Going to the Mountain
Matthew 17:1-8
Do you want to see God’s glory at work? If so, be prepared for wonderful changes in your life.
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The Great Commission
Matthew 28:16-20
Jesus gives the church our Great Commission, which is given with All Authority, to include All Nations (including where we live in daily life), and involves our teaching All Things to make disciples, and is done with Jesus, who by the Spirit is with us All the Time, till the end of time.
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A Welcoming Church Culture
Matthew 22:37-39
This sermon presents the scriptural reasons why it is important that each church member reaches out to visitors. The message encourages church members by providing valuable information along with easy to apply steps for meeting and starting a visitor relationship.
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Sinful Subjects of a Righteous King
Matthew 5:1-6
We explore the right attitude of believers toward their sinfulness, as taught by our Lord in the first four beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount.
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Communion with God: Fasting (Part 2)
Luke 5:33-39; Matthew 6:16-17
Last week we studied the why of fasting. This week we get more specific and try to understand how and what fasting looks like in our lives.
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Communion with God: Prayer
Matthew 6:5-8
Too often, we struggle with prayer because we misunderstand the nature of prayer. Prayer isn’t a duty to be performed. Instead, it is communion with God. In this sermon, we’ll see that our prayer life can be transformed when we use it to relate to God as our heavenly Father.
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Making Disciples
Matthew 28:18-20
Jesus commands his church to make disciples. How should we do this? And what does this look like at East Madison? In this sermon, we’ll answer these questions as we understand Jesus’ great commission to the church.
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Why Are We Going?
Matthew 28:16-20
The first disciples faced many barriers to obeying Christ’s command to “go and make disciples.” Those barriers still exist today. Jesus, however, anticipated every barrier, fear, and objection. He answered them with two powerful statements.
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Pray Then Like This… (Part 2)
Matthew 6:9-13
In the second half of the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus turns our attention from God (how he makes himself known, his moral rule, and his purposes) to our own needs, material, moral, and spiritual. This continuing pattern for our own prayer remind us regularly of the extent to which we depend upon the Lord for every aspect of our life, and the extent of his grace in those whom he holds as his children
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Pray Then Like This… (Part 1)
Matthew 6:9-13
Prayer can be hypocritical, faithless, and even un-Christian. But Jesus teaches us a better way to pray. In the first three petitions of the Lord’s Prayer, he focuses our priorities upon God’s name, kingdom, and will.
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