Season Pentecost 
The Lord Blesses through Earthly Authority
Monday September 24, 2018 Text: Ephesians 6:1-9 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Ephesians 6:1-9; Lamentations 3:27-30
Authority is from God, rebellion is from Satan. By nature we do hate to hear that we ought to submit to authority. The Lord teaches it is good and right to learn humility and obedience. Not only is it right but it is through earthly authority that the Lord provides many earthly blessings. When we rebel we lose and destroy these earthly blessings the Lord wishes us to enjoy.
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The Mystery of Christ Revealed in Your Marriage
Monday September 17, 2018 Text: Ephesians 5:22-33 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Ephesians 5:22-33
Marriage is an earthly sacrament in which Christ gives earthly blessings. Marriage is also a parable to remind us daily of Christ and the Church. As Christ sacrificed himself in order to sanctify the church, so also each spouse ought to sacrifice in order to sanctify the other.
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The Mystery of Christ Revealed in Marriage
Monday September 10, 2018 Text: Ephesians 5:22-33 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Ephesians 5:22-33
Marriage is more than two people who love each other. Marriage is the union of two people bound together, not by frail human love, but by the power of Christ. Through marriage Christ gives to us the greatest of all earthly blessings. In marriage we see a picture of Christ and the church.
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Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
Monday August 27, 2018 Text: Ephesians 5:6-21 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Ephesians 5:6-21
Many people in this world think that you can’t have fun unless you are filled with alcohol. Paul says rather be filled with the Holy Spirit. Then you will have true joy not that which is temporary and empty. Then you will live in light and not darkness. Then you will rejoice with songs of praise to God not the drunken ballads of a bar.
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Imitate Christ Who Died for Us
Tuesday August 21, 2018 Text: Ephesians 4:17-52 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Ephesians 4:17-52
Those who do not know God, walk in their own ignorance, rejoicing in their filthiness. We who know Christ know better. We ought to imitate Christ with our mind, tongue and hands. YET Christ still loves us as a father loves his children even when they drive him mad with their bickering.
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Unity in Christ is Built on Forgiveness
Tuesday August 7, 2018 Text: Ephesians 4:1-16 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Ephesians 4:1-16
We forgive one another because we are one. We work together for the benefit of all according to the gifts Christ has given to each. Thus built into Christ we are strong against the deceit of Satan. But where there is disunity we are easily caught in Satan's deceits.
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Grasp the Riches of Jesus
Tuesday July 31, 2018 Text: Ephesians 3:14-22 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Ephesians 3:14-22
The riches that Christ has showered upon us are well worth grasping and holding fast. This is not done by our strength but by the power that He gives to us through the Word and the Sacraments.
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Jesus Alone Offers Peace and Hope
Tuesday July 24, 2018 Text: Ephesians 2:11-22 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Ephesians 2:11-22
We were separated from God and missing out on all these blessings Christ tore down the wall that separates us from Him and one another Christ built us up into one body one family in which we now have all the blessings of heaven
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Our Riches In Christ
Tuesday July 17, 2018 Text: Ephesians 1:3-14 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Ephesians 1:3-14
Those who are truly wealthy never need to settle. Spiritually we are wealthy in Christ, yet we so often settle for the lesser things of this world.
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Jesus Gives us the Power to Preach and Heal
Monday July 9, 2018 Text: Mark 6:1-13 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Pentecost Passages: Mark 6:1-13
He calls us all to go because there is so much work to be done. He provides all that we need to do this work. He gives us the power to preach but also to heal. Our reward is the same gift we give to others, the forgiveness of our sins in Him.
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