10-20-2013_Generosity In Giving

"For God loved the world so that He gave..." already says a lot about God before we even get to the part about giving His one and only Son into death in order that we might live eternally.  God is generous and a generous giver by nature.  Why?  Because He loves us.  Generosity in prayer, good works, and offerings is about love or it's about nothing at all.

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10-13-2013_Generosity In Mercy

Generosity is giving for the sake of giving, above and beyond the call of duty, without expectation of reward or recognition.

In Eph. 2:10, Paul reminds us that good works are prepared beforehand by God for us to walk in them.  They are His works done through us and are part of the Christian's generous living.  This is modeled in Christ whose cross is the greatest good work of all, far surpassing anything and everything we do in this life.

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10-6-2013_Generosity In Prayer

Christians don't pray enough, but the bigger problem is that they do not think to pray in any given situation.  Prayer teaches us how we stand before God and how better to look on the situations in life and other people as well.  Prayer isn't our thing we do for God nearly so much as one of the gifts of God which teaches us far more than we can even begin to imagine.

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9-29-2013_Nothing Will Harm You

The devil and his evil angels are real, but they are defeated and only gain power by stealing it from you.  Jesus has won the victory and now His promise to His disciples is yours, "Nothing will harm you."

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9-22-2013_It's All About The Rich Man

Is It "The Parable Of The Dishonest Manager?"  Or is it "The Parable Of The Shrewd Manager?"  The answer is yes, but even more importantly, it should be called "The Parable Of The Gracious Rich Man."

God takes the loss in order for you and I to have our sin debt paid by Christ on His cross.

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9-15-2013_It All Comes Down To One

In Luke 15:1-10, Jesus tells us that 99% of all sheep will fail to live the life of repentance and, thus, fail to be saved (found) by the Good Shepherd.  Jesus wants you to be the one for whom He gave all.

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9-8-2013_Discipleship: Easy Or Hard (Rev. Dr. John Wohlrabe)

Is following Jesus easy or hard?  The answer is...YES.  Christ does not promise us a bed of roses if we follow Him, but in Him and His grace all obstacles are overcome.

Rev. Dr. John Wohlrabe, 2VP of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, is our guest preacher.

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