Season Trinity 
How To Live In The Image Of Our Creator
Tuesday August 27, 2019 Text: Colossians 3:1-11 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 3:1-11
Pull out evil by the root. Daily use the power that is ours through our baptism.
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Only Christ is Necessary
Monday August 19, 2019 Text: Colossians 2:16-23 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 2:16-23
For the meaning is: Since righteousness of the heart is a spiritual matter, [creating life in] hearts, and it is evident that human traditions do not [create life in] hearts, and are not effects of the Holy Ghost, as are love to one's neighbor, chastity, etc., and are not instruments through which God moves hearts to believe, as are the divinely given Word and Sacraments, but are usages with regard to matters that pertain in no respect to the heart, which perish with the using, we must not believe that they are necessary for righteousness before God.
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We Are Complete In Christ
Tuesday August 13, 2019 Text: Colossians 2:6-15 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 2:6-15
In this section Paul compares the fullness we have in Christ with the emptiness of the religions and philosophies of this world.
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The Mystical Union
Tuesday August 6, 2019 Text: Colossians 1:21-29 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 1:21-29
Christ in us is the result of Christ for us. We grow by the external word. We labor for the fullness of the Church.
Read MoreChrist is First In ALL
Thursday August 1, 2019 Text: Colossians 1:15-20 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 1:15-20
Christ is first in Paul's thoughts Christ is first in Creation by virtue of His deity Christ is first in the Church by virtue of His suffering
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A Miraculous Mission: Jesus Saves the World
Monday July 22, 2019 Text: John 3:16 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: John 3:16
God who had no problem creating all things did something difficult. He gave up what was most precious to Him, His only Son. He did this for ugly vicious brutes who deserve nothing but punishment.
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He Has Filled Us With Grace, Therefore Let Us Ask For More
Tuesday July 16, 2019 Text: Colossians 1:1-14 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Colossians 1:1-14
In the first part of our sermon text, Paul lists all the blessings which God has given to the Colossians. All of these things He has given to you too. Paul then prays with boldness that God would grant the Colossians even more grace, to learn to know and walk with Him even better than they have been. A large part of this daily walk with God is patient endurance in suffering. It is often through this same suffering that we grow even more in our faith. Therefore we press on for the sake of all that we are and have from God, especially the redemption of our sins in Christ Jesus.
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Jesus Is The Only Hope For Us and Our Nation
Monday July 8, 2019 Text: Matthew 5:11-16 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Matthew 5:11-16
We are the salt, that is to say God preserves the world for the sake of His elect. Let our lights shine, that is to say politics will not save us but only the preaching of the Gospel.
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The Voice of the Lord
Monday July 1, 2019 Text: 1 kings 19:9-21 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: 1 kings 19:9-21
The Lord could speak from the heavens with a voice like a great wind. The Lord could shake the Earth with His wrath. The Lord could cover the earth in miracles of fire. He does not come in wind or earthquake or fire. The Lord comes in the quiet voice of His word. The voice of one who comes in love.
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Set Free From Bondage
Wednesday June 26, 2019 Text: Luke 8:26-39 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Passages: Luke 8:26-39
Satan trades one man for two thousand pigs but that one man is worth far more than even six thousand pigs. He is worth more to Jesus than His own life. Satan kills the pigs in order to turn the people again Jesus, but in so doing everyone sees with their own eyes the great thing Christ has done. Satan fills the people with fear so that they run Jesus out of town, yet Jesus leaves behind the quiet voice which is a constant witness to His love and power.
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