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Colossians 1: 11-20  11  May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, so that you may have all endurance and patience, joyfully 12  giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13  He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14...

Luke 6: 20-31 20  Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21  “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 22  “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. 23  Rejoice...

Luke 18: 1-8 18  Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. 2  He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. 3  In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my accuser.’ 4  For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I ha...

Luke 18: 9-14 9  He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: 10  “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11  The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax...

2 Kings 5:1-3; 7-15 5  Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from a skin disease. 2  Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. 3  She said to her...

Lamentations 1: 1-6 1 .How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces has become subject to forced labor. 2  She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers, she has no one to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;...

1 Timothy 6:6-19 6  Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment, 7  for we brought nothing into the world, so that[ a ] we can take nothing out of it, 8  but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. 9  But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into rui...

Matthew 28:16-20 16  Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17  When they saw him, they worshiped him, but they doubted. 18  And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son a...

Acts 2: 42-47 41  So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added. 42  They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43  Awe came upon everyone because many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44  All who believed were together and had all thin...

Luke 14: 25-33 25  Now large crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and said to them, 26  “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. 27  Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. 28  For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not f...

Jeremiah 1:4-10 4  Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, 5  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 6  Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.” 7  But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a boy,’ for you shall go to all to whom I s...

Jeremiah 1:4-10 4  Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, 5  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 6  Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.” 7  But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a boy,’ for you shall go to all to whom I s...

This is the last sermon in our series, "Missional Movement."  John 17:20-23 ‘I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, 21that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that th...

This is the fourth sermon in our summer series, "Missional Movement."  Revelation 3:15-17 ‘I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were either cold or hot. 16So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17For you say, “I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.” You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable...

This is the third sermon in our summer series, "Missional Movement."  John 1:38-39a, 43-46 38When Jesus turned and saw them following, he said to them, ‘What are you looking for?’ They said to him, ‘Rabbi’ (which translated means Teacher), ‘where are you staying?’ 39He said to them, ‘Come and see.’ ] 43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, ‘Follow me.’...

This is the second sermon in our summer series, "Missional Movement." Mark 2:21-22, ‘No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.22And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh winesk...

The first sermon in our summer series, "Missional Movement."  Matthew 6:19-21; ‘Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; 20but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matt...

Isaiah 43:16-21 16 Thus says the Lord,    who makes a way in the sea,    a path in the mighty waters, 17 who brings out chariot and horse,    army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise,    they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: 18 Do not remember the former things,    or consider the things of old. 19 I am abou...

Joshua 5:8-12 When the circumcising of all the nation was done, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed. 9The Lord said to Joshua, ‘Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.’ And so that place is called Gilgal to this day. 10 While the Israelites were encamped in Gilgal they kept the passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the month in the plai...

Isaiah 55:1-9

Deuteronomy 26:1-11 First Fruits and Tithes 1When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it, 2you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the Lord your God will...

Luke 9:28-36 The Transfiguration 28 Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. 29And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white. 30Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him. 31They appeared in glory and were speaking of his departure, which he...

1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Now I should remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good newsthat I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, 2through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain. 3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ d...

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 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. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not...

1 Corinthians 12:12-31 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.13For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 14 Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15If the foot were to say, ‘Because I am n...