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Christmas Eve Message 2010

Christmas Eve 2010

(click the above link to listen to December 24th's message or right click and select to download the mp3 to your computer).

 

Advent 4: Ephesians 1:20-23

Ephesians 1:20-23

(Click the above link to listen to Sunday December 19th's teaching or right click and select to download the mp3 file to your computer.)

For the Fourth Sunday in Advent we continued our Ephesians study with Chapter 1:20-23.  Here is the text:

"...that power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way." 

 

Ephesians 1:18-20, On Being and Becoming the People of God

Ephesians 1:18-20

(Click the above link to listen to December 5th's teaching or right click and select to download the mp3 file to your computer)

There are three things Paul wants us to know and the only way we will know them is if God turns the lights on in our heart.  He is praying for this very thing.

"18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms," Ephesians 1:18-20

Ephesians 1:15-17, Being and Becoming the People of God

Ephesians 1:15-17

(click the above link to listen to December 5th's teaching or right click and select to download the mp3 file to your computer).

We began the morning discussing our Advent project for this year and then dove into Ephesians 1:15-17. Here is the text:

"15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, 16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better."

shalom

 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Advent Meditations

"We can, and should also, celebrate Christmas despite the ruins around us…I think of you as you now sit together without the children and with all the advent decorations--as in earlier years you did with us.  We must do all this, even more intensively because we do not know how much longer we have."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letter to his parents, November 29th, 1943.  Written from Tegel Prison Camp-Nazi Germany.  Bonhoeffer was executed on April 8, 1945 just 10 days before German forces began their surrender.

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