Ministry of the Word
Category for posts offering reflections and comments on important Bible passages and how a Christian perspective informs a person’s view of current events.
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Originally Proclaimed 6/30/19 Intro: In our series over the past weeks we have tried to ask the question, “How connected is too connected?” We have answered in part that we are too connected any time that we care more about connections than pleasing and serving God. We identified the fear of man as a perennial
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Originally Proclaimed: 06/23/19 Intro: Ordinarily, I try to refrain from using my personal stories to illustrate sermons, primarily because I know that you may get tired of hearing them. That said, if there is one book in the Bible, and one verse that I look to as the source and ground for my faith it
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Originally Proclaimed: 06/16/19 Intro: A blog from a website called BreakPoint offers a tremendously convicting insight from several studies about children growing up to attend church. From one Swiss study, it is reported that in households where only mothers went to church with their children only 2-3% of their children grow up to do the
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Originally Proclaimed: 06/09/19 Intro: Recently I decided to watch reboot of the series the Twilight Zone. The episode told the story of a stand-up comedian who was challenged by a more seasoned, famous comic to share more about his personal life in his act. However, he was warned that there would be a cost. As
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Originally Proclaimed: 06/02/19 Intro: On most social media websites, there is a sections somewhere on the profile page that gives users a field of suggested connections. Some call these friends that we might also know. Others suggest profiles that we should follow based on those we already know. But all of them utilize our current
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Intro: In our messages in this series we have been asking ourselves how connected is too connected. If we were to sum up all that we have said, it might sound something like this: We are too connected when our fear of making a wrong decision, exposing an undesirable part of ourselves, or keeping up
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Originally Proclaimed: 05/19/19 Intro: Since today is graduate Sunday, I thought it would be interesting for us to take a few minutes to open our message by thinking a little of the world of connecting that these young people entered into when they were born in 2000-2001. The first Apple stores opened selling Apple products,
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