Advent and Christmas Expectations

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If you don’t listen to this…you’ll be missing a terrific Advent sermon. And that’s just the way it is.

 Listen to > Advent and Christmas Expectations

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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Thanks to bavatuesday.com, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

“We just can’t have that in the church…now can we?”

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Sermon for the 4th Sunday in Advent, 2013:

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Listen to > “We can’t have that in the church…”

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and BarbaraDelinsky, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How can we know that he was the One? And that He will be there for us when we need Him?

 

John the Baptist seems a bit unsure that he’s got the right guy, and sends a few of the boys to go and ask Jesus if if he’s legit…or is the real deal yet to come?

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 Listen to >  Is he really the One?

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and aslpicsmd, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

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Job’s Hope

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Pastor Mark’s homily for the 2nd Wednesday in Advent:

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 click here> Job’s Hope

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flicker and ohhh….snap!, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

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Abandoning the Goodness Project

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The Christian life is keeping your nose clean and doing the best you can. Right? Well…not really.

Listen to >Abandoning the Goodness Project

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and Apprecie, for the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

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Fear Not…for He is always with us.

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Midweek Advent sermon and gospel reading from the 4th Chapter of Mark:

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 > Fear Not…He is always with you.

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and agonist, for the photo.

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Christmas is not the focus of Advent

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Pastor Mark’s sermon for the 1st Sunday in Advent, 2013:

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 click >   Advent is not about the coming of Jesus

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and run amok, for the photo.

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Romans 8 and freedom and courage to live in a new way

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We have been freed from’ the torah’. From the old way of living by the law. Freed that we might have the courage to do what we can do.

Listen in to Pastor Mark’s last midweek Advent sermon for 2012 as he reads from Romans 8 and substitutes the word, ‘torah’, for the word, ‘law’:

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 click> Romans 8 and the freedom to have courage

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and Paul Forsdick, for the photo.

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“I can’t wait ’till Christmas is over!”

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With all the hustle and bustle and pressures of the Christmas season, we might want to look at the opportunities that may lie just around the next line for the cashier:

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click >I can’t wait ’till Christmas is over! “

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Thank you, Pastor Mark for your midweek Advent sermon for 12-12-12.

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And thanks to flickr and Lindsay_NYC, for the photo.

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What would you tell someone ‘about your church’?

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What would you say to people?  To those out there who are being had by the world, the flesh, and the devil ?

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Pastor Mark has a few suggestions for us in his 1st Sunday in Advent sermon:

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(under 18 min. in length)

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  Click >  Tell us about your church

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Thank you, Pastor Mark.

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And thanks to flickr and worsum 1968, for the photo.

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