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The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is Love

Date: Sun, May 27, 2018 Teacher: James Slone

Passage: Ephesians 3:14-19

Trinity Sunday has always been a difficult day for me. I feel compelled to do more than just acknowledge the doctrine; I want to preach something that unveils inspiring truth about God as three yet one. But those are hard sermons to preach, about the hardest sermons I ever preach. It occurred to me this year that it is even harder for you, the congregation, who have to listen to those sermons. Yet, I'm going to subject you to one more attempt, another shot at preaching on the Trinity. So, listen and think about the prayer in Ephesians 3: 14-19.

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How to Recognize the Holy Spirit

Date: Sun, May 20, 2018 Teacher: James Slone

Passage: Ephesians 1:17

How do you recognize the true work of the Holy Spirit? There's an insight in Paul's first prayer for the saints at Ephesus in which he talks about the nature of the Holy Spirit.

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A New Family

Date: Sun, May 13, 2018 Teacher: James Slone

Passage: John 19:25-27

How do you work out the priorities of God and family in your life? Jesus had a family and hard to sort these priorities out in his own life, just like we do. There is a lot that we can learn from Jesus' interaction with his mother from the cross.

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The Gospel of the Ascension

Date: Sun, May 06, 2018 Teacher: James Slone

Passage: Acts 2:32-36

The ascension of Jesus Christ is the most critical yet most neglected component of the gospel today. That certainly was not the case in the early church. It has a prominent place in Peter's sermon at Pentecost, the prototype of New Testament preaching.

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The Last Breakfast

Date: Sun, Apr 29, 2018 Teacher: James Slone

Passage: John 21:15-19

The last resurrection appearance of Jesus that John chose to tell us about took place one morning on the shore of the Sea of Galilee where Jesus fixed a fish breakfast for his disciples and had a talk with Peter.

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Try It, Test Me, Trust Me

Date: Sun, Apr 22, 2018 Teacher: James Slone

Passage: Malachi 3:10-11

The Lord wants to abundantly bless us, but too often we do not believe him. In fact, our actions as well as our words indict us, revealing that we really do not trust him, especially when it comes to money.

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Children of the Resurrection

Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2018 Teacher: Jon Carrell

Passage: Luke 20:27-38

Could we be more like the Sadducees than we care to admit? The Sadducees said there was no resurrection.

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Duh! I Almost Missed It

Date: Mon, Apr 09, 2018 Teacher: James Slone

Passage: Exodus 33:13 & John 14:6-7

As Moses talked intimately with the Lord, the Scripture says "fact to face, as a man speaks with his friend," interceding for his people Israel, he asked the Lord for an even deeper understanding and relationship with him. The Lord answered. The immediate answer was his self-descriptive revelation in Exodus 34:6-7, but a more complete and glorious revelation came later, much later.

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And We Thought They Were Foolish

Date: Sun, Apr 01, 2018 Teacher: James Slone

Passage: Luke 24:11 & Luke 24:22-25

Apparent and actual foolishness has an early and long history with Easter

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Can You Put That into Plain English?

Date: Sun, Mar 25, 2018 Teacher: James Slone Series: God's Name

Passage: Exodus 34:6-7

I am going to try to comprehend the incomprehensible, explain the unexplainable, and fathom the unfathomable by attempting to define a pair of Hebrew words, hesed and emet, that the Lord uses to describe himself, words that defy a simple translation into English.

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