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Sermon on the Mount: People Pleasing Worship

 Matthew 6:1 “Take Heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.” The literal translation of Mathew 6:1a is “Beware of doing your righteousness before men, to be seen by them.” The word “beware” denotes danger; it is...

October 28, 2013October 28, 2013by
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Sermon on the Mount: Response or Reward?

Matthew 6:1 “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.” So far in the Sermon on the Mount we have gone through the text of the beatitudes: the character of God and His children, the preamble...

October 14, 2013October 14, 2013by
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Sermon on the Mount: Satisfied Perfection

Matthew 5:48 “Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”  This verse with no context surrounding it is daunting. Our entire culture has lived and died by the rational that “nobody is perfect” and here we are in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount hearing Jesus say “be...

October 7, 2013October 7, 2013by
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Sermon on the Mount: Grace Like the Father

Matthew 5:43-48  Vs. 45-47 “that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors...

September 30, 2013September 30, 2013by
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Sermon on the Mount: The Outcome of Loving our Enemies

Matthew 5:43-48 Vs. 45 “that you may be sons of your Father in heaven” Today is our third week in this text. Jesus has put to rest the idea that we are to love our neighbors but hate our enemies and has given the command that we love our enemies. He has commanded us to...

September 23, 2013September 23, 2013by
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Love Endures

This past Sunday Abie was the guest speaker at His House Fellowship, www.hishousefellowship.net. Below is the introduction to the sermon he shared with them… John 20:1-18 When love is defined in I Corinthians 13, the first thing that is written about it is “love suffers long”. We like to think of love as an emotion...

September 17, 2013September 17, 2013by
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Sermon on the Mount: Interceding for Our Enemies

Last week we began studying the passage in the Sermon on the Mount known as “Love your Enemies”. We talked about the origin of loving our enemies being rooted in Jesus’ character and how He lived His life. In Romans 5:10 we read “when we were enemies we were reconciled to God. . .” We...

September 10, 2013September 10, 2013by
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Sermon on the Mount: The Origin of Loving Our Enemies

It has been a month since we have been together in the Sermon on the Mount. The passage we begin studying today is extremely important because it is the climax of this entire section of the sermon. The section started with these words from Jesus, “Unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and...

September 2, 2013September 2, 2013by
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Being Known By God: Our Greatest Gift

Yesterday our prayer pastor, Geannine LeBude, was our speaker. Below is an introduction to her sermon. I pray that we will have a deeper awareness and a true understanding that God knows us and loves us and that no matter where we are in life we will always and feel God taking care of us and surrounding...

August 19, 2013August 19, 2013by
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The Faithfulness of God

Yesterday, Melissa Kulynych was our speaker. Below is an introduction to her sermon. I pray that we will be reminded of God’s faithfulness throughout our lives and that He would fill us with His faithfulness, joy, and love and that we will choose to let all our dissatisfaction fade away and that we will be completely satisfied with...

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