Sermons
Jeremiah – Seeking the Welfare of the Place You Live
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a person in the Bible? What would it have been like to be someone like Hagar, Samuel, Isaiah, John, Mary, Elizabeth, or Paul? It might be an amazing experience, but I know I wouldn’t want to have been Jeremiah. He had a tough…
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Samuel – When You Can’t Sleep
Many of the characters we encounter in the pages of the Bible, we see for a single moment, or only at one period in their life. Samuel is that rare person we learn about from before he is born, to childhood and adulthood to the very end of his life. In the book that bears…
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Hagar – When You’ve Been Mistreated
For the next five weeks we’re doing a series in worship and in small groups on Finding God in Unexpected Places. There are some places we kind of expect to find God – like in a worship service, reading the Bible, in our personal devotional time, when we’re serving others for God’s glory and to…
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The Better Life of Peace
Our guest preacher this week is Rev. Steve Youd. Steve holds degrees from both Gordon College and Yale University, the latter awarding him the Mersick Preaching Prize. Steve has served as Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hanson, Massachusetts – – a congregation that engaged dozens of their people in hands-on mission to such…
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The Toughest Thing In Life… Learning to Forgive
This morning we are going to be talking about one of the hardest things to do in life. I would suggest doing this activity is hard to endure, yet unbelievable freedom can come from it. This morning, we are going to be talking about “Forgiveness”; how we need to learn to forgive the people that…
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The Power of Blessing
Let’s begin, reading from The Message, the book of James, Chapter 3, starting at verse 3. 3-5 A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse. A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds. A word…
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What Would He Say Today?
We don’t know much about the prophet Habakkuk, not even his father’s name, but we know he likely spoke during the height of Babylonian power (608-598 B.C.) and that he asked hard, searching questions. Looking at his homeland of Judah, observing the violence and injustice on every hand, he cries out to God with some…
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The Sin of Standing Aside
Have you ever benefited from the intervention of a stranger or have you ever come to the aid of a person you didn’t know? What was that experience like? I’ve benefited from the intervention of a stranger when I got a flat tire on a cold winter day and was incredibly grateful for the assistance.…
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Hate Evil, Love Good, Establish Justice
Amos 5:14-15, 21-24, “Seek good and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, just as you have said. Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the…
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