Sorting out a Parable

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This is the Pastor’s Blog for the Worship Service on Sunday Sept 13th. This week the message is  “Sorting Out a Parable”. Included here is the primary Scripture of this message and the Pastor’s notes.  Scripture: Matthew 18: 21-35 21 Then Peter came and said to him, ‘Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?’ 22 Jesus said to him, ‘Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times. 23 ‘For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. 24 When he began the reckoning, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him; 25 and, as he could not pay, his lord ordered … Read More

What Is Christianity For:  Belonging

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This is the Pastor’s Blog for the Service on Sunday August 30th.   This week the message is the 4th in a 4 Part Series titled  “The Three B’s” and this message is titled “What is Christianity For? Belonging”. Included here is the primary Scripture of this message and the Pastor’s notes.  Scripture: I Corinthians 12 :12-27 12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15 Now if the foot … Read More

What Is Christianity For:  Behaving

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This is the Pastor’s Blog for the Service on Sunday August 23rd.   This week the message is the 3rd  in a 4 Part Series titled  “The Three B’s” and this message is titled “What is Christianity For? Behaving”. Included here is the primary Scripture of this message and the Pastor’s notes.  Scripture: Matthew 6:1-13 6 ‘Beware of practising your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 ‘So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 3 But … Read More

What Is Christianity For? Believing

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This is the Pastor’s Blog for the Service on Sunday August 16th.   This week the message is the 2nd in a 4 Part Series titled  “The Three B’s” and this message is titled “What is Christianity For? Believing”. Included here is the primary Scripture of this message and the Pastor’s notes.  Scripture: Mark 9:14-27 14 When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them. 15 When the whole crowd saw him, they were immediately overcome with awe, and they ran forward to greet him. 16 He asked them, ‘What are you arguing about with them?’ 17 Someone from the crowd answered him, ‘Teacher, I brought you my son; he has a spirit that makes him unable … Read More

“What Is Christianity For?”

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This is the Pastor’s Blog for the Service on Sunday August 9th.   This week begins the 1st in a 4 Part Series titled “The Three Bs” and this message is titled “What is Christianity For?”. Included here is the primary Scripture of this message and the Pastor’s notes.  Scripture: John 15:1-17 15 ‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. 2 He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. 3 You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither … Read More