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Lord’s Prayer
Contributed by Charles Wilkerson on Jan 20, 2004 (message contributor)
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1. Who's Your Daddy
Contributed on Jan 20, 2004
Fatherhood of God and the foundation for all our prayers
Richard Nixon enjoyed family dinners with his daughters Tricia and Julie; JFK enjoyed having his children play in the Oval Office while he worked. FDR and Eleanor had six children; President Harding had a daughter with Nan Britton and President Van Buren had four sons. Yet all of these “fathers” ...read more
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2. What Do You Need?
Contributed on Feb 19, 2004
Semon on the issue of needs and determing what "needs" are.
Did you see the clip before worship from Bruce Almighty? I would imagine that this is just how most of us would respond if we were faced with answering all the prayers of…say North Portland between I-5 and Portsmouth. If you didn’t see it Bruce gets fed up with answering millions of prayers and so ...read more
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3. The Importance Of Being Forgiven
Contributed on Feb 19, 2004
Forgiveness and the need we have to give and recieve God’s forgiveness
Ernest Hemingway starts his short story, “Capital of the World” by describing Madrid Spain. He says, there is a Madrid joke about a father who took out an add in a local paper which asked his son, Paco, to meet him in front of the newspaper office. And told him that “all was forgiven”. According to ...read more
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4. How To Say No To Temptations
Contributed on Feb 19, 2004
Test vs. leading into sin...ah now there’s a question for us
Little things can and do make a difference. Remember the big power failure back east last year. The New York Times reported, “one sagging electrical line near Cleveland, Ohio, connected with a tree branch at 3:32 p.m. on August 14, 2003, beginning a chain of events which led to the largest ...read more
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5. Long Live The King
Contributed on Feb 19, 2004
The Kingdom of God--it’s presence and it’s coming theme
onsider the power of words. Two little words can change your life and many of us have discovered this truth when we said, “I do.” Hopefully we haven’t heard the power of the word pronounced in a court, “guilty as charged”. There are those who have even experienced the power of an oath such as: I, ...read more
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6. Prayer 101
Contributed on Nov 10, 2009
General discussion on the nature of Prayer and introduction into the series
One cannot escape any number of jokes and misunderstandings when it comes to the concept of prayer. Most of us have heard about the child who believed God’s name was Harold because each week they prayed, "Our Father who art in heaven, Harold be thy name". Likewise, there is the story of the ...read more
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7. Who's Your Daddy
Contributed on Nov 10, 2009
What does it mean to call God our Heavenly FATHER
Anyone ever seen the original The Parent Trap with Hayle Mills done in 1961? Have you seen the remake from 1998? In the remake Lindsay Lohan plays the twins and Dennis Quaid is the father. If you know the story then you’ll remember that identical twins, separated at birth by their parent’s divorce ...read more
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8. Trip Of A Lifetime
Contributed on Nov 10, 2009
Lord’s Prayer week 2 1 Peter 2:4-12 along with Matthew’s account form the basis for our look into God’s Kingdom
Recently I ran across an unlikely group of folks. Kennan and Cai; Elizabeth and Molly; Nicholas and Chris, and Richard all of whom have gone on their trip of a lifetime. Cai is a Chinese adoptee who will return to her birth land with her parents and brother. Elizabeth will show her 13-year-old ...read more
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9. Good Eats
Contributed on Nov 10, 2009
Give us this day... is the focus of this week’s message
Why the title Good Eats? It’s the title of a show on the Food Network in with host, Alton Brown. Brown is a culinary version of Bill Nye, the science guy. His goal is for us to capture a bit of the why that goes into the taste we all love. Now, look at what we call "the Lord’s prayer". The only ...read more
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10. What Not To Wear
Contributed on Nov 10, 2009
Forgive us our Sins... selections include Leviticus 16--day of Atonement as well as the Women caught in adultery
The Learning Channel hosts a show called What Not to Wear. In it the two hosts take someone who has been volunteered by family and friends for a wardrobe makeover. They go through the persons closet and clothes and pretty mach discards what they have been comfortable wearing. They then make ...read more