Posts with the category “pentecost-2025”
Advent 2025 - DAY 25 — LOVE HAS COME
by Pastor David on December 24th, 2025
Christmas is the declaration that love has come — not as an idea, but as a person. Read More
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Advent 2025 - DAY 24 — LOVE MAKES ROOM
by Pastor David on December 23rd, 2025
The world had little room for Jesus — yet God’s love entered anyway. Love often asks us to make space where it feels inconvenient. Read More
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Advent 2025 - DAY 23 — LOVE MOVES TOWARD OTHERS
by Pastor David on December 22nd, 2025
Jesus teaches that love is not passive — it moves outward. Love shows up, reaches across distance, and reminds others they are seen Read More
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Advent 2025 - DAY 22 — LOVE BEGINS WITH GOD
by Pastor David on December 21st, 2025
Love does not begin with what we do for God — it begins with what God has already done for us. Read More
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Advent 2025 - DAY 20 — JOY IN GOD’S PRESENCE
by Pastor David on December 19th, 2025
Deep joy is found not in circumstances but in communion with God. Read More
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Advent 2025 - DAY 19 — JOY IN SERVING OTHERS
by Pastor David on December 18th, 2025
Joy multiplies when we give it away. When we serve others, we participate in God’s joy. Read More
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Advent 2025 - DAY 17 — JOY IS STRONGER THAN FEAR
by Pastor David on December 16th, 2025
Joy is not the denial of fear — it is the defiance of it. Joy is courage rooted in the presence of God. Read More
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Advent 2025 - DAY 16 — THE JOY OF FINDING WHAT WAS LOST
by Pastor David on December 15th, 2025
Jesus says heaven erupts with joy when what is lost is found. Read More
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Advent 2025 - DAY 15 — JOY BREAKS IN
by Pastor David on December 14th, 2025
Joy is not the result of perfect conditions — it is the surprising work of God breaking into dry places. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 14 — God’s Peace Is For You
by Pastor David on December 13th, 2025
Jesus doesn’t offer the world’s peace — temporary, fragile, and easily disturbed. He gives His peace — steady, present, unshakeable. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 13 — Peace In Community
by Pastor David on December 12th, 2025
We cannot control how others respond, but we can choose to do our part. Peace is often built through small acts of cooperation, service, and kindness. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 12 — Peace In The Waiting
by Pastor David on December 11th, 2025
Advent is a season of waiting, but God offers peace not after the waiting — in the waiting. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 11 — Peace Through Forgiveness
by Pastor David on December 9th, 2025
Forgiveness is rarely easy, often slow, and always costly — but it is the soil where peace grows. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 10 — Peace In The Storm
by Pastor David on December 8th, 2025
Peace is not always the absence of chaos — sometimes it is the presence of Christ within it. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 9 — Peace That Listens
by Pastor David on December 7th, 2025
We often seek peace through trying to win arguments, but Scripture says peace begins with listening. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 8 — Peace In The Unlikely Place
by Pastor David on December 6th, 2025
God grows peace in places that look like dead stumps — situations that seem hopeless, relationships that seem beyond repair, hearts that feel too wounded to heal. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 7 — God Still Teaches Hearts
by Pastor David on December 6th, 2025
A teachable heart is one of God’s greatest gifts. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 6 — Joy In God’s House
by Pastor David on December 5th, 2025
God designed us for worship — to gather, to rejoice, to return to Him again and again. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 5 — Peace Begins Where Weapons End
by Pastor David on December 4th, 2025
God can transform hatred into healing and make peace possible where it once seemed unimaginable. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 4 — Dawn Always Comes
by Pastor David on December 2nd, 2025
Paul reminds believers that even when the night feels long, the day is already near — and we are called to live as people of the light. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 3 - Stay Awake
by Pastor David on December 1st, 2025
Jesus’ call to “stay awake” isn’t about fear — it’s about love. It’s about attentiveness to God’s presence and readiness to respond to His movement. Read More
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Advent 2025 - Day 2 — Light Finds Us
by Pastor David on November 30th, 2025
Advent reminds us that God’s light reaches us before we can reach Him. Christ is the Light who comes into our darkness, even the darkness we cannot name. Read More
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Advent Prep - Week One - Day Five – The Coming King
by Pastor David on November 27th, 2025
Every Advent delays instant gratification to teach this truth — hope is not passive; it’s patient strength. Read More
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Advent Prep - Week One - Day Four – Walking in Light
by Pastor David on November 26th, 2025
When Paul quotes the imagery — “Put on the armor of light” — he invites believers to wear that prophecy as identity. Read More
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Advent Prep - Week One - Day Three – The Pilgrim’s Peace
by Pastor David on November 25th, 2025
Under the empire, that peace was mostly memory, yet Israel kept singing — believing God’s peace would return. We see many cultures that are marginalized doing the same. Think of the African songs that resonated on American plantations. Read More
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Advent Prep - Week One - Day Two – The Thief in the Night
by Pastor David on November 24th, 2025
The early church repeated Marana tha — “Come, Lord Jesus.” To them, every sunrise rehearsed that hope. They did not calculate dates; they cultivated faithfulness. Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Four - Day Five – The True Arrival
by Pastor David on November 20th, 2025
With every step, prophecy breathes: “Behold, your King comes to you, righteous and humble, riding on a donkey.” Sound familiar? Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Four - Day Four – When Kings Kill
by Pastor David on November 19th, 2025
The parable that once sounded like investment advice for all of us - erupts into indictment.
Then comes the decree that freezes the crowd: “Take his mina and give it to the one who has ten.” Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Four - Day Three – False Rewards and Faithful Remembrance
by David Dewitt on November 18th, 2025
This is not a comfortable time for anyone listening to Jesus – we don’t get uncomfortable until the end Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Four - Day Two – Faith in the Shadow of Power
by Pastor David on November 17th, 2025
Jesus continues the story… Now we get into the nuance of this parable nobody repeats! And here is where we often stumble. Most everyone knows the story from Matthew and assumes it is the same. Trust me! Luke is NOT telling the same story. But what do we know. Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Four - Day One – The Kingdom Beside the Ruins
by Pastor David on November 16th, 2025
You won’t find this parable in the lectionary—and that’s a shame, because it might be one of the boldest things Jesus ever said. Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Three - Day Five – The Unshakeable Kingdom
by Pastor David on November 13th, 2025
We glamorize stamina and scorn weakness. But the way of Christ is upside down: power comes through dependence, flight through stillness. Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Three - Day Three – Worship the Son
by Pastor David on November 12th, 2025
In Jewish culture, worship was God’s prerogative alone. Angels could deliver prayers, not receive them. So when the writer says, “Let all God’s angels worship Him,” he is declaring, in unmistakable terms, the full deity of Jesus. Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Three - Day Two – The Son and the Promise
by Pastor David on November 10th, 2025
There are days when we act like we’re waiting for Jesus to become King — forgetting that He already is. What would change if we believed it — not just theologically, but practically? Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Three - Day One – Our Living Hope
by Pastor David on November 9th, 2025
Faith that listens must first unlearn distraction. The prophets heard because they went where noise died — wildernesses, hillsides, upper rooms. Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Two- Day Five – One Taken, One Left
by Pastor David on November 6th, 2025
And just when we want Jesus to explain what He means, He drops one of the strangest lines in the Gospels:
“Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.” Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Two- Day Four -
by Pastor David on November 5th, 2025
When Jesus referenced Noah and Lot, He wasn’t just telling stories — He was invoking deeply familiar and theologically loaded moments from Israel’s history. Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Two- Day Three - Don’t Look Back
by Pastor David on November 4th, 2025
We may not live in Sodom, or first-century Jerusalem — but we all know what it feels like to look back. Some of us (my hand is up) too often. Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Two- Day Two - The Days You’ll Long For
by Pastor David on November 3rd, 2025
Their is a sense of longing for closeness, for clarity, for the days when faith felt easier or stronger or simpler. Jesus names it. He doesn’t shame it. Read More
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Pentecost Week Twenty-Two- Day One - The Coming of the Kingdom of God
by Pastor David on November 2nd, 2025
When the Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God would come, they were asking the question that sat at the center of Jewish hope. Read More
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