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Jason Bonnicksen
Contributing sermons since Mar 15, 2011
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Encouraging With Faith Love And Hope
Contributed on Dec 6, 2011
Encouraging others to seek Jesus and to learn to "swing" in his ways.
INTRO I remember back, as though it was yesterday, when Emma and Grace were just little tikes. There was a great playground —just down the hill from our seminary apartment — where the girls would climb, slide and swing. Day-after-day they’d ask, “Mom, Dad, can ...read more
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Faithful Service
Contributed on Dec 6, 2011
A Veteran's Day Message -- understanding what it means to serve God with extraordinary faith and courage by encouraging others.
INTRO: THE STORY OF THE FOUR CHAPLAINS This morning, I’d thought it be good to honor our veterans, and to look at veteran of the faith who served so that others could live. Now, to all you who’ve given so much for this country and for our freedoms —Thank you! It is in that ...read more
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Fw: In Faith
Contributed on Dec 6, 2011
Honoring the Protestant Reformation by moving Forward in our Faith
INTRO Of all the subjects Martin Luther was most passionate, he wrote of nothing more extensive than that of “faith. In December 1536, Luther marched forward in faith by defending that which he held so dear by encouraging the church to reform their ways and return to the Lord with all ...read more
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Words Of Love
Contributed on Dec 6, 2011
Encouraging the congregation to love God and love others.
INTRO Recap the last few weeks. The Pharisees and Sadducees tried to trap Jesus with their questions -- only to their folly. Pharisees with regard to taxes Sadducees with regard to Marriage and Resurrection. Jesus rebukes them for not knowing the ...read more
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Taxing Faith
Contributed on Dec 6, 2011
A reminder to live as a people set apart by God, for God, and for the people; instead of being a people of, by, and for the world.
INTRO This morning, we’re going to dove-tail onto last week’s message. Okay, now if you remember from last week, the Pharisees asked Jesus by “what authority are you doing these things” — these things being the healing the crippled and the lame, feeding the poor and ...read more
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Salvation Swing
Contributed on Dec 6, 2011
SALVATION SWING I remember back, as though it was yesterday, when my daughters were just little tykes. There was a great playground just down the hill from our seminary apartment where the girls would climb, slide and swing. Day after day they’d ask, "Mom, Dad, can we go to the park and ...read more
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Four Chaplains
Contributed on Dec 6, 2011
FOUR CHAPLAINS It was the evening of Feb. 2, 1943, and the U.S. Army Transport Ship Dorchester was crowded to capacity. Hans J. Danielsen, the ship's captain, was concerned and cautious. He knew they were in dangerous waters; German U-boats were constantly prowling these vital sea lanes, ...read more
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The New Deal
Contributed on Sep 18, 2011
THE NEW DEAL Between the years 1933 and 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted a series of economic programs called "The New Deal." His programs served as a response to the effects of the Great Depression, and "focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and ...read more
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Love's Old-Fashioned Notion
Contributed on Sep 4, 2011
LOVE'S OLD-FASHIONED NOTION Tina Turner once asked a powerful question, one that became a hit song of the early-eighties. She asked, "What does love have to do with it?" Her song is replete with two, rhetorical questions: "What's love but a second hand emotion" and "Who needs a heart, when a ...read more
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God's Glorious Creation
Contributed on Aug 28, 2011
GOD'S GLORIOUS CREATION Sometimes it’s good for us to get out of our environment to see the glory of God, and to be even more thankful for all he’s done and given, for that which he is doing now, and forevermore will do for all of creation. Going on vacation last weekend t refreshed my ...read more