The Hand of the Lord Who Heals the Sick

Wednesday March 26, 2025 Text: Matthew 8:1-4 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Lent Passages: Matthew 8:1-4

When I was in college, I worked for a few years delivering and picking up furniture for a rental company. One day we had to go pick up furniture from the filthiest house I have ever seen. There were swarms of flies inside the house. When you walked through the front door there were piles

The Hand of the Lord Who Creates and Saves

Wednesday March 12, 2025 Text: Matthew 14:22-33 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Lent Passages: Matthew 14:22-33

There was an article online this week about a fight between a daughter and her stepmother. Apparently, the stepmother was trying to get rid of a bunch of stuff that belonged to the daughters’ deceased mother. Those things were valuable to the daughter, she reached out to save them when the stepmom wanted to destroy

THE HAND OF THE LORD WHO FREELY GIVES

Wednesday March 5, 2025 Text: Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Ash Wednesday Passages: Matthew 6:1-6,16-21

“Please, Sir, I want some more” In Charles Dickens famous novel Oliver Twist, Oliver approaches the master with an empty bowl and a request for more food. The master “gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds and then clung for support to the copper. The assistants were paralyzed with wonder; the

Resurrection

Tuesday February 11, 2025 Text: John 20:1-9; Luke 24:1-12; Mark 16:1-8; Matthew 28:1-10 Passages: John 20:1-9; Luke 24:1-12; Mark 16:1-8; Matthew 28:1-10

Jesus raises from the dead.

Jesus Was Baptized for Our Righteousness

Sunday January 19, 2025 Text: Matthew 3:13-17 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Epiphany Passages: Matthew 3:13-17

Our sinful nature is such that we often take God’s wonderful blessings and turn them into a commandment. God’s intention is to give us a blessing. We, however, respond with an attitude of, “Do I have to?” This is something that happens often with Genesis 9:1. Here the word of God says that he blessed

God Leads Us To Bethlehem

Sunday January 12, 2025 Text: Matthew 2:1-12 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Epiphany Passages: Matthew 2:1-12

Who are these men from the east? We often refer to them as wisemen or as the three kings, but the truth is they were neither. They were gentiles. They were probably astrologers and practitioners of other occult superstitions. Most importantly they were people whom God in grace and through his word lead out of

Shall We Blame God Or Give Glory To God?

Sunday July 14, 2024 Text: Matthew 13:18-23 Speaker: Pastor John Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Matthew 13:18-23

We’re living in what has been called a post-Christian culture with hardened hearts openly attacking God in a thousand ways. We’re living in an evil, sin frustrated, universe that scorches the hearts of others. We’re living in the midst of a vast thistle patch, richly fertilized with the moral manure of people doing what is

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