A Battle of Silence

Wednesday March 6, 2024 Text: Matthew 27:11-14 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Lent Passages: Matthew 27:11-14

The Battle to Accept God’s Will

Sunday March 3, 2024 Text: Matthew 26:37-39 Speaker: Pastor Matthew Ude Festival: Lent Passages: Matthew 26:37-39

The Battle Is Difficult There are seven petitions in the Lord’s prayer, seven things that we ask for. Which of these is the hardest to pray? The fifth can be difficult. We ask that we learn to be as forgiving to others as God is to us. When we are filled with anger and resentment

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

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