The Battle is Not Yours But the Lord’s: A Battle of Betrayal

Wednesday February 14, 2024 Text: Matthew 26:21-24 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Ash Wednesday Passages: Matthew 26:21-24

Betrayal – it makes for a great movie. There is nothing more suspenseful than a good betrayal. Whenever you hear “this show/movie has it all,” it almost always includes the word betrayal. In real life betrayal destroys relationships and is a seed for serious sins in the lives of both the betrayed and the betrayer.

The Unforgiving Servant

Wednesday January 17, 2024 Text: Matthew 18:21-35 Passages: Matthew 18:21-35

Nothing anyone has ever done to us is as bad as the sins we commit against God. Yet God has forgiven us all. We also ought to forgive one another.

The Transfiguration

Tuesday January 2, 2024 Text: Matthew 17:1-9 Passages: Matthew 17:1-9

Christ is true God and the only way to the Father

The Point of Peace

Wednesday December 6, 2023 Text: Matthew 2:1-12 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Advent Passages: Matthew 2:1-12

You need two lines to make a point of a star. Each line by itself would continue forever. Here at the point of a star the two lines come together. We need earthly things to live. We need food and clothing. We need money and friends and family. We need to know that people care

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.

Jesus Feeds the 5000

Tuesday November 14, 2023 Text: John 6:1-15; Luke 9:10-17; Mark 6:30-44; Matthew 14:13-21 Passages: John 6:1-15; Luke 9:10-17; Mark 6:30-44; Matthew 14:13-21

Jesus gives the people bread just as Moses did. The purpose was so that they would recognize Him as the one foretold and would look to Him to be saved.

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

Jesus Heals the Centurion’s Servant

Thursday November 9, 2023 Text: Luke 7:1-10; Matthew 8:5-13 Passages: Luke 7:1-10; Matthew 8:5-13

THE KINGDOM IS GRASPED BY FAITH

Sunday October 29, 2023 Text: Matthew 11:12-19 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Reformation Passages: Matthew 11:12-19

Matthew 11:12 12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. 1903 is considered the first successful flight of a powered airplane by the Wright brothers. Wilbur Wright died nine years later in 1912. Orville Wright lived another 45 years.

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

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