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Current Sermon Series
April Theme:
Patience Now!
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| 5.5.13 |
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Romans 14:13
Some of our greatest regrets are decisions, words, and actions done in the moment but affecting a whole life time. The story of Jacob and Esau has Esau for one meal selling his entire future. The Lord leads us on another path. The path to wisdom comes at the cost of impulsiveness. Patience doesn't have to take forever. We can have "patience now" if we stop and think. It is a fallacy that you have to wait for patience. Patience comes as a decision to do what's right, when it's right, rather than what's quick.
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| 5.12.13 |
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Proverbs 17:22
In proverbs it says, a cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones. When we are down on our self we are giving ourselves "bad medicine". I remember my research from last year's Mother's Day about women being particularly self-critical. Well it's time for some "good medicine".
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| 5.19.13 |
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Ephesians 4:1-2
The scripture calls for us to with humility, gentleness and patience, bear with one another in love. Those words "bear with" means to suffer with, to endure with, and to hold ones self erect while sustaining and bear burdens. It's hard to "stand up straight" while bearing your own burdens. It's even harder to keep standing up straight when your bearing not only your own but the burdens of others. The people called Methodists in the 1800's were known in the American Colonies by bearing one another's burdens. They were called "close-knit". They were called "do-gooders".
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| 5.26.13 |
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1 Peter 3:8
This is the famous scripture about God's time not being like our time. Imagine God looking at your life from begin- ning to end. God knows more than you do about yourself. God knows about what you have been and what you will be than you can imagine.
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Finding Patience in a hurry up world
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| 5.5.13 |
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2 Peter 3:8-15a; Genesis 25:24-34
Sometimes we want things so fast that we don't think clearly about the consequences of moving too quickly. see this in examples on the grand scale of stories of greed on the news. also see it in the simple reality of driving on the streets around our own home town with people weaving in and out of traffic. we feel that impatience rising up within us, that might be the signal to think twice.
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| 5.12.13 |
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Exodus 32:1-14; 15-24
Each one of us faces high pressure moments in the course of our lives. In school we might identify these most with peer pressure. When we get older, it might take the form of keeping up with the Jones'. Whatever the case, moments of pressure from others can lead us to places we may not really need to go...maybe even to places we shouldn't go. We're not the first ones to wrestle with pressure and we won't be the last. How we handle that external pressure is key to a God-honoring life.
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| 5.19.13 |
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Acts 2:1-21
Today is Pentecost Sunday, which recalls the giving of the Holy Spirit to the early Church shortly after Jesus' ascen- sion into heaven. We often celebrate the fact that the Holy Spirit represents a new way of knowing God, but it also represents a change in the way the early Christians had known God. Jesus said it was good that he leave so that the Holy Spirit could come. This Sunday in worship, we talk about why this is so.
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| 5.2613 |
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Proverbs 3:5-6; 1 Samuel 1:9-20
The story of Hannah is a story of patience as she struggles with infertility. She wants a child desperately, but for years bears the burden of a desire unmet. As we dis- cover in her story, being forced to wait isn't always the most fun thing to do. In Hannah's case, it leads to ridicule and tears. What we learn from Hannah is the importance of how wait.
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