Tag: baptism
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Sermon of October 21, 2012–“Bull’s Eye!”
Job 38:1-7 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: 38:2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 38:3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. 38:4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me,…
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Sermon of May 6, 2012–No Time Like the Present
Acts 8:26-40 26Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) 27So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the…
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Sermon for Sunday January 8–“Throw the Book At Them!”
Sunday’s worship was very powerful. We began with the Ordination and Installation of the New Consistory members. We then had a re-affirmation of Baptism based on the New Year’s Covenant Service of John Wesley. We ended the service with a celebration of the Lord’s Supper. Baptism was the theme around which the sermon was crafted.…
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Sermon of September 25, 2011–“Sweetening Sour Grapes”
Dear Friends of Emmanuel Church, Underlying this week’s sermon is the idea of our inter-connectedness. Ezekiel dealt with this in the following passage: The word of the Lord came to me: What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are…
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Sermon of January 9th, 2011–“Big Hearted Baptism”
Matthew 3:13-17: 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. 14 John would have prevented him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?’ 15 But Jesus answered him, ‘Let it be so now; for it is proper for us in…
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