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MARKed By Compassion & Conflict- Week 3
Sermon begins at about 20 minutes
Guest Pastor Ali Cranmer joins us and continues a new series called, “MARKed by Compassion & Conflict”. This is part of our MARKed: A Year in the Gospel of Mark. This week’s passage centers on MARK 2:23-3:6
During her message, Ali uses a clip from The Chosen series. This may be muted during the playback of the sermon. This is from season 2, episode 6 of the series.
Pastor Andrew Schmidt begins the sermon by reading the Mark passage.
You can listen to the sermon below, or you can subscribe to our Celebrators Podcast wherever you listen.
Sermon Slide Notes:
Slide: Jesus is Our True God Know
Know God = Know Jesus
Slide:
Pharisees
-Separatists
-Middle Class Ministers
-Believed in Written Law- Torah- First 5 books of the Bible
-Believed in the Oral Law
-Did not like Jesus because he challenged the Oral Tradition.
Chosen Clip-
34:27- 40:06
Slide:
So what did you notice?
What tension did you feel?
Slide:
Law
Messiah
Empire of Self
Slide:
Religion is not Jesus. Jesus is freedom — and when a good thing becomes a ruling thing then it is no longer good, thing it is a religious thing.
Resources:
Prayer Walk Info and Holy Here app
Lectio Davina Approach to Scripture PDF
Free Online Bible: BibleGateway
Free SmartPhone Bible App: YouVersion
Lord Of The Harvest: Week 3
Sermon begins at about 19 minutes
Scot and Becky Dykstra join us this Sunday to share about their calling to be full time missionaries in Japan. Listen to their story and join us as we pray over them. Celebrate is committed to supporting their work for the next 5 years! Scot also teaches in our sermon series called “Lord of the Harvest”, which is part of our Year of the Lord theme in 2024. In this series we are encouraged to pray for the harvest, be a worker for the harvest, and support the work(ers) for the harvest.
Audio: (will be posted Tuesdays)
You can listen to the sermon below, or you can subscribe to our Celebrators Podcast wherever you listen.
Sermon Slide Notes:
Links:
TEAM: The organization the Dykstra’s are working with in their mission work to Japan.
The Joshua Project: Joshua Project highlights peoples and places with the least access or response to the gospel so the Body of Christ can prioritize its prayer and mission efforts.
Lord Of The Harvest: Week 2
Sermon begins at about 19 minutes
Guest Speaker Robert Leitheiser teaches in our sermon series called “Lord of the Harvest”, which is part of our Year of the Lord theme in 2024. Robert is Senior Church Advisor at World Vision USA and we were honored to have him share a message with us this Sunday! In this series we are encouraged to pray for the harvest, be a worker for the harvest, and support the work(ers) for the harvest.
Audio: (will be posted Tuesdays)
You can listen to the sermon below, or you can subscribe to our Celebrators Podcast wherever you listen.
Sermon Slide Notes:
To Evangelize we have to remember these three things:
Prayer
Compassionate Listening
Radical Hospitality
Jesus Story: “God’s Messenger”
Pastor Marty Schmidt joins us from The Bridge Church in Ottumwa. He continues the sermon series called, “Jesus Story”. This series will take us through scripture with the help of The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones. This children’s Bible tells the Story in a beautiful way for both children and adults. This week we read the story “God’s Messenger”, which covers the story of Jonah. Marty teaches on this story and shows us how we can see Jesus’ life within it. As the Jesus Storybook Bible says, “every story whispers His name”, even from the very first book of the Bible.
Sermon begins at about 42 minutes
Audio:
You can listen to the sermon below, or you can subscribe to our Celebrators Podcast wherever you listen.
Things To Remember:
Let’s Go: Explain
Guest Speaker Klayton Korver continues our sermon series at Celebrate called “Let’s Go”. This series is based on the book of Acts. The message is: LET'S GO strengthen and encourage people! This week’s focus is Acts 18:18-28. See sermon notes and resources linked below.
Sermon begins at about 31 minutes
Audio:
You can listen to the sermon below, or you can subscribe to our Celebrators Podcast wherever you listen.
Things To Remember:
Scripture References:
Other Links and References:
Maps
Find Jennie’s Google Maps Presentation of Paul’s 2nd Missionary Journey HERE.
(You may have to be logged into your Google Maps account to see it.)
Digging & Dunging- Pastor Marty Schmidt
Guest Speaker, Pastor Marty Schmidt teaches from Luke 13:1-8. Marty is Pastor at The Bridge Church in Ottumwa, IA.
Sermon begins at 13:00
Audio:
You can listen to the sermon below, or you can subscribe to our Celebrators Podcast wherever you listen.
…What’s In Store: Week 8
Guest Speaker Pastor Steve Heerema from Newton Church of The Way in Newton, Iowa continues our series "What's In Store". Learn more about Pastor Steve Here.
Sermon begins at 25:28
Audio:
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…What’s In Store: Week 5
Aubrey Schneider continues our sermon series, "...What's In store".
…What’s In Store: Week 4
Ali Cranmer teaches this week in our sermon series, "...What's In store".
