January 15, 2023
Payton Ruddock
Anchoring Scripture: Jeremiah 29:10-14
Last week we introduced the concept for this year’s theme of “First Love” talking about how God is the first to love us and how we are called to make His son, Jesus Christ our Savior, as our First Love in our own lives. As I was introducing that concept last week I hope it turned some gears in your own hearts. For me, when we were planning out the course of the year and trying to find a good starting point, it drew me back to the concept of falling in love in my own life. I’m a little bit of a romantic, and its kind of fun to go back in my own mind from time to time and play through a highlight real of the moments that brought us closer together. That reminded me of one of my favorite shows, “How I Met Your Mother” Continue reading “How I Met the Father”
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January 8, 2023
Payton Ruddock
Anchoring Scripture: 1 John 4:13-19
Good morning again everybody! I am just so excited to be here and to be sharing the word with all of you this morning. And what a deep and condensed word it is! It’s so deep in fact, that as I was reading it and studying for this week’s sermon, I was a little overwhelmed with the depth in these words and the number of sermons that could be produced from them.
But, this is the sermon that kicks off this year’s theme: “First Love”. I felt like that was a good theme for us this year because of the past 3 years it feels like our focus as been pulled from where it should be. We’ve been focused on COVID, masks, social upheaval, politics, politics again, politics some more, disaffiliation, and all of these things that bleed into our lives and overwhelmingly distract us from where I focus should be: Jesus. He should be our first love because He first loved us. Continue reading “First Love”
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