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Matthew 4:1-11

Matthew 4:1-11 is one of those passages that is at once both familiar and unexamined. We know it well as the account of the temptation of Jesus, following the glory of his baptism and the voice from heaven affirming him as God’s Son. Many sermons are based on these verses, hoping to provide the hearer with good and meaningful guidance for facing the inevitability of temptation for the followers of Jesus. While that is not a bad idea, if that is the limit of our engagement wit

Jesse Middendorf

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Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7

Context of the text This text comes in the first Sunday in Lent. Lent is a powerful season that reminds the church of its deep sinfulness. This sinfulness is to create this desperate recognition of Christ as a savior. Lent also reminds the church of its physical mortality. While Christians are getting better at rejecting neo-Gnosticism, where leaving the sinful earth is our goal. Lent does remind all of us or our physical mortality and cautions against an idolatrous temptati

Brent Peterson

3 days ago7 min read

Romans 5:12-19

We’ve not been trained to read Romans well in the Protestant tradition. This unfortunate circumstance makes passages like this difficult to fit into what we’ve traditionally held to be the main argument of Romans. For many, the central idea of Romans is justification by faith, or salvation by grace, but what we ultimately mean is that we are saved by a choice. The image that accompanies this is of a long line of individuals, capable of making the one important decision in lif

Ryan L. Hansen

6 min read

Psalm 32

My Mom and Dad are Right I am thankful for the heritage handed down from my parents and the things they tried to instill in us, their children. They had their struggles and weren’t perfect, but one thing my parents did constantly well was to point us to Jesus as the best and only way to live. Both my parents had excellent singing voices and they passed their music talent to all five of their kids, to some degree or another. Music, therefore, was an avenue for them to spe

Jay Sunberg

4 min read

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The Fourth Week of December

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Dec 22, 20257 min read

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Matthew 5:13-20

Lesson Focus At the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus wants us to know who we are. We are salt and light because we are followers of the Law of God. Only we haven’t always understood the Law correctly. Jesus is helping us see what the Law means so that we can be salt and light. Lesson Outcomes Through this lesson, students should: Understand that we are the salt and the light of the world. Understand that the Beatitudes describe for us some of the ways we are to liv

Jason Buckwalter

Feb 210 min read

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Second Sunday after the Epiphany

Call to Worship: Charles Wesley One: Blessed be God. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. + Many: And blessed be God's Kingdom, now and forever. Amen. One: O God, you called us by name to come, and we respond with delight and gladness Many: In joyful obedience, we come to worship our God. One: Rising out of the depths of despair, we gratefully gather for worship. Many: In joyful hope, we come to worship our loving God. One: Our God had given us a new song of praise to sing to our Aw

Brent Neely

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Matthew 4:1-11

Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7

Romans 5:12-19

Psalm 32

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The Fourth Week of December

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Matthew 5:13-20

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