Season Pentecost 
How Are We To Use This Gift?
Sunday May 19, 2024 Text: John 15:26-27; John 16:1-15 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: John 15:26-27; John 16:1-15
15: 26-27 If your kids unwrap their birthday or their Christmas present and find inside the box a note saying, “All my love,” they will likely be very disappointed. Even though they know that to be a very great gift they still want something that they can play with. In the same way today, Jesus
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A Concrete Gift
Sunday May 28, 2023 Text: John 7:37-39 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: John 7:37-39
How would you feel if your birthday present from your spouse was a note that said, “More love.” Some people might not feel like it would not be a very good present, unless it was backed by something more concrete. “I’m going to do the dishes more. I’m going to take you dancing every Friday
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GOD’S WORD IS PRECIOUS
Sunday June 5, 2022 Text: John 14:23-31 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: John 14:23-31
God’s word is valuable in and of itself but it is all the more precious because it is a gift from Jesus who died for our sins.
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Christ Has Given You A Foundation For Life
Sunday May 23, 2021 Text: 1 corinthians 3:9-16 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: 1 corinthians 3:9-16
Christ has given you a foundation for your life. It is the only foundation upon which you can build a life here and hereafter. Having begun this work in you Christ will also finish it.
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Rivers of Living Water
Sunday May 31, 2020 Text: John 7:37-39 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: John 7:37-39
1.This water is a thirst quenching river 2.This water is an overflowing river 3.This water is a church building river
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The Gifts of the Spirit are Life, Word, Ministry, and Power
Monday June 10, 2019 Text: Acts 2:1-21 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Acts 2:1-21; Matthew 17:20
The Spirit reveals Himself as the breath of life which gives life to all. He crowns the disciples with fire to designate that it is through them that He speaks. He fills them with power to speak in every language that Christ is risen from the dead.
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Only Christ Endures
Monday November 19, 2018 Text: Mark 13:1-13 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Mark 13:1-13
What are the things that endure? Nothing in this life will endure. The riches of this world but also the suffering of this world will pass away. The things that give us safety and the things that hurt us are passing away. But Christ and those who are washed in His blood, these will endure into everlasting life.
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May The Lord Remove From Our Hearts And Lives Those Things That Keep Us From Him
Monday October 22, 2018 Text: Mark 10:23-31 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Mark 10:23-31
Even the wisest among us often set our hearts on the useless things of this world. We pray that God through the power of His word may tear away from us the things we love in this world. In this way he might set our hearts to love the riches of Christ, teaching us to trust that He will provide everything we need now and in eternity.
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Monday October 15, 2018 Text: Mark 10:17-22 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Mark 10:17-22
This is a beautiful text if we come to hear in repentance. If we come confessing out sins we find a savoir who knows our hearts and loves us anyway. If we come in arrogance seeking to lift ourselves up to Jesus' level like this rich young man, than we find nothing here.
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Jesus Served the Most Worthless
Monday October 8, 2018 Text: Mark 9:30-37 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Mark 9:30-37
The infant is the ultimate example of a service of love because there is nothing they can give us in return for helping them. Jesus likewise gave His life for us who could never give Him anything in return.
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