We Are Waiting For A King

Sunday November 26, 2023 Text: Ezekiel 34:11-16,20-24 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Ezekiel 34:11-16,20-24

When Israel first entered the land of Canaan, God made them a promise. He would be their king. Fast forward four hundred years, the people are sick of Judges and demand an earthly king. God warned the people that it is not a good thing they asked. He warned them that kings would be selfish,

Treasure God’s Gifts

Sunday November 19, 2023 Text: Matthew 25:14-30 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Matthew 25:14-30

Verse 14 There are a number of these parables which begin with a master or a landowner, or a king leaving. These parables come near the end of Jesus ministry. Our current parable is spoken by Jesus after his entry into Jerusalem during the last week of before his death. Such parables anticipate Jesus’s ascension.

Check Your Faith

Sunday November 12, 2023 Text: Matthew 25:1-13 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Matthew 25:1-13

Some of you know we’ve been having problems with our van. Joe Brown helped us take it down to the Kia dealership. While I was talking to the guy at the service desk, I admitted that we sometimes go a couple hundred miles over before getting our oil changed. The man replied saying that was

Render!

Sunday October 22, 2023 Text: Matthew 22:15-22 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Matthew 22:15-22

The Jews hated Rome and because they hated Rome they despised the tax-collectors who served Rome. Throughout the Gospels we see evidence of this hatred in passages like Matthew 9:10.Matthew 9:10 Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with

God At Work In Your Life

Sunday October 15, 2023 Text: Philippians 2:12-16 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Philippians 2:12-16

12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; Vanessa and I were in a bit of a bind this week. Both cars ended up in the shop. However, Lillo’s were kind enough

Christ is the Foundation of our Life

Sunday October 8, 2023 Text: Matthew 21:33-46 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Matthew 21:33-46

Matthew 21:33 “Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country. You are God’s vineyard. This parable begins with a detailed description of God’s love

Clutching the Light

Sunday October 1, 2023 Text: Philippians 2:1-4 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Philippians 2:1-4

2 Corinthians 4:6 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Because Christ is our light, therefore our text reminds us to always be mindful

Jesus Turns the World Around

Sunday September 24, 2023 Text: Matthew 20:1-16 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Matthew 20:1-16

November 23, 2001, the day after thanksgiving. I was home from college trying to sleep in when my mother woke me up at 7am. She wanted me to go to Best Buy to get a TV that was on sale. I tried to tell her that by the time I got there they would all

At School with Christ: Learning to Stack

Sunday September 10, 2023 Text: Matthew 18:1-6 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Matthew 18:1-6

After Jonah was swallowed by a sea creature and spit back out. After Jonah preached to the city of Nineveh. He went and sat on a hill watching the city of Nineveh. He was sitting there hoping the city would get what it deserved. As he sat there God caused a tree to grow up

A Vision of Death For Life

Sunday September 3, 2023 Text: Matthew 16:21-28 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Matthew 16:21-28

Last week we heard Peters confession “you are the Christ.” We saw how through this confession Peter became one who was built on the rock that is Christ. We all also with Abraham, Job, David, Peter and many others become children of God through this same confession. Having become children of God through faith, Jesus

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