The Offerings of God
Thursday March 28, 2024 Text: Mark 14:12-26 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Maundy Thursday Passages: Mark 14:12-26
The words of institution to the Lord’s Supper are filled with the sacrificial language of the Old Testament. Words like body, blood, given, shed, poured out, and remission, call to mind the offerings and sacrifices of the Old Testament. Jesus makes it clear that his supper is to be an offering. Not an offering from
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Thursday April 6, 2023 Text: Matthew 26:17-30 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Maundy Thursday Passages: Matthew 26:17-30
Everyday without realizing it we breath in the sin of this world. Here we receive that which is pure.
Read MoreLord, Is It I?
Thursday April 14, 2022 Text: Matthew 26:20-22 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Maundy Thursday Passages: Matthew 26:20-22
Is it I who betrayed the Lord?
Read MoreThe Feast of the Lamb: Three In One
Thursday April 1, 2021 Text: Luke 22:14-20 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Lent / Maundy Thursday Passages: Luke 22:14-20
Some of you looking at the theme of our sermon might think that I have the wrong the celebration. The festival of the trinity is May 30. However, my reference to three in one is not a reference to the trinity but to the Lord Supper. True it is a very different type of three
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Thursday April 9, 2020 Text: Luke 22:14-20 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Maundy Thursday Passages: Luke 22:14-20
Bound to All Christians Bound to Each Other Bound to Christ
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Friday April 19, 2019 Text: 1 corinthians 11:23-26 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Maundy Thursday Passages: 1 corinthians 11:23-26
Christ gave the Lord’s Supper as an inheritance to the church for all time, so that we would regularly take time out of life to remember Him, to come together as a family and to be united in His power and His love.
Read MoreMeal to Meal: Passover to Lord’s Supper
Thursday March 29, 2018 Text: Exodus 12:1-13; Mark 14:12-26 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Maundy Thursday Passages: Exodus 12:1-13; Mark 14:12-26
Throughout the years there are many different things that we celebrate, Christmas, New Years, birthdays, anniversaries, Easter, confirmation, and these celebrations are very different. Consider Easter egg hunts versus Christmas stockings. But there is one thing they virtually all share, food Food has an important place in our life.Iits more than substance
Read MoreWhat is a Sacrament?
Thursday April 13, 2017 Text: Matthew 26:17-30 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Maundy Thursday
Technically a sacrament has five parts; Sacred Act Instituted by Christ Uses Earthly elements Connected with God’s word Gives Spiritual Blessings More informally we could say, any act the Lord commands and through which he promises blessings. Jesus has given to us two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. In an informal sense the
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