Someone Scatters the Seeds Mark 4.26-34
26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28 The earth...
View ArticleChristmas is Not Just for Angels Hebrews 2:10-18 12262010 JUMC
2:10 It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For the one who...
View Article1 Thes 3:9-13 3 :It’s Not My Fault” JUMC 201221202
How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy that we feel before our God because of you? Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and restore whatever...
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If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and...
View ArticleEphesians 2:19 “Christian Fellowship” JUMC 20130303
Eph 2.19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, [NRSV] You were made to belong in God’s family As we study Rick...
View ArticleMatthew 3:13-17 “I Need to be Baptized..” JUMC 20140112
3:13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him,...
View Article1Corinthians 1:10-18 “The Message is Power” JUMC 2014012
Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and...
View ArticleMatthew 5:1-12 “Are You Blessed?” JUMC 20140202
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the...
View ArticleGen 2.18=25 “Marriage: Leaving Mama” JUMC 20140216
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” 19 So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of...
View ArticleMatthew 5:38-48 “Perfection” JUMC 20140223
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; and if...
View ArticleJohn 3.1-17 “I love you so much” JUMC 20140316
Genesis 12:1-4a Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and...
View ArticleJohn 20:1-18 (9&11) “Name Calling: Whom Do You Seek?” JUMC 20140420 Easter...
JUMC Worship 9&11 Easter “Name Calling: Whom Do You Seek?” 20140420 Lectionary Readings from NRSV for Easter 2014 below: Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene...
View Article2 Corinthians 13:11-13 “Holy Kisses” Last sermon at JUMC 20140615 Fathers Day
Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy...
View ArticleMatthew 14:22-33 “Keep Me Out of Trouble?” RSUMC 20140810
The calm Sea of Galilee 2011 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the...
View ArticleMatthew 18:15-20 “Tying and Untying Knots” RSUMC 20140907
“If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to,...
View Article1 Cor 1:18-24 “Share Christ with Them” RSUMC 20140914
For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the...
View ArticleGenesis 50:15-21 “Grudge Match” RSUMC 20140921
15 Realizing that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers said, “What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong that we did to him?” 16 So they approached...
View ArticleMatthew 21:23-32 “Will You or Won’t You?” RSUMC 20140929
When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”...
View ArticleRomans 4.13-25 “I Reckon” RSUMC 20150301
For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be...
View ArticleEphesians 2.1-10 “Saved by Grace” RSUMC 201503015
You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who...
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