy 1:12-17
Gospel Lesson: Luke 15:1-10
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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Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Sermon #514
We're starting a new series in the book of Luke called "Having Words with Jesus," and the focus of the series will be on what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. Before we begin our journey, though, we first need to take stock of our lives and decide if we are willing or even able to submit ourselves to the life that Jesus calls us to. We need to count the cost of discipleship to determine if we are able to follow through. But Gd gives to us all we need in order to follow him; we only need to be willing to make him the primary relationship in our lives, over every earthly relationship and over every possession. We need to be able to put to death our old nature and be raised again in Christ. Can you do that? Then let's begin our journey and follow hard after Christ, who gave his all for us.
Luke 14:25-33
Recorded at Hudson UMC on September 4, 2022
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Sunday Sep 04, 2022
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
September 4, 2022
Old Testament: Jeremiah 18:1-11
Psalter: Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
Epistle Lesson: Philemon 1-21
Gospel Lesson: Luke 14:25-33
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.
S.D.G.
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
S7E07: Praise God (Practical Wisdom from Jude pt. 9)
In this final message on the Epistle of Jude, we look at Jude's closing words, both doxology (glory saying) and benediction (good saying), a beautifully composed sentence both glorifying God and encouraging the believers in their mission to seek and to save the lost. In these final verses we see how Jude exemplifies for us all a need to praise God in all that we do and say, and provides for us a pattern for such praise and worship.
Jude 24-25
Recorded at Hudson UMC on August 11, 2019
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Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
So now, after Jude has railed against these false teachers, what are we to do with them? What Jude tells us is that we ought to treat them like any other unsaved person - we ought to respond in mercy, even after contending for the faith. After all, Jesus responded to the unsaved with mercy. But we are to be careful that they do not drag us down, like someone who is drowning might drag down a lifeguard who is trying to save them.
Jude 22-23
Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on August 4, 2019
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