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Saturday, July 31, 2010

For He Had Healed Many

Posted by Pastor Pat on April 10, 2009

Read Mark 3:7-12

The paragraph before us (Mark 3:7-12) forms a transition from one idea (Mark 2:1-3:6) to that of selecting His twelve disciples (3:13ff).  It is both a summary and an introduction.  In summarizing the ministry of Jesus, no statement is made concerning His teaching ministry.  Such an idea is assumed and established earlier in chapters 1 and 2 (1:21, 22; 2:13; 4:1, 2; 6:2, 6, 34; etc.).

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New Wine in Old Wineskins – Building the Church of Jesus Christ

Posted by Pastor Pat on April 1, 2009

“No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins,

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Why is He Eating and Drinking with Tax Collectors and Sinners?

Posted by Pastor Pat on March 29, 2009

Read Mark 2:13-17

This is the rub.  How can we be “in the world” but not “of the world” (John 17)?   What are we protecting?  We must protect the purity of the gospel without isolating it from the purpose of the gospel.

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Celebrating the Grace of God through Worship

Posted by Pastor Pat on March 8, 2009

(1)   Praise the LORD! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty expanse. (2) Praise Him for His mighty deeds; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness. (3)  Praise Him with trumpet sound; Praise Him with harp and lyre. (4)  Praise Him with timbrel and dancing; Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe.  (5)  Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with resounding cymbals.  (6) Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.  Praise the LORD!”       (Psalm 150)

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Minister According to Grace

Posted by Pastor Pat on December 11, 2008

“For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly.” Romans 12:3-6

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