For today’s devotion, Pastor Keith Butler invites you to worship our Lord and Savior.
Sermon Category: <span>encouragement</span>
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Less Like Me
We all have days when we don’t live up to what we believe. Each day, may this be our prayer: Oh Lord help me be A little more like mercy A little more like grace A little more like kindness, goodness, love, and faith A little more like patience A little more like peace A...
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Being Jotham in the Age of Abimelek — Worship Service, April 11, 2021
Please join us for worship and a message from Judges 9. Karl Marx compared religion to a drug that people take to evade reality, but he was wrong. Faith in Jesus Christ allows us to see the world with greater clarity not less, and to face whatever challenges come our way. Today’s message takes us...
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Who’s draining YOU?
If you leave batteries in a flashlight, they will be drained even if the flashlight is not used. Pastor Keith Butler reminds us that we can be drained the same way, and need to be purposeful about looking at the relationships we rekindle as pandemic restrictions ease.
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Reset
Children’s Director Shirletta Butler reminds us to let go of any disappointments or unfinished business from last week, and start with a new attitude today.
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He Will Hold Me Fast
Whatever you are facing today, we invite you to listen to this song, and rest in the fact that God is holding you fast, now and forever.
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Elephant’s Foot
Elephants are conditioned when they are young to not move when they have something tied to their ankles. Even if they are only tied with a rope that they could break, they believe they can’t go. Pastor Keith Butler reminds us that sometimes we are the same way — held captive spiritually by something from...
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Truth Be Told
For today’s devotion, Molly Holloway invites you to listen to “Truth Be Told”: I find two profound truths here to consider. First, many of us are not sharing who we are and the struggles we’re facing with our church family (or, sometimes, with anyone). We don’t want people to know that we are broken. But...
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Fake muscles ?????
Like a bodybuilder who uses medication to look like he is stronger than he is, it can be tempting to do things to look more spiritual than we really are. Pastor Keith Butler challenges us to look more at the process than at the results. Mount Oak Fellowship of the UMC mtoak.org
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Something New
In Isaiah 43:19, the Lord says “See, I am doing a new thing!” In our lives now, we are looking at starting anew when the pandemic eases. Children’s Director Shirletta Butler encourages us to join the Lord in the new work he’s doing, and to both embrace the new and keep the good things that...