Category: Modern

November 10, 2024

Modern – The Church: Praying Together | Brian Cheshire

Scripture Reference – Matthew 18:19-20 (CEB): Again I assure you that if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, then my Father who is in heaven will do it for you. For where two or three are gathered in my name, I’m there with them.”

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October 27, 2024

Modern – Inside Out: Sadness | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Philippians 4:4-7 (CEB): Be glad in the Lord always! Again I say, be glad! Let your gentleness show in your treatment of all people. The Lord is near. Don’t be anxious about anything; rather, bring up all of your requests to God in your prayers and petitions, along with giving thanks. Then the peace of […]

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October 20, 2024

Modern – Inside Out: Fear | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Isaiah 41:8-13 (ESV): But you, Israel my servant,    Jacob, whom I have chosen,    offspring of Abraham, whom I love,    you whom I took from the ends of the earth        and called from its farthest corners,    saying to you, “You are my servant;    I chose you and didn’t reject you”:    Don’t fear, because I am with you;    don’t be afraid, for […]

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October 13, 2024

Modern – Inside Out: Anger & Forgiveness | Margaret Grubic

Scripture Reference – Ephesians 4:26-32 (ESV): Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting […]

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October 7, 2024

Modern – Inside Out: Anxiety | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Matthew 6:25-34 (CEB): “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or […]

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September 29, 2024

Modern – As You Go: Trust God | Rev. Michael Bowman

Scripture Reference – Mark 5:24-35 (NRSV): So he went with him. And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians and had spent all that she had, and she was no […]

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September 22, 2024

Modern – As You Go: Build Deep Connections | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Ruth 1:16-18 (CEB): But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to abandon you, to turn back from following after you. Wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Wherever you die, I will die, and there […]

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September 16, 2024

Modern – As You Go: Embrace Unexpected Relationships | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – John 4:1-26 (CEB): Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was making more disciples and baptizing more than John (although Jesus’ disciples were baptizing, not Jesus himself). Therefore, he left Judea and went back to Galilee. Jesus had to go through Samaria. He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, which was near […]

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September 9, 2024

Modern – As You Go: Live Out Your Faith | Brett Toole

Scripture Reference –Matthew 5:13-16 (CEB): “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its saltiness, how will it become salty again? It’s good for nothing except to be thrown away and trampled under people’s feet. You are the light of the world. A city on top of a hill can’t be hidden. Neither do […]

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