Speaker Pastor Matthew Ude

“HERE I STAND” – ON THE ROCK

Monday October 28, 2019 Text: Matthew 16:13-26 Speaker: Festival: Tags: / / / / / Passages: Matthew 16:13-26

The Rock of Revelation The Rock of Redemption The Rock of Confession

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A Father Is Giving

Tuesday October 22, 2019 Text: James 1:13-20 Speaker: Festival: Tags: / Passages: James 1:13-20

God is our good and gracious Father who desires to give us every good thing. Yet because of our sinfulness we do not understand or appreciate His goodness. Nevertheless even in our weakness of faith our Father still showers us with blessing, and by our baptism names us His children so that we might learn that He is our good and gracious giving Father.

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Put The Saints In Circulation

Tuesday October 15, 2019 Text: Acts 8:1,26 Speaker: Festival: Tags: / / Passages: Acts 8:1,26

During the darkest hours of WWII, Britain faced a critical shortage of silver for the war industries. Churchill asked if there were any possible sources of silver, however remote. "Yes," the answer came, "the churches and cathedrals have silver statues of the saints." "Well," Churchill replied, "Put the saints in circulation."

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These Are Men Who Preached Christ

Monday September 23, 2019 Text: Colossians 4:7-18 Speaker: Festival: Tags: Passages: Colossians 4:7-18

This is not just a list of random faceless people. These are men and women whose names the Holy Spirit recorded in Scripture. They are people who received praise not from men but from God for the work they did. They are both an example to us and an encouragement lest we become disheartened by our own labors for the Lord.

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Keeping Christ On Your Lips

Monday September 16, 2019 Text: Colossians 4:2-6 Speaker: Festival: Tags: / Passages: Colossians 4:2-6

What can you do? Nothing by yourself of course, but through prayer you can arm yourself and prepare asking the Lord for both opportunity and ability to make use of that opportunity to share the Gospel. The time is short the harvest is vast.

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God’s Financial Advice: Invest in Children

Friday September 13, 2019 Speaker: Festival: Tags: / /

The labor of our hands is a curse that was put on man when Adam sinned. Work is a curse but Children are a blessing.

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What Christ Did Is the Basis for All That We Do

Tuesday September 3, 2019 Text: Colossians 3: Speaker: Festival: Tags: / / / / / / / / / / / Passages: Colossians 3:

Christ has loved you therefore you love. Christ has given you peace therefore you live in peace Christ has given you joy therefore serve him

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How To Live In The Image Of Our Creator

Tuesday August 27, 2019 Text: Colossians 3:1-11 Speaker: Festival: Tags: / / / / / / / 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: Festival: Tags: / / / / 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: Festival: Tags: / / / 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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