The Lies of Satan: God Loves You So . . .

Monday October 16, 2017 Text: John 6:40; Romans 12:1-2 Speaker: Pastor Caleb Schaller Festival: Trinity Tags: be happy / lies of satan / love of god / mind of christ / sanctificaiton / will of god Passages: John 6:40; Romans 12:1-2

It is a common lie of Satan especially in our day that because God loves you, therefore you should do whatever makes you happy and God will be ok with that. God does want you to be happy, but it exactly for this reason that he wants what is best for you.

The Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers

Tuesday October 10, 2017 Text: Matthew 21:33-46 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: cornerstone / kingdom of god / vineyard / wicked vinedressers Passages: Matthew 21:33-46

The Lord did everything for the Israelites. After all the He did for them they rejected Him. Therefore the kingdom was taken from them and given to the Gentiles. The Lord plan of salvation is not the type of plan we would come up with. Nevertheless having seen it we rejoice in it.

The Laborers In The Vineyard

Monday September 25, 2017 Text: Matthew 20:1-16 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: grace / laborers / parables / vineyard / works Passages: Matthew 20:1-16

WE RECEIVE BY HIS GRACE WHAT WE DO NOT DESERVE We have no chance if we come before His throne demanding what we think is right and what we think He might owe to us. For we deserve nothing, but if we admit this and come on the basis of His grace we receive everything.

Jesus’ Forgiveness Is Without Limit. What About Yours?

Monday September 18, 2017 Text: Matthew 18:21-35 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: forgiveness / repentance / unforgiving servant Passages: Matthew 18:21-35

Jesus has forgiven all the sins you have ever committed. There is nothing that any fellow human can do to you that can come anywhere near the severity and debt which you owe to God and He has forgiven you, therefore you also should forgive and let it go.

Taste and See that the Lord Is Good

Tuesday September 12, 2017 Text: Revelation 10:8-11 Speaker: Pastor John Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: little book / repentance / sin Passages: Revelation 10:8-11

The word of God is sweet to the taste but bitter in the stomach. The Word pronounces judgement on our sins and we don't like that bitter feeling of judgement in our stomach. But it also tells us of forgiveness through Jesus Christ and is therefore sweet to our mouth.

The Colossus Guards the Way

Monday September 4, 2017 Text: Revelation 10:1-3 Speaker: Pastor John Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: angel of the lord / colossus / gates of heaven / jesus / keys Passages: Revelation 10:1-3

1. See Jesus and enter. 2. Speak “Jesus” and enter.

Christ is the Rock on Which We Stand

Monday August 28, 2017 Text: Matthew 16:13-20 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: bishop of rome / confession / homoiousia / homoousion / one substance / person of christ / peter / pope / rock / son of god Passages: Matthew 16:13-20

The focus of this passage is Jesus not Peter. It is Jesus and what Peter says about him that is the foundation of the Church. The Church stands because it is built on this truth that Jesus is the Son of the Living God. This truth is not something of man, but this is the declaration of the Father that He has revealed to Peter and us. Jesus also then makes a declaration, that the gates of heaven are open.

God So Loved the WORLD

Monday August 21, 2017 Text: Matthew 15:22-28 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: canaan / canaanite woman / faith alone / grace Passages: Matthew 15:22-28

This means that all people are saved by grace through faith, regardless of ethnicity, gender, nationality, language, cultural heritage, profession, church affiliation, or any other man made division. In the Old Testament the Lord commanded the Israelites to wipe out the Canaanites, and yet even then those Canaanites who repented were saved and those Israelites who did not believe were condemned. So also Jesus condemns the Israelites because of their unbelief andwickedness but saves this repentant Canaanite woman by Grace through faith. For with the Lord there is no partiality.

Call Upon Me In The Day of Trouble, I Will Deliver You

Tuesday August 15, 2017 Text: Matthew 14:22-33 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: faith / prayer / walking on water Passages: Matthew 14:22-33

It is not possible to explain away this miracle. You might hallucinate seeing a man walking on the water, but you certainly can’t hallucinate walking on the water yourself. Peter is either lying or this really happened as it says. The power that held Peter up did not come from his faith but from Jesus. Peter begins to sink not because Jesus’ power was weakened by his unbelief, but because Jesus used this opportunity as the ultimate object lesson. In desperation, in weakness, Peter cries to the Lord, and the Lord saves him.

There Will Be Water If God Wills It

Tuesday August 8, 2017 Text: Matthew 14:13-21 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Trinity Tags: 10th commandment / 9th commandment / feeding the 5000 / money / property / the lord provides / vocation Passages: Matthew 14:13-21

Jesus does care about our earthly life and can and will provide all that we need for this life. Because Jesus provides all that we need we are free to give our lives in service to our Lord and our neighbor. The description of the miracle in John and Matthew is mostly the same, not much different. And yet John and Matthew both emphasize different points through the context in which they present it . Matthew puts it right after reminding us of the how Herod killed John the baptist. In so doing he presents Jesus as the King who gives and cares in contrast to the rulers of this world that kill and take.

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