Category: Advent
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The Response to the Incarnation Report: The Substance of the Good News
12/19/2021 • Rev. Dr. Jerrard Heard • Luke 2:8-20a 8 He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts— 9 but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. 10 And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until…
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His Manifestation Is Salvation
12/12/2021 • Rev. Randy Martin • John 1:1-18 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was…
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His Message Is Salvation
12/5/2021 • Rev. Randy Martin • Luke 1:67–79 67 And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, 68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people 69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant…
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His Mission Is Salvation
11/28/2021 • Rev. Randy Martin • Matthew 1:18-25 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling…
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The King of Glory
Rev. Randy Martin Luke 2:1-20 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from…
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The King of Salvation
Rev. Randy Martin Matthew 1:1, 17-25 1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen…
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The Announcement of the King
Rev. Randy Martin Luke 1:26 1 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
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Brought Back from the Dead
Rev. Randy Martin • Hebrews 13:20-21 • 20 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing…
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Seeing Christ in David’s Psalm
Rev. Randy Martin • Psalm 138:1-8 • I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise; 2 I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and…
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The Servant’s Salvation
Rev. Randy Martin • Isaiah 52:13-53:12