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May 20, 2012: “As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.”
We listen in on Jesus’ praying. What is his prayer? What do we discover about ourselves? Sermon text is John 17:6-19. Rev. Mark Clinger preaching.
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May 13, 2012: Love one another
Jason, First Baptist's new minister of community, explores Jesus' command that we love each other and the implications of that command for Christian community. Sermon text is John 15:9-17. Rev. Jason Mack preaching.
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May 6, 2012: "So Philip got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch..."
There is no telling where the Holy Spirit will take us . . . or to whom! Sermon text is Acts 8:26-40. Rev. Mark Clinger preaching.
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April 29, 2012: "After he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray..."
Pastor Mark preaching on the importance of stepping away from our responsibilities. Sermon text is Matthew 14:13-23.
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April 22, 2012: "As many of you were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ."
Pastor Mark preaching on baptism and the meaning of "putting on Christ". Sermon text is Galatians 3:23-29.
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April 15, 2012: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
On God's creation and our duty to protect and preserve it; a Christian perpective on environmental movement. Sermon text is Genesis 1: 1-13. Rev. Twink Jan-McMahon preaching.
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April 8, 2012: "He has been raised; he is not here."
The Easter hope amidst the perils of life. Sermon text is Mark 16: 1-8. Rev. Mark Clinger preaching.
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April 1, 2012: "Then they brought the colt to Jesus . . . and he sat upon it.”
Two displays of power are made during Holy Week. One is Roman Power which continues to thrive until this day, even in America. The second display of power is that of Jesus' Triumphal entry. The first kind of power is really a kind of weakness. Only Jesus shows us what true power looks like. Sermon text is Mark 11:1-11. Rev. Mark Clinger preaching.
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March 25, 2012: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.”
We reach into the deepest issue of our humanity. Neither our best ideas or our best efforts will save the day or the planet. We ourselves, with our confident self-reliance need help. Sermon text is Psalm 51:1-12. Rev. Mark Clinger preaching.
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March 18, 2012: "But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us ... made us alive together with Christ ... by grace ... For we are what he has made us..."
Whose story do you live? The story that holds you guilty and remorseful, the story that drives you forward if you are to prove yourself, the story that says you can make more of yourself? Or do you live by God’s story of your life? The story you tell yourself makes all the difference. Sermon text is Ephesians 2: 1-10. Rev. Mark Clinger preaching.
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March 11, 2012: The Ten Commandments
Pastor Mark looks both at the narrow meaning we give to the commandments and what is, in all truth, their expansive meaning for framing all of life. Sermon text is Exodus 20:1-17.
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March 4, 2012: "If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is full and the promise is void."
We often think of our sins in terms of our weaknesses and falling into temptation. There is another kind of sin to which we are less alert. Today we look at the peril of competence and ability. Sermon text is Romans 4:13-17. Rev. Mark Clinger preaching.
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Feb. 26, 2012: "Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God and saying, 'The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent..."
We look at Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist and explore the totally radical meaning of repentance as much more than personal introspection. Sermon text is Mark 1:9-15. Rev. Mark Clinger preaching.
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Feb. 19, 2012: "...but you have been weary of me, O Israel!"
Pastor Mark reflects on those times when we grow weary of God. But stay awake! Lest you miss the new thing that God is about to do. Sermon text is Isaiah 43:18-25.
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