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Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places // Finding – The Samaritan Woman at the Well   John 4:1-42 (NIV) “Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called...

Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places // Jesus the Winemaker   John 2:1-5 (ESV) “On the third day, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus was also invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.’ H...

Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places // At the Disciple’s Feet   Matthew 20:28 (NIV) “Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”   John 13:1-17 (NIV) “It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to...

Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places // My Dad     Deuteronomy 5:16 (NIV) “Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”   1. I had a father who taught me compassion and kindness. Psalm 103:13 (NIV) "As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassi...

Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places // Zacchaeus   Luke 19:1-10 ( NIV) “Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. When Jesus...

Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places // Stopping a Jesus Parade   Mark 10:46-52 (NIV) “Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means ‘son of Timaeus’), was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’ Many rebuk...

Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places // Jesus and the Leper      Matthew 8:1-4 (NLT) “Large crowds followed Jesus as he came down the mountainside. Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached him and knelt before him. ‘Lord,’ the man said, ‘if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean.’ Jesus reached out and touched him. ‘I am willing,’ he said. ‘Be healed!’ And instantly the leprosy disappeare...

Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places - Asleep in the Boat     Mark 4:35-41 (NIV) “That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, ‘Let us go over to the other side.’ Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern,...

Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places // The Human Womb   Isaiah 7:14 (NIV) “Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (God with us)”   Isaiah 9:6-7 (NIV) “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everla...

Finding Jesus in Unexpected Places       Romans 8:28 (NIV) “We know that God works all things together for good to those that love him and are called according to his purposes.”   Romans 8:31-39 (NLT)  “What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?  Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us ever...

Baptism Sunday   Romans 6:1-11 (NLT) “Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised...

Easter Sunday   Mark 16:11,13 (NIV) “When they heard that Jesus was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe it… These returned and reported it to the rest, but they did not believe them either.”     Hope restored in the face of deepest despair.     Without the resurrection of Christ, our horizon is diminished. There is no hope.     Romans 5:6-10 (NLT) “When we were utterly helpless,...

Good Friday   Jesus the Bread of Life John 6:35-40 (NIV) “ Jesus replied, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But you haven’t believed in me even though you have seen me. However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them.   For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who...

Jesus' Not-So-Triumphal Entry   Zechariah 9:9 (NIV) Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend...

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Immeasurably More// Faith Under Fire// March 30, 2025 Ephesians 6:10-20 (NIV) “Finally, BE STRONG in the Lord and in the strength of HIS MIGHT . Put on the full armor of God so we can take our stand against the devil’s schemes because our battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers and against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of e...

Immeasurably More // New Identity   Ephesians 4:17-32 (NIV) “So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given thems...

Immeasurably More: The Book of Ephesians: Unified in love   Ephesians 4:1-6 (NIV) “As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to...

Immeasurably More // Framed Ephesians 3:14-20 (ESV) “For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have s...

Immeasurably More // The Book of Ephesians: God’s Dwelling   Ephesians 2:11-22 (NLT)  “Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called “uncircumcised heathens” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of...

Immeasurably More // Experience More of God’s Grace   ·      Where did you come from? ·      Where are you now? ·      Where are you going?   Ephesians 2:1-7 (ESV) “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the  course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all onc...

Immeasurably More // God’s Blessing to You Through Christ   “The Gospel is the principal article of all Christian doctrine…Most necessary is it that we know this doctrine well, teach it to others, and beat it into their heads continually.”   Martin Luther   Ephesians 1:1-3 (NKJV) "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus: G...

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