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Make It Your Buisness - July 21, 2019
Jeremiah 22:3-5 Jeremiah was a prophet to the Israelites. If you have been here as long as I have, you’ve heard me share a number of times about how God’s people, the Israelites, were called to lives of faithfulness—lives of obedience to the law so that they might maintain healthy, fruitful, and loving relationships with God and with each other. They would stay the course for awhile, and then, as humans like us, who are prone to error they’d start to veer. And when they began to get too far afield, God would send a prophet—a truth-teller who would remind them of the law and hold them accountable. “Hey! You! Where are you going? God told you to
Lok With More Than Your Eyes - July 14, 2019
Matthew 15:21-28 I’m going to start today with a disclaimer. My interpretation of this scripture is likely to make you uncomfortable. It’s made me uncomfortable over the years. But I’ve studied the passage at various times, read other pastors, academics, and theologians, and there’s a commonality to what we say. If you don’t like it, I encourage you to study the passage on your own, read some commentaries and see where
The Power of Welcome - July 7, 2019
Genesis 18: 1-8 As I thought about what it means to follow Jesus and what is asked of us—hospitality and welcoming others were a key theme that kept coming up. Commands to offer hospitality—even to the stranger—are repeated over and over again in the scriptures. Even as the Israelites are defined as the “chosen people” with clear lines of who is in and who is out—God consistently reminds them that their story isn’t just about them. What they have is to be shared. And that idea of sharing doesn’t go away in the New Testament. Jesus is constantly welcoming the outsider and the New Testament churches are focused on
Where Love Breaks In - June 23, 2019
John 4:5-29 Today we have 2 people hardened by life. The woman has suffered tremendous loss. She’s had, 5 husbands. Based on 1st century standards it’s not likely it was through divorce. It’s more likely each man has died and she’s been taken by a brother or other relative as a wife. Her community would have seen her as cursed. She’s a social pariah who probably has to
Teach me to Pray - June 2, 2019
Luke 18:9-14 Anyone who has heard more than a few gospel stories has probably heard about the Pharisees. And our opinion of them is generally __________ (negative). They’re legalistic, they regularly confront and challenge Jesus, and ultimately they’re part of the prosecuting group that calls for his crucifixion. In other words—most of us see the Pharisees as bad guys.
So when we hear this passage it’s not much of a leap to see the Pharisee as a presumptuous, self-aggrandizing jerk. “Thank you, God that I’m not like those terrible sinful people.” We find it annoying, but not surprising. And then there’s the tax collector, the iconic bad guy in the 1st century who shows himself to be
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The First United Methodist Church of Moscow, Idaho takes as our mission to be the body of Jesus Christ, ministering to a community which draws strength from its diversity. Our mission centers on the worship of God, expressed through varied forms of prayer, preaching, music, and ritual. See more...