Tag: discipleship
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jesus and snap decisions
We make so many spur-of-the-moment decisions every day — decisions we can’t fully explain. Jesus makes a snap decision to call Simon and Andrew, James and John. They respond with a similar decision. But this isn’t the end, it’s just the beginning.
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examination for life – a visit from Jesus
Image you know someone who has always dreamed of visiting the Great Wall of China. It probably wouldn’t come as a surprise to hear that someone would want to visit the Great Wall. Parts of that wall were built as long as eighteen hundred years ago by the first emperor of China – most of…
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foxes have holes #FollowingJesus #sermon
My sermon from this past Sunday. ____________________________ “Jesus, shall we command fire to come down from heaven to consume them?” The Samaritans are enemies of the Jews. There is intense animosity between these two peoples. Jesus is travelling through Samaritan territory on his way to Jerusalem, and while he makes this journey he sends a…
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Biographies of Faith: Joni
A sermon in my series on ‘biographies of faith’. ____________________________ A couple of weeks ago we began a short series on biographies of faith. Over these few weeks I am doing something just a little different in my sermons as we consider the lives of women and men who are for us examples of the…
encrusted words 