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pastormia20
Dec 15, 20231 min read
GOD: LOVE MADE POSSIBLE
This Sunday we finally get into the story of Jesus!! We’ll hear about an angel coming to Joseph and his life taking a completely new...
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pastormia20
Dec 7, 20231 min read
GOD: JOY MADE POSSIBLE
When I was a teenager, I thought joy came with money and fame. I didn’t have either and celebrities sure looked happy in magazines. Of...
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pastormia20
Dec 1, 20231 min read
GOD: HOPE MADE POSSIBLE
Hope is so easy when we are close to God. Things that seem hopeless are just suddenly possible and happening as we watch God transform...
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pastormia20
Nov 24, 20231 min read
GOD: MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE, POSSIBLE . . . FOR A VERY LONG TIME
There is an old saying about discipleship, “live a life that wouldn’t make sense if God didn’t exist.” God makes things possible that...
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pastormia20
Nov 17, 20231 min read
FRESH TRUST
Even though I grew up unchurched, I’ve been doing the church thing long enough that I’ve now heard many Bible passages so many times that...
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pastormia20
Nov 10, 20231 min read
CELEBRATE NEW-LIFE
I love the term “life-giving.” I discovered it several years ago to replace words like “good” or “right” or even “healthy.” It names the...
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pastormia20
Nov 2, 20231 min read
CELEBRATE PROMISE
Our "fire and brimstone" ancestors put so much emphasis on personal behavior that we can miss that God has made promises to us. Promises?...
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pastormia20
Oct 27, 20231 min read
CELEBRATE UNITY
T The U.S. Surgeon General recently issued an advisory on the public health crisis of loneliness and isolation. Check out the full report...
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pastormia20
Oct 18, 20231 min read
CELEBRATE!
As the holiday season approaches, we’ll get a jump-start with celebrating all God has done for us, who God is, and the Spirit-filled life...
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pastormia20
Oct 12, 20231 min read
INVITED!
Even though I didn’t grow up in the church, I still heard, “don’t do XYZ or God will send you to hell!” When Jesus got ahold of me in my...
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pastormia20
Oct 3, 20231 min read
INTO THE ARMS OF GOD
I can’t stop looking at this image. It’s of a Syrian man landing on the shores of Greece with his family, e mbraced by a Norwegian...
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pastormia20
Sep 22, 20231 min read
TELL SOMEBODY WITH A LIFE OF LOVE
I once had a lifelong Methodist tell me, “we Methodists are do-gooders.” I would agree with that. So much wonderful work is done by...
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pastormia20
Sep 13, 20231 min read
THE WORLD NEEDS THE GOOD NEWS
I was recently listening to Mark Clark in a lecture on preaching and he talked about the good news. He pointed out that most people who...
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pastormia20
Sep 7, 20231 min read
MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE
I’ve been challenging you to use the word “God” in a conversation each day. I have to confess that I have not been successful with that...
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pastormia20
Aug 30, 20231 min read
THE GOOD NEWS IS FOR EVERYONE
This week I was reading the Scripture passage from Proverbs with one of my daughters that goes along with our worship series (you can...
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pastormia20
Aug 25, 20231 min read
GOD TRUSTS US
I’m not saying that God should trust us, but God does. At the very end of Matthew gospel, after Jesus has been crucified and then rose...
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pastormia20
Aug 17, 20231 min read
. . . FOR JUST A TIME AS THIS
This week we’ll hear about a hero who was in the right place at the right time and then was brave enough to use her position to save her...
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pastormia20
Aug 11, 20231 min read
HEROES WHERE WE ARE
You’re just getting by day to day. You’ve noticed God. And then God opens your heart to listen. Before you know it, your life has become...
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pastormia20
Aug 3, 20231 min read
HOPE IN HEARTACHE
Many of us have been in circumstances that felt completely hopeless. Being told to look at the bright side doesn’t help. Perhaps there is...
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pastormia20
Jul 27, 20231 min read
INSPIRATION THAT MATTERS
Every world record was impossible to break until it wasn’t. It’s become so common in athletics that it’s an accepted truism. There is...
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