🎼 Special this weekend! 👇 Our Adult Choir sings as we celebrate the Ascension! Saturday @5P | Eastside Rec. Center Come worship with us and bring a friend. 👉 Get Directions John 14:15–17 If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. Read the context I am...
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1 Peter 3:21–22 This water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him. Read the context "Don't drag that in the house. Hose down outside first." Some messes don't even make it in the front door. My moral mess is dirtier than a day of working outside....
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Acts 17:22–23 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you. Read the context Everyone worships something. They might not label it as worship... but what you dedicate time and...
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Psalm 100:4–5 Come and hear, all you who fear God;let me tell you what he has done for me. I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer. Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me! Read the context When you recommend a coffee shop... salon... restaurant... anything... to a friend, why do you do it? Usually, because they...
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Eph. 2:19–22 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. Read the context My sister & brother-in-law have been...
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John 14:7–10a If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? Read the context You can know a lot about parents from...
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John 14:1–4 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” Read the context Even a mansion that sells for millions only has 6-10 rooms. Eventually you have to turn guests...
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Acts 4:11–12 Jesus is“‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” Read the context You can buy any piece of lumber in the store. Would you take the one that looks bent? In unbelief, the cross looks like a bad foundation. Why build your life on an ugly story of a man who died? But God used what looked rejected to build his church upon. The cross is...
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1 Peter 2:9–10 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Read the context God's Old Testament house of worship — the temple — was filled with priests who served him. Years have passed, but there's still a temple & priests....
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