In the fourth week of our Same Passage 5 Ways series, Andrès Rincòn helps us to see the way God does the impossible through Ezekiel. He helps us to see Ezekiel as a real person who we, as present day Christians can still learn a lot from.
Emmanuel Covenant Church
In our third week of the Same Passage 5 Ways series, Janet Russell reminds us that God desires to be known, that God desires to be known as sovereign, powerful, and compassionate.
Reid Fowler continues our Same Passage 5 Ways series, helping us to look at Revival... the need for revival, and the real source of revival... God!
Tim Fretheim kicks off our Same Passage 5 Ways series. For all of August we'll be looking at Ezekiel 37:1-14. We'll have 5 different preachers all preaching from this text. It's an exciting way to have God's Word opened up for us, and Tim set the stage with some important context and background, as well as the encouragement of hope that this passage in Ezekiel provides.
As we wrap up the Parables series, we look at a parable of prayer... focusing on the posture of humility that Jesus teaches as we head to God in prayer.
The majority of the sermon time this week was dedicated to recapping the Youth Conference from the previous week... CHIC, where 13 youth and leaders from Emmanuel and Green Timbers joined 5,700 other students from around the world to worship, to learn, to pray, to serve, to build relationships, and to have a whole lot of fun. One parable was read as well, the Parable of the Persistent Widow, which reminds us the importance of prayer, always.
While all parables are about discipleship to some degree, the Parable of the Two Builders has that as it's specific purpose. Jesus makes it clear that there is action required in following him.
After a week away, we continued in our Parables series... looking at 5 Parables of the Present Kingdom from Matthew. We looked at how Jesus gave glimpses of the Kingdom of Heaven to those he was teaching.
This second week of our Parables series we looked at the Parable of the Lost Sheep, and the Parable of the Lost Coin.
Texts: Matthew 18:21-35
Preacher: Pastor Eric Hedberg
Date: June 7th, 2015
We’re beginning our new series for the month of June and July on Parables. It’s a chance to look at those wonderful stories… extended analogies… that Jesus uses to …