Today’s Message: Today we’ll review the brilliant analogy God gave Jeremiah and the response to his message. God sent him back to the shop to buy a water jug for a similar but different visual aid – the people who continue in their huge sin will be smashed to bits, like the jar! Again God offers grace to those who change from their evil ways and destruction to those who do not!
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Today’s Message: God gave Jeremiah a brilliant analogy giving insight into the relationship between His will and our human responsibility in the potters shop at his wheel, and it reaches many levels. We’ll see it is advice from God himself for his people, and while pots can’t ignore the potter, we people can and often do ignore such advice from God – at our own peril!
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Have you thought about your “destiny” lately? Today we will look at Paul’s idea of the destiny of a Jesus follower – all of us, actually. Out text today is actually the key to understanding the whole letter, which helps us be Christ centered and obedient. We also will see that not only does God bless us, but we are to bless God for all he has done for us in Christ.
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Christmas Eve 2018 Candle Light Service.
Our Advent series concludes this Christmas Eve with a look at a familiar text in Isaiah that is also a bit perplexing – beautiful feet on a mountain? Just over 2000 years ago Jesus was laid in a manger, he grew up obediently, and then gave himself up for us on Good Friday, was laid in a tomb, and raised to life again Easter morning and then raised to heaven. This is the victory that is the good news on the mountain, he forgave all our sin and we will live forever with Him!!
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Our Advent series this year is based on various O.T. prophecies, today on Micah. Our context is the reigns of kings Jotham (good), Ahaz (very bad), and Hezekiah (very good). Micah was a contemporary of Isiah and Hosea during violent and terrible times. 700 years before Jesus was laid in a manger, Micah told much detail of his birth, life and work. Jesus Christ himself is the gift of Peace by pardoning and forgiving our sin!
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Today’s Message: Our Advent series this year will be based on various O.T. prophecies, today on Zephaniah. Our context is the reign and reforms of good King Josiah, and the message is for those who didn’t respond and those who did get rid of pride and selfishness and rejoice in worship and presence of God for his gifts of Hope, Love, Joy, and Peace in the gift of Jesus Christ!
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Today’s Message: Our Advent series this year will be based on various O.T. prophecies, today on Malachi. Lectionary readings for today carry a theme of Love in various ways, but Malachi tells of a messenger who will come suddenly – surprise! We’ll see the surprise is not bad if we are looking for our Lord to come back, but those not anticipating His return will be unpleasantly surprised.
Recording of today’s message –>Do You Like a Big Surprise?
Today’s Message: Our Advent series this year will be taken from various O.T. prophecies, beginning today with Jeremiah. To understand his prophecy we need to look at Judah’s last king – Zedekiah. Revolt against Babylon led to Jerusalem under siege, famine, and when the city fell, Temple plundered and burned and the people captured – very bad times for them! Could they have hope, and can we in the difficulties of our time? We will wonder if we examine ourselves appropriately, if sufferings can bury us, and we’ll see that God provides Hope!
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Today’s Message: Having given offerings to World Renew for World Hunger on Thanksgiving Day, today we will think about God’s guidance for our giving and helping the poor and hungry of our island and our world, a sort of belated World Hunger Sunday after our offerings. Our text today has Jesus famous directive, “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded”, we’ll see he didn’t just mean money but stewardship of everything He’s given.
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