Audio from this Sunday's worship service featuring:

The Lion and The Lamb

Great Are You Lord

Reckless Love

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James 3:13-4:3, 4:7-8 NLT

True Wisdom Comes from God

13 If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying. 15 For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. 16 For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.

17 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere. 18 And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.

Drawing Close to God

4 What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? 2 You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. 3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

7 So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.

Mark 9:30-37 NLT

Jesus Again Predicts His Death

30 Leaving that region, they traveled through Galilee. Jesus didn’t want anyone to know he was there, 31 for he wanted to spend more time with his disciples and teach them. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies. He will be killed, but three days later he will rise from the dead.” 32 They didn’t understand what he was saying, however, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

The Greatest in the Kingdom

33 After they arrived at Capernaum and settled in a house, Jesus asked his disciples, “What were you discussing out on the road?” 34 But they didn’t answer, because they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest. 35 He sat down, called the twelve disciples over to him, and said, “Whoever wants to be first must take last place and be the servant of everyone else.”

36 Then he put a little child among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, 37 “Anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes not only me but also my Father who sent me.”

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I Corinthians 13 NIV

13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When  I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I  reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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God So Loved and Great Are You Lord performed by the Highland Hope Worship Team

Vocals:Vic Mitchell, Ellie Mitchell, Chris English, Shawna Thole

Guitar: Vic Mitchell and Chris English

All songs are copyright of their respective owners and used with permission, CCLI License #1070117

15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower.  2 He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.  3 You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you.  4 Abide  in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself  unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.  5 I  am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them  bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.  6 Whoever  does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such  branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.  7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.  8 My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.

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Luke 24:36-48 NRSV

36 While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”  37 They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost.  38 He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?  39 Look  at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for  a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”  40 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.  41 While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”  42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,  43 and he took it and ate in their presence.

44 Then  he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was  still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the  prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”  45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,  46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,  47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.  48 You are witnesses of these things.

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Mark 16:1-8 NRSV

16 When  the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and  Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.  2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.  3 They had been saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”  4 When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back.  5 As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed.  6 But  he said to them, “Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of  Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look,  there is the place they laid him.  7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him, just as he told you.”  8 So  they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had  seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

Ain't No Grave copyright Bethel Music, Claude Ely, Jonathan Helser, Melissa Helser, Molly Skaggs. CCLI 1070117

Performed by: 

Vic Mitchell - Vocals, 12-String

Ellie Mitchell - Lead Vocals

Chris English - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

Shawna Thole - Vocals

Please enjoy this sermon presented by guest speaker, District Superintendent Allyn Walker!

Mark 11:1-11 NRSV

11 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples  2 and  said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you  enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden;  untie it and bring it.  3 If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.’”  4 They went away and found a colt tied near a door, outside in the street. As they were untying it,  5 some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”  6 They told them what Jesus had said; and they allowed them to take it.  7 Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; and he sat on it.  8 Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.  9 Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting,

“Hosanna!

11 Then  he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked  around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany  with the twelve.

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Jeremiah 31:31-34  NRSV

A New Covenant

31 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.  32 It  will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I  took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant  that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.  33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  34 No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

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4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way.  5 The  people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up  out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no  water, and we detest this miserable food.”  6 Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.  7 The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.  8 And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.”  9 So  Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a  serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and  live.

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