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Acts 2: 42-47 Listen link: http://www.firstcovenantcadillac.org/#!this-weeks-sermon/c20mw Good news! Jesus loves you just the way you are! And so do I! I also happen to believe that Jesus offers you a new and better life, better than anything you could ever imagine. All it takes is a little willingness on your part to learn what it really means to be a Christian. And we are here to help each other out. None of us have it right yet. We’re all struggling to get it right. But we live in atmosphere of love and acceptance where we will celebrate what is good and help each other work on the things that need work. This weekly worship service is focused on the good things that God has done for us in Christ Jesus our Lord, and on the good things in store for us as we open up to each other and to God and share our lives together. It’s all about Jesus! He wants us to enjoy and abundant life, not necessarily in material blessings but the spiritual blessings that are ours through Jesus Chris...

Psalm 10:14 But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless. 17 You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, 18 defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror. Psalm 18:6 In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears. 16 He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. Psalm 121:1-2, I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. The judge was talking to the thief. He had been caught stealing, finally caught, after a long career, years of getting away with it and living a pretty good life as a result. The man was a professional. He had a wife and k...

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 Listen Link:   http://www.firstcovenantcadillac.org/#!this-weeks-sermon/c20mw SMASH! (I had a small mirror, about 8” X 8”, in a baggie and I smashed it with a hammer.) What was that about? Why did I do that? Does the destruction of this mirror make you wonder about me? Are you feeling any shock or dismay about the loss of a good mirror or the senseless destruction? Multiply that about a hundred times to sense the shock and dismay and horror of what people have lived through and lost in Dallas, TX, and other places recently where violence has taken human lives. If you can sympathize with that, now multiply it a gazillion times and you still can’t even imagine what God must feel like, and how he felt the moment it all started when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. When our ancestors, in the Garden of Eden, Heaven on Earth, decided to believe the satanic lie and try for something they thought might be even better than what God had already give...

2 Timothy 2:1-4 In honor of Independence Day and the celebrations surrounding us, we give thanks for soldiers who gave their all in the fight for freedom from tyranny and oppression. But I am talking about more than American soldiers. We owe our American armed forces an awful lot to be sure, for the fact that we can stand here and with loud speakers proclaim the gospel out in the streets without fear of rebuke, arrest or persecution. But also, there have been Christian soldiers down through the ages, waging war in a spiritual battle against the forces of darkness. And to be sure, every Christian ought to consider himself or herself as enlisted in that army and called up for active duty. I mean, why else would you be here? So today I want to focus on the Bible’s call to arms. We just read it. “Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.” In addition, when Paul wrote to Philemon about a runaway slave he addressed his letter as follows, Paul, a prisoner of Chr...

Nehemiah 2:17-18 Still based on readings in Nehemiah, we will talk about why this congregation has been on the Navigate Pathway, taking surveys, having conversations about our mission and participating in more unusual worship services. Nehemiah 2:17-18 says, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.” I also told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me. They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work.” And I say, and I hope you agree, you see the trouble we are in, our finances lie in ruins and the building needs a lot of work. Our ministry has been comforting for the saved but ineffective and unfruitful among the unsaved. This means we have been failing to obey the great commission that tells us to go and make disciples. Or else our efforts to obey are out of line with God’s will and the ne...

June 12 2015 Still no recording. Out tech Guy was out sick. “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, stand firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.   And the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To Him be the power for ever and ever, Amen.” 1 Peter 5:8-11   Last week, we held a service of consecration in which we rededicated ourselves, and this building and ministry to the glory of God. The service probably had many elements that were new to you. I hope they caused you to pause and reflect, and, maybe rededicate yourselves personally as well to the work of Christ.   We based our service on the writings of Nehemiah. Nehemiah was a special person. He held, what w...