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Getting Priorities In Order - July 18, 2010 Offered by Doug Satow, a member of our Preaching Team
For thirteen years, Julie and I had a good neighbor. He was a character to be sure. He had a full head of wavy, snow-white hair, a long, white handlebar mustache, a deep, resonant voice and a hearty laugh. Those who didn’t know him well might easily conclude that he . . .
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Keeping It Together - July 11, 2010 Offered by Pastor Jim Helman
Maybe it is because we are about to leave for vacation that I pictured a launder mat dryer as I read and re-read our text. We usually have to make a trip to wash our clothes sometime during vacation, and those dryers with the window in the door . . .
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Kingdom ... Coming ... And Here - July 4, 2010 Offered by Pastor Jim Helman
It was the message of John the Baptist … “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” (Matthew 3:2)
It was a message repeated by Jesus in his very first sermon recorded in Mark’s gospel: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; . . .
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Standing At The Edge Of Tomorrow - June 27, 2010 Offered by Marlene Sowers, a member of our Preaching Team. Marlene was a guest preacher at Evangelical Lutheran Church in East Jordan, Michigan.
“Let the dead bury their own dead….” (Luke 9:60) “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the Kingdom of God.” (Luke 9:62) Today the Gospel of Luke places before us what seem to be difficult decisions. These hardly sound like . . .
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Freedom to See A New Way - June 27, 2010 Offered by Pastor Jim Helman
We live in an area of the world that allows us to embrace the Apostle Paul’s metaphor of fruit…fruit of the Spirit. Surrounded by orchards of various fruit, we are mindful of good and bad years when fruit is either plentiful or sparse, whether our own cherries can be . . .
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Here I Am - June 20, 2010 Offered by Pastor Jim Helman
We have a God who is centered on relationship. We have a God who desires to be close, desires to be connected with his children, and desires intimacy. We have a God who loves to make promises, and then . . .
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No. 1 On To-Do List: Forgive Sinners - June 13, 2010 Offered by Pastor Jim Helman
Jesus could not have been clearer in his teachings, in his modeling of ministry for his disciples. He went looking for those who were lost, who were lonely, who were forgotten, shunned, left out. He had forgiveness to offer sinners. There was . . .
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God, What Were You Thinking? - June 6, 2010 Offered by Pastor Jim Helman
Maybe you are attending your high school reunion. In the midst of
conversation with some of your old high school buddies, someone asks:
“Do you remember Johnny G? You remember. Johnny G?”
“Oh, that Johnny? Yeah, I remember Johnny”, and you roll your eyes. “He was a wild one!”
“That Johnny is now . . .
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Headed For Hope - May 30, 2010 Offered by Pastor Jim Helman
Pastor Felipe Martinez shared in an article he wrote for The Christian Century that he uses two forms for traveling. If time is a factor, if he needs to get from point A to point B in a hurry, he jumps in his car and heads for the interstate. Not much to see, to be sure, but it gets him to his destination in a relative hurry, bypassing everything that would slow his progress. Now, if time is not a factor . . .
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Where Are The Hallmark Cards For Pentecost - May 23, 2010 Offered by Pastor Jim Helman
Professor and gifted preacher Barbara Brown Taylor says that Pentecost is the third biggest day of the Christian year. She lists Easter first because of Jesus’ resurrection from the tomb. She lists Christmas next when God came to us through Jesus. Pentecost, the day . . .
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How Do You Feel When Someone Prays Outloud For You - May 16, 2010 Offered by Pastor Jim Helman
Something happens inside, something that is difficult to describe. Maybe it is like a warming sensation, or maybe a tingling twitch of the heart. Maybe we can almost feel the invisible hand on our shoulder. It is a . . .
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Bubbling Waters And The Giver Of Life - May 9, 2010 Offered by Pastor Jim Helman
It was during one of the festivals of Judaism, either Passover, Pentecost, or Tabernacles. Jerusalem would have been packed with pilgrims, with participants, all there for the spiritual and social festivities. Jesus chose to go to a place, to . . .
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Parting Words - May 2, 2010 Offered by Pastor Jim Helman
“There is just one thing I regret.” That was how my dad began his final words to me before he died. The day before lapsing into a coma the two of us were in his hospital room together and alone. He knew . . .
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