Category: Sermons
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March 21, 2010 – This is Our God Who Goes to War for Us
Have you ever thought of God showing up to fight for you? Most of us probably do not have that image of God. Perhaps we even think of God as reluctant to help us, or think of God’s willingness to help us as being dependent on our own devotion. The series of plagues in Exodus…
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March 14, 2010 – Reverence for God Reaps Benefits
What do you have confidence in? What creates a sense of security? Is it the economy? Your job or retirement fund? As we know, these things are sometimes up causing us to feel good and secure, but other times things are not so good. Although ups and downs seem always to be present in life,…
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March 7, 2010 – The Blessing of Belonging to God
Things are getting tense in Egypt because God’s plagues keep coming. No sooner than the frogs die, millions of annoying insects show up, sent by God. But this time God’s children are spared. God sets them apart, and from here on out they suffer none of the consequences the Egyptians experience during the remaining plagues.…
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February 28, 2010 – Look Out! Here Come the Frogs: God’s Second Strike
God answers prayer. Pharaoh was about to learn that fact. But at present, Pharaoh thought of himself as in charge of things and people. This week as we study Exodus, the divine plague sent was frogs. One of the Egyptian gods was Heget, a frog, goddess of fertility. Boy does God have a sense of…
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February 21, 2010 – God’s First Strike: Blood Everywhere
What does it mean to follow God? What is different about having God in your life? This week’s message talks about two men – one a very powerful, competent ruler who didn’t really think living with God made much of a difference at all. Then there was Moses, who, as he learned to live by…
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February 7, 2010 – So You Think You Can Tell God No?
The call of God to Moses took lots of time because Moses had so many questions for God. Most of them revolved around the question ‘you want me to do what?!?‘ You too may wonder how this idea of call works itself out in the “real world.” How do we specifically find our place? What…
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January 31, 2010 – FOREVER GOD’S, FOREVER FREE
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare certainly understood the power of a name in his tale, “Romeo and Juliet.” The two family names in that story were so strong that even love and “will” could not overcome the divide. Names in the…
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January 24, 2010 – Amber Alert, God’s Version
When you think of God, what character traits come to mind? How do you picture God? This week’s scripture gives us a picture of God as he related to the children of Israel who were enslaved in Egypt. Read the verbs: (God) heard their groaning; looked upon them, took notice, observed their misery, knows their…
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January 17, 2010 – How to Have Faith: The Story of Exodus
What is God like? Did God make the world, put it in our hands, and then leave us to our own devices? Are people simply subject to the vicissitudes of life while God casually watches from a distance? The book of Exodus answers that question. And, its answer is a resounding no; God is not…
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January 3, 2010 – HAPPY NEW YEAR
Have you made your New Year’s resolutions? You may be surprised to know men and women in the Bible made resolutions. Sunday we will look at one of those resolutions. It’s in Psalm 40 and a powerful man made it. When we study it, we’ll find some helpful advice that can give us a new,…