Acts 10:34-43 In our human family with the God given gift of free will we have used free will to lust after the power to replace God.  In the Biblical account of Creation, we see the man and woman that had been given everything soon longed for more power.  They wanted to be equal to the God that had given them life.  In this lust for power they lose Paradise.  God’s judgment is upon our sin but God, with His…..

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Acts 7:51-60, 8:1-3 The definition of hate covers a large range of feelings.   Hate is to dislike intensely or passionately.  Hate is to feel extreme aversion for, or extreme hostility and to detest.  Hate is to have intense dislike.  Hate is to loathe or abhor. In our human history hate has been one of the most destructive viruses in the human family.  Hate has produced murders, wars, divisions and broken lives.  What has caused this death-dealing virus in our…..

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Deuteronomy 5:21 Since March of this year the coronavirus has shut down much of life’s activity: closed businesses, churches, sporting events and people have lost jobs. Our economy was doing great.  People had jobs before this.  Businesses were growing.  Out of envy and covetousness a nation used germ warfare on the world, even at the expense of their own people. When God gave Moses the Ten Commandments for the covenant community, he made a special one out of the ten…..

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Jeremiah 27:1-22 God uses many things in our journey of life to get our attention.  God shows himself in so many ways to us.  The truth is we are looking so much at the world we have become blind to God.  He sends us messages, but we are so busy listening to the sounds of the world we no longer hear what God is saying to us.  Time, places and names change on the stage of time, but our problems…..

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Jeremiah 24:1-10 We don’t live long until we can look back at life and see we have come through some hard times.  What gave us the strength of character — spiritual and moral — to get through the rough patches that come with being alive?   In her book “Raspberry Kingdom,” Renee Hermanson tells us that to get through the rough patches just take the time to journal.  That by writing things down we learn how we got through those rough…..

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Jeremiah 23:1-10 In the days following Jesus’ death on the cross, the reality of the mood of the disciples was doom and gloom.  Then Easter came and the band of the brothers and the followers of Jesus saw the power of God’s Spirit at work in their lives.  Jesus gave his disciples instructions.  Fifty days after Easter the Pentecost Spirit filled their lives and changed life forever for these believers.  In Acts 2:1-21 we see the Holy Spirit changing the…..

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Jeremiah 18:1-17 The rise and fall of great nations have some very common elements.  I want to focus on two of these common elements – greed and power.  Looking at these two elements in our lives we see the same old outcome for us in the greed factor and power factor.  It is hard for us to see the wreckage that these two elements cause.  In the absence of faith and trust in God, our maker and creator, we are…..

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Jeremiah 19:1-15 Our human history contains more reruns than reruns of television movies.  Using the human mind and plan we have tried to blow up the faith and freedom that comes from our creator God.  Today I want us to look at the landmine of our disobedience to God’s plan for his human family. The prophet Jeremiah was born in the priest city of Anathoth and called to be a prophet around 627 BC when he was but twenty years…..

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John 3:1-17 Many of us live our lives based just on the bottom line of things, events and money.  Charlie Brown says to his sister Sally, “I’m going to try to sell Christmas wreaths from door to door.”  Sally responds, “So you are getting on the ole commercial bandwagon, eh?  Going after those big holiday bucks, huh?”  Charlie leaves the house to start selling and Sally comes out to the porch and says to him, “Need any help?”  Charlie must…..

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John 8:31-59 This virus has caused us a great deal of concern about out health and physical condition.  We are doing many things to protect ourselves from the coronavirus.  We are staying away from each other and wearing masks, gloves, washing and cleaning our hands with solutions that kill germs.  We are trying to do the things that the medical people are telling us to do so we can have life.  In our culture we are concerned about our physical…..

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