Intro Do you know the story of “A Christmas Carol”? Written by Charles Dickens. Its been made into a move and other adaptations. One of the key plot devices is that the main character, sour and miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge, is visited throughout a Christmas Eve and given visions of the past present and…

( Matt 6:7-15 ) Have you ever seen these religious? prayer systems Tibetan Prayer Flags & Prayer wheels –for karma’s sake Introduction “By hanging flags in high places the Lung ta will carry the blessings depicted on the flags to all beings. As wind passes over the surface of the flags, which are sensitive…

Intro The context of new Christians trying to understand how the Old Testament connects with the New. How does the coming of Jesus affect how a faithful Jew was to obey God? Does it mean keeping the food laws? No. Circumsicion? No. What about temple sacrifices? Well our passage today is part of a longer…

Intro There’s no such thing as a free lunch the saying goes. And if you’re not paying, somone else is paying. The is a cost to everything. In religion one of the questions we must deal with is what payments are to be rendered to the gods, People have tried various ways to try and pay the gods, with sacrifices…

Introduction I have one thing to warn you of this morning: Don’t be complacent ! It’s pretty simple. This message from Jeremiah is a warning to us. A reminder. A moment to stop and think about what you’re doing, think about the life you live, think about the things you love, think about the people you…

Intro We don’t do all the smells and bells and incense and sacrifices and offerings of the Old Testament. You might read through your Leviticus and other Torah books, and you’ll say “we don’t do any of this stuff when the local church gathers for corporate worship” So what was the point of it? Why was…