Christian Heights UMC

Sermon: The Way of Love (Glen Sowards)

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MP3: sermon-g.sowards-Sep25-2011

1 Corinthians 13 (NET)

13:8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 13:10 but when what is perfect 2 comes, the partial will be set aside. 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, 3 I set aside childish ways. 13:12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, 4 but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Prayers

Added Emily Rogers (loss of Mother)
Added Susan Williams
Added Thomas Henderson
Added John Hamblin (medication addiction)
Added Jean Henault

Thanks to Kenya Allmond

Sermon: Our Shadow (Glen Sowards)

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MP3: sermon-g.sowards-Sep18-2011

Luke 8:41-48; Acts 5:12-15 (NET)

Acts 5

5:12 Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico. 5:13 None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high honor. 5:14 More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, crowds of both men and women. 5:15 Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.

Prayers

Added Gracie Perciful (low blood sugar)
Added Brian Harris (stronger faith)
Added J.D. Bailey

Sermon: How To Find Faith (Glen Sowards)

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MP3: sermon-g.sowards-Sep11-2011

Hebrews 11:1-10 (KJV)

1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

2For by it the elders obtained a good report.

3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

4By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Prayers

Added Gary Wall

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Sermon: Why We Come To The Lord’s Table (W. Glen Sowards)

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MP3: sermon-g.sowards-Sep4-2011

John 6:51 (NET)

6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 15:5 (NET)

15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me – and I in him – bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

Prayers

Added Melissa and Robbie Weathers family (death of infant daughter)

Communion cups

Sermon: Great Partnerships (W. Glen Sowards)

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MP3: sermon-g.sowards-Aug28-2011

Philippians 1:3-11 (NET)

1:3 I thank my God every time I remember you. 1:4 I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you 1:5 because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now. 1:6 For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. 1:7 For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God’s grace together with me. 1:8 For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. 1:9 And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight 1:10 so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ, 1:11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

Prayers

Updated Family of Dino Glasman (Link to Obit here)

Sermon: Jacob’s Ladder (Glen Sowards)

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MP3: sermon-g.sowards-Aug21-2011

Genesis 28:10-16 (NET)

28:10 Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran. 28:11 He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place 28:12 and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it 28:13 and the Lord stood at its top. He said, “I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

Prayers

Added Gail Toy (stroke)

Dr. Sowards

Sermon: Second Chances (Sharon Myers)

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MP3: sermon-s.myers-Jul31-2011 (No password necessary)

Genesis 32:22-31 (NET)

Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 32:25 When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

32:26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.” 32:27 The man asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.” 32:28 “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Prayers

Added Ruby (kidney problems)