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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
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Explores Joseph's story in Genesis, emphasizing the power of divine dreams, dedication to God's direction, and destiny shaped by His design.
Good morning, beloved friends in Christ. It is indeed a joy to gather together in the house of the Lord, joined by a shared faith and a shared purpose. We are here today, not by chance or coincidence, but by divine appointment. Today, we gather to delve into a remarkable passage from the first book ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 37:5-11
Topics: Living By Faith
Are you utterly lost? Worthless? Useless? Boy, oh boy...do YOU have help on the way!
“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” A husband and wife are on a long trip in their car. For a long while there is silence, as she dozes in and out and he watches the road. Finally, it occurs to her that he seems to be watching the road signs more intently, ...read more
Scripture: Luke 19:10
Denomination: Orthodox
This message deals with four of the most common reasons we give to move missions from its rightful place as a priority.
- compared to new ministries here or paying down loan or improvements to the building, missions isn’t as exciting for most folks; missions easily gets put aside. Four Excuses To Put Missions On The Back Burner: 1. “That’s their problem.” - v. 14. - sometimes we act like the problems ...read more
Scripture: Philippians 4:14-17
Denomination: Baptist
We live with dreams deferred, and act hastily, out of impatience. Either we then go into denial or we try to make do with a substitute. But Christ makes all dreams ever new.
The playwright Lorraine Hansberry asks it: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun?" A dream deferred. A dream deferred is something you’ve put heart and soul into, for a long time, but it’s delayed. It hasn’t come. It’s incomplete. What happens to a dream ...read more
The fourth message in the "Pay-off of Perseverance" Series
Series: The Pay-off of Perseverance Message #4: Coming Together to Complete God’s Mission - September 23, 2007 The Big Idea: God has a race, a specific mission, marked out for our church family that he is calling us to finish together. 1. As a church family, let’s run linked up. Since we are ...read more
Scripture: Hebrews 12:1-2
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
As with the Apostles, today’s Church is called to be the Church in mission. This short sermon also emphasises that we must not ’star gaze’. We are simply to be involved in God’s mission.
Sadly as I preach this morning there will be ‘preachers’ stating that Jesus did not ascend vertically into heaven; and whilst I will not today have the opportunity to challenge such false teachers let’s remind ourselves of this: After appearing to the disciples “many times in ways that proved ...read more
Scripture: Acts 1:1-11
Denomination: Anglican
Understanding your purpose for living as a follower of Christ.
“You Have a Mission” Introduction: I want to introduce a new series to you today “Explosion & Multiplication”. As an introductory message for this series we will deal with the three greatest questions in life: 1) The question of existence – why am I alive? 2) The ...read more
Scripture: Philippians 3:12-14
Jesus ministry to serve and ransom mankind was not spontaneous, but well-orchestrated –as we see in today’s text. We can see at least three persons or categories involved in the early stage of his ministry.
The Dawning of Messiah’s Mission (Mark 1:1-11) 1. The Church Father Iraneus,before 200 A.D., “Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome, and laying the foundations of the Church. After their ...read more
Scripture: Mark 1:1-4
Denomination: Independent/Bible
Leave the success of your life to a power greater than you. Just do the things you were anointed for. Let a power greater than you take care of the ‘how.’
The theme in our Readings this Sunday is that the ‘opening of the Scriptures’ is consonant with ‘the opening of the eyes’. The use of physical seeing as a metaphor for spiritual insight is commonplace. Those that are blind(ed), are unable to read the Scriptures. E.g. Two young fish are swimming ...read more
Scripture: Nehemiah 8:2-10, Luke 4:14-21
Denomination: Catholic
Today we are all called to reach out to what sociology calls the “nones,” people who profess no faith at all. It is critical.
Tuesday of the 31st Week in Course 2019 St. Guido Maria Conforti One of the recurring errors embraced by lazy Christians is that all one has to do is accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior and you are saved. That statement leads to all kinds of presumptuous behavior. Neither Jesus nor St. ...read more
Scripture: Romans 12:5-16, Luke 14:15-24
Pastors and Churches are not mandated to do marriages and should stop and get back on mission.
Gen 2 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 2:21-24
The Patriarchs The Mission of God in the Abrahamic Covenant Genesis 17-18:15 David Taylor May 1, 2016
The Patriarchs The Mission of God in the Abrahamic Covenant Genesis 17-18:15 David Taylor May 1, 2016 Google earth is a great little tool that can help you find a location. You can zoom in and get a pretty detailed picture of where you are and you can zoom out to see where you are in ...read more
This sermon uses Matthew 28:18-20 to give biblical teaching on the NEC core value of being Mission Minded where we seek “To lead not-yet-believing family, friends and neighbours into a mature relationship with Christ and integrate them completely into the life of our church.”
Message Matthew 28:16-20 Mission Minded In a town near a river which is full of fish there is a fishermen’s club. Week after week the fishermen in this club meet to talk. They would talk about their responsibility to fish. Their slogan was “We live to Fish”. They would talk about the many types ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 28:16-20, Mark 5:1-20
Jesus rebuked Peter because Peter did not understand God's plan.... Jerusalem, the cross and empty grave would mean forgiveness and eternal life. We all make mistakes... quotes by Barbara Bush, John Stott
In Jesus Holy Name August 30, 2020 Text: Matthew 16:21-28 Pentecost XIII – Redeemer “To Jerusalem…A Mission to Complete” Jesus and His disciples were at Caesarea Philippi. Their ministry to this point had been a stunning success. Crowds pressed in on them everywhere they ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 16:21-28, Hebrews 7:24-27
Denomination: Lutheran
It is extremely important for us to have visual acuity when it comes to seeing the church as the hope of world.
Seeing The Church As The Hope Of The World #20/20Vision OKAY – I would like to start off with 3 passages of Scripture that will lay the foundation for our conversation this morning, the 4th Sunday of the year 2020. The first is in John chapter 3… Jesus is talking with a religious leader by the ...read more
Scripture: John 3:16-18, Matthew 5:13-16, 2 Corinthians 5:14-20
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
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