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Mosaic's June 16, 2024 worship gathering

Matthew, a book that concludes with a forward reach to the end of time, begins by reaching back to the beginning of the book of Genesis. According to Matthew, Jesus fulfills all the hopes and dreams of Israel, and provides the only solid hope for everyone else.

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Pastor Edmund Fong preaches from Luke 4:1-13.

Jesus Christ, Son Of God by Cornerstone Presbyterian Church Franklin

Jesus Christ, Son Of David by Cornerstone Presbyterian Church Franklin

Jesus Christ, Son Of Abraham by Cornerstone Presbyterian Church Franklin

Because we can personalise our phones, our lattes and our sneakers, some may assume we can personalise our faith. While we believe God is personal, it doesn't mean we get to personalise God.    People say things like, “Well I just believe that God is like such and such," assuming that because they think it, it must be true!   But there are core beliefs that have united Christians for 2000 years, in fact, Jude 1:3 calls it “the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's people”.    So we're taking four Sundays to talk about what Christians believe, and why it matters.   This message goes through Part 2 of 'The Apostles Creed': "I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, And born of the Virgin Mary."   Also available to watch on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCawPSukNNh4PcTvkAfspb0A

We proclaim the good news from Colossians 1:13-25 that Jesus' loving lordship liberates us from every lesser lord.

Scripture: Matthew 3:13-17

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The Apostles' Creed is an ancient statement of faith that has united generations of Christians from different times, different places, and different traditions as an essential guide to the basics of Christian belief. It's full of rich truth to explore and dwell on together - which is exactly what Oasis will be doing in this series! This week, Adrian looks at the person of Jesus - one who is the Christ, the Son, the Lord, and one of us; God Himself, come to draw us near.

What does scripture have to do with psychedelic drugs? Can we find God by altering our state of mind with hallucinogenic substances? This week is a great reminder that scripture tells us how to seek God and that giving Him control is the only way to seek true control and peace in our lives.4m

Mark 1:1-11

12/25/2022 - Brother Kidron Crist

Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo, 10 Jacklyn Cazares, 9 Makenna Lee Elrod, 10 Jose Manuel Flores Jr., 10 Eliahna Garcia, 10 Irma Garcia, 48 Uziyah Garcia, 10 Amerie Jo Garza, 10 Xavier Lopez, 10 Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, 10 Tess Mata, 10:  Miranda Mathis, 11 Eva Mireles, 44 Alithia Ramirez, 10 Annabelle Rodriguez, 10 Maite Rodriguez, 10 Lexi Rubio, 10 Layla Salazar, 11 Jailah Nicole Silguero, 10 Eliahana Cruz Torres, 10 Rojelio Torres, 10 Memorial Day is supposed to be a patriotic time of public mourning and remembrance for the brave women and men in uniform who gave the last full measure of devotion to defend these United States. Instead, in a perverse inversion of this day, we remember little children whose lives were cut down by weapons of war, not used to defend this country from foreign aggressors, but turned on its own citizens in a callous act of unforgivable aggression. To be honest, I wasn't sure if I should preach on this today. These shootings have become so frequent that if we clergy addressed them each time a new one occurred, we wouldn't preach on much else. But as the predictable tweets of thoughts and prayers were fired off by the same lawmakers and pastors who consistently block not only legislation, but even conversation about legislation, to address these atrocities, I felt literally nauseous.  We do not need platitudes from the pulpit. On this eve of Memorial Day, let's not mince words: these children are dead because they are casualties in a Culture War not of their choosing. Involuntary conscripts into a war to determine the future not only of this nation, but of our faith. Thoughts and prayers aren't the solution; they are the problem. These mass shootings can only continue because the Church in this country refuses to behave like the Church. When I was a loyal Southern Baptist footsoldier on the other side of the Culture Wars, it was common to talk about the four “G's”: guns, gays, God and gynecology. We've seen this month that strategy hasn't changed in fifty years.    This morning on this Feast of Ascension, I am left with the difficult conclusion that these precious children and their teachers are dead because the mostly white Christian evangelical lobby does not believe that Christ is risen, ascended and reigning at God's right hand in glory. They do not believe in God, at least not any God I recognize from the Gospels. The same lot that sang “Some may trust in horses, some may trust in chariots / But we will trust in the name of our God” in the 1980s and 90s, have proven time and again since then that the only thing they really trust in is their assault rifles. Their faith is in the NRA.  If you think this is hyperbole, consider The Washington Post's disturbing report that two days before the massacre in Uvalde, the gunmaker who manufactured the weapon used by the killer posted a photo online advertising its AR-15-style rifles showing a young boy - a child - holding a semiautomatic on his lap with this caption from Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” The sad part, of course, is that they're right.  The Church has a profound moral obligation to call out the NRA on this point. They justify their pistol-peddling politics with the circular logic that gun ownership should be easily accessible because we live in a dangerous world where an 18 year old might shoot up an elementary school. Carried to its logical conclusion, the NRA envisions a world where everyone is armed to the teeth; where parents, instead of reminding their children not to forget their lunch boxes, will remind them not to forget their guns. Please, someone explain to me what part of that vision conforms to anything we know about Jesus in the Gospels?  The Parkland Shooting survivors are right: some love their guns more than their children. In Christianity, we have a name for that: idolatry. How ironic that the most outspoken defender of the NRA in our lifetimes is also best known for his role as Moses in the 1956 epic The Ten Commandments. Would that he had understood those commandments better, perhaps he would have held a different view. Because, in fact, there was a very practical purpose for discouraging the worship of other gods in the first commandment of Exodus. We hear about it in the next book, Leviticus. As a gay man, I'm used to evangelicals breaking out Leviticus 18:22 against me. But if they backed up just one verse, they'd read in 18:21: “You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.” Chapter twenty gets even more pointed, claiming that to do so amounts to defiling the sanctuary of the Lord, and that God will destroy everyone who turns a blind eye to this abhorrent practice of child sacrifice.  Interestingly, Molech is only mentioned by name once in the New Testament - in the Book of Acts, nine chapters before the odd story we heard this morning. That's no accident. Acts of the Apostles is nearly obsessed with this question of idolatry. Acts 16 goes out of its way to tell us twice that the reason Paul and Silas are imprisoned is not because of some doctrinal dispute with the local authorities, but because they put an end to child exploitation. In doing so, they incurred a heavy financial loss for the men who were using the girl to turn a profit in exchange for her fortune telling powers. We need to return to this standard, when those who called themselves followers of Jesus put child-welfare above profits. The Church must demand that our governments and churches stop sacrificing our children to this Molech, this idol of easy gun ownership, even military-grade guns, turning a handsome profit for manufacturers every year, which in turn allows them to pour even more money in lobbies like the NRA.  One of the few children to survive the massacre did so only because she dipped her hand in the blood of a friend next to her, smeared it all over her body and played dead, hoping the teen-turned-angel-of-death might pass over her. No child should ever have to become living lintels and doorposts. How odd that a branch of Christianity fixated on the blood of Jesus, blood that can supposedly protect against COVID can't protect children from their own designs, from having to play in some warped retelling of the Exodus story. Jesus is called the Lamb of God by John's Gospel because of his sacrificial self-offering on a Cross. We've watched the memorial set up outside the school grow to include 19 small wooden crosses with hearts and Jesus fish at their center. When I saw that, it reminded me of a fact few Christians today realize. The cross did not become the official, or even a common symbol for Christianity until the late fifth or sixth centuries. Why?  As mothers plead for action, as they plead for the state not to forget their slaughtered babies, every Christian in this land should ask themselves how Mary would react if she walked into their sanctuaries. How would she react to the giant gilded cross suspended in our apse? It's easy for us to take the Cross for granted today as a decorative element in our piety, but for those who actually lived in its terrifying shadow, it was unthinkable to represent it visually. Instead, early Christians opted for images of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, or images of a fish because the Greek letters used to spell fish ICTHUS acted as a verbal gloss of “Jesus Christ Son of God, Savior.”  Our gospel accounts of the crucifixion are quite spare, but it was a gory affair. Suffocation over days as birds of prey slowly picked at victims flesh while they were still alive as people who probably knew them passed by. It was a vivid demonstration of Rome's power to utterly erase humanity and dignity. Because of this, it was one of Rome's most effective deterrents. It is sometimes assumed that when Constantine or Theodosius finally outlawed the practice, they did so for pious reasons: so that others could not die in the same manner as Christ. But, in fact, the earliest source tells us that it was more from a place of concern around humane treatment. Hanging replaced crucifixion because it was quick and far less painful. In other words, Christian rulers banned this weapon of terror because it was the right thing to do in light of their faith. Only when the actual thing disappeared did the symbol emerge.    We must pray for every parent of every child, and every family or friend of every victim of gun violence during this time when images of these weapons are circulating so widely in our media. But we must do more than lobby for better trigger warnings before movies and in social media feeds. We must demand that those who call themselves by Christ's name stand up against this insidious idol. Molech didn't attack and impose himself on the ancient Israelites, they adopted him as their false god by choice. There are glimmers of hope. Republican Representative Chris Jacobs came out in favor of stronger laws restricting the sale of semiautomatic weapons, limiting magazine capacity, and excluding the sale of body armor to the general public. Some conservative evangelical pastors are beginning to consider supporting similar measures.  The Church in this nation needs to wake up. There are many things that divide us, but this should not be one of them. The Mainline Church cannot be the only one mobilizing. Here at Grace, we have an altar to the victims of gun violence in the back of our sanctuary, and it has become one of the most visited sacred sites in this space. Everyone who calls themselves by Christ's name should be as united in our disgust of easy access to AR-15 style weapons as we are in our love for the victims, families and friends who have already suffered so much, too much. The Church must come together, laying down our arms in the Culture Wars, to advance this crucial conversation, and to effect real and lasting change. Thankfully, we have a great high priest, who, knowing our weakness, knowing that we are plagued by ego and division, knowing that it would take not a single lifetime, but a lifetime of lifetimes to join in a more perfect union, prayed that we all might be one.  Amen. 

Dennis R Wiles FBC Arlington May 22, 2022 2022 Re- . . . SPRING 2022 Re-Concile April 18 – June 4, 2022 Re-Oriented Through Generosity 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 RE-CONCILE: In the New Testament, the Greek word underneath the family of English words associated with reconciliation is taken from the accounting industry where coins were “exchanged”, and accounts were “reconciled.” Jesus speaks clearly about the importance of reconciliation in Matthew 5:23-24, “If you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.” -Katy Reed-Hodges CONTEXT: Paul collected a special offering from the Gentile churches for the impoverished members of the mother church in Jerusalem. CHALLENGE: We all face the temptation of selfishness and stinginess! A selfish man is never rich. His day is as long as his neighbour's, yet he has no leisure except for his own amusements, no sympathy or concern beyond his own perplexities, no strength but to fight his own battles, and no money except for his own need; what haunts his mind at every turn is the dread of having too little for himself. -W.M. MacGregor, Jesus Christ Son of God CORRECTIVE: Consider God ----- Who is so rich and so generous! CONFORMING WORK OF CHRIST: The goal is not giving (in and of itself) – the goal is grace, growth, and generosity! A key point in this matter of generosity is described in chapter 8. "Let the eagerness you showed in the beginning be matched now by your giving. Give in proportion to what you have. Whatever you give is acceptable if you give it eagerly. And give according to what you have, not what you don't have." Paul literally says, "let your doing complete your willingness based on what you have." It's important that all gifts be given joyfully, not grudgingly. That's why he refers to it as "the grace of giving." -Curt Grice

Dennis R Wiles FBC Arlington May 22, 2022 2022 Re- . . . SPRING 2022 Re-Concile April 18 – June 4, 2022 Re-Oriented Through Generosity 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 RE-CONCILE: In the New Testament, the Greek word underneath the family of English words associated with reconciliation is taken from the accounting industry where coins were “exchanged”, and accounts were “reconciled.” Jesus speaks clearly about the importance of reconciliation in Matthew 5:23-24, “If you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.” -Katy Reed-Hodges CONTEXT: Paul collected a special offering from the Gentile churches for the impoverished members of the mother church in Jerusalem. CHALLENGE: We all face the temptation of selfishness and stinginess! A selfish man is never rich. His day is as long as his neighbour's, yet he has no leisure except for his own amusements, no sympathy or concern beyond his own perplexities, no strength but to fight his own battles, and no money except for his own need; what haunts his mind at every turn is the dread of having too little for himself. -W.M. MacGregor, Jesus Christ Son of God CORRECTIVE: Consider God ----- Who is so rich and so generous! CONFORMING WORK OF CHRIST: The goal is not giving (in and of itself) – the goal is grace, growth, and generosity! A key point in this matter of generosity is described in chapter 8. "Let the eagerness you showed in the beginning be matched now by your giving. Give in proportion to what you have. Whatever you give is acceptable if you give it eagerly. And give according to what you have, not what you don't have." Paul literally says, "let your doing complete your willingness based on what you have." It's important that all gifts be given joyfully, not grudgingly. That's why he refers to it as "the grace of giving." -Curt Grice

Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, became one of us. How and why did He do it, and what was Mary's role in salvation? Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraphs: 422-511

J.D. Shaw | Matthew 1:1-17

Who is Jesus? What does history and the Bible tell us about Him?

The following episode is a live recorded sermon from the Sunday gathering at The Heights Church Denver on 9/27/21 Jesus Christ: Son & Lord - The Apostles Creed by Corbin Hobbs For more information about The Heights Church, or to contact us, visit our website at TheHeightsDenver.com

Message from Paul Stevens on September 12, 2021

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